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The Style Council - The Complete Adventures of The Style Council [5CD Remastered Box Set] (1998)

The Style Council - The Complete Adventures of The Style Council [5CD Remastered Box Set] (1998)

BAND/ARTIST: The Style Council

  • Title: The Complete Adventures of The Style Council
  • Year Of Release: 1998
  • Label: Polydor [557 789-2]
  • Genre: Pop Rock, Synth-pop, Mod, New Wave, Sophisti-Pop
  • Quality: CBR 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks +.cue,log)
  • Total Time: 6:23:30
  • Total Size: 878 mb / 2.54 gb
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Given the blockbuster success of the Jam's exhaustive box set Direction Reaction Creation, perhaps it was inevitable that Polydor would give the Style Council a similar treatment, but the 1998 release of the five-disc box set The Complete Adventures of the Style Council was still a bit of surprise -- there never was much interest in their catalog following their 1990 disbandment. Fortunately, Polydor took a chance and assembled The Complete Adventures, a lavish box set containing all of the group's singles and albums, minus the live Home & Abroad but including the notorious unreleased 1989 record A Decade of Modernism, which the label allegedly rejected because it found Weller turning toward house music. As it turns out, A Decade of Modernism wasn't that far afield from what the Style Council was exploring from their inception, as the chronological running order of the set makes clear. The sequencing is a blessed occurrence, since it's easy to trace their development over the years. Instead of an aberration, the Style Council seems like a natural extension of the Jam's final record, The Gift, and every one of their subsequent records makes more sense than before. That doesn't mean the music is always compelling. No matter how interesting some of Weller's ideas were, they didn't always work, and he wrote way too many pompous, directionless songs to have The Complete Adventures rank with Direction Reaction Creation. (There are also too many Mick Talbot instrumentals, but that's another story.) For most listeners, including some serious Weller fans, the Style Council is best appreciated as a singles band, but for the dedicated, The Complete Adventures reveals that the Style Council, no matter how maddening they could be, were a group that continually reinvented themselves, occasionally making some remarkable music along the way.

:: TRACKLIST ::

1.1 Speak Like A Child 3:18
1.2 Party Chambers 3:22
1.3 Money-Go-Round (Parts 1 & 2) (Bert Bevan's Alternative Remix) 7:30
1.4 Headstart For Happiness 2:50
1.5 Mick's Up 3:13
1.6 Long Hot Summer 7:03
1.7 The Paris Match 3:47
1.8 Le Depart 2:49
1.9 A Solid Bond In Your Heart 3:18
1.10 It Just Came To Pieces In My Hands 2:33
1.11 My Ever Changing Moods (12" Version) 5:44
1.12 Mick's Company 2:49
1.13 Spring, Summer, Autumn 2:24
1.14 Mick's Blessing 1:18
1.15 The Whole Point Of No Return 2:44
1.16 Me Ship Came In! 3:09
1.17 Blue Cafe 2:19
1.18 The Paris Match 4:28
1.19 My Ever Changing Moods 3:39
1.20 Dropping Bombs On The Whitehouse 3:16
1.21 A Gospel 4:46

2.1 Strength Of Your Nature 4:22
2.2 You're The Best Thing 5:43
2.3 Here's One That Got Away 2:37
2.4 Headstart For Happiness 3:23
2.5 Council Meetin' 2:35
2.6 The Big Boss Groove 4:41
2.7 Shout To The Top 4:16
2.8 Ghostes Of Dachau 2:51
2.9 The Picadilly Trail 3:45
2.10 Soul Deep (Bert Bevan's Remix) 7:12
2.11 Walls Came Tumbling Down 3:26
2.12 The Whole Point II 2:51
2.13 Blood Sports 3:36
2.14 Spin Drifting 3:11
2.15 Homebreakers 5:08
2.16 All Gone Away 2:17
2.17 Come To Milton Keynes 3:04
2.18 Internationalists 3:09
2.19 A Stones Throw Away 2:19
2.20 The Stand Up Comic's Instructions 1:33
2.21 Boy Who Cried Wolf 5:17

3.1 A Man Of Great Promise 2:35
3.2 Down In The Seine 2:44
3.3 The Lodgers Or She Was Only A Shopkeepers Daughter 3:59
3.4 Luck 2:36
3.5 With Everything To Lose 3:56
3.6 Our Favourite Shop 2:56
3.7 (When You) Call Me 3:20
3.8 Have You Ever Had It Blue (Uncut Version) 4:48
3.9 Mr. Cool's Dream 2:28
3.10 It Didn't Matter 5:45
3.11 All Year Round 2:18
3.12 Right To Go 5:13
3.13 Heavens Above 6:13
3.14 Fairy Tales 4:10
3.15 Angel 4:32
3.16 Walking The Night 4:32
3.17 Waiting 4:27
3.18 The Cost Of Loving 4:20
3.19 A Woman's Song 3:04
3.20 Francoise 2:43

4.1 Wanted Or Waiter There's Some Soup In My Flies 3:25
4.2 The Cost Of Loving (12" Version) 3:51
4.3 Life At The Top Peoples Health Farm (Um & Argh Mix) 5:48
4.4 Sweet Loving Ways 3:32
4.5 It's A Very Deep Sea 5:32
4.6 The Story Of Someone's Shoe 3:44
4.7 Changing Of The Guard 2:51
4.8 (i) The Little Boy In A Castle 3:06
4.8 (iI) A Dove Flew Down From The Elephant
4.9 The Garden Of Eden (A Three Piece Suite) 10:30
4.9 (i) In The Beginning
4.9 (ii) The Gardener Of Eden
4.9 (iii) Mourning The Passing Of Time
4.10 Why I Went Missing 4:43
4.11 How She Threw It All Away 4:17
4.12 Iwasadoledadstoyboy 4:29
4.13 Confessions 1, 2 & 3 4:44
4.14 Confessions Of A Pop-Group 9:29
4.15 In Love For The First Time 3:40
4.16 I Do Like To Be B-Side The A-Side - The Mixed Companions 4:46

5.1 Promised Land (Longer Version) 7:07
5.2 Can You Still Love Me? 4:22
5.3 Long Hot Summer '89 5:31
5.4 Everybody's On The Run 8:00
5.5 A New Decade 3:24
5.6 Can You Still Love Me? 5:04
5.7 The World Must Come Together 5:25
5.8 Hope (Feelings Gonna Getcha) 7:18
5.9 That Spiritual Feeling 7:37
5.10 Everybody's On The Run 5:45
5.11 Love Of The World 8:58
5.12 Sure Is Sure 6:19

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  • albundy1968
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Thanks for the lossless option!
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  • yazzytoonz
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THANKS!!! But 'Ouch', I like the Mick Talbot instrumentals!!!!!
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  • mufty77
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Many thanks for lossless.