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The Complete Adventures Of The Style Council [Box set]

Style Council Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (19 Oct 1998)
  • Number of Discs: 5
  • Format: Box set
  • Label: Polydor Group
  • ASIN: B00000G6H5
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 88,171 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Listen  1. Speak Like A Child 3:18£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  2. Party Chambers (First Version) 3:22£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  3. Money-Go-Round (Parts 1 & 2) (Bert Bevans Alternate Remix) 7:29£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  4. Headstart For Happiness (First/ Early Version) 2:50£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  5. Mick's Up 3:13£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  6. Long Hot Summer (Extended/ Full/ 12 Inch Version) 7:03£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  7. The Paris Match (Early Version) 3:46£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  8. Le Depart 2:49£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  9. A Solid Bond In Your Heart 3:18£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen10. It Just Came To Pieces In My Hands 2:32£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen11. My Ever Changing Moods (Longer/ Extended/ 12 Inch Version) 5:43£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen12. Mick's Company 2:49£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen13. Spring, Summer, Autumn 2:24£0.89  Buy MP3 
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Listen15. The Whole Point Of No Return 2:44£0.89  Buy MP3 
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Listen18. The Paris Match (Album Version) [feat. Tracey Thorn] 4:27£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen19. My Ever Changing Moods (Album Version) 3:39£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen20. Dropping Bombs On The Whitehouse 3:15£0.89  Buy MP3 
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Listen  2. You're The Best Thing (Album Version) 5:42£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  3. Here's One That Got Away 2:37£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  4. Headstart For Happiness (Album Version) 3:22£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  5. Council Meetin' 2:34£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  6. The Big Boss Groove (Full Version) 4:40£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  7. Shout To The Top (Full Version) 4:16£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  8. Ghosts Of Dachau ("Dachau Was A Nazi Concentration Camp, The Scene Of Mass Murders") 2:51£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  9. The Piccadilly Trail 3:45£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen10. Soul Deep (Bert Bevan's Remix/ Club Mix) 7:12£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen11. Walls Come Tumbling Down 3:25£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen12. The Whole Point II 2:51£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen13. Blood Sports 3:36£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen14. Spin' Drifting 3:11£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen15. Homebreakers 5:03£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen16. All Gone Away 2:17£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen17. Come To Milton Keynes 3:05£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen18. Internationalists 3:06£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen19. A Stones Throw Away 2:19£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen20. The Stand Up Comic's Instructions 1:33£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen21. Boy Who Cried Wolf (Album Version) 5:19£0.89  Buy MP3 


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Listen  2. Down In The Seine 2:44£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  3. The Lodgers (Or She Was Only A Shopkeeper's Daughter) (Album Version) 3:58£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  4. Luck 2:36£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  5. With Everything To Lose 3:56£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  6. Our Favourite Shop 2:55£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  7. (When You) Call Me 3:20£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  8. Have You Ever Had It Blue (Uncut/ 12 Inch/ Extended Version) 4:48£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  9. Mr. Cool's Dream 2:28£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen10. It Didn't Matter (Album Version) 5:45£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen11. All Year Round 2:18£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen12. Right To Go 5:12£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen13. Heavens Above 6:13£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen14. Fairy Tales 4:09£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen15. Angel 4:32£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen16. Walking The Night 4:32£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen17. Waiting 4:27£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen18. The Cost Of Loving (Album Version) 4:20£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen19. A Woman's Song 3:03£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen20. Francoise 2:44£0.89  Buy MP3 


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Listen  1. Wanted (Or Waiter, There's Some Soup In My Flies) 3:24£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  2. The Cost Of Loving (12 Inch/ Slow /Vocal Version) 3:50£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  3. Life At A Top Peoples Health Farm (Extended Remix / Um & Argh Mix) 5:48£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  4. Sweet Loving Ways 3:32£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  5. It's A Very Deep Sea 5:34£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  6. The Story Of Someone's Shoe 3:41£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  7. Changing Of The Guard 2:51£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  8. The Little Boy In A Castle / A Dove Flew Down From The Elephant 3:02£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  9. The Gardener Of Eden (A Three Piece Suite)10:32Album Only
Listen10. Why I Went Missing 4:46£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen11. How She Threw It All Away 4:17£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen12. Iwasadoledadstoyboy 4:27£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen13. Confessions 1, 2 & 3 4:43£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen14. Confessions Of A Pop-Group 9:27£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen15. In Love For The First Time 3:39£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen16. I Do Like To Be B-Side The A-Side 4:47£0.69  Buy MP3 


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Listen  1. Promised Land (Longer/ Extended Version / Juan Atkins/ Club Mix) 7:05£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  2. Can You Still Love Me? (Vocal Version) 4:20£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  3. Long Hot Summer ('89/ TOM Mix Full/ Extended Version) 5:29£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  4. Everybody's On The Run (Version One Full/ Early Version) [feat. Brian J. Powell] 7:58£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  5. A New Decade 3:24£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  6. Can You Still Love Me? (Extended Version) 5:01£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  7. The World Must Come Together 5:23£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  8. Hope (Feelings Gonna Getcha) 7:16£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  9. That Spiritual Feeling 7:35£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen10. Everybody's On The Run (Later Version) 5:42£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen11. Love Of The World 8:56£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen12. Sure Is Sure 6:18£0.69  Buy MP3 


Product Description

STYLE COUNCIL The Complete Adventures Of (1998 UK 5 x CD album box set - this concise set brings together a total of 90-tracks including some previously not issued on a CD format. Each disc is housed in a glossy card gatefold sleeve and set inside a 16cm x 31cm x 4cm deep glossy picture box with an elaborate and extensive 112-page bound booklet along with a separate 14-page fold out lyric insert the stickered outer box is showing just a trace of markings from storage but has no tears or splits evident and the booklet discs and other contents are otherwise superb!)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Box Set For A Truly Great Band 18 Jan 2006
Format:Audio CD
No group had such a powerful effect on me in the '80s, or maybe ever, as TSC. And this box set is a stellar document to a truly great band. I didn't get to know The Jam until later, but I can understand the Jam fans who slammed The Council during their lifespan, since it's a testament to the loyalty Weller inspires in his fans, regardless of which phase of his career we're talking about.

Pretty much every track you need is captured here, some in different versions (Money Go Round Parts 1 & 2 vs. the 12" UK single version; Soul Deep Bert Bevans Remix vs. the regular 12" UK version). More than anything, as other reviews have noted, it's the sheer depth of songwriting ability and fearlessness to try something new that's so gripping. The evolution of this band is truly something to behold.

The list of favorites is too large, but some key tracks for me are: The Paris Match (A Paris version), The Long Hot Summer, Le Depart, My Ever Changing Moods (LP version) with just vocal and piano, Headstart For Happiness (both Money Go Round b-side and LP versions), It Just Came To Pieces In My Hands, Spin'Drifting, The Big Boss Groove, Shout To The Top, Man Of Great Promise, Luck, Walls Come Tumbling Down, It Didn't Matter, Heavens Above, The Cost Of Loving, The Piano Paintings (entire side), Why I Went Missing, Confessions 1, 2, 3, and Promised Land (full version).

The huge incentive for this set all by itself is Modernism: A New Decade. Rejected by Polydor at the time, it actually has several terrific tracks. For me, they would be: Can You Still Love Me (even better than the b-side version from the Promised Land single), World Must Come Together, Hope (Feelings Gonna Getcha), Everybody's On The Run (also better than the b-side from Long Hot Summer '89), Love Of The World and Sure Is Sure, a bittersweet farewell track from my favorite-ever band.

Finally, the packaging itself is first-rate, with a lavish booklet full of photos and memorabilia, along with a lyric sheet.

For anyone who's followed the line that this was Weller's "wilderness period", it might be worth your while to give this a try. You may be pleasantly surprised.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars You won't find a better box set 9 July 2000
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This is a must for anyone remotely interested in the Style Council or the career of Paul Weller. Every single track including the unreleased & rejected MODERNISM LP are included. 5 CD's all filled with classics. WHO else experimented so much - Marvel at the jazz filled Cafe Bleu, the political Our Favourite Shop, the soulful Cost OF Loving, the Classical Confessions of a pop group and the House music of Modernism...
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Jacking in the Jam, going to France, wearing shoes without socks.... He was never going to win in the eyes of many, but Paul Weller was a brave man. The Jam still mean something because they're not playing Butlins' South Coast World, belting out "When You're Young", with salt and pepper hair.

And then there's the Style Council.

In any of his guises, what often carries Paul Weller through is his instinctive and consistent songwriting. The same is true of the Style Council.

Because they weren't The Jam, because he started welling pullovers and because he sung in French once, people forget that The Style Council (at least for the most of their career) made some excellent music. And it's all here. Including the house music adventure.

Pop perfection lies in songs such as "Speak Like A Child." "Walls Come Tumbling Down" and "Shout To The Top" are 2 of the finest songs of the 1980s, brimming with soul and indignation.

B-sides and obscure tracks like "Picadilly Trail" and "Spin Drifting" are charming and inspired.

There's the evergreen hits like "Long Hot Summer" and "..Ever Changing Moods" as well.

Where this starts to fall apart is around tracks like "It Didn't Matter" which are plastic and forgettable.

What is surprising is the quality of the house music efforts. "Sure Is Sure" is a decent effort and TSC's cover of Joe Smooth's "Promised Land" is perfectly competent.

But it could never work. The audience weren't having any of it and TSC's days were numbered.

But here is a quality document of their recording output and it deserves to be cherished.
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