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typical full of shit leftists - great music so so lyrics and truly pompous ignorance of anything

I'm annoyed that it's taken me 3 years to discover this piece of work. It has at its core a major flaw, it's about an hour too short. Beautifully done mate. I've been a Weller fan since 1978. I was hugely into the Jam and was bereft when Paul called it quits when they were at the top [which was the point of course]. But when Inroducing and then Cafe Bleu came along I understood. I never had a problem with the transition. This is great stuff thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Great documentary about one of my all time favourite bands. Well done 😊

Well done! Agree they are massively underrated. And that Confessions is a terrific album. Nothing matches the supreme excellence of Our Favorite Shop / Internationalists (US release name). In the US Paul Weller didn't have the baggage of the Jam to weigh down perceptions of TSC, but the social commentary is almost never understood in the states (see "Born in the USA") - we deny we have class distinctions. Still, the cool kids all loved Cafe Bleu and most got off the train after Favorite Shop. TSC wasn't playing by the same rules in the mid-80s, so it was hard to fit them into an MTV category. My fave songs: Homebreakers, Come to Milton Keynes, Lodgers, Paris Match, Changing of the Guard, but at least half their songs are can't-stop-until--hear-the-end-of-this. Tip for another band that didn't fit into categories, but was brilliant over a long extended period: Kid Creole and the Coconuts.

Its 2024 and im off to see Weller in Dublin next week. He has been constantly in my life since i was 8. Now in my 50s.

I was lucky enough to watch a week of rehearsals at the ex Walpole Cinema in Ealing thanks to the backing singers who let me sneak in with them to watch and I even sat with Nico at one point. I love this album.

Not sure if I’d say they are “the best band in the world” but they are very good and one of my favs. Nothing will knock The Beatles or Zeppelin off of the thrown of influence and sales that continues to this day. The Style Council are pretty much forgotten. Best bands in the world are not forgotten.

Walls come tumbling down is a masterpiece protest song. You can’t not be in love with Ccd ❤. But even if I love Paul you gotta excuse him for often being a real jerk.

I love The Cost Of Loving! To me, it is a perfect album, timeless.

The Paris Match is one of the best songs ever. Thank you for the excellent doc!

Half the time, the lyrics were too wordy and not very catchy as he was trying to send his wind--up intellectual messages too often, influenced a bit much by the English culture's tabloids and sarcasms, of being cheeky and "gits" as we would say

Paul Weller is a genius. A lot of my friends are Jam fans & don't really rate The Style Council, but I think they had some cracker songs, love them 🇬🇧

Anyone know anything similar to this album?

This album is made for deep dissociative tripping. So many good memories.

I'm very happy there's at least more than 200k viewers on this. I despise the word underrated, but how else you could describe Weller and especially The Style Council with? They definitely should be up there with the Pop greats. Guess they were too good for this dreary world.

I’m a long time fan of all of them, especially Kevin Ayers, Eno, John Cale, and Robert Wyatt. I’ve always wished there was an expanded version. I’ve heard there were outtakes. Was this concert ever filmed?

I have this on 7” gatefold double single.

THAT would be The Beatles, ffs....

What a load of garbage!😂😂

Great documentary! just discovered the documentary late, but every bit of this is relevant in 2024. What a long term impact Weller and this band (and Tracy thorn too) have made. I still go back and re listen to all these timeless gems.

Excelent documentary. The Style Council largely deserved something like this.

...not only probably ;)) ... and still in love with PW's music 💗

I saw The Jam in 1982(last tour) Seen Weller solo once as well. After all these years I think Style Council was his best work but FAR from the "Best" band in the World.

I was at that show. A few years before I became a rock hack, I travelled from Scotland with my buddy Alex Fergusson (future founder member of Psychic TV) because we were fans of all four musicians. I have to say the production on the record is poor, perhaps because it was rushed out only weeks after the gig. There's a bootleg of outtakes, but as it's an audience recording the sound is dire. Still - a legendary event. Ayers, Cale, Nico, Eno - dubbed ACNE by the music press! Btw I'm wearing a t-shirt with the cover image as a type this.

my fav style council songs.......cost of loving, waiting, it didnt matter, long hot summer, angel, walking the night you do something to me frickin brilliant band

Nope.

As the fellow in the record store so eloquently puts it, “fucking great”.

I vividly remember receiving my style council t shirt and members card for the internationalist’s the style council fan club. Not all Jam fans could handle the change in direction for weller but I was fully in. The jams last album the gift was a lot more soul influenced and sign posted his next move

Great job. It’s been heartening to see even the most recalcitrant Weller fans finally, in hindsight, give The Style Council their proper and long overdue acknowledgement and credit. I always loved the band including even the unfairly reviled Cost of Loving album so happy to see you give it a fair accounting here.

Im brazilian and I like very much😊

The Beatles will always best the greatest band of all time and this is why, When they toured the U.S no one had ever played in a stadium before they actually played the music through the PA system that created a whole new Business of making bigger amps and speakers so people could here the Beatles, when touring America's south Racial segregation was alive and well the Beatles refused to play to a segregated audience, the promoters had no choice but to change that, the Beatles played to mixed audience it was the start to the end of Racial segregation they actually helped change the fabric of society in America + The record "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band" was completely different to anything that has ever been recorded before even Mick Jager and Keith Richards who where trying to be completely different to the Beatles in everyway said they played it over and over again because it was like nothing they had ever heard before {psychedelic} and everybody else was the same it changed Music for EVER. So get in check with reality.

Olive Paul and TSC , but The Jam was by far better.

O yes royal Albert hall more than once

You mean is the best band in the world whoaa. Would have made a pilgrimage for that, stuck in South Africa 2021 . 😢damn their hot.

Gone but not forgotten. I first heard of The Style Council in 1984 in both FM and AM radio, the peak of their popularity in my land is around 1985 to 1987. Because of the multitude of other British bands that also made the 1980s such a goldmine for brilliant pop music, I forgot about TSC for a while and went to work and finished my college. Five years after college thats when the CD became affordable and I finally took my first TSC CD, Singular Adventures. That reawakened my nostalgia and a deep, profound admiration for the group and their music. I obtained the box set (Complete Adventures), two DVD concerts, the TSC on Film DVD, the Paul Weller/Jam 3-disk retrospective, the videography DVD, and three albums. Time is always short for me to play and enjoy these "relics" but I'm glad I took them before these materials go out of print. Style Council is very well-regarded in my land, The Philippines, unfortunate that Weller has not continued the band and its unique sound after the last album was frozen. Could've been so well ahead of their time, or they've lost heart to soldier on when record companies began to signed on nihilist, scumbag acts like Nirvana, etcetera.....

we were just kids back then and didnt understand his genius. Now it is Gold

They were such a great band, Paul is a music legend and the other members did their very best to make great sounding music. ✨😄👍

"Dropping bombs" is a jazz term for jazz drummers... "White House" meaning "Whitey's House"... Steve White... no political meaning was meant just having fun with the title of a song.

As much as i like the SC they cant touch the passion of the Jam...most SC fans were Jam fans and without us they wouldnt have lasted or were as big...once we got bored they also tapered off

Probably the best band in the world? Ha ha ha…. LMAO……🤣

Came back to see this video and sorted by new, and wow, thats a lot of bitter haters. Probably one of those people that cried like hell when the Jam broke up and has never recovered ever since. Personally I think breakup of the Jam was a necessary evil and very much inevitable. If it had not broken up it would have been described as a zombie band, so the breakup would have cemented its legacy. Horrible words, how about this: get off while they were still peaking. Nobody knows if it would have ended like the Rolling Stones, but given the tension between the three during the gift it was bound to happen anyway. Best case scenario they would just replace one of the members. Anyway it's probably the best band in the world. The promotional adverts that advertised the band's albums used that slogan to echo out Carlsberg.

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I wasted my time trying to hear a good familiar song from this band; none whatsoever.

How come is probably the best band in the world? I couldn't hear not one good song.

Great documentary. I love The Style Council since the 80s. Our Favorite Shop is one of my all time favorite album. Greetings from Jakarta.

I played cafe bleu till it was worn out. That album takes me to a different place. I loved the Jam but for me TSC and all the different genres they dipped into was brilliant.

Effectivement : un des meilleur groupe au monde!

They were decent, but totally ripped off Vic Godard & the Subway Sect, who’d done the whole ‘Northern Soul’ sound thing at least a year before. I think Weller would acknowledge that.

um, not the best band or even in the ball park.

Another fantastic band , Tears for Fears ...in the lyrics their song Sowing the seeds of love has the line ...." kick out the Style bring back the Jam " .....echos what many people thought at the time ...I personally think that he called time on the Jam at the right time