The Style Council "Have You Ever Had It Blue?" (Soundtrack Version)
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- Опубликовано: 15 авг 2011
- From the soundtrack album for the 1986 film Absolute Beginners. A shorter version of this track was also released as a single the same year.
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Awesome performance for professional DJ's !!!!!! Thanks for sharing .......
This the best version of the song. No doubt about it!
I do agree with you.
I like this when I was 16 and I till like now and I'm 46 now.
I was 19 in 1986... I'm 53 years old now and still in love with this amazing song...
This is my all-time favourite from The Style Council and from the 1986 film-Absolute Beginners,and I like the full length version rather than the single version-Top Marks For Me.
I can listen to this song all day long...
It's the Gil Evans arrangement! His touch makes it swing so much more...
I bought this record (soundtrack) after seeing "Absolute Beginners". I still love this!!!
...Back in 1986...!!
WONDERFUL version of a timeless silky groove. Many thanks for sharing.
Prefer this version much more than the single version!
I agree with you and it`s my all-time favourite song.
Me too
Yes most definitely this is the version I like as well. I had previously only heard the single edit. I saw Absolute Beginners and had the soundtrack. I love Style Council and still appreciate them. 💝
What a find ..
tres bon!
I enjoy this tune.
Bizarrely this classic only gets played for 15 seconds in the film Absolute Beginners, the film it was recorded for, weller originally asked to whole soundtrack to the film but its director Julian Temple turned his offer down.
Top stuff from The 'Council. Cheers for this! :)
Gil Evans...god
To those who didn't already know, this is a re-write of the TSC tune 'With Everything To Lose'.
Well, apparently not. I always thought that too, because I didn't have any Style Council bootlegs. As far as official albums, "With Everything To Lose" appeared on 1985's "Our Favourite Shop" and "Have You Ever Had It Blue" appeared in "Absolute Beginners" in 1986. But there are at least two1984 live concert bootlegs which contain "Have You Ever Had It Blue" with that set of lyrics. So we are forced to reassess and it would seem that Weller wrote it first as "Have You Ever Had It Blue." The bitter coal strike of 1984 caused him to write an angrier and more political version "With Everything To Lose" which he recorded in 1985. Then for Absolute Beginners, he brought back the original lyrics.
@@jdoggtn7 Interesting! Thanks.
"Have You Ever had It Blue" appears on the Bristol Hippodrome show from October 7, 1984, and it also appears on the Alabamahalle show from Munich on October 29, 1984. Both bootlegs feature the extended opening with the brass quoting Duke Ellington, so that also predates "Absolute Beginners" and may not be Gil Evans' work. Although I considered that the date could be wrong, the chances of the year being wrong for BOTH shows, and by TWO years seems unlikely. Furthermore, neither show contains much material from "Our Favourite Shop" which they should if they dated from 1985 or 1986.
The Bristol show contains two songs that would appear on Our Favourite Shop, namely "A Man of Great Promise" and "Shout to the Top," although I think the latter was only on the American version of that album called "Internationalists." The Munich show contains NOTHING from Our Favourite Shop except "Have You Ever Had It Blue." That this song appears on two concerts within a few weeks of each other in October of 1984 suggests that it was written around that time. It does not appear on earlier Style Council shows from 1984, including the July show in Liverpool. The lack of many Our Favourite Shop songs on these concerts to me is proof that October 1984 is the correct date of them. The shows are mostly material from "a Paris" and "Cafe Blue," with only a couple of new songs presented from what would become "Our Favourite Shop." Weller must have written "Have You Ever Had It Blue" first, then "With Everything To Lose" as an adaptation, even though I like the more political bent of the latter.
Alternative start: 1:40
goduria assoluta
No but a friend of ours has and *it* eventually fell off - was down to poor circulation, apparently 🤔
nnnn never start a conveyance with I.
There's far too much going on here (in the beginning)....Too many notes as they say. Shorter versions...