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Style Council
Our Favourite Shop
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (15) - Disc #1
1. Homebreakers - The Style Council, Talbot, Mick
2. All Gone Away - The Style Council, Weller, Paul [1]
3. Come to Milton Keynes - The Style Council, Weller, Paul [1]
4. Internationalists - The Style Council, Talbot, Mick
5. A Stones Throw Away - The Style Council, Weller, Paul [1]
6. The Stand Up Comics Instructions - The Style Council, Weller, Paul [1]
7. Boy Who Cried Wolf - The Style Council, Weller, Paul [1]
8. A Man of Great Promise - The Style Council, Weller, Paul [1]
9. Down in the Seine - The Style Council, Weller, Paul [1]
10. The Lodgers (Or She Was Only a Shopkeeper's Daughter) - The Style Council, Talbot, Mick
11. Luck - The Style Council, Talbot, Mick
12. With Everything to Lose - The Style Council, Weller, Paul [1]
13. Our Favourite Shop - The Style Council, Talbot, Mick
14. Walls Come Tumbling Down! - The Style Council, Weller, Paul [1]
15. Shout to the Top! [USA Remix] - The Style Council, Weller, Paul [1]

Japanese reissue of 1985 album that's out-of-print domestically and remastered from 2000. Also includes original sleeve and insert with notes and lyrics. Packaged in a limited edition miniature gatefold LP sleeve.

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All Artists: Style Council
Title: Our Favourite Shop
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Polygram Int'l
Release Date: 10/30/2001
Album Type: Import
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
Styles: New Wave & Post-Punk, Adult Contemporary
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1

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A Political and Musical Watershed

07/20/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"From the first track 'Homebreakers' which tells of a family split up by the new economic policies of the Thatcherite government all the way to the rallying call to revolution contained in 'shout to the top' this album provides a cutting critique and insight into life in the uncertain world which was Britain in the early 1980's. The lyrics are definately contemporary but the skill with which they are crafted to the melodies in the songs is there to be admired. The opening line of one of the tracks 'walls come tumbling down' was promoted using a picture of Ronald Reagan with the first line 'you don't have to take this crap' in bold letters, indeed the political content of this album must not be overlooked. The Style Council were essentially a political band, advocating left wing socialist values and fiercely opposing the right wing hegemony which was Thatcherism. Along with the politics the tunes will have you whistling along to what is TSC's best album, Highly Recommended."

One of the best albums for your record collection.

schuetze@kolle-rebbe.de | Hamburg, Germany | 01/05/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The best songs from great muscicians on one record. if you like the style council, you will like every song. no more wasting time - order now."

Grown-up jam

10/06/1999

(4 out of 5 stars)

"this album is a logical extention of weller's politically-charged work with the jam. the anger and subtle sarcasm is still there, but a mature sense of resigned acceptance runs through these marvelous little left-wing ditties. TSC would never achieve work of this magnitude again."