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Over time, I think The Style Council has taken huge blows for many of those misses and I'm not necessarily going to disagree. (i.e., The Jam's lead man being okay with using drum machines?) There were a lot of misses, some of which confused the heck out of me. As can probably be expected, not all of it was a hit with me. Over the next couple of years, I got even more into The Style Council, buying up their singles and LPs. After coming to terms with the fact that this was definitely NOT the sound of The Jam, I realized that, hey, it still sounded pretty good. It took about another year for my mind to open up a bit and the next Style Council song I sat down to listen to was 'My Ever Changing Moods.' This was the song that hooked me. My wife's official Torch Society membership card, proving she was a Style Council fan before I was a Style Council fan. Yup, either my record needle was busted or the LP sleeve was mislabeled because this didn't sound like anything Paul Weller would have been involved with. I re-played 'Have You Ever Had It Blue?' just to make sure.

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I got back to my record player, took the disk out of its sleeve, put the record on the turntable and prepared to be rocked with Mod power! After the song was over, I sat there bewildered. I knew this was Paul Weller's band after The Jam and couldn't wait to finally hear what they were about.

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One day, I came across a copy of the Absolute Beginners movie soundtrack which included the Style Council song, 'Have You Ever Had It Blue?' (thanks to Le Drugstore 1968 for correcting me on the title).

It was back in high school, at a time when I was deep into my Jam obsession and still identifying more with the punkish elements of a lot of those Mod revival bands.

Personally, I'm mixed on the band and have been trying to give their whole catalogue another shot, coming at them with a different frame of mind in my older age.īut first, let's jump in the ol' time machine for a bit so I can think back to when I first heard them.

Others love them for taking those risks and even credit Paul Weller with broadening the Mod musical spectrum (or letting him get away with things other bands could not have gotten away with). Many people dislike them for the musical genres they dabbled in and the dilution of their original Mod(ernist) leanings. They were a pretty polarizing group, especially to Mod folk then and now.įront cover of The Style Population, a TSC Christmas card. Heck, I don't think the 1980s were kind to The Style Council. Time has not been kind to The Style Council.

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