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The Collection, a rather unimaginatively titled 17-track Style Council compilation, includes five hit singles, plus B-sides and various album tracks mostly plucked from the band's second long-player Our Favourite Shop. Many devastated Jam fans unfairly deemed the café-bar jazz posturings of the Style Council to be a heinous act of betrayal, with former hero Paul Weller denigrated as the cappuccino Anti-Christ. This was strange, as much of The Jam's latter material, "Beat Surrender", "Shopping", "Town Called Malice" etc was a pretty clear indication of the Style Council's soul-jazz leanings. It coul
The Collection, a rather unimaginatively titled 17-track Style Council compilation, includes five hit singles, plus B-sides and various album tracks mostly plucked from the band's second long-player Our Favourite Shop. Many devastated Jam fans unfairly deemed the café-bar jazz posturings of the Style Council to be a heinous act of betrayal, with former hero Paul Weller denigrated as the cappuccino Anti-Christ. This was strange, as much of The Jam's latter material, "Beat Surrender", "Shopping", "Town Called Malice" etc was a pretty clear indication of the Style Council's soul-jazz leanings. It could also be argued that Our Favourite Shop is the apex of Weller's career. The tracks featured here simply confirm its genius: "A Stones Throw Away" and "All Gone Away" display not only biting lyrical barbs but also imaginative arrangements. The singles include the northern-soul stompers "Shout to the Top" and "Solid Bond in Your Heart", plus the blatant "Harvest for the World"-filching "My Ever Changing Moods" and sinuously seductive "Long Hot Summer". Wake up and smell the cappuccino, Daddio. --Chris King
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Manufacturer: Spectrum
Release date: 8 October 2001
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0731454464321 UPC: 731454464321
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