The Style Council - A New Decade / Can You Still Love Me?

[@dancelover020]

Actually really enjoying this new find (for me)!!

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

This isn't my thing at all, but on listening to it, it's no worse if not better than a lot of the stuff that was coming out around '88/89. Most of it left me cold so I'm not in any way an expert on acid house/house music but I can see people liking this. It is created to be listened to in a club, that is the thing about this kind of music. I can imagine it has a different impact played very loud with lots of folks digging it. Paul's voice sounds great when it comes in.

[@mosesberkowitz3298]

I can see the record company execs shaking their heads now......

[@YouTendToForget]

lol ! to be fair at the time the fans were also disapointed by the new direction of TSC.

[@mosesberkowitz3298]

Well, I think "Confessions" was an outstanding album....then Paul tried to follow the House/Dance/Jazz trend (was a big step backwards) , and then such terrible execution...Geez. It was almost self-destructive; as if he was daring fans to continue to like him.

[@SnabbKassa]

Well about 6 record companies rejected The Beatles

[@pittibarlin8692]

Man this sounds so dated. As one that was around during the rave/house uprising, this would have sounded dated even in 1990. Proper generic sounding like most white labels that came out of some dudes bedroom - you'd never ever know Weller was behind this, sounds like the work of some spotty teen on a cheap synthesiser and drum machine. I genuinely made better sounding house tracks on Music 2000 on the PS1.

[@runningmanunsigned1695]

@@pittibarlin8692 Your full of shit...I just discovered this album and its fucking brilliant!..Timeless in fact...

[@TheMcmikerg]

Very much of its time. It's inoffensive, but it does smack of Paul Weller desperately scrabbling around for a way to stay fashionable at a time of minimal inspiration. Luckily he had the sense to pick up his guitar again, and the talent to write many, many more great songs....

[@mattybell2472]

Class album so underrated...better than the jazz album before it 👎🏼

[@robtyman4281]

Style Council got too pretentious by the late 80's and stopped writing clever and political pop songs, for posturing and pretending to be a jazz band. Then the following year (89) they completely ran out of ideas and just jumped in the emerging dance music bandwagon. No wonder they split up in 1990. Weller needed to find himself again, and boy did he do this be going solo. He managed to completely reinvent himself in the space of a few years, by rekindling that 'Jam vibe' again. I think he's pivotal in the history of British pop, and forms a crucial link between 60's bands such as The Who, and bands from the 90's like Oasis, and Ocean Colour Scene. The irony is that he epitomises the ultimate 'Mod' and mod look, even more so than Pete Townsend and Roger Daltry - both of whom were active in its 60's heyday. But he's spent nearly his whole career idolising both of them.

[@sethaguilar8330]

I like it it sounds like happy house /acid house ...... Italian top grade Parmesan cheese 🧀 euro trashy for the purple walled gay bars outside Daytona beach London Brooklyn where ever. Way cool. A gem