This is the third and last of three Style Council BBC volumes. Like Volume 2, it's a full concert that was broadcast on BBC radio at the time.
By 1987, the Style Council were on the decline. I think in retrospect even band leader Paul Weller would agree that he took the band in the wrong direction, increasingly pursuing house music, which only had a limited audience. They broke up in 1989, with their last studio album rejected by their record company and thus unreleased. Weller would later say that band should have broken up two or three years earlier.
That said, this still is a very good concert, in my opinion. By this point, the band had built up an impressive number of hit songs, and mostly played those rather than the new music that would be less successful. Personally, I like all the songs here. From the point of view of this concert, it's hard to imagine the band would fall out of favor so quickly only about a year later.
This concert is officially unreleased, but the sound quality is still very good. It's only 59 minutes long, so I'm guessing it was edited down from a longer concert to fit in an hour-long time slot on the radio.
01 talk (Style Council)
02 My Ever Changing Moods (Style Council)
03 Shout to the Top (Style Council)
04 It Didn't Matter (Style Council)
05 Waiting (Style Council)
06 Walk in the Night (Style Council)
07 talk (Style Council)
08 The Cost of Loving (Style Council)
09 With Everything to Lose (Style Council)
10 A Woman's Song (Style Council)
11 talk (Style Council)
12 The Whole Point of No Return (Style Council)
13 Homebreakers (Style Council)
14 Heavens Above (Style Council)
15 [When You] Call Me (Style Council)
16 Internationalists (Style Council)
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The cover photo is from the Red Wedge Tour in January 1986, at the Manchester Apollo in Manchester, Britain.
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