By 1987, the Style Council was 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.
UPDATE: On January 22, 2025, I updated the mp3 download file because I changed the name of this album from "Volume 3" to "Volume 4" after discovering a BBC concert I'd missed. I changed the cover art and mp3 tags accordingly, but the music is the same.
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)
https://pixeldrain.com/u/VMS8yEMP
alternate:
https://bestfile.io/en/8OaEfTMzMy14uka/file
The cover photo is from the Red Wedge Tour in January 1986, at the Manchester Apollo in Manchester, Britain.
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