Wednesday, January 22, 2025

The Style Council - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-22-1985

Here's yet another renumbering screw-up. I keep finding things mainly through people sharing music via SoulseekQT. Some are on my wanted list, but most I just stumble upon. Like this one. It turned out Paul Weller's 1980s band the Style Council played the annual Glastonbury Festival one time, in 1985. That also happened to be the first year the BBC broadcast some sets from the festival, including this one.

The Style Council never made much of a commercial impact in the U.S., but they were big in Britain. They actually hit their commercial peak the very same month of this concert, when their 1985 album "Our Favourite Shop" reached Number One in the British album chart. So naturally, this concert featured lots of songs from that album. In fact, ten of the songs here were from it.

The sound quality is excellent, as you'd expect from a BBC recording. I don't think any of this has been officially released.

I mentioned above that I had to renumber the Style Council concert that came after this. If you want the renumbered Volume 4, with updated cover art and such, here's the link:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-style-council-bbc-sessions-volume-3.html

This album is 57 minutes long.

01 Internationalists (Style Council)
02 Homebreakers (Style Council)
03 Come to Milton Keynes (Style Council)
04 talk (Style Council)
05 See the Day (Style Council)
06 The Lodgers [Or She Was Only a Shopkeeper's Daughter] (Style Council)
07 The Whole Point II (Style Council)
08 Our Favourite Shop (Style Council)
09 talk (Style Council)
10 Long Hot Summer (Style Council)
11 [When You] Call Me (Style Council)
12 Walls Come Tumbling Down (Style Council)
13 Money-Go-Round (Style Council)
14 Strength of Your Nature (Style Council)
15 It Just Came to Pieces in My Hands (Style Council)
16 The Stand Up Comic's Instructions (Style Council)
17 The Big Boss Groove (Style Council)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/D2qaFFAr

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/tAc2HDURJlO2AZI/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. I happened to find a few. I decided to go with a rather unusual one for variety's sake, instead of just showing a close-up of lead singer Paul Weller or something like that. (Weller is the guy on stage with a raised fist.)

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