![]() ![]() Mick of course found his voice with Paul Weller as The Style Council. The best known of them in the end would be Dexy’s Midnight Runners. In the late 70’s, Talbot played in a trio of mod revivalist bands. Michael “Mick” Talbot could be described as the man who, even prior to James Taylor, pioneered the revival of Hammond organ based soul/funk on the British musical scene. Especially considering the high quality of the songwriting,musicianship and general atmospherics. And because of the closeness to that decade maybe it wasn’t given the kind of recognition it deserves. However this album thoroughly acknowledged the 70’s in the music. With only the occasional nod to this type of music. Earlier Style Council music by and large focused on 60’s R&B and soul-jazz. Perhaps it was the heavy funk and R&B content from someone like Weller, who apparently had other expectations of himself, from the following he had earlier. There are also three ballads here in “Waiting”,which is beautifully structured 80′ soul in the same way as the Dee C Lee sung “Angel” and “A Woman’s Song” are. On “Fairy Tales” and the title song there’s a bit more of a balance between the slower beat and the horn oriented sound. “Heavens Above” ups the tempo a bit and concentrates heavily on the drumming and the rhythm and a well executed use of horns. “Right To Go” is just out and out funk with one of the finest and most obvious bass lines of any of their songs and features an Reagan/Thatcher-based political rap by the UK’s own Dynamic Three. And its overall sound is very much bound to the international musical explosions pf that year. Obviously inspired by the music that Jam & Lewis were putting out during this time period “It Didn’t Matter” resulted in,musically one of the finest singles the band had put together thus far with it’s strong synth bass line,rhythm guitar and fairly slow dance beat-great in the mid 80’s funk context. The album itself was recorded in the autumn of 1986. Some of the tracks from this album were also featured in a short film The Style Council made called JerUSAlem. The Style Council themselves went through an interesting process in the conception of this album too. But is based in different varieties of funk. Its possible that lack of accolades this album receives has to do with this music by and large is not only uptempo. For the most part, the results of this album commercially weren’t mixed. ![]() And have a special affinity for. Paul Weller’s earlier records for with the Style Council were fairly diverse musically And they met with mixed results from both fans and critics. The Cost Of Loving is an album that I’ve heard many times. ![]()
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