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The best of the style council album5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() (The best The Jam ever did was “A Town Called Malice” making #45 on the Billboard Dance Charts.)ĭid I say “was still a god?” Actually, he still is. Paul Weller was still a god in the U.K at the time, so “My Ever Changing Moods” went to #5 over there, but the big surprise is that it was an actual hit single here, making it to #29, by far the best he’s ever - or will ever - chart here in the colonies. Approaches, because frenzy wasn’t really part and parcel of what The Style Council was aiming for. I wish to stay forever – letting this be my foodīut I’m caught up in a whirlwind and my ever changing moodsĪnd the coda, with the horns, vocal harmonies and Weller’s guitar approaches the frenzy of The Jam. Praising the way it all works – gazing upon the rest But of course, Paul Weller singing about his mercurialness is never a bad thing.ĭaylight turns to moonlight – and I’m at my best It’s a great song, full of cool-sounding horns and Weller’s piercing wah-wah guitar, and lyrics that I don’t even really notice all that much because I’m too busy listening to that guitar and horns. None of this is to denigrate “My Ever Changing Moods” as a song. And totally against my utter belief that artists should follow their muses, consequences be damned. Just like two decades prior, I wanted more Jam. I was still too busy wanting more Deadwood. And while people whose taste I respected really enjoyed it, I just couldn’t. Deadwood ran for three seasons on HBO, and was all set to have a fourth season when, suddenly, it wasn’t going to have a fourth season after all.Ī couple of years later, Milch’s follow-up, John from Cincinnati, appeared. You see, once upon a time in the mid-2000s, there was what might be my favorite TV show, David Milch’s utterly tremendous Deadwood. I didn’t realize it, but Paul Weller had John From Cincinnatied me. single, “A Solid Bond in Your Heart” that Geffen stuck on - but I didn’t like any of the other songs on the album. Which isn’t to say I didn’t like the song “My Ever Changing Moods,” - or even the other non-album U.K. non-album single, “A Solid Bond in Your Heart.” The reason that I bring up all of this was that when I started researching this post a few days ago, I had no idea about any of this, because I stopped paying attention the Style Council after this time. Oh, and, for good measure, Geffen also stuck on the other U.K. album was the longer version that was on the U.K. It gets even trickier: the version of “My Ever Changing Moods” that was actually on Cafe Bleu was a Weller and piano version that wasn’t released as a single, while the version on the U.S. And that’s because, when the “My Ever Changing Moods” single was released in the U.S., it actually got some traction here - unlike every single The Jam had ever released - and the Geffen marketing folks decided to make it the first track on the album and also call the album My Ever Changing Moods. The Style Council’s debut album was called Cafe Bleu in every part of the world except for the U.S. So, let’s start with some record company shenanigans, shall we?
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