The Style Council is great. Mick Talbot is one of my favourite musicians. And this film is kind of like Magical Mistery Tour. It's non-sense, but it's enjoyable. Only negative side are the songs, which are from their weakest album, though I still like it. If there were songs from Our Favourite Shop, this would be much better.
The album wasn’t bad at all, it has more of a commercially negative reputation if anything. There are several quality songs on it. Very few albums are going to be as good as Our Favourite Shop or Cafe Bleu. But frankly, if you put Walls Come Tumbling Down on The Cost of Loving instead of Our Favourite Shop, The Cost of Loving is probably as good an album overall.
@@StonefieldJim4 will you ever reupload this or would you be able to unlist it and send us the link? I really really want to see all of this but its so hard to find :(
A bit unfair, methinks. I'd put it in the same category as the first, Julie Temple-directed, edition of The Comic Strip (1981), or Alexei Sayles Itch (1989): those off-the-wall 80s comedies - the likes of which are just too odd for the BBC or Channel 4 to commission these days. Self-indulgent? Maybe - on Paolo Hewitt's part anyway. As for Weller's self-indulgence, I miss it. At least it gave us The Style Council, instead of the worthy, wooden Dad Rock we have to endure today.
self indulgent pish. AS Madness once sang..."you're an embarrassment ! And Mick Talbot WTF! Long Live The Jam, Sex Pistols, Clash, Small Faces, Who. Kinks, Specials, e t c
