Our Favourite Shop

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Our Favourite Shop
Studio album by The Style Council
Released	1985
Genre	Pop
Length	49:01
Label	Polydor Records
Producer(s)	Paul Weller (for Solid Bond Productions), Peter Wilson
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The Style Council chronology
Café Bleu (1984)	Our Favourite Shop (1985)	Home and Abroad (1986)

Our Favourite Shop is the third album from the band The Style Council. The majority of the albums material was released (with different sequencing and packaged in an entirely different cover design)in the USA as Internationalists by Geffen Records.

Lyrical targets include racism, excessive consumerism, the effects of self-serving governments, the suicide of one of Weller's friends and what the band saw as an exasperating lack of opposition to the status quo. All of this pessimism is countered with an overarching sense of hope and delight that alternatives do actually exist -- if only they can be seen.

The contained musical styles are also far-ranging. Soul, rap, jazz and rock stylings all occur on the album.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Homebreakers"
2. "All Gone Away"
3. "Come To Milton Keynes"
4. "Internationalists"
5. "Stones Throw Away"
6. "Stand Up Comic's Instructions"
7. "Boy Who Cried Wolf"
8. "Man Of Great Promise"
9. "Down In The Seine"
10. "Lodgers"
11. "Luck"
12. "With Everything To Lose"
13. "Our Favourite Shop"
14. "Walls Come Tumbling Down"
15. "Shout To The Top"

[edit] Personnel

• Paul Weller - Vocals
• Mick Talbot - Keyboard
• Steve White - Drums