Our Favourite Shop

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Our Favourite Shop
Our Favourite Shop cover
Studio album by The Style Council
Released 9th May 1985
Genre Pop
Length 49:01
Label Polydor Records
Producer(s) Paul Weller (for Solid Bond Productions), Peter Wilson
Professional reviews
The Style Council chronology
Café Bleu
(1984)		 Our Favourite Shop
(1985)		 Home and Abroad
(1986)


Our Favourite Shop is the second album from the band The Style Council. The majority of the album's 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. "The 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" (CD Only)

The original cassette version included an interview with Weller and Talbot conducted by DJ Gary Crowley.

Internationalists replaces 13. "Our Favourite Shop" with the US mix of "Shout To The Top".

[edit] Personnel

  • Dee C Lee - Vocals
  • Lenny Henry - Vocals
  • Tracie Young - Vocals
  • Camele Hinds - Bass
  • Stewart Prosser - Trumpet/Flugel Horb
  • David Defries - Trumpet/Flugel Horn
  • Mike Mower - Flute/Saxophone
  • Chris Lawrence - Trombone
  • Clark Kent - Contra Bass
  • Gary Wallis - Persussion
  • John Mealing - Orchestration/String arrangement
  • Anne Stephenson - Violin
  • Charlie Buchanan - Violin
  • JocelyPook - Viola
  • Audrey Riley - Cello
  • Peter Wilson - Keyboard Sequencing
  • Patrick Grundy-White - French Horn
  • Steve Dawson - Trumpet
  • Billy Chapman - Saxophone
  • Kevin Miller - Bass
  • Helen Turner - Piano


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