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Certain Songs #2531: The Style Council – “My Ever Changing Moods”

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Album: My Ever Changing Moods
Year: 1984

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So, let’s start with some record company shenanigans, shall we?

The Style Council’s debut album was called Cafe Bleu in every part of the world except for 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.

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Certain Songs #2530: The Style Council – “Headstart For Happiness”

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Album: Introducing The Style Council
Year: 1983

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Paul Weller wasn’t one to rest on his laurels. After all, the final single by The Jam, the utterly tremendous “Beat Surrender” came out in November, 1982, and the first single by his new project, The Style Council — a collaboration with keyboardist Mick Talbot — the perfectly fine “Speak Like a Child” came out in March of 1983.

Of course, I was still trying to process the break-up of The Jam, who were — and are — one of my all-time favorite bands, and a band who was only getting better, as I think their final two albums, Sound Affects and The Gift are their best, as are the non-album singles that accompanied those records: the aformentioned “Beat Surrender,” but also “Funeral Pyre” and of course “Going Underground,” still one of the greatest songs anybody has ever done.

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