MT was the collaborator PW needed to break free from the Jam. In retrospect, if he had augmented the Jam the way he wanted to do his music, the old Jam fans would have said the same things they said about SC. A lot of people just don't like the totally left political agenda he pursued in his lyrics but are too chicken to say it.
@shakermaker508 The guy wasn't cool. Okay? What's with the match stick in his mouth at the beginning anyway? It's not like he's kicking ass on the piano. The Style Council was all ''style'' no substance'/
@VoceTubeia Well Keith Moon was a hell'ov a lot cooler than Mick Talbot. Moon contributed more to music history than Talbot did. Talbot lived on Weller's tail coat and his success was totally dependent on Weller.
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@wovokanarchy No one would even know who he is, if it wasn't for PW, yeah. Ok. But this is thx to PW listening to a record and actually liking the way he played so it's also for himself. I find Mick pretty cool, funny and he rocks the Hammond or a Piano. I love the Style Council and Mick is a big part of it. Mick's Blessings, Company and Our Favourite Shop. This is all him. Like it or not, the unique flavour of TSC was hugely because of him.
Mick didn't cause The Jam to split. Stop the hate.
@VoceTubeia I didn't say he caused the breakup. In fact PW's solo music is perhaps far superior to The Jams and I listen to it on a regular basis. The hammond? Listen to anything by The Small Faces, now that's how you play the hammond. Mick Talbot was and probably still is a wanker and The SC were shit.
@VoceTubeia I agree. They had one or two moments in 83. The rest was not my cup of tea.Maybe I was too young to understand what PW was on about. I just don't like anything with a synth with the possible exception of Joy Division or Radiohead.
Gee... All you people posting here, and you give ZERO thanks to James Brown for all the influence in this song. And in the long version, you get to hear more of the Fred Wesley (of the 70s JBs) trombone! Oh, by the way, James Brown was a Ronald Reagan Republican, but you'll never read that in left-wing, commie-socialist rewriting of history. James Brown. A capitalist. Stone To The Bone.
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@SouLoveReal so james browns vote for reagan has nothing to do with anything- i respect JB the musician- JB the person was a wife beating reagan voting douchebag
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What a great song,........ and the lyrics are just as relevant now as they were when they were written 25 years ago,.......... for Money go round is just what the bankers have been doing to get us all into this shithole of a mess,.......... oh and Dustpile, get real,.......... who produced this "lefty singer",.......... Polydor, hardly a bastion of the left,...... and if more people were actually "brainwashed" by the likes of Weller, Dylan and Mctell we wouldnt be in the shit we're now in.
@BlkSun865 considering Bush started two unfunded wars- bankrupted the country while the top 5% earned more money than ever and the middle class and the poor saw their worst economic times in 40 years- all before Obama ever stepped into the white house! Fucking clown!
@regvarney lower taxes for me- more college fund help for my children- a tax refund for my new energy effeicient home-a new much needed road in my town completed by stimulus money which gave 45 locals a job for 8 months! The current economic downturn is bad but not nearly as bad as what it might have been! PS iraq war would have paid for free healthcare for all us citizens for atleast 5 years- if youre going to waste money waste it on something good!
@regvarney unlike the two term entity Bush which destroyed our country on all levels- so you admit Obama is a blip- my point exactly! Bush however has scarred us for a generation!
@TheDustpile You poor thing, brainwashed by the lefties in the '80's. Did you get back on track despite this terrible background? Found a job? Got married?
@TheDustpile the same way national anthems, flags and church hymns are used by conservatives to brainwash kids into nationalism and hate! The national front used to sing chants and songs from oi right wing "punk bands" as they beat on pakis gays africans and jamaicans all for the "glory of the queen" fucking hypocrites!
@salvadory 'nationalism and hate' - by the very error of putting the likes of Elgar and Kipling on the level of far-right lunatics, the thrust of that comment is severely weakened!
Pride in one's country and history is a grand thing. Lessons can be learned both from past glories and errors. And on top of that, yes, Hope and Glory can fill you with optimism.
And what do the modern Left have? Theirs is a culture of shame - in country, history and people. I know who I'd rather side with.
@TheDustpile PS - Take a look at the Youtube video MARTIN SMITH HATES THE UNION JACK for some top-quality treason, paid for by the British taxpayer.
Yep, that's THE Martin Smith! The Martin Smith ARRESTED with fellow thug chief Weyman Bennett during the UAF riot in Bradford a few months ago! Never mind the EDL, the UAF were the violent rabble that day!
@TheDustpile yes wonderful thing lke the national front - the nazis - the mussolinis and pinochet- all under the guise of gflag and country! ive been around the world enought ot know that people are either good or bad and their country of origin has nothing to do with it- the left can hold womens rights -black rights- gay rights - human rights with pride.
@salvadory "..the left can hold womens rights -black rights- gay rights - human rights with pride."
But as you say, noble intentions can be abused. The Communists, for example, advertised a regime of glorious peace but gave the world anything but. Though that doesn't stop the West's students (as well as so many in the unions and Labour) loving or sympathising with the likes of Castro anyway.
@TheDustpile yes wonderful things like the national front - the nazis - the mussolinis and pinochet- all under the guise of flag and country! ive been around the world enought ot know that people are either good or bad and their country of origin has nothing to do with it their humanity is whats key-. Ill take a working class hero anyday over some Kensington poof whos daddy handed him his fortune-
@salvadory "Ill take a working class hero anyday over some Kensington poof whos daddy handed him his fortune"
You mean like John Lennon, the mega-rich 'working class hero' who once had his Apple Records man Tony Bramwell approach CASTRO and CHAIRMAN MAO for a record deal? Not the same protector of the innocent who released a song saying the criminals at Attica State jail should all be freed because they were supposedly just 'political' prisoners?
@TheDustpile ps the point of elgar and kipling means nothing as good intentions often are misused! What might sound like a glorius idea in practice results in disaster? Considering many of my best friends are in fact not of my country- i have no need for over zealous nationalism- just pride when my country acts right and shame when it sinks to low levels(rascism- superiority complexes etc)
this shows how his solo career is in autopilot..he dosen;t do this anymore..great songs on the bside of the 12" too..headstart for happiness and micks up..78-84 is the classic weller period and evrything he does now is supported by that period
lol... Yeah, it wasn't Weller's best, but it's still 10X better than anything in the chart today! Strange how Weller was all for free speach but one of his fans thinks it's cool to tell other people to "Shut Up". Someone didn't get the message...
Great song, shit video
LordHeath1972 1 month ago
MT was the collaborator PW needed to break free from the Jam. In retrospect, if he had augmented the Jam the way he wanted to do his music, the old Jam fans would have said the same things they said about SC. A lot of people just don't like the totally left political agenda he pursued in his lyrics but are too chicken to say it.
cejannuzi 1 month ago
great
arsenioluiz66 4 months ago
salvaadory... I saw James Brown 5 times in the 1970s, and the
last I saw of him he was "James Brown, the musical genious
AND the Reagan supporter, from head to toe, inside and out.
The douachebags were the women he beat. Please get your
facts right.
Peace, love...
SouLoveReal 5 months ago 9
I like The Style Council more than I like The Jam...and that's saying something. Now bend over forwards, this won't hurt you!
m0dsar3us 5 months ago in playlist The Style Council
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Great song, great band. Bankers still enjoying the Money-Go-Round along with the millionaires Clegg, Camron and Osborne.
linksgreen 8 months ago
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Top tune. I loved The Style Council back then and still do today.
AdidasAddiction 8 months ago
check "Disco duck". This is completely ripped off from it !
markdelaney 1 year ago 21
Mick..what a fucking goof ball. The guy was never cool.
wovokanarchy 1 year ago 13
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@wovokanarchy
Mick is a talented pianist who was in a band with Paul Weller.
You are somebody sitting behind a computer and posting comments on YouTube slagging someone off.
And you're calling Mick Talbot a goofball?
shakermaker508 1 year ago
@shakermaker508 The guy wasn't cool. Okay? What's with the match stick in his mouth at the beginning anyway? It's not like he's kicking ass on the piano. The Style Council was all ''style'' no substance'/
wovokanarchy 1 year ago 38
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@wovokanarchy If taking cocaine and wrecking hotel rooms is your definition of "cool", then, Mick isn't really a cool guy.
VoceTubeia 10 months ago
@VoceTubeia Well Keith Moon was a hell'ov a lot cooler than Mick Talbot. Moon contributed more to music history than Talbot did. Talbot lived on Weller's tail coat and his success was totally dependent on Weller.
wovokanarchy 10 months ago 4
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@wovokanarchy No one would even know who he is, if it wasn't for PW, yeah. Ok. But this is thx to PW listening to a record and actually liking the way he played so it's also for himself. I find Mick pretty cool, funny and he rocks the Hammond or a Piano. I love the Style Council and Mick is a big part of it. Mick's Blessings, Company and Our Favourite Shop. This is all him. Like it or not, the unique flavour of TSC was hugely because of him.
Mick didn't cause The Jam to split. Stop the hate.
VoceTubeia 10 months ago
@VoceTubeia I didn't say he caused the breakup. In fact PW's solo music is perhaps far superior to The Jams and I listen to it on a regular basis. The hammond? Listen to anything by The Small Faces, now that's how you play the hammond. Mick Talbot was and probably still is a wanker and The SC were shit.
wovokanarchy 10 months ago 16
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@wovokanarchy I know everything by Small Faces and I love it too. But we can't argue about it. TSC 83-85 was great.
VoceTubeia 10 months ago
@VoceTubeia I agree. They had one or two moments in 83. The rest was not my cup of tea.Maybe I was too young to understand what PW was on about. I just don't like anything with a synth with the possible exception of Joy Division or Radiohead.
wovokanarchy 10 months ago
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Forgetting the politics for a mo the music is bloody fantastic !!!
LouRoff1 1 year ago
D.C. has a Mike Score (A Flock Of Seagulls) haircut
3rdStoneFromTheSun 1 year ago 12
Gee... All you people posting here, and you give ZERO thanks to James Brown for all the influence in this song. And in the long version, you get to hear more of the Fred Wesley (of the 70s JBs) trombone! Oh, by the way, James Brown was a Ronald Reagan Republican, but you'll never read that in left-wing, commie-socialist rewriting of history. James Brown. A capitalist. Stone To The Bone.
SouLoveReal 1 year ago 12
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@SouLoveReal so james browns vote for reagan has nothing to do with anything- i respect JB the musician- JB the person was a wife beating reagan voting douchebag
salvadory 5 months ago
@1947rande "bp = big profit"
Oh grow up!
TheDustpile 1 year ago 6
"I must insist he was a capitalist!"
blurskajoe 1 year ago 61
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@blurskajoe : Was he fairycakes.
pollythewasp 3 months ago
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Zeke Manyika from the band Orange Juice on drums! No sign of Steve White, yet!
7deacons 1 year ago
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What a great song,........ and the lyrics are just as relevant now as they were when they were written 25 years ago,.......... for Money go round is just what the bankers have been doing to get us all into this shithole of a mess,.......... oh and Dustpile, get real,.......... who produced this "lefty singer",.......... Polydor, hardly a bastion of the left,...... and if more people were actually "brainwashed" by the likes of Weller, Dylan and Mctell we wouldnt be in the shit we're now in.
Steveo2857 1 year ago
Hey! It's Obamas theme song!
BlkSun865 2 years ago 7
@BlkSun865 considering Bush started two unfunded wars- bankrupted the country while the top 5% earned more money than ever and the middle class and the poor saw their worst economic times in 40 years- all before Obama ever stepped into the white house! Fucking clown!
salvadory 1 year ago
@salvadory What exactly has President O"Barmy exactly achieved with his great giveaway of tax payer"s money?
regvarney 1 year ago 2
@regvarney lower taxes for me- more college fund help for my children- a tax refund for my new energy effeicient home-a new much needed road in my town completed by stimulus money which gave 45 locals a job for 8 months! The current economic downturn is bad but not nearly as bad as what it might have been! PS iraq war would have paid for free healthcare for all us citizens for atleast 5 years- if youre going to waste money waste it on something good!
salvadory 1 year ago
@salvadory O" Barmy is this generation"s Jimmy Carter.A one term nonentity.Looking forward to the Dems getting wiped out next month!
regvarney 1 year ago 2
@regvarney unlike the two term entity Bush which destroyed our country on all levels- so you admit Obama is a blip- my point exactly! Bush however has scarred us for a generation!
salvadory 1 year ago
@salvadory Bring back back Dubya.O"Barmy makes him look like Lincoln and FDR in comparison!
regvarney 1 year ago
Lefty singers are very adept at using music to engineer the ideas of young people to the extent of brainwashing.
(Did you know, that in so-called 'hymn practice' at school, we kids were made to sing Bob Dylan and Ralph McTell songs in the 80s?!)
Is this why Labour MPs are so keen to fund special recording studios with public money?
Let's hear behind the scenes of a session of my own Labour MP Johnathan Leftwinger!
Paste title into bar: LEFT WING RECORD MAKERS AND HEART BREAKERS!
TheDustpile 2 years ago 3
@TheDustpile You poor thing, brainwashed by the lefties in the '80's. Did you get back on track despite this terrible background? Found a job? Got married?
cor916 2 years ago
@TheDustpile the same way national anthems, flags and church hymns are used by conservatives to brainwash kids into nationalism and hate! The national front used to sing chants and songs from oi right wing "punk bands" as they beat on pakis gays africans and jamaicans all for the "glory of the queen" fucking hypocrites!
salvadory 1 year ago
@salvadory 'nationalism and hate' - by the very error of putting the likes of Elgar and Kipling on the level of far-right lunatics, the thrust of that comment is severely weakened!
Pride in one's country and history is a grand thing. Lessons can be learned both from past glories and errors. And on top of that, yes, Hope and Glory can fill you with optimism.
And what do the modern Left have? Theirs is a culture of shame - in country, history and people. I know who I'd rather side with.
TheDustpile 1 year ago
@TheDustpile PS - Take a look at the Youtube video MARTIN SMITH HATES THE UNION JACK for some top-quality treason, paid for by the British taxpayer.
Yep, that's THE Martin Smith! The Martin Smith ARRESTED with fellow thug chief Weyman Bennett during the UAF riot in Bradford a few months ago! Never mind the EDL, the UAF were the violent rabble that day!
TheDustpile 1 year ago
@TheDustpile yes wonderful thing lke the national front - the nazis - the mussolinis and pinochet- all under the guise of gflag and country! ive been around the world enought ot know that people are either good or bad and their country of origin has nothing to do with it- the left can hold womens rights -black rights- gay rights - human rights with pride.
salvadory 1 year ago
@salvadory "..the left can hold womens rights -black rights- gay rights - human rights with pride."
But as you say, noble intentions can be abused. The Communists, for example, advertised a regime of glorious peace but gave the world anything but. Though that doesn't stop the West's students (as well as so many in the unions and Labour) loving or sympathising with the likes of Castro anyway.
TheDustpile 1 year ago
@TheDustpile yes wonderful things like the national front - the nazis - the mussolinis and pinochet- all under the guise of flag and country! ive been around the world enought ot know that people are either good or bad and their country of origin has nothing to do with it their humanity is whats key-. Ill take a working class hero anyday over some Kensington poof whos daddy handed him his fortune-
salvadory 1 year ago
@salvadory "Ill take a working class hero anyday over some Kensington poof whos daddy handed him his fortune"
You mean like John Lennon, the mega-rich 'working class hero' who once had his Apple Records man Tony Bramwell approach CASTRO and CHAIRMAN MAO for a record deal? Not the same protector of the innocent who released a song saying the criminals at Attica State jail should all be freed because they were supposedly just 'political' prisoners?
Mind, Chapman ended up there but hey-ho!
TheDustpile 1 year ago
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@TheDustpile "Ill take a working class hero anyday over some Kensington poof"
Erm... gay rights, did you say?!
TheDustpile 1 year ago
@TheDustpile ps the point of elgar and kipling means nothing as good intentions often are misused! What might sound like a glorius idea in practice results in disaster? Considering many of my best friends are in fact not of my country- i have no need for over zealous nationalism- just pride when my country acts right and shame when it sinks to low levels(rascism- superiority complexes etc)
salvadory 1 year ago
Makes me think of "...this is radio Clash..."
RubyTwilite 2 years ago 2
timeless
janicepjam 2 years ago
that is one smokin bass line....
Groovecat68 2 years ago
@Groovecat68 Man I wanted to say that and I scrolled down and saw your comment. That bass player carried the whole song.
Bluesdirections 1 year ago
They did a one off version of this at a concert for the miners strike many years ago, totally different lyrics and brilliant !
Has anybody got it , it was broadcast on radio ?
john24266 2 years ago
Cool!
karaki4mari 2 years ago
this shows how his solo career is in autopilot..he dosen;t do this anymore..great songs on the bside of the 12" too..headstart for happiness and micks up..78-84 is the classic weller period and evrything he does now is supported by that period
tubestation66 3 years ago
I kind of agree...but the genius of the Wildwood record can't be denied.
Mugsycache14567 2 years ago
yes,that is a classic album and also a time when all hardcore weller fans breathed a sigh of relief!!
tubestation66 2 years ago 3
could not agree with you more mate. micks up, what a classic. stood as tall as a moutain, comes close. play it loud and proud , weller forever.
oldcollins 2 years ago
this was my fave record at the time, watched them at the oden in brum, pure class.
cannockstu 3 years ago 2
Weller must be an economist because he the same coat for bitterest pill and speak like A child and same sun glasses for money go round and precious.
wezatch 3 years ago
lol... Yeah, it wasn't Weller's best, but it's still 10X better than anything in the chart today! Strange how Weller was all for free speach but one of his fans thinks it's cool to tell other people to "Shut Up". Someone didn't get the message...
TheAbsoluteBeginner 3 years ago 3
u shutup respect weller listen to that man its insnae
Pressureproductions 3 years ago
why the fuck did weller do this
its great but not weller
Nigz98 3 years ago