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Finally, The Style Council wraps up everything with the ’60s-inspired, rustic sound of the female-sung piano ballad “A Woman’s Song.” As the last song fades out, turning the lights off to relax in serene style becomes apt. The title track takes the listener back to the overall romantic male-female interplay of the album, highlighting once again the dynamics between Weller and Lee on a backdrop of their backing musicians’ flawless Rhythm-and-Blues spell. The same jazzy excursion carries on through the Blue-Eyed Soul of “Walking the Night” and the piano-led ballad “Waiting,” which the initiated may recall of similarly Jazz-tinged love songs like Christopher Cross’s “Sailing,” Lee Ritenour’s “Dream Walkin’ (Along with Me),” and Richard Marx’s “Right Here Waiting.” The ambience then turns more hazy and smoky as the slow R&B ballad “Angel” plays next. The loungy and tropical Light Jazz of the horn-adorned “Fairy Tales” gives the listener a time to go back to a corner for a while and sip a bit of margarita, piña colada, pineapple juice, or whichever one prefers. Then there is the Worldbeat/Urban Rhythm feel of the ensuing “Heavens Above,” which will be good to play alongside similarly fashioned songs such as The Isley Brothers’ “Harvest for the World,” Red Box’s “Lean on Me (ah-li-ayo),” and Gary Kemp’s “Standing in Love.” The dance-floor mood shifts into a notch higher with the funky groove of the heavily percussive “Right to Go,” which has a strong Hip-Hop influence, featuring a Rap interlude courtesy of The Dynamic Three. The Cost of Loving opens with the breezy, dim-lit R&B jam of the mid-tempo “It Didn’t Matter,” whose sparse instrumentation allowed Weller and female Vocalist Dee C. Entitled The Cost of Loving, the album was initially released on February 7th of 1987 via Polydor, launching them further into the realms of R&B, Soul, and Light Jazz, with a dash of Pop sensibilities. Now, in 2017, the third of the duo’s five-album studio discography is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary. The Style Council hit #1 in UK Albums Charts. Going on to attain international success, they topped charts with 1983’s mini-LP Introducing The Style Council 1984’s debut, full-length Café Bleu (known in America as My Ever Changing Moods) and by 1985’s Our Favourite Shop (known in America as Internationalists).

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First formed in 1983 by Weller and the former Dexys Midnight Runners Keyboardist Mick Talbot, they both wanted to break free of traditional Rock-n-Roll culture. Although, prior to his catapulting to commercial popularity as a solo artist, he was first the bandleader of the Post-Punk band The Jam and then of the more sophisticated outfit The Style Council. Go forth and listen, my friends.By now, Paul Weller has become one of the most influential artists to have come out of the exciting ’80s British Alternative music scene.

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If you’d like to listen to Turner’s full selection, you can find it below. Strings are an essential aspect of the final track on this slim collection of favourites: Wu-Tang Clan’s ‘I Can’t Go To Sleep’, which loops uses the sweeping orchestral arrangements from Isaac Hayes’ ‘Walk On By’. Indeed, you’re unlikely to hear more scintillating string arrangments than those crafted by Jean-Claude Vannier’s for tracks like ‘l’hotel particulier’. Guitar, drums, bass, vocals, strings: all are perfectly honed. This expansive album features very few ingredients, but they’re all employed expertly. Perhaps one of the most intoxicating cult albums of all time, Gainsbourg’s work on L’historie is a masterclass in limitation. Turner also gives pride of place to a sultry cut from Serge Gainsbourg’s erotic Magnificat L’histoire de Melody Nelson, an album which traces the speaker’s relationship with the titular Melody.

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