When Paul Weller announced The Style Council’s arrival in March 1983, he’d come a very long way. In fact, at the age of just 24, he was already a musical veteran with six albums and nine Top 10 singles under his belt with The Jam. As their leader he had become a deity-like figure and for his fans, The Jam’s split was unimaginable. But creatively restless and of inquisitive mind, Paul jettisoned them at their height to form a collective with an eventual core line-up of Paul with Mick Talbot, Dee C Lee and Steve White. Over four albums and 17 singles, The Style Council made a stand and became the standard bearers of progressive soulful pop and social comment. This is their story.

Disc 1
1. Headstart for Happiness – The Style Council
2. Long Hot Summer – The Style Council
3. My Ever-changing Moods – The Style Council
4. Walls Come Tumbling Down – The Style Council
5. Party Chambers – The Style Council
6. Wanted (Or Waiter, There’s Some Soup in My Flies) – The Style Council
7. Shout to the Top! – The Style Council
8. It Just Came to Pieces in My Hands – The Style Council
9. Come to Milton Keynes – The Style Council
10. Why I Went Missing – The Style Council
11. Waiting – The Style Council
12. Ghosts of Dachau – The Style Council
13. Down in the Seine – The Style Council
14. The Paris Match – The Style Council
15. Boy Who Cried Wolf – The Style Council
16. Life at a Top People’s Health Farm – The Style Council
17. Homebreakers – The Style Council
18. Dropping Bombs On the Whitehouse (Extended Version) – The Style Council
Disc 2
1. Speak Like a Child – The Style Council
2. The Lodgers (Or She Was Only a Shopkeeper’s Daughter) – The Style Council
3. Money Go Round – The Style Council
4. You’re the Best Thing – The Style Council
5. How She Threw It All Away – The Style Council
6. A Man of Great Promise – The Style Council
7. The Piccadilly Trail – The Style Council
8. A Solid Bond in Your Heart – The Style Council
9. All Gone Away – The Style Council
10. Sweet Loving Ways – The Style Council
11. Promised Land – The Style Council
12. Have You Ever Had It Blue – The Style Council
13. It Didn’t Matter – The Style Council
14. Spin’ Drifting – The Style Council
15. Here’s One That Got Away – The Style Council
16. A Woman’s Song – The Style Council
17. Changing of the Guard – The Style Council
18. My Ever-changing Moods (Demo) – The Style Council
19. Shout to the Top (Instrumental) – The Style Council