It was eventually released in this format as a 2 x 12" Promo only to promote The Style Council's 1998 Boxset. The record company refused to release the record as it was considered too dance orientated. This track segues into "Can You Still Love Me" on other versions of the album but here you only get 4 or 5 seconds of the intro as the track fades out.Ĭ1: "Can You Still Love Me" The version contained here is not the album version but the "Vocal" mix found on the B-Side of the "Promised Land" single (or track 5.2 on the Complete Adventures box set).ĭ1: "Everybody's On The Run" The version contained here is not the album version but "Version One" found on the B-Side of the "Long Hot Summer '89" single (or track 5.4 on the Complete Adventures box set). Artist: The Style Council: Title: Style Council Modernism: A New Decade (Colored Vinyl) Coloured Vinyl 2 LP Label: UMC Polydor Released: : Please note this release date may be subject to change and also stock arrival can be subject to delays, in particular if this is an overseas release. "Can You Still Love Me", "Love Of The World", "That Spiritual Feeling" & "Everybody's On The Run" all change positions.Ī1 "A New Decade" The mix on this LP is missing the 'peace brother' vocal at the start. The running order of this double album differs from the other available versions of this release (Single LP/Japanese CD/Complete Adventures box set). The Cappuccino Kid is on holiday somewhere in the North of England. Modernism: A New Decade has also been released in its entirety on the Style Council's box set, but it should mainly be of interest to Paul Weller fanatics and those drug-addled few who are nostalgic for the rave scene of the early '90s.Publishing info from back cover (there are some discrepancies with the label info):Ī1, A2, B1, B2, C1: Published by EMI Music Publishing LtdĬ2 & D2: Published by EMI Music Publishing Ltd/Notting Hill Music (UK) Ltd/Copyright Controlĭ1: Published by EMI Music Publishing Ltd/Copyright Control And while there were flirtations with jazz and Northern Soul, The Council avoided the all too predictable trap of the territory they did not become conservative modernists. The Complete Adventures Of The Style Council CD4. Popular modernism was a child of the NHS, council housing and so on, and The Council warned of the consequences of a world in which public was bad and private was good. The Complete Adventures Of The Style Council CD5. While 'Modernism: A New Decade' was far short of an Earth-shattering development in house music, it was a brilliant example of the kind of beguiling EP the Council had initially utilized to differentiate itself (with early four and five song twelve-inch vinyl such as 'Au Paris' in Europe, as well as the US debut 'Introducing'). Genre: Pop/Rock Meta Styles: Alternative/Indie Rock, Punk/New Wave. Thankfully, there are a few highlights on the album: the gospel-tinged "Promised Land" became the band's final single, "Sure Is Sure" went on to become a very big bootleg dance hit throughout Europe, and (best of all) the instrumental "That Spiritual Feeling" remains one of the key cuts of the then-new acid jazz scene. Buy Mp3 Music Online / The Style Council. Modernism: A New Decade is not a bad album, just a rather pointless one and it's dated much worse than most of the band's work from the 1980s. But the dance music they created for this album revels in the fact that it's rather faceless and more of a communal experience rather than a personal one. In the new millennium Polydor has seen fit to finally release the album and it's easy to understand the label's initial negative reaction the Style Council were famous for being musically eclectic, but they almost always retained a strong personal identity no matter what kind of musical genre they were exploring. (new wave/Synthpop/Mod revival)The Style Council - The Complete Adventures of the Style Council - 1998, MP3, 320 kb/s » Pop-Rock & Soft Rock (lossy).
(Weller, like many others, now likens the dance culture of the early '90s to the punk movement that originally motivated him to form the Jam.) So, the Style Council recorded Modernism: A New Decade, turned it in to their label, watched as Polydor refused to release it, and then disbanded. Add to bookmarks Duration: 49:48 Size, Mb: 115.09. For whatever reason, Weller and company decided to combat their flagging fortunes by cutting an album for the then-underground club scene. The Style Council Modernism - A New Decade Modernism - A New Decade Buy album 1.12.
The Style Council were one of the biggest bands of the 1980s (particularly in Europe and Japan), but over the course of the decade, Paul Weller's outfit was experiencing declining sales and a critical backlash from rock critics who felt that the group was becoming bloated and self-important.
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