{"id":1531,"date":"2008-07-01T14:37:36","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T18:37:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-01-09T11:02:42","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T11:02:42","slug":"does-even-one-style-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/does-even-one-style-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Even One Style Council Tune Hold Up to Culture Club&#8217;s Third-Biggest Hit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It saddens me to find myself stuck in the middle with <strong>Townsmen Hrrundivbakshi<\/strong> and <strong>E. Pluribus Gergely<\/strong> over issues of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/06\/30\/the-truth-about-paul-weller-e-pluribus-g\">The Style Council<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/07\/01\/who-s-got-the-animality\">animality<\/a><\/strong>. I&#8217;m reminded of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=p8_FOQ7-P30\" target=\"_blank\">the words of founding <strong>Traffic<\/strong> member <strong>Dave Mason<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QOxDJS3rZLc?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nBefore we <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yFdOSI3DS5Q\" target=\"_blank\">turn the page<\/a><\/strong> on these issues, before we possibly reach the level of understanding and unity offered by the first-ever <strong>European International Pop Festival<\/strong> (go to about the <strong>00:50 mark<\/strong> of the above video for a full explanation of our potential as a community of music lovers), let&#8217;s consider the <strong>following clip<\/strong>:<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/28ZUEkYyovo?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now, how does that song compare with the next one, in which Mick Talbot works up quite a lather. (Do Style Council fans ever discuss the leadership role that Talbot played in this band? It&#8217;s clear from the videos that Weller wanted to give the man his due.)<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T9nwcd-jF00?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another well-intentioned, relatively half-decent offering by The Style Council. No matter how well intentioned and how gussied up the video is with soft-core &#8217;60s fanboy imagery, where&#8217;s the song? And what does this singer add to it? Shouldn&#8217;t this guy be singing &#8220;Eton Rifles&#8221;?<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O2EeE24W-Eg?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>I challenge anyone to submit one Style Council song that&#8217;s a better single than <strong>Culture Club<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8211; what &#8211; third biggest hit single?<\/em> I&#8217;m leaving &#8220;Do You Really Want to Hurt Me&#8221; and &#8220;Karma Chameleon&#8221; out of it. I ask you to honestly assess the roles of <strong>lead vocalist<\/strong>; clear, seamless <strong>arrangements<\/strong>; and even Look. Animality is not open to debate: Culture Club clearly has the upper hand in that department.<\/p>\n<p><em>P.S. &#8211;<\/em> What Weller vocal is as soulful as the following Boy George vocal?<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jnRGS-l1-3A?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It saddens me to find myself stuck in the middle with Townsmen Hrrundivbakshi and E. Pluribus Gergely over issues of The Style Council and animality. I&#8217;m reminded of the words of founding Traffic member Dave Mason. Before we turn the page on these issues, before we possibly reach the level of understanding and unity offered <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/does-even-one-style-council\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}