From the Blue Nile’s fedora-clad euphoria in “Hats,” to Scritti Politti’s drop-top-friendly “Cupid & Psyche 85,” to the spangly nightclub gauche of “Animal Magic” by a band titled the Blow Monkeys - cunningly, sophisti-pop turned the crisis of money into a fetish object. The Style Council Introducing The Style Council Album Cover T-Shirt White. But it was the Style Council’s biggest, breeziest, brassiest hit, “My Ever Changing Moods,” that crowned Weller into what biographer Iain Munn called a “fair-skinned Smokey Robinson,” earned him his highest-selling single, and allowed the 1984 album it came from, “ Café Bleu,” to catapult him toward the top of a twinkling constellation of sophisti-pop superstars that shared the bourgie grandeur of his rebrand. Their debut release, it was released only in Australia. Here’s hoping we can track down / persuade the others to come on too!.Later came other iterations of this new little prince: The video for “Boy Who Cried Wolf,” a deliciously syrupy song with its own scat section, stars a fez-clad Weller pensively staring into a hand mirror in a vacant English manor “Wanted (Or Waiter, There’s Some Soup in My Flies)” has him in pinstripes in a nightclub’s practice room. Introducing The Style Council is a Mini-LP by English band The Style Council, released in 1983. You can hear some of these people in conversation on Desperately Seeking Paul – The Paul Weller Fan Podcast below with links to find out more about their work… one of a similar style to what Weller wore on the 'Caf Bleu' album cover. Special mention also to Robin Richards for illustration on Setting Sons, who also hand-painted the Whaam guitar, designed The Jam tour t-shirts and official fan club merchandise. The Style Council had set a mood and now they were about to inform his choice. Heck I’m even trying to work out who ‘ Alwyn and Main Titles’ is from The Gift. The solid seven-track release features a rare. The Photographers – Martyn Goddard, Gered Mankowitz, Peter Kodick, Andrew Douglas, Andrew Rosen, Twink, Peter Anderson, Olly Ball, Lawrence Watson, Nicole Nodland and Sandra Vijandi. Import reissue of their 1983 album, originally intended for the uninitiated fans in Europe. The artists – Sir Peter Blake, Tim Shepard and Alex Borg The designers – Bill Smith, Simon Halfon and Alex Hutchinson
They’re all special in their own way and getting the creatives behind these magical pieces has always been an absolute must for my guest-list. In the world of Weller, the album cover artwork has always felt important – from The Jam and that iconic ‘In The City’ starting point, to Our Favourite Shop’s ultimate challenge for fans of The Style Council to collect ‘the shop’ to that really f**king cool cover for the very first solo LP – Paul Weller back in 1992 to Sir Peter Blake’s outstanding Stanley Road to that beautiful landscape of Black Barn (Weller HQ) on 22 Dreams to the utter coolness of Paul in chair on the cover of True Meanings. Please note that our catalog only lists songs that weve set up within our system not every track from an album is displayed. “But does it work as a thumbnail for Spotify?” doesn’t really scream ‘creativity’, or maybe it does? Maybe that’s the very definition after all?. And yet in an increasingly digital world, if somebody were to create a rulebook about making it in music, the rules around a successful album cover are probably out the window now, right ? Some album covers are so iconic that they live on decades later in galleries, as wall-art, as mugs or t-shirts. It can tell a story, grab your attention, attract controversy, define an era, a generation and an artist.Īs host of The Paul Weller Fan Podcast, I have made it my mission (one of many to be honest) to celebrate the magic behind the creation of the album covers for The Jam, The Style Council and Paul Weller Solo. Facebook 66 Tweet 0 LinkedIn 0 Pin 0 Print 0 Email 1Ī great album cover can do many things.
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