Everything about Our Favourite Shop totally explained
Our Favourite Shop is the second album from the band
The Style Council. The majority of the album's material was released (with different sequencing and packaged in an entirely different cover design) in the USA as
Internationalists by
Geffen Records.
Lyrical targets include
racism, excessive
consumerism, the effects of self-serving governments, the suicide of one of Weller's friends and what the band saw as an exasperating lack of opposition to the
status quo. All of this pessimism is countered with an overarching sense of
hope and delight that alternatives do actually exist -- if only they can be seen. The album contained the Top 10 singles "Shout To The Top", which peaked at #7 in the UK, and "Walls Come Tumbling Down!", which reached #6 in the UK.
The contained musical styles are also far-ranging.
Soul,
rap,
jazz and
rock stylings all occur on the album.
Track listing
Original UK tracklisting
"Homebreakers"
"All Gone Away"
"Come to Milton Keynes"
"Internationalists"
"A Stones Throw Away"
"The Stand Up Comics Instructions" *
"Boy Who Cried Wolf"
"A Man of Great Promise"
"Down in the Seine"
"The Lodgers (or She Was Only a Shopkeeper's Daughter)"
"Luck"
"With Everything to Lose"
"Our Favourite Shop"
"Walls Come Tumbling Down"
US Tracklisting (released as Internationalists)
"Homebreakers"
"All Gone Away"
"Come to Milton Keynes"
"Internationalists"
"A Stones Throw Away"
"Boy Who Cried Wolf"
"A Man of Great Promise"
"Down in the Seine"
"The Lodgers (or She Was Only a Shopkeeper's Daughter)"
"Luck"
"With Everything to Lose"
"Shout to the Top!" (USA Mix)
"Walls Come Tumbling Down"
Australia/New Zealand Tracklisting
"Homebreakers"
"All Gone Away"
"Come to Milton Keynes"
"Internationalists"
"A Stones Throw Away"
"With Everything to Lose"
"Walls Come Tumbling Down"
"A Man of Great Promise"
"Down in the Seine"
"The Lodgers (or She Was Only a Shopkeeper's Daughter)"
"Luck"
"Boy Who Cried Wolf"
"Our Favourite Shop"
"Shout to the Top!"
Most countires (except for the original UK pressing) ommitted the track "The Stand Up Comics Instructions" as it was deemed that the lyrics were racist. The guest vocalist was British comedian Lenny Henry
Personnel
Paul Weller - Vocals/Guitars/Bass Guitar/Synth
Mick Talbot - Hammond Organ/Keyboards
Steve White - Drums/Percussion
Dee C. Lee - Vocals
Lenny Henry - Vocals
Tracie Young - Vocals
Camele Hinds - Bass
Stewart Prosser - Trumpet/Flugel Horn
David Defries - Trumpet/Flugel Horn
Mike Mower - Flute/Saxophone
Chris Lawrence - Trombone
Clark Kent - Contra Bass
Gary Wallis - Percussion
John Mealing - Orchestration/String arrangement
Anne Stephenson - Violin
Charlie Buchanan - Violin
JocelyPook - Viola
Audrey Riley - Cello
Peter Wilson - Keyboard Sequencing
Patrick Grundy-White - French Horn
Steve Dawson - Trumpet
Billy Chapman - Saxophone
Kevin Miller - Bass
Helen Turner - Piano
Further Information
Get more info on 'Our Favourite Shop'.
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