2nd and final single from Confessions Of A Pop Group).Įvery song on Confessions… had a “tabloid headline” title (which was about as far as any concept for the LP amounted to), and How She Threw It All Away was one of the breezier moments harking back again to former glories, only this time the exotic acoustic pop of TSC circa 1984/85. HOW SHE THREW IT ALL AWAY (July 11th, 1988. 1), Greatest Hits, Hit Parade (4CD edition), Classic Style Council. The Singular Adventures Of The Style Council (Vol. The album, Confessions Of A Pop Group, divided itself into two distinct halves Side 1 featured lush orchestration, unconventional arrangements, instrumental song suites and two of his best-ever compositions ( It’s A Very Deep Sea and Changing Of The Guard) while Side 2 was a more routine assortment of sonically familiar material (of which Life At A Top People’s Health Farm wasn’t even the weakest track). It’s funny yet jaundiced, and marked the end of Weller’s directly political songwriting. “ Any evening, any day, I’m singing to myself, I’ll pack up all my clothes and dough and piss off somewhere else“. The lyrics are actually quite magnificent, and Weller’s muffled vocal, as if relayed down a telephone line, adds to the detachment of the protagonist’s cynical observations on Thatcherite Britain red-top tabloids, the boom in BT shares being sold to the public, police violence, the fad for celebrity detox clinics…. Life At A Top People’s Health Farm was a Money-Go-Round for 1988, only less commercial. With an ambitious new album to launch, The Style Council chose a wordy, noisy, chorus-free funk workout as the first single. Talk about making things hard for yourselves. LIFE AT A TOP PEOPLE’S HEALTH FARM (May 16th, 1988. Could they bounce back, in the age of House, Rap, plastic pop and S/A/W? A completist’s guide to the singles, and where to find them on CD…ġ987 had brought the worst-performing studio album of TSC’s career, and their lowest-charting single.
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