With Everything To Lose

The Style Council - Our Favourite Shop [TSCLP 2 UK 1985 24-Bit FLAC]

It took just a year until the Weller/Talbot hit factory turned out their second album. Thankfully a slight change of direction gave us the more appreciable Our Favourite Shop which was a  story of life in mid-eighties Britain. Weller was back to his hard hitting social commentary style of song writing and everything briefly seemed okay. He was even confident to open with a Mick Talbot vocal track.

The sleeve indicated a change in style too, although upon reflection TSCLP 2 owed more to Dell Boy Trotter and his choice of pin stripes than British fashion trends at the time. The album turned out hit after hit, Come To Milton Keyes and The Lodgers were followed by the huge Walls Come Tumbling Down! A personal favourite was always Boy Who Cried Wolf which was also a single outside the UK only. Lenny Henry's contribution on Stand Up Comic is both humorous and cringe-worthy. We don't totally escape from Paris having to experience Weller singing in French on Down In The Seine

We used to chase dreams, now we chase the dragon - mine is the semi with the Union Jack on!

A1 Homebreakers
A2 All Gone Away
A3 Come To Milton Keynes
A4 Internationalists
A5 A Stones Throw Away
A6 The Stand Up Comic's Instructions
A7 Boy Who Cried Wolf
B1 A Man Of Great Promise
B2 Down In The Seine
B3 The Lodgers (Or She Was Only A Shopkeeper's Daughter)
B4 Luck
B5 With Everything To Lose
B6 Our Favourite Shop
B7 Walls Come Tumbling Down!