Style Council – Long Hot Summers: The Story of the Style Council (Vinyl 3LP)

Definitive Career-Spanning Vinyl 3LP Anthology Co-Compiled by Paul Weller and Remastered at Abbey Road Studios!

The Style Council’s long-awaited and eagerly anticipated definitive career anthology Long Hot Summers: The Story of the Style Council was co-compiled by Paul Weller and teams with all of the band’s greatest hits. Along with the huge hit “Long Hot Summer,” the collection also includes the band’s sterling debut top 5 single “Speak Like A Child” as well as other signature hits such as the languid “You’re The Best Thing,” “Ever Changing Moods” and dance floor filler “Shout To The Top.”

Long Hot Summers also includes two unreleased tracks – an intriguing demo of the top 5 single “My Ever Changing Moods” with strings, and the extended, 5-minute plus version of “Dropping Bombs On The Whitehouse.” The album also features key album tracks and fan favorites such as “Headstart For Happiness.” Remastered at Abbey Road Studios, the vinyl 3LP-set comes complete with rare photos, an introduction by Weller, a new essay by Lois Wilson, and sleeve-notes from ‘super-fan’, actor Martin Freeman.

LP1

1. Headstart for Happiness
2. Long Hot Summer
3. My Ever-Changing Moods
4. Walls Come Tumbling Down!
5. Party Chambers
6. Wanted (or Waiter, There’s Some Soup In My Flies)
7. Shout to the Top!
8. It Just Came to Pieces in My Hands
9. Come to Milton Keynes
10. Why I Went Missing
11. Waiting

LP2

1. Ghosts Of Dachau
2. Down in the Seine
3. The Paris Match
4. Life at a Top People’s Health Farm
5. Dropping Bombs On The Whitehouse (Extended version)
6. Speak Like a Child
7. The Lodgers
8. Money Go Round
9. You’re the Best Thing
10. How She Threw It All Away

LP3

1. A Man of Great Promise
2. The Piccadilly Trail
3. A Solid Bond in Your Heart
4. Sweet Loving Ways
5. Promised Land
6. It Didn’t Matter
7. Have You Ever Had It Blue
8. Spin’ Drifting
9. Here’s One That Got Away
10. Changing of the Guard
11. My Ever-Changing Moods (Demo)