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| From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@TheWorld.com> |
| Subject | Re: kick out the Style, bring back the Jam |
| Date | Tue, 18 May 2004 14:48:40 -0400 |
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At 01:42 PM 5/18/2004 -0400, Gene Creson wrote:
>The initial Style Council release in the US was calle My Ever Changing Moods.
>Like you said... different tracks, order, and mixes from Cafe Bleu.
Actually, the *initial* US Style Council release was called INTRODUCING THE
STYLE COUNCIL, an expanded version of the UK EP called STYLE COUNCIL A PARIS:
Long Hot Summer (6:58 version)
Headstart For Happiness (2:47 -- original version, which is basically a
solo guitar and voice rendition, and not the remake on MY EVER CHANGING MOODS)
Speak Like A Child (3:15)
Long Hot Summer (club mix) (6:52 -- this is basically the exact same mix
with some more echo and reverb)
The Paris Match (3:45 -- not the Tracey Thorn-sung remake on MECM)
Mick's Up (3:10)
Money-Go-Round (club mix) (7:42)
Legend has it that this record, which came out on Polydor in the late
summer of 1983, actually sold more in the UK as an import than it did in
the US! US Polydor dropped the Style Council at this point, and they
signed with Geffen in the US. (Geffen also snagged Polydor's Lloyd Cole
and the Commotions at this point -- did Polydor simply close up their US
operations?)
For the record, the vinyl edition of MY EVER-CHANGING MOODS was:
My Ever Changing Moods
The Whole Point of No Return
Blue Cafe
The Paris Match
Dropping Bombs on the White House
A Solid Bond In Your Heart (a single not on any UK album)
You're the Best Thing
A Gospel
Strength of Your Nature
Here's One That Got Away
Headstart For Happiness
Mick's Blessings
So basically, it adds "A Solid Bond in Your Heart," drops "Me Ship Came
In!" and "Council Meetin'" -- neither any great loss, frankly -- mixes up
the running order almost completely and substitutes, oddly, a shorter mix
of "You're the Best Thing" and a longer mix of "My Ever-Changing Moods."
And as noted, the shared songs from the INTRODUCING album are entirely new
recordings.
The weirdness didn't stop with MY EVER-CHANGING MOODS, either. The US
version of OUR FAVOURITE SHOP was called INTERNATIONALISTS, which not only
scrambles the running order, it drops the title track! Someone at Geffen
clearly just didn't like Mick Talbot's instrumentals.
S
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