The Complete Adventures of The Style Council


The Complete Adventures of The Style Council is a box set by the English pop band the Style Council, released in 1998, nine years after their split. Released after the success of 1997's Direction Reaction Creation, a box set of Paul Weller's previous band the Jam, this box set takes a similar approach, with the five discs compiling all of the Style Council's studio albums with all the non-album singles, B-sides and EP tracks interspersed chronologically. In cases where the single and album versions of the same song are radically different, both versions are included. The box set also includes the group's previously unreleased final studio album Modernism: A New Decade, which was recorded and intended for release in 1989.
Allmusic reviewed the box set, saying "for most listeners, including some serious Weller fans, The Style Council is best appreciated as a singles band, but for the dedicated, The Complete Adventures reveals that the Style Council, no matter how maddening they could be, were a group that continually reinvented themselves, occasionally making some remarkable music along the way."

Track listing

Disc one

  1. "Speak Like a Child" – 3:18
  2. "Party Chambers" – 3:22
  3. "Money-Go-Round " – 7:29
  4. "Headstart for Happiness" – 2:50
  5. "Mick's Up" – 3:13
  6. "Long Hot Summer" – 7:03
  7. "The Paris Match" – 3:46
  8. "Le Départ" – 2:49
  9. "A Solid Bond In Your Heart" – 3:18
  10. "It Just Came to Pieces In My Hands" – 2:32
  11. "My Ever Changing Moods" – 5:43
  12. "Mick's Company" – 2:49
  13. "Spring, Summer, Autumn" – 2:24
  14. "Mick's Blessings" – 1:17
  15. "The Whole Point of No Return" – 2:44
  16. "Me Ship Came In!" – 3:08
  17. "Blue Cafe" – 2:18
  18. "The Paris Match" – 4:27
  19. "My Ever Changing Moods" – 3:39
  20. "Dropping Bombs on the Whitehouse" – 3:15
  21. "A Gospel" – 4:47

Disc two

  1. "Strength of Your Nature" – 4:21
  2. "You're the Best Thing" – 5:42
  3. "Here's One That Got Away" – 2:37
  4. "Headstart for Happiness" – 3:22
  5. "Council Meetin'" – 2:34
  6. "The Big Boss Groove" – 4:40
  7. "Shout to the Top!" – 4:16
  8. "Ghosts of Dachau" – 2:51
  9. "The Piccadilly Trail" – 3:45
  10. "Soul Deep" 7:12
  11. "Walls Come Tumbling Down" – 3:25
  12. "The Whole Point II" – 2:51
  13. "Blood Sports" – 3:36
  14. "Spin' Drifting" – 3:11
  15. "Homebreakers" – 5:03
  16. "All Gone Away" – 2:17
  17. "Come to Milton Keynes" – 3:05
  18. "Internationalists" – 3:06
  19. "A Stones Throw Away" – 2:19
  20. "The Stand Up Comic's Instructions" – 1:33
  21. "Boy Who Cried Wolf" – 5:29

Disc three

  1. "A Man of Great Promise" – 2:35
  2. "Down in the Seine" – 2:44
  3. "The Lodgers (or She Was Only a Shopkeeper's Daughter)" – 3:58
  4. "Luck" – 2:36
  5. "With Everything To Lose" – 3:56
  6. "Our Favourite Shop" – 2:55
  7. " Call Me" – 3:20
  8. "Have You Ever Had It Blue" – 4:48
  9. "Mr. Cool's Dream" – 2:28
  10. "It Didn't Matter" – 5:45
  11. "All Year Round" – 2:18
  12. "Right To Go" – 5:12
  13. "Heavens Above" – 6:13
  14. "Fairy Tales" – 4:09
  15. "Angel" – 4:32
  16. "Walking the Night" – 4:32
  17. "Waiting" – 4:27
  18. "The Cost of Loving" – 4:20
  19. "A Woman's Song" – 3:03
  20. "Francoise" – 2:44

Disc four

  1. "Wanted " – 3:24
  2. "The Cost of Loving" – 3:50
  3. "Life at a Top Peoples Health Farm" – 5:48
  4. "Sweet Loving Ways" – 3:32
  5. "It's a Very Deep Sea" – 5:34
  6. "The Story of Someone's Shoe" – 3:41
  7. "Changing of the Guard" – 2:51
  8. "The Little Boy in a Castle / A Dove Flew Down from the Elephant" – 3:02
  9. "The Gardener Of Eden " – 10:32
  10. "Why I Went Missing" – 4:46
  11. "How She Threw It All Away" – 4:17
  12. "Iwasadoledadstoyboy" – 4:27
  13. "Confessions 1, 2 & 3" – 4:43
  14. "Confessions Of A Pop Group" – 9:27
  15. "In Love for the First Time" – 3:39
  16. "I Do Like to Be B-Side the A-Side" – 4:47

Disc five

  1. "Promised Land" – 7:05
  2. "Can You Still Love Me?" – 4:20
  3. "Long Hot Summer '89" – 5:29
  4. "Everybody's on the Run" – 7:58
  5. "A New Decade" – 3:24
  6. "Can You Still Love Me?" – 5:01
  7. "The World Must Come Together" – 5:23
  8. "Hope " – 7:16
  9. "That Spiritual Feeling" – 7:35
  10. "Everybody's on the Run" – 5:42
  11. "Love of the World" – 8:56
  12. "Sure Is Sure" – 6:18