Our Favourite Shop
Studio album by The Style Council
Released	9th May 1985
Genre	Pop
Length	49:01
Label	Polydor Records
Producer	Paul Weller (for Solid Bond Productions), Peter Wilson
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The Style Council chronology
Café Bleu (1984) Our Favourite Shop (1985) Home and Abroad (1986)

Our Favourite Shop is the second album from the band The Style Council. The majority of the album's material was released (with different sequencing and packaged in an entirely different cover design) in the USA as Internationalists by Geffen Records.

Lyrical targets include racism, excessive consumerism, the effects of self-serving governments, the suicide of one of Weller's friends and what the band saw as an exasperating lack of opposition to the status quo. All of this pessimism is countered with an overarching sense of hope and delight that alternatives do actually exist -- if only they can be seen. The album contained the Top 10 singles "Shout To The Top", which reached #7 in the UK, and "Walls Come Tumbling Down!", which reached #6 in the UK.

The contained musical styles are also far-ranging. Soul, rap, jazz and rock stylings all occur on the album.

Track listing

Original UK tracklisting

1. "Homebreakers"
2. "All Gone Away"
3. "Come to Milton Keynes"
4. "Internationalists"
5. "A Stones Throw Away"
6. "The Stand Up Comics Instructions" *
7. "Boy Who Cried Wolf"
8. "A Man of Great Promise"
9. "Down in the Seine"
10. "The Lodgers (or She Was Only a Shopkeeper's Daughter)"
11. "Luck"
12. "With Everything to Lose"
13. "Our Favourite Shop"
14. "Walls Come Tumbling Down"

US Tracklisting (released as Internationalists)

1. "Homebreakers"
2. "All Gone Away"
3. "Come to Milton Keynes"
4. "Internationalists"
5. "A Stones Throw Away"
6. "Boy Who Cried Wolf"
7. "A Man of Great Promise"
8. "Down in the Seine"
9. "The Lodgers (or She Was Only a Shopkeeper's Daughter)"
10. "Luck"
11. "With Everything to Lose"
12. "Shout to the Top!" (USA Mix)
13. "Walls Come Tumbling Down"

Australia/New Zealand Tracklisting

1. "The Big Boss Groove"
2. "All Gone Away"
3. "Come to Milton Keynes"
4. "Internationalists"
5. "A Stones Throw Away"
6. "With Everything to Lose"
7. "Walls Come Tumbling Down"
8. "A Man of Great Promise"
9. "Down in the Seine"
10. "The Lodgers (or She Was Only a Shopkeeper's Daughter)"
11. "Luck"
12. "Boy Who Cried Wolf"
13. "Our Favourite Shop"
14. "Shout to the Top!"

• Most countries (except for the original UK pressing) omitted the track "The Stand Up Comic's Instructions" as it was deemed that the lyrics were racist. The guest vocalist was British comedian Lenny Henry.

Personnel

• Paul Weller - Vocals/Guitars/Bass Guitar/Synth
• Mick Talbot - Hammond Organ/Keyboards
• Steve White - Drums/Percussion

• Dee C. Lee - Vocals
• Lenny Henry - Vocals
• Tracie Young - Vocals
• Camele Hinds - Bass
• Stewart Prosser - Trumpet/Flugel Horn
• David Defries - Trumpet/Flugel Horn
• Mike Mower - Flute/Saxophone
• Chris Lawrence - Trombone
• Clark Kent - Contra Bass
• Gary Wallis - Percussion
• John Mealing - Orchestration/String arrangement
• Anne Stephenson - Violin
• Charlie Buchanan - Violin
• JocelyPook - Viola
• Audrey Riley - Cello
• Peter Wilson - Keyboard Sequencing
• Patrick Grundy-White - French Horn
• Steve Dawson - Trumpet
• Billy Chapman - Saxophone
• Kevin Miller - Bass
• Helen Turner - Piano

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