The Style Council discography

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The Style Council discography
Studio albums5
Live albums2
Compilation albums15
Video albums11
EPs7
Singles24
Box sets4

This is the discography of British band the Style Council.

Albums[edit]

Studio albums[edit]

Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
UK
[1]
AUS
[2]
AUT
[3]
CAN
[4]
GER
[5]
JPN
[6]
NL
[7]
NZ
[8]
SWE
[9]
US
[10]
Café Bleu
(North America title: My Ever Changing Moods)
2 27 43 23 16 6 41 56
Our Favourite Shop
(North America title: Internationalists)
  • Released: 1 May 1985
  • Label: Polydor, Geffen
  • Formats: CD, LP. MC
1 5 23 53 23 18 11 6 30 123
The Cost of Loving
  • Released: 25 January 1987
  • Label: Polydor
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
2 24 58 45 6 23 35 46 122
Confessions of a Pop Group
  • Released: 18 June 1988
  • Label: Polydor
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
15 60 9 174
Modernism: A New Decade
  • Released: 19 October 1998
  • Label: Polydor
  • Formats: LP
  • Recorded in 1989
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Live albums[edit]

Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
UK
[1][12]
AUS
[2]
GER
[5]
JPN
[6]
NL
[13]
NZ
[8]
SWE
[9]
Home and Abroad
  • Released: 1 May 1986
  • Label: Polydor, Geffen
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
8 59 53 34 27 21 36
The Style Council in Concert
  • Released: 2 February 1998
  • Label: Polydor
  • Formats: CD, MC
150
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Compilation albums[edit]

Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
UK
[1]
AUS
[2]
JPN
[6]
NZ
[8]
The Singular Adventures of the Style Council – Greatest Hits Vol. 1
  • Released: 2 March 1989
  • Label: Polydor
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
3 64 39 46
Headstart for Happiness
  • Released: 1989
  • Label: Pickwick
  • Formats: CD, MC
Here's Some That Got Away
  • Released: June 1993
  • Label: Polydor
  • Formats: CD, MC
39 43
The Style Council Collection
  • Released: 19 February 1996
  • Label: Polydor
  • Formats: CD, MC
60
Classic Style Council – The Universal Masters Collection
  • Released: December 1999
  • Label: Polydor
  • Formats: CD
Greatest Hits
  • Released: 14 August 2000
  • Label: Polydor
  • Formats: CD, 2xLP
28
The Collection
The Best of the Style Council – Superstar Collection
  • Released: 18 December 2001
  • Label: Polydor
  • Formats: CD
  • Japan-only release
Cafe Blue – The Style Council Cafe Best
  • Released: 28 August 2002
  • Label: Polydor
  • Formats: CD
  • Japan-only release
The Best of the Style Council – The Millennium Collection
  • Released: 25 February 2003
  • Label: Polydor
  • Formats: CD
  • North America-only release
The Sound of the Style Council
  • Released: 18 March 2003
  • Label: Polydor
  • Formats: CD, 2xLP
Gold
  • Released: 17 April 2006
  • Label: Polydor
  • Formats: 2xCD
Sweet Loving Ways – The Style Council Collection
  • Released: 14 May 2007
  • Label: Spectrum Music
  • Formats: 2xCD
Shout to the Top – The Collection
  • Released: 16 September 2013
  • Label: Spectrum Music
  • Formats: CD
Long Hot Summers – The Story of the Style Council 8
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Box sets[edit]

Title Album details Peak chart positions
UK
[1]
Keeps on Burning – The Style Council Singles
  • Released: 15 April 1987
  • Label: Polydor
  • Formats: 6x7"
  • Japan-only limited release
The Complete Adventures of the Style Council
  • Released: 12 October 1998
  • Label: Polydor
  • Formats: 5xCD
100
Keeps on Burning
  • Released: January 2007
  • Label: Polydor
  • Formats: 10xCD
  • Japan-only limited release
Classic Album Selection
  • Released: 15 July 2013
  • Label: Polydor
  • Formats: 6xCD, digital download
67
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Video albums[edit]

Title Album details
What We Did on Our Holidays – The Video Singles
Far East & Far Out – Council Meeting in Japan
  • Released: 16 August 1984
  • Label: PolyGram Music Video
  • Formats: VHS, LaserDisc
What We Did the Following Year – The Video Singles
  • Released: 2 December 1985[14]
  • Label: PolyGram Music Video
  • Formats: VHS
Showbiz – The Style Council, Live!
  • Released: May 1986
  • Label: PolyGram Music Video
  • Formats: VHS, LaserDisc
Jerusalem
  • Released: February 1987
  • Label: Palace, PolyGram Music Video
  • Formats: VHS, LaserDisc
Confessions of a Pop Group
  • Released: October 1988
  • Label: PolyGram Music Video
  • Formats: CD-V, VHS
The Video Adventures of the Style Council
  • Released: 10 March 1989[15]
  • Label: Channel 5, PolyGram Music Video
  • Formats: VHS, LaserDisc
Live at Full House
  • Released: 1989
  • Label: Meldac
  • Formats: LaserDisc
  • Japan-only release
The Style Council on Film
The Universal Masters DVD Collection
  • Released: 11 April 2005
  • Label: Polydor
  • Formats: DVD
  • US-only release
Essential Videos
  • Released: 26 October 2007
  • Label: Universal Music Group
  • Formats: DVD

EPs[edit]

Title Album details Peak chart positions
UK
[16]
AUS
[2]
CAN
[4]
JPN
[6]
NZ
[8]
US
[10]
À Paris
  • Released: 6 August 1983
  • Label: Polydor, Geffen
  • Formats: 7", 12"
Introducing the Style Council
  • Released: September 1983
  • Label: Polydor
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
  • Mini-album
29 44 69 6 172
Le Club Rouge
  • Released: 1984
  • Label: Polydor
  • Formats: 12", MC
  • Australia-only promo release
Café Bleu
  • Released: 12 December 1987
  • Label: Polydor
  • Formats: CD, 7"
The Bird's & the B's
  • Released: 12 December 1987
  • Label: Polydor
  • Formats: CD, 7"
Mick Talbot Is Agent 88
  • Released: 12 December 1987
  • Label: Polydor
  • Formats: CD, 7"
100
1 2 3 4 EP
  • Released: 11 July 1988
  • Label: Polydor
  • Formats: CD, 7", 12", MC
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Singles[edit]

Title Year Peak chart positions Certifications Album
UK
[16][17]
AUS
[18][19]
BEL
[20]
CAN
[21]
IRE
[22]
NL
[23]
NZ
[24]
US
[25]
US
AC

[26]
US
Dance

[27]
"Speak Like a Child" 1983 4 29 5 Introducing the Style Council
"Money Go Round (Part 1)" 11 11
"Long Hot Summer" / "Paris Match" (double A-side) [A] 3 28 41 3 12
"A Solid Bond in Your Heart" 11 14 My Ever Changing Moods
"My Ever Changing Moods" 1984 5 70 42 11 37 32 29 Café Bleu
"You're the Best Thing" / "The Big Boss Groove" (double A-side) [B] 5 17 97 5 7 76 31
"Shout to the Top!" 7 8 14 10 36 6 Our Favourite Shop [C]
"Soul Deep" (as the Council Collective) 24 85 Non-album single
"Walls Come Tumbling Down!" 1985 6 19 36 6 15 Our Favourite Shop
"Come to Milton Keynes" 23 14
"Boy Who Cried Wolf" (Not released in the UK) 38 21
"The Lodgers" 13 9 47
"(When You) Call Me" (Not released in the UK) 91 Home and Abroad
"Have You Ever Had It Blue" 1986 14 8 28 33 Absolute Beginners soundtrack
"It Didn't Matter" 1987 9 48 22 4 90 48 The Cost of Loving
"The Cost of Loving" (Japan-only release)
"Waiting" 52
"Heavens Above" (US-only release)
"Wanted" 20 98 18 Non-album single
"Life at a Top People's Health Farm" 1988 28 Confessions of a Pop Group
"How She Threw It All Away" [D] 41
"Like a Gun" (as King Truman) Non-album single
"Promised Land" 1989 27 106 22 19 The Singular Adventures of the Style Council
"Long Hot Summer 89" (remix) 48
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Official title of the 7" single release is "À Paris"; it contains the two tracks listed. In the UK, this was a double A-side. Elsewhere, "The Paris Match" did not chart. "À Paris" was also released as a four-track EP in the UK.
  2. ^ Official title of the 7" single release is "Groovin'"; it contains the two tracks listed. In the UK and Australia, this was a double A-side. Elsewhere, "The Big Boss Groove" did not chart.
  3. ^ Also appears on the Vision Quest soundtrack in the United States.
  4. ^ Official title of the 12" single release is "1234 EP".

References[edit]

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  13. ^ "Dutch Charts - dutchcharts.nl". dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
  14. ^ "Prince, Council head PolyGram releases" (PDF). Music Week. 23 November 1985. p. 36. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
  15. ^ "Channel 5 puts on the style" (PDF). Music Week. 25 February 1989. p. 32. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
  16. ^ a b "STYLE COUNCIL | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
  17. ^ "COUNCIL COLLECTIVE | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
  18. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. p. 299. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
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  24. ^ "charts.org.nz - New Zealand charts portal". charts.nz. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
  25. ^ "The Style Council – Hot 100". Billboard. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
  26. ^ "The Style Council – Adult Contemporary". Billboard. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
  27. ^ "The Style Council – Dance Club Songs". Billboard. Retrieved 26 October 2021.