The Style Council discography

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The Style Council discography
Studio albums5
Live albums2
Compilation albums9
Video albums11
EPs6
Singles24
Studio mini albums1
Box sets4

This is the discography of British band the Style Council.

Contents

Albums

Studio albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak 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)
22743231664156
Our Favourite Shop
(North America title: Internationalists)
  • Released: 1 May 1985
  • Label: Polydor, Geffen
  • Formats: CD, LP. MC
152353231811630123
The Cost of Loving
  • Released: 25 January 1987
  • Label: Polydor
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
22458456233546122
Confessions of a Pop Group
  • Released: 18 June 1988
  • Label: Polydor
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
15609174
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.

Studio mini album

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions
AUS
[2]
CAN
[4]
JPN
[6]
NZ
[8]
US
[10]
Introducing the Style Council (Not released in the UK)
  • Released: September 1983
  • Label: Polydor
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
2944696172

Live albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions Certifications
UK
[1] [12]
AUS
[2]
GER
[5]
JPN
[6]
NL
[7]
NZ
[8]
SWE
[9]
Home and Abroad
  • Released: 1 May 1986
  • Label: Polydor, Geffen
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
8595334272136
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

TitleAlbum detailsPeak 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
3643946
Headstart for Happiness
  • Released: 1989
  • Label: Pickwick
  • Formats: CD, MC
Here's Some That Got Away
  • Released: June 1993
  • Label: Polydor
  • Formats: CD, MC
3943
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 Sound of the Style Council
  • Released: 18 March 2003
  • Label: Polydor
  • Formats: CD, 2xLP
Long Hot Summers – The Story of the Style Council8
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Box sets

TitleAlbum detailsPeak 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

TitleAlbum 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, DVD [13]
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

Singles and in-sequence EPs

TitleYearPeak chart positions Certifications Album
UK
[1] [16]
AUS
[17] [18]
BEL
[19]
CAN
[20]
IRE
[21]
NL
[7]
NZ
[22]
US
[23]
US
AC

[24]
US
Dance

[25]
"Speak Like a Child"19834295Non-album singles (UK) / Introducing The Style Council (US)
"Money Go Round"1111
À Paris EP (lead track: "Long Hot Summer")33
"Long Hot Summer" (Regular single outside UK and Ireland)284112
"A Solid Bond in Your Heart"1114Non-album singles (UK) / My Ever Changing Moods (US)
"My Ever Changing Moods"19845704211373229Café Bleu (UK) / My Ever Changing Moods (US)
Groovin' EP (lead tracks: "You're the Best Thing" and "The Big Boss Groove")55
"You're the Best Thing" (Regular single outside UK and Ireland)179777631
"Shout to the Top!"781410366Our Favourite Shop (UK) / Internationalists (US) [upper-alpha 1]
"Soul Deep" (as the Council Collective)19852485Non-album single
"Walls Come Tumbling Down!"61936615Our Favourite Shop (UK) / Internationalists (US)
"Come to Milton Keynes"2314
"Boy Who Cried Wolf" (Not released in the UK)3821
"The Lodgers"13947
"(When You) Call Me" (Live) (Not released in the UK)91Home and Abroad
"Have You Ever Had It Blue"19861482833 Absolute Beginners soundtrack
"It Didn't Matter"19879482249048The Cost of Loving
"The Cost of Loving" (Japan-only release)
"Waiting"52
"Heavens Above" (US-only release)
"Wanted"209818Non-album single
"Life at a Top People's Health Farm"198828Confessions of a Pop Group
1234 EP (lead track: "How She Threw It All Away")41
"How She Threw It All Away" (Regular single outside UK and Ireland)
"Like a Gun" (as King Truman)Non-album single
"Promised Land"1989271062219The 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.

Off-sequence EPs

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions
UK
[1]
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
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Notes

  1. Also appears on the Vision Quest soundtrack in the US

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