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Our Favourite Shop

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The second album from TSC came in 1985 and sees Paul Weller’s politics becoming explicit in criticising the conservative government of the day via a series of slick 80s pop-soul songs. Our Favourite Shop was TSC’s most commercially successful album and is a bumper package of chart hits including ‘Shout To The Top’, ‘The Lodgers’ and ‘Walls Come Tumbling Down’. The jazz experiments of their debut Café Bleu are largely absent although ‘Down In The Seine’ is that rare thing, a pop waltz. Melodic, angry and soulful, this is the sound of a songwriter with nothing to prove. 

Harold Heath

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