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''Our Favourite Shop'' is the second studio album by the English pop rock group the Style Council. It was released on 9 May 1985, on Polydor, and was recorded ten months after the band's debut ''Café Bleu''. It features guest vocalists, including Lenny Henry, Tracie Young, and Alison Limerick. The album contained "Walls Come Tumbling Down!", "Come to Milton Keynes", "The Lodgers", "Boy Who Cried Wolf", and "(When You) Call Me" which were all released as singles, with corresponding music videos. The three singles that were released in the UK all reached the top 40 on the UK charts. On release, the album was received favourably by the majority of music critics, although opinions have become more negative in subsequent decades. The Style Councils' most commercially successful album, it was an immediate commercial and critical success, and remained at the top of the charts for one week, displacing ''Brothers in Arms'' by Dire Straits. The album was the Style Council's first and only number 1 solo album in the UK. According to the BPI, the record sold over 100,000 copies, and was certified gold. The multigenre album incorporates diverse stylistic influences, including Soul, rap, jazz and rock styles. Recording was completed in March 1985. The cover, depicting the band posing inside a shop, was designed by Paul Weller and British artist Simon Halfon. ==Contents== The album features fourteen original compositions (seven by Paul Weller, three co-written by Weller and Mick Talbot, and one co-written by Weller with Steve White) in its original British form. 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. They also took a more overtly political approach than The Jam in their lyrics, with tracks such as "Walls Come Tumbling Down", "The Lodgers", and "Come To Milton Keynes" being deliberate attacks on 'middle England' and Thatcherite principles prevalent in the 1980s. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Our Favourite Shop」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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