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 with an entirely different cover design) in the USA as Internationalists by Geffen Records (which has been a sister label to Polydor Records, the band's UK label, since 1998, under Universal Music Group).
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 far-ranging; Soul, rap, jazz and rock stylings all occur on the album.
Paul Weller said of the album in 2006 “I had a total belief in The Style Council. I was obsessed in the early years. I lived and breathed it all. I meant every word, and felt every action. Our Favourite Shop was its culmination.”
The US version titled "Internationalists" was also available as a Columbia Record & Tape House selection for the issue year 1985.
Read more about Our Favourite Shop: Track Listing, Personnel
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