So we thought, if this is going to be our last time, we better make sure it counts.” “It wouldn’t have mattered what we put out, it would have bombed.
“There was a sense our time was up,” says Paul Weller. Give it a listen today though and you’ll hear Paul Weller at his most artistically brave, intimate and socially astute delivering a state of the nation address as fierce as any of his work with The Jam, exposing his inner workings more than any other chart bound pop singer before or since and wilfully shattering notions of high and low art with references to Debussy, Satie, the Swingle Singers, Osiris and erotic pulp fiction. Too artful and direct for the mainstream with its piano suites and political polemics – Bros’ ‘I Owe You Nothing’ topped the singles chart Nite Flight, a compilation of quiet storm soul by George Benson, Alexander O’Neal, Luther Vandross et al the album one – Confessions Of A Pop Group was consigned to the bargain bins. When the album stalled at Number 15 – their previous three all having charted at Number 1 or 2 – it sparked the end of their relationship with their record label Polydor who refused to release its follow up. On 20 June 1988, The Style Council issued Confessions Of A Pop Group to mainly scathing reviews.
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