I've been on a big Tears for Fears kick of late and, today, sitting down on the bus, I remembered the words of Tears of Fears' massive hit of 1989, "Sowing the Seeds of Love." At the end of the bridge, Roland Orzabal throws in the line "Kick out the Style, Bring back the Jam!" This is a reference to Paul Weller and his second band, The Style Council, and the migration to that from his former band, The Jam.
The Jam was exceedingly popular in punk circles as radically political and revolutionary with a very open socialist message. Weller moved on to forming The Style Council which was something of a jazzy, pop, lounge act that danced between songs about relationships and politics in the early days to much more lounge pop romance although the lyrics still hit on solid political topics from time to time.
Riding back on the bus today I popped on the headphones and turned on The Style Council on the iPod. I pulled up "Walls Come Tumbling Down."
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