Musical Youth - Different Style!

This month marks the thirtieth anniversary of Different Style!, the second album from the British group Musical Youth. Following their smash 1982 release The Youth of Today (click here for that review), there was high expectation for this 1983 album. However, the album stalled at number 144 on the US Billboard Album Chart and number 90 in Canada.

The US version of the record featured a different cover, as shown above, and a re-arranged track listing. For this review, I will follow the US release order.

Musical Youth - The Youth of Today

Formed in an inner-city school in Birmingham, UK, Musical Youth consisted of two sets of brothers - Michael (keyboards) and Kelvin (guitars) Grant and Patrick (bass) and Freddie “Junior” (drums) Waite - and their lead singer Dennis Seaton. The Waite boys were the sons of Frederick Waite of the Jamaican group the Techniques; he also wrote a number of the songs for the group in the beginning.