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Scritti Politti
United Kingdom
Приєднався 7 тра 2021
After witnessing a show by The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Damned and The Heartbreakers in 1976, Green Gartside felt as if he had been “given permission” to form a band. Scritti Politti was the result, a Camden-based, squat-dwelling collective who produced what he describes as “scratchy-collapsy” music, all tumbling drums, stumbling reggae basslines and tinny guitars.
After releasing a clutch of singles and the debut album 'Songs to Remember', the band underwent a tectonic shift, inspired by black American R&B pop of the early 1980s. “Just fantastic, liberating music… A sort of epiphany,” Green remembers. Geoff Travis at Rough Trade introduced him to keyboard wizard David Gamson and drummer Fred Maher, and this new configuration of Scritti began work on what would become Cupid & Psyche 85. It would be followed by Provision (1987), Anomie & Bonhomie (1999) and the Mercury Prize-nominated White Bread Black Beer (2006). It’s a catalogue of extraordinary variety, vitality and beauty.
After releasing a clutch of singles and the debut album 'Songs to Remember', the band underwent a tectonic shift, inspired by black American R&B pop of the early 1980s. “Just fantastic, liberating music… A sort of epiphany,” Green remembers. Geoff Travis at Rough Trade introduced him to keyboard wizard David Gamson and drummer Fred Maher, and this new configuration of Scritti began work on what would become Cupid & Psyche 85. It would be followed by Provision (1987), Anomie & Bonhomie (1999) and the Mercury Prize-nominated White Bread Black Beer (2006). It’s a catalogue of extraordinary variety, vitality and beauty.
Scritti Politti - Oh Patti (Don't Feel Sorry For Loverboy)
Scritti Politti - Oh Patti (Don't Feel Sorry For Loverboy)
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Scritti Politti - Boom There She Was
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Scritti Politti - Boom There She Was
Scritti Politti - Perfect Way
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Green Gartside: “‘KA-CHANG!’ Perfect Gamson magic. David and I were talking about the origin-myth of the guitar 'Ka-Chang'. What was the first such 'Ka-Chang' in recorded history? The Scritti of Fred, David and I never did play live. I remember we had a tour lined up and kinda reluctantly went into a rehearsal place somewhere in Manhattan to figure out how the fuck this album could be played. I...
Scritti Politti - Absolute
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Absolute Green Gartside: “Stompingly fabulous kick, snare and toms. A great Gary Langan mix. An arrangement that Arif Mardin called: ‘Gangbusters from the get-go.’ We mixed at Sarm West in London. The Gents toilet there was definitely used as an additional reverb. You had to pee really quietly when mixes were going to tape. Steve Ferrone on drums, best known for being in The Average White Band ...
Scritti Politti - Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)
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Directed by John Scarlett-Davis and featuring a young Michael Clark. Green Gartside: “As The Funky Four Plus One said: ’That's The Joint!' Wood Beez started with an idea based on part of a lyric in Dave and Ansell Collins’ record Double Barrel. I love playing this live nowadays.” David Gamson: “Like Absolute, the DNA of this is an acoustic guitar-based song that’s been arranged in a completely ...
Scritti Politti - Hypnotize (Official Video)
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David Gamson: “Man, I just remember this one took forever. We mixed this for like two weeks at Sarm West with Gary Langan while inhaling fumes from the mannequin factory next door. I might have made that up. Well, I think it was a mannequin factory...” Green Gartside: “Fabulous fun with a Fairlight. It would have set you back about £30,000 in those days. We rented one from a guy called Ned Libe...
Scritti Politti - Tinseltown to the Boogiedown (Official Video)
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Tinseltown to the Boogiedown - featuring Mos Def and Lee Majors Green Gartside: “There are no real samples on this record. Anything that sounds like a sample I made with a couple of cassette recorders in a flat above a dentist’s surgery in Newport, South Wales. Don’t ask. The record is really an unguarded effusion of influences with free rein given to the urge to strum a guitar - which overcome...
Scritti Politti - Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin) (US version)
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Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin) - Directed by Jean-Baptiste Mondino. Green Gartside: “As The Funky Four Plus One said: ’That's The Joint!' Wood Beez started with an idea based on part of a lyric in Dave and Ansell Collins’ record Double Barrel. I love playing this live nowadays.” David Gamson: “Like Absolute, the DNA of this is an acoustic guitar-based song that’s been arranged in a compl...
Scritti Politti - The Word Girl
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'The Word Girl' was the fourth single to be taken from 'Cupid & Psyche '85' and was released in 1985. 'Cupid and Psyche '85' was reissued by Rough Trade on Friday 30th July 2021 on CD and LP. The Word Girl Green Gartside: “Although much of the work on this album was done behind massive gleaming SSL consoles in huge New York studios - with trouser-wateringly exorbitant hourly rates - we did the ...
Scritti Politti - A Day Late and a Dollar Short
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Music video by Scritti Politti performing A Day Late and a Dollar Short. (P) 2011 The copyright in this audiovisual recording is owned by Virgin Records Ltd
Their #11 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 from late 1985
I remember having the import single in high school. What a banger!
Io ero " young" ,quando uscì questo pezzo degli anni a cavallo tra 1980 e 1990 è comunque bellissima musica ben ritmata e soprattutto ben strumentata. Poi mio figlio è in fissa con questa canzone e " bast thing ever e sugar and spice". Complimenti belle canzoni.
Hmmmm....songs like this is why I listened to HARDCORE PUNK ROCK...
The perfect pop song
Love 💞
There were more great songs in any one year of the '80s than there have been in the entire last 20 years combined.
The brits did it right all about love ❤❤❤🎉
This what I'm talking about yall remember ❤❤🎉
Only heard of this lot thanks to gta 4 episodes of liberty city back in 2011
What a tune
I haven't heard this song in years (except for the brief scene in a movie where John Cusack goes back to the 80's with some friends) To be 18 again.
The best thing about that TOTP episode? John Peel’s pithy, withering comments.
Real world happier times love this❤🎉
What's the perfect way to eat a donut 🍩
1 minute 54 seconds and the magic starts - utterly gorgeous chord sequence.
Who is the lady in the Video
Who's the girl??
The production on this album is golden ✨️ 👌
Love those Chord Changes in the Bridge !!
I was station in Germany when I first heard this.I was blown away by the groove.That British Funk ain’t no joke!US Army 1985👈🏽
Scritti Pillti all the way ! 80s ruled❤️❤️
This song brings back memories when MTV actually played music videos 24 hours a day a top ten from 1985
the 1980s has incredible pop music
Oh, my, yeah---the eighties were AWESOME!!!!! WOW WOW WOW!!!!
80s is the greatest decade for music. Nothing before nothing after.
All there singles were great! I was a big fan!😍🫶🙌
HTF can people think Magical Moon is a ripoff of this?!?
The Word Girl. From The Lp "Cupid And Psyche" (1985).
SO UNDERRATED
This is genius pop. nuff said.
Gta iv has this 80s classic
Dan Air coming back to Manchester from Holiday to Spain
I love this song I was 12 omg bought it on 7inch that's going back a looooong way back ❤❤❤
❤❤❤ my jammmm ❤❤❤
Someone told me Louis Cole / Knower reminds them of this band and sent me here... I see why! It's obviously heavily saturated in 80s production and aesthetics / tone, but it's good stuff!
Everything about this song is against my tastes, and yet, I like it 🤷🏽
Same thing... with a lot of things with this band. I can't explain it!
I would like to travel back in time to the 80's . the best decade . i'm gonna get a DeLorean.
Love this. Things so real this when I came up enjoying life. Shit🎉
Green is the man. What a beautiful song
『キューピット＆サイケ 85』は1985年を代表する傑作✨ その中でもこれはベストトラックだと思う
I find it interesting that this was the worst performing single on the charts from this album. For me this along with Wood Beez are my favourites. But the whole album is amazing anyway.
Remember this tune from the state club liverpool ❤❤❤
Love Scritti Politti ...their songs are ....awesome....and the 80'S....they were the days with the music
I remember this back in the day ....loved it then and still love it now 2024
This is still my favorite 80’song The theme song of my youth.
So this album, along with The Riddle by Nik Kershaw and So Red The Rose by Arcadia, pretty much defined my 3rd fall semester at college, in many ways an experience i never topped or even equaled...but at the time i thought 'wow! I'm 20 and its gonna be like this? Life is awesome!'
Ladies and gentlemen welcome to 1986.
This song is about striving for a better relationship and better communication but finding it difficult and beginning to embrace changes and differences
This is still a brilliant track.