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 Peering through the obfuscation of more than twenty five years, it probably seems to the average Joe that the summer of 1985 belonged to the notion of rock music completing its catharsis from being just a symptom of teen rebellion to voice of a global conscience. It was a period that climaxed with the original Live Aid, Bob Geldof's over-developed telethon that changed everything it touched whilst simultaneously triggering the new wave of stadium rock tradition which persists in rude health today. Thematically, music as a BIG idea is a reasonable assumption for the time, but by and large the record buying public were too close to understand it's long term significance. Without a check shirt or sweat soaked vest in sight, Scritti Politti's single The Word Girl had a few weeks earlier reached the dizzy heights of six in the nation's singles charts - this being an era in which the charts still mattered. With its lilting ska chops and singer Green Gartside's reedy, crystalline vocals, it was a record that had obviously caught the imagination, but was the clear apotheosis of Bono and Freddie's unit shifting chutzpah. For Gartside it constituted a personal triumph. Having formed Scritti whilst at Leeds College of art in 1977, he'd masterminded its first iteration on the lines of a collective, a group of radical thinkers who were also alumni of a small and claustrophobically insular post-punk scene in the city which also spawned The Mekons and Gang of Four. Later relocating to a squat in Camden, the band's early lineups were fluid and - true to the DIY aesthetic of the time - their early releases came wrapped in handmade sleeves....full text |
| Holymoly |
| It's only now we're both old that I understand why Scritti Politti always felt different from the other powdered and highlighted pop groups on 'Top of the Pops'. Because they were. Cardiff-born Green Gartside was a Marxist philosopher making pop of the slickest, smoothest, catchiest kind, wearing soul, hip hop and reggae influences blatantly on his rolled-up jacket sleeve. Both of the time and ahead of their time, Scritti Politti were a beautiful anomaly. Mr. Holy Moly holymoly @deanpiper thanks. 25 minutes ago · reply Coming up today: David Beckham, a lolly, a whale with some initials carved in it & Bruce Willis delivering drugs to Scotland in a helicopter 32 minutes ago · reply RT @Sophie_Chapman: Most surreal experience at the theatre ever.....Katie Price's driver ran a child over by mistake. Whoops x 9 hours ago · reply RT @pipparobinson94: Just got caught up in a crazy paparazzi stampede for katie price ... Poor girl hit by her car and cars all smashed ! 9 hours ago · reply @EquilibriumCo http://twitpic.com/40vi01 9 hours ago · reply @EquilibriumCo would love to but I'm on my mobile and your whole site is built in Flash innit ;) 9 hours ago · reply @janemroper ish - put most stuff straight on the site now! be sure to follow @holymolynews as I don't put all the stories up on this account 18 hours ago · reply @janemroper Can you see the unsubscribe button at the bottom of the bam? 18 hours ago · reply We reviewed the Beady Eye album: http://t.co/bn6MCQe 20 hours ago · reply @craigfots Ed Norton is doing a "Van Damme" isn't he? 20 hours ago · reply Join the conversation From the obtuse, woozy agitprop of debut 'Skank Bloc Bologna' came 1981's unlikely minor hit 'The Sweetest Girl', whose gentle melody, honeyed vocals and echoes of dub would set the template for the band's determined chart onslaught three years later with a peerless run of perfect pop singles: 'Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)', 'Absolute', 'Hypnotize', 'The Word Girl', 'Perfect Way', 'Oh Patti (Don't Feel Sorry for Loverboy)' - featuring Miles Davis of all people -, 'First Boy in This Town (Love Sick)'... How Scritti Politti never had a number one remains a mystery and a crime. After 1991, Green appeared to have buggered off for good (and who could blame him) but emerged briefly in 1999 with the stunning and assured 'Tinseltown to the Boogiedown', featuring Mos Def. This was pure intelligent hip hop. Green still had it. Then he buggered off again (and who could blame him. Again). But in 2006 he came back. And he played live (something he'd not done since 1980 due to increasing panic attacks in such situations). And he released 'The Boom Boom Bap' which translated his rap obsession into proper pop again, and new album 'White Bread, Black Beer' topped anything Scritti had released in the 80s, with Green sounding as sweet as ever on a collection of smart, sublime and sophisticated songs that once again sounded of and ahead of its time. For the band's first ever 'best of', we're treated to two new songs made with David Gamson, Scritti's keyboard programmer from the 'Cupid & Psyche 85'/'Provision' era. 'Day Late And A Dollar Short' blends those shiny production values with a nod to Dirty Projectors' vocal interplay, while 'A Place We Both Belong' is Curtis Mayfield-flavoured electro soul that could come from any stage in the band's post-punk career. It would be greedy and naive to hope there's still more to come from Scritti Politti. Green could jack it all in again tomorrow and no one would blame him. But with a band this wonderfully strange, erratic, yet consistently brilliant, it would seem that anything is possible....full text |
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| Details on the new best of Scritti Politti album are coming available! In the words of Pink, “raise your glass!” Its cabaret time! First off, thanks to bibbly-o-tek.com reader to David C who found this on eBay! This is the description from the ebay poster: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230572581367#ht_834wt_989 ‘Absolute’ is the first ever career-spanning collection of words and music by Scritti Politti – including two new and exclusive tracks. This collection includes: * Debut single, ‘Skank Bloc Bolonga’ * Singles from 1982 album ‘Songs to Remember’: – ‘The Sweetest Girl’ (later covered by Madness), featuring Robert Wyatt, on piano. ‘Asylums In Jerusalem’ and ‘Jacques Derrida’ * Five singles from the bands most successful album ‘Cupid & Psyche’ 85, produced by legendary producer Arif Mardin: ‘Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha)’, ‘Absolute’, ‘Hypnotise’, ‘The Word Girl’ and ‘Perfect Way’. * Two tracks taken from their third album, ‘Provision’ – ‘Oh Patti (Don’t Feel Sorry For Loverboy)’ featuring a trumpet solo from jazz genius Miles Davis (who himself covered Scritti’s ‘Perfect Way’ at the Montreux Jazz Festival, July 1988), plus ‘Boom! There She Was’ featuring legendary musician Roger Troutman....full text |
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