One of my favorite videos-wish it was sharper-would like guitar chords-wonder what happened to the back up girls? They ever get anywhere? Must be ancient by now
... well, being born in the 80s wouldn't have changed that much for you :) I was born in the 70s and still had to catch up with most of the 80s stuff back then... To be aware of the 80s, we should've been born in the 60s... And speaking of music nowadays... there's still great stuff to choose from but you won't get much if you ask mainstream polls. All you have to do is keep searching. Cheers.
Green-Gamson-Maher lavished infinite care on the sound and micro-timing of every note. That and the smart lyrics pushes the song beyond glossy synth-pop to some kind of transcendent fetish object. Flip the 12-inch over for one of the best B-sides ever, "World Come Back To Life" , find it at Scritti Politti fan site bibbly-o-tek.
Wow I still love this song after all these years but the video is so embarrassingly dated. My God. It's also like that Morris Day video, instead of a book, the dude brings out the mirror. And I still wonder at the use of the word "Pharmacopoeia".
I never realised before BUT this Vid is very simlar to Dan Hartmans '' I CAN DREAM ABOUT YOU'' boy I am slow - I think they both Have/Are done some great music.
catchy song! i also notice he's wearing his hat the way madonna did in her 'who's that girl' video... is that b/c he had a song on that sndtrk? curious cross reference.
Oh this brings back some great memories. Those were better times! Actually the whole album that this track came from is great. Check it out! It's called "Provision"
Wow, I've never heard this song. AWESOME!! I do not know what it is about his voice, it is 'soothing', not too loud, not too loud, not too soft... 'just right'? Smooth and Suave!
@BlazedaTrack - 1999 The Independent "When Derrida invited him to Paris, he tackled the Frenchman over this notion of the spontaneous and unmediated expression"
The lyrics are pretty amazing, actually. "The Tupamaros got a platinum card" - he's actually contrasting his previously Marxist culturalism to his then-current pop stardom. I'm not trying to be intellectual, either - Scritti Politti has a lot of history with socio-political reference. AND it's a freaking awesome song.
The lyrics are pretty amazing, actually. "The Tupamaros got a platinum card" - he's actually contrasting his previously Marxist culturalism to his then-current pop stardom. I'm not trying to be intellectual, either - Scritti Politti has a lot of history with socio-political reference. AND it's a freaking awesome song.
@FinoDaddy Green did his own readings into semiotics, a subject that fascinated him and actually met up with Derrida Iif memory serves correctly, it was not just in song.
@BlazedaTrack It's in interviews with Green . Those he made to NME also said as much - probably can be checked on vh1 - artists web site. Quote: "a serious devotee of linguistic structuralism who can hold his own in a conversation with his friend, arch deconstructionist Jacques Derrida," - it was in interviews he conducted with NME at the time too.
I funkiest white guys in music after AWB. Their lyrics meant nothing but the music was so amazing nobody cared what they were saying. Now that's funky.
"Each time I go to bed I, pray like Aretha Franklin"- Wood Bees
So you think that money is the root of all evil?" said Francisco d'Aconia. "Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value....Is this what you consider evil?
@DaLittleDuke Actually, it's the LOVE of money that is the root of all evil, not the money itself.
1Ti 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Gotta love the Paul Smith, at least the suits look very paul smith like. I dont care how fashions change, i want a maroon suit like the sax player has in the background!
One of my very favorite of Scritti Politti - and hard to find - Thank you so much for posting this one. I had a tape of theirs and it got ripped off from me.
Green is quite scared of performing. In response he had Arif Mardin with him at the point of video. It's Green getting at himself and worked well. Hope you ok boss. No-one ever writes music like you. you have a way with the word. Thank you, your the best thing to come out of wales apart from the manics n stereophonics
@jimbotron70 ... AGREED!! :-) But yes, she was merely part of the cast, not a vocalist at all. She also appeared, along with many of the other mime-performers on this stage, in the following video "First Boy in This Town (Lovesick)." I don't think you can find it here anymore, though.
"yes, she was merely part of the cast, not a vocalist at all. She also appeared, along with many of the other mime-performers on this stage, in the following video "First Boy in This Town (Lovesick)." I don't think you can find it here anymore, though."
@iediah my sister and I saw him perform at the bowery in new york, great show. then WE MET HIM afterwards!! he was so cool, we talked about music, and I/we told him how much his music has meant to us, it was too perfect to meet someone you love that much and have them be that nice.
@hollowmenrule OMG!! - I saw him perform at the Bowery in NYC with my brother and we met Green afterwards too and he was absolutely amazing! Wait a minute...
I didn't mean to sound like a smart ass in my reply. Those of us who discovered Green post 1985 (read: America) loved him for being a brilliant pop artist (alongside Prince, Ready For The World, Cult Jam, etc.). "Sweetest Girl" is brilliant, and underground, but that doesn't make "Absolute" any less brilliant. Cheers from WDC.
@beowulven too bad that unlike the artists you mentioned, Scritti is still considered one hit wonders. I loved their music though. And technically the band is no more, just Green using the name.
Why would 41jimmyp say Kant was unintelligible? It's not, it's fascinating, if you can read you should be able to comprehend it. I'll bet Green read it.
Look, I love this stuff. And it's a great song (though not quite Perfect Way). But it's easy to see why Scritti didn;t catch on in a big way. Green doesn't exactly own the stage. More suited to the studio. And that's good! Better to be a cult figure than a stadium bore.
to further my prior comment... "I got a reason girl...was Immanuel Kant's" he wrote the critique of pure reason... I have never read it but I imagine it to be unintelligible... Green knows this and uses it to hilarious, tounge in cheek results... pop music is in large pretense and no one knows this like him using a quote like that while at the same time the tune is groovin' beyond belief!! They are incredible. You know I even heard Elvis Costello give them props once so...
@MisAnnThorpe ....lol.... I feel what you're saying, and love your clever reference to the earlier song... but truly, whatever Green put his hand to was something that he really valued and was very interested in. In this instance, he was very much into U.S. R&B, and poured himself into it. One man's plastic is another's platinum (card). Alright.
@MisAnnThorpe ...also... consider that Green may have been poking fun at himself in this video. Seriously. This really can be read as the extreme self-consciousness that Green is so known for. Think about it. Wouldn't that be just like him? Thought of in this context, you may find this video bearable! Give it another chance with new insight.
@MisAnnThorpe .... because I think you're taking at face value what is most likely a deeper purpose behind the visual. Give Green some credit here for still having his legendary sensibilities!! :-)
@MisAnnThorpe ..that is to say, he's surrounded himself with all this hip kineticism, and he well knows that he has no dancing ability, and up to this point was nearly paralytic from fear when it came to performing live.... I just really see this video as Green pointing up his own "un-hipness" in the midst of people miming his music to really great visual effect—the plastic that you mentioned.
@MisAnnThorpe.... It's late, and I'm not completely getting across what I mean, but hopefully you can carry the ball from here. Thanks for the great one-sided convo (thus far) :-) You made me think.
@MisAnnThorpe... One more thing, and I'm gonna leave you alone... but the production techniques here are top-notch, too! If you love that kind of thing like I do, you'll notice the fluid dolly and boom shots (no pun intended ;) —just awesome, visually. And the choreography of all those mimes, made even better by the great editing... it's just great fun to look at from all the perspectives I've laid out (ad nauseum) this evening. Okay, I'm done. :)
@Tre404 When I refer to plasticity I am talking purely about the music. With very few exceptions, videos mean very little to me. If the music is good then the video is pretty much irrelevant. This is one of the worst aspects of the 80s. All too often people talked about the video, to the extent that the music became almost an afterthought. To my mind the production on Provision takes precedence over the songs themselves. Btw Black bread white beer is one of the best things he's ever recorded.
I don't know why so many people label Scritti Polliti as just Synthpop and New Wave.
It irritates me how people don't see how much funk is in their songs. I'd say a correct genre to call them would be Synth-Funk if anything. You can easily hear Zapp and Kool & The Gang influences.
She says: "it was Great - lead singer is called Green - and was fun to work with - and cute!. We filmed it @ Brixton Academy - and Bruno ( Bassy - one of the boy dancers and I ) choreographed! All filmed in one day."
This is some 'RAZOR SHARP' funk! going on here.I think it's Marcus miller on bass guitar. Is definitely some of the best production ever heard! Wicked!!!
I haven't heard this song in many years. Didn't even know there was a video. Reminds me of the soundtrack of many cheese movies that were out during that era. A good 80s song but I still like Perfect Way better. Sucks that they took it off youtube.
Not my favourite song from "Provision" but anyhow, a paradigm of "production meets ingeniuity". The PERFECT 80s song. Anyone out for more may buy "Provision". It's worth every single cent.
Wow, digging up some old 80s tunes on YT and found this classic. Flash back to Summer 1988 when I first heard this on a Philly R&B station called "Power99FM" (It was number one many nights for weeks on a nightly show called the "Power 9 and 9(pm) - Some nights it was #2 Battle between Scritti Politti, Run DMC, Public Enemy. (Listeners would call in and vote for the number one song)
I know I have this on a blank cassette somewhere in my attic.
Because Mr Green is such an unmeasurable musical genius he can probably be forgiven for having the charisma of a can of artichokes, but to put him in front of a gang of gorgeous groovers (he too is gorgeous) when he obviously could not stand still gracefully was an oversight at best, and at worst a deliberate sabotaging of a career that should have gone stella. My love for Mr. Gartside music is beyond measure and I would be happy to take him through some moves no one else got yet . Smile, tezzo
Green was always ill, n ill men are the best if u like ill men, I think his frozen woodenness looks like a nervous symptom and that evokes in me great sympathy and admiration as someone who loves to nurse
this is fun and of course Green looks very handsome and performs very well, BUT SHAME ON THE PERSON, whoever it was, who must have bullied Green into performing in front of all those people!! Panic attacks and bad hearts are serious. They could have had his death or irretrievable psychotic collape on their hands! I won't say on their conscience, cos they can't have had one. Very heartless and selfish
I have read he had a heart attack aged 23, due to severe stage fright which stopped him playing live until quite recently. Well, I'm not saying this is live, but there's a lot of people there isn't there, which surely would be an associated trigger? He looked to me very unemotional on this, like, he was zombified on some medication ie valium maybe (which I can relate to, as I'm agarophobic myself) -
Wow, I knew that he did not sing live because it made him feel very awkward, but this I did not know. I guess many of us carry around some sort of fright, but I´m glad that he still managed to overcome his fears far enough to become a great 80s artist. Love his music. Thx for the info btw.
One of my favorite videos-wish it was sharper-would like guitar chords-wonder what happened to the back up girls? They ever get anywhere? Must be ancient by now
garyn48 3 weeks ago
1:13 conchetumorrow xD
gamnster 1 month ago
ROGER TROUTMAN & MRACUS MILLER ON THE SAME TRACK !!!!! HISTORY !!!!!!!!!!!
linsleec 2 months ago
"TVTiempo", a weather show with this song
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MLKFNC 3 months ago
Man, the sound quality for 240p is SUPERB!!
tylerdurden3891 3 months ago
Love how he strolls off at the end! A proper pop star attitude
mral80 3 months ago 2
The Tupamaros, an immutable truth... played "Provision" to bits. Still do. :)
antunivanovic 3 months ago
this was one of the tapes that had the lyrics printed in it! those were the days.
guess they couldn't pay roger enough for the vid.
illwafer 4 months ago
I seriously wish I was born in the 80's. The music nowadays is so boring....
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... well, being born in the 80s wouldn't have changed that much for you :) I was born in the 70s and still had to catch up with most of the 80s stuff back then... To be aware of the 80s, we should've been born in the 60s... And speaking of music nowadays... there's still great stuff to choose from but you won't get much if you ask mainstream polls. All you have to do is keep searching. Cheers.
antunivanovic 3 months ago
Another amazing favorite...
talbotsnow 5 months ago
Fricking great song. wish the greatest hits album Absolute was available in the states.
nylilhotman 5 months ago
God that blonde has amazing hair and I dont mean Green
emile235 7 months ago
this was one of the first albums i bought :D
KStealed 7 months ago in playlist scritti politi
para mi, esta siempre va a ser la cortinilla del tiempo en tVN
JoakoVolador 7 months ago
lo maximo DX7
swankrecords 7 months ago
it sounds like 'from wikipedia' at 2:35
rhythmic5 8 months ago
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rhythmic5 8 months ago
Great voice - as smooth as Baileys
One of my favourites from the Provision LP - thanks for posting this up
Morrismarina 8 months ago
1988. My senior year of high school. Memories....
jlr41 8 months ago
CONCHETUMORROW!! (8)
tade5z 8 months ago
In this vid, Green looks like swedish singer "Orup" around the same time. besides that, it´s great...
peterikarlstad 9 months ago
The late great Roger on the voicebox! God rest you, brother.
djceejaay 9 months ago
Look at those 80s dance moves, lol.
Almost 30 years later and this song still makes me bop my head. Thanks for sharing.
myrtlesage 9 months ago
thanks for sharing, love it
53twilly 9 months ago
Absolutely brilliant in every possible way. Synth pop doesn't get any better than this.
jonsilence 9 months ago 2
people had so much more spirit back in the 80's.
okrabay 10 months ago
@PsXLife
turquoise guitar+white boy=are you kidding me?
sweettarra 10 months ago
Perfect and unique in its kind - tunes that make me happy. Thank you.
BCSA64 11 months ago
Green-Gamson-Maher lavished infinite care on the sound and micro-timing of every note. That and the smart lyrics pushes the song beyond glossy synth-pop to some kind of transcendent fetish object. Flip the 12-inch over for one of the best B-sides ever, "World Come Back To Life" , find it at Scritti Politti fan site bibbly-o-tek.
R.I.P. Roger Troutman.
skierpage 11 months ago
aint that my brother Riccardo on the guitar ???
azizbrs 11 months ago
ajajajaja pta q es buena esta weaaaaaa XDDDDd
gracias por la puta por mostrarme este temazo deltiempo XD
pipemoreno94 11 months ago
@porlaputa me cagó! ahora me recago de la risa cuando escucho la canción del tiempo y canto el "conchetumorrow"
blackfer87 11 months ago
@porlaputa me cagó! ahora me recago de la risa cuando escucho la canción del tiempo y canto el "conchetumorrow"
blackfer87 11 months ago
1:10 CONCHETUMORROW!
Miusification 11 months ago
conchetumorrow
NLopezValenzuela 11 months ago
Wow I still love this song after all these years but the video is so embarrassingly dated. My God. It's also like that Morris Day video, instead of a book, the dude brings out the mirror. And I still wonder at the use of the word "Pharmacopoeia".
thisrainykitten 11 months ago
se han pronosticado unas chupadas de pico a causa de la vaguada costera
atoseco 1 year ago
@atoseco que creativo...
QueVivaLaVidaSerie 1 year ago
Wish there was new stuff like this..syncopated, well written and produced.
misterstax 1 year ago 2
I never realised before BUT this Vid is very simlar to Dan Hartmans '' I CAN DREAM ABOUT YOU'' boy I am slow - I think they both Have/Are done some great music.
cannot wait for the new album from Green
SOULBOUY1 1 year ago
El tiempo en TVN
FeuerwehrPinzi 1 year ago 50
Always seemed to me these guys could have been huge but I guess thank god they never really were. Rarely are things huge and still interesting....
uneedtherapy42 1 year ago
Yikes! Green canna dance!
befuturenow 1 year ago
Yeah, thats the sound of the 80s. Korg M1 and DX7 :-).
ga8866 1 year ago 6
@ga8866 there is no Korg M1 on that album, it's made with DX-7, TX-816, Fairlight, Minimoog and other goodies :D
GoodSneakers 2 months ago in playlist Favoritlistan!
catchy song! i also notice he's wearing his hat the way madonna did in her 'who's that girl' video... is that b/c he had a song on that sndtrk? curious cross reference.
hithr3000 1 year ago
@hithr3000 "Cunning hats" seemed to be QUITE popular in the late 1980s...
shmuli9 1 year ago
best song ever! to bad these guys never made it big in north america.
murphy9238481 1 year ago
@murphy9238481 Actually, they WERE quite big in North America...
shmuli9 1 year ago
...the only song in the world for "Moto Guzzi"!
ghicaccatta 1 year ago
whenever i see this video, why am i thinking 'pepsi commercial'......
MrDoongy 1 year ago
@MrDoongy cause you've been brainwashed by pepsi, lol.
hollowmenrule 1 year ago
Oh this brings back some great memories. Those were better times! Actually the whole album that this track came from is great. Check it out! It's called "Provision"
sspartan123 1 year ago
なんてこった。ベースはマーカス・ミラーだったのか！
techno4beer 1 year ago
ok limmy! :P
Bod88 1 year ago
@Bod88 lmao i looked at this cos of limmy on facebook tooo XD
77Hking 1 year ago
@77Hking
me too, funny wee kint that he is!
limmy for PM!
cloudy1980 1 year ago
Sick production on this.
kfrausto 1 year ago
love roger troutman's talkbox
lloydpopp13 1 year ago
Is that Marcus Miller on bass ?
doubts 1 year ago
@doubts It is Marcus Miller on bass guitar. Roger Troutman on talk box also.
crosxtalk 1 year ago
@doubts if he is its cool love rogers talk box love scritti very nice
rossman442 1 year ago
so well produced.
doubts 1 year ago
Wow, I've never heard this song. AWESOME!! I do not know what it is about his voice, it is 'soothing', not too loud, not too loud, not too soft... 'just right'? Smooth and Suave!
warrengonline 1 year ago 3
hahaha! esta es la famosa cancion de cuando comienza el tiempo en TVN XD
Forka137 1 year ago
Perfect way part 4. Everyone of his songs sounds like "perfect way"
KaiserWilhelmIV 1 year ago
Thank you, and for the memories too!!...
BCSA64 1 year ago
la cancion del tiempooooooooooooooo!
SleepwalkerGM 1 year ago
How can digital machines produce such f+cking awesome pop?? Great programming!!! I think most credit has to go to David Gamson - genius!!!!!
littlenige 1 year ago
@BlazedaTrack - 1999 The Independent "When Derrida invited him to Paris, he tackled the Frenchman over this notion of the spontaneous and unmediated expression"
quitethoughtful 1 year ago
The lyrics are pretty amazing, actually. "The Tupamaros got a platinum card" - he's actually contrasting his previously Marxist culturalism to his then-current pop stardom. I'm not trying to be intellectual, either - Scritti Politti has a lot of history with socio-political reference. AND it's a freaking awesome song.
FinoDaddy 1 year ago 3
The lyrics are pretty amazing, actually. "The Tupamaros got a platinum card" - he's actually contrasting his previously Marxist culturalism to his then-current pop stardom. I'm not trying to be intellectual, either - Scritti Politti has a lot of history with socio-political reference. AND it's a freaking awesome song.
FinoDaddy 1 year ago
@FinoDaddy Green did his own readings into semiotics, a subject that fascinated him and actually met up with Derrida Iif memory serves correctly, it was not just in song.
quitethoughtful 1 year ago
@quitethoughtful I'd like to check that out
BlazedaTrack 1 year ago
@BlazedaTrack It's in interviews with Green . Those he made to NME also said as much - probably can be checked on vh1 - artists web site. Quote: "a serious devotee of linguistic structuralism who can hold his own in a conversation with his friend, arch deconstructionist Jacques Derrida," - it was in interviews he conducted with NME at the time too.
quitethoughtful 1 year ago
I funkiest white guys in music after AWB. Their lyrics meant nothing but the music was so amazing nobody cared what they were saying. Now that's funky.
"Each time I go to bed I, pray like Aretha Franklin"- Wood Bees
BlazedaTrack 1 year ago
@BlazedaTrack See above
quitethoughtful 1 year ago
Esta es la canción del tiempo de TVN Chile.
samt1967 1 year ago
This is the new Rick Roll D:
rauneitor 1 year ago
new rick roll!
Andresxsaint 1 year ago 5
R.I.P Roger Troutman ♥
hutukaTB 1 year ago
This promo video is typical late 80s cheese but a fantastic song none the less.
SoulstylistJukebox 1 year ago
So you think that money is the root of all evil?" said Francisco d'Aconia. "Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value....Is this what you consider evil?
DaLittleDuke 1 year ago 2
@DaLittleDuke Actually, it's the LOVE of money that is the root of all evil, not the money itself.
1Ti 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
KaseyKruz 1 year ago
What a fantastic intro ! love that bass !!!!!
Tyrog 1 year ago
@Tyrog
It's Marcus Miller on bass actually...
kiwibass 1 year ago
Sorry...for some reason I thought he was a sax player...but actually he's got a guitar...hmmm...
BelatedCommiseration 1 year ago
Gotta love the Paul Smith, at least the suits look very paul smith like. I dont care how fashions change, i want a maroon suit like the sax player has in the background!
BelatedCommiseration 1 year ago
GREAT SONG BY AN AWESOME BAND
jerjanz 1 year ago
GOOSEBUMPS!!!....
Tycetto 1 year ago
Ah, my youth...
RainPoetry 1 year ago
As he's walking off, I think "Now it's time to go faint."
madsketcher 1 year ago
One of my very favorite of Scritti Politti - and hard to find - Thank you so much for posting this one. I had a tape of theirs and it got ripped off from me.
berrygoodstuff 1 year ago 2
Green is quite scared of performing. In response he had Arif Mardin with him at the point of video. It's Green getting at himself and worked well. Hope you ok boss. No-one ever writes music like you. you have a way with the word. Thank you, your the best thing to come out of wales apart from the manics n stereophonics
BCEFHS 1 year ago
This song puts me in a good mood.
masandstrom 1 year ago
great upload, never seen this before, agree the brunette is a cutie
boomerang2 2 years ago
A great song. Good music forever! The brunette is a lovely lass for sure.
Isochest 1 year ago
dx7 ... unsurpassed kbd
MalaTemporaCurrunt 2 years ago
@MalaTemporaCurrunt I can't hear one single DX-7 line in here. (?)
pacific707 1 year ago
A brilliant song from a brilliant album.
tokyojoe01 2 years ago
...she is (..was) amazing ..she is (was..) the girl of my dream.
crodo64 2 years ago 2
1:52 give me back my 80's......
crodo64 2 years ago 2
how gorgeous is that dark-haired vocalist?
maybe a staging model?
jimbotron70 2 years ago 10
Yes.
beowulven 2 years ago
@jimbotron70 ... AGREED!! :-) But yes, she was merely part of the cast, not a vocalist at all. She also appeared, along with many of the other mime-performers on this stage, in the following video "First Boy in This Town (Lovesick)." I don't think you can find it here anymore, though.
Tre404 1 year ago
@Tre404
thanks for the clarification
jimbotron70 1 year ago
@jimbotron70 I think she's a very pretty lady, but so is the blonde dancer, who has such lovely sheepy hair and a very pretty face
MystyMary 1 year ago
@jimbotron70 I sort of prefer the blond but they don't show much of her.
sspartan123 1 year ago
@jimbotron70 They`re all a bit too good to be true. ;-)
NataschaO 1 year ago
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@NataschaO
yes, as user Tre404 said:
"yes, she was merely part of the cast, not a vocalist at all. She also appeared, along with many of the other mime-performers on this stage, in the following video "First Boy in This Town (Lovesick)." I don't think you can find it here anymore, though."
jimbotron70 1 year ago
@NataschaO Green still looks good now, he looks older but not decrepit:) He is in his late 40's and looks well preserved:)
iediah 1 year ago
@iediah my sister and I saw him perform at the bowery in new york, great show. then WE MET HIM afterwards!! he was so cool, we talked about music, and I/we told him how much his music has meant to us, it was too perfect to meet someone you love that much and have them be that nice.
hollowmenrule 1 year ago
@hollowmenrule OMG!! - I saw him perform at the Bowery in NYC with my brother and we met Green afterwards too and he was absolutely amazing! Wait a minute...
jenningj1105 1 year ago
@iediah Dear, Green is in his mid-50s, and yeah, he still looks damn good, if a little eccentric.
soyarra 1 year ago
@jimbotron70 i guess she is, she appeared in another video by that era
on grayson hugh "talk it over" video
outerspaceboy84 1 year ago
@outerspaceboy84
LOL, I saw the video, at 99% is the same girl, even if she sports a short wig or another hair cut there :)
jimbotron70 1 year ago
@jimbotron70
The Lead Singer's name is Green Gartside
Marklinsf 1 year ago
@jimbotron70 I will settle for that she is a looker alright,
planetrockford 11 months ago
@jimbotron70 I will settle for that she is a looker alright,
planetrockford 11 months ago
How did he go from Sweetest Girl to this in such a short time?
SimonDolan 2 years ago
As he is GENIUS, respect.
beowulven 2 years ago
I didn't mean to sound like a smart ass in my reply. Those of us who discovered Green post 1985 (read: America) loved him for being a brilliant pop artist (alongside Prince, Ready For The World, Cult Jam, etc.). "Sweetest Girl" is brilliant, and underground, but that doesn't make "Absolute" any less brilliant. Cheers from WDC.
beowulven 2 years ago
@beowulven too bad that unlike the artists you mentioned, Scritti is still considered one hit wonders. I loved their music though. And technically the band is no more, just Green using the name.
fanofprotopic 2 years ago
Nope. The last record was nominated for the Mercury prize, more than 20 years after the "one hit". Do your research.
beowulven 2 years ago
Why would 41jimmyp say Kant was unintelligible? It's not, it's fascinating, if you can read you should be able to comprehend it. I'll bet Green read it.
pagerrules 2 years ago
Roger's vocoder made this track slammin- much like on Dr. Dre's & Tupac's California Love... RIP
Panzer928 2 years ago
i believed Green is the most beautiful guy on earth!!! in my junior high days ;)
meguyuki 2 years ago 3
You probably have. Search for Perfect Way.
DavePerry2012 2 years ago
Look, I love this stuff. And it's a great song (though not quite Perfect Way). But it's easy to see why Scritti didn;t catch on in a big way. Green doesn't exactly own the stage. More suited to the studio. And that's good! Better to be a cult figure than a stadium bore.
nrobertfield 2 years ago
to further my prior comment... "I got a reason girl...was Immanuel Kant's" he wrote the critique of pure reason... I have never read it but I imagine it to be unintelligible... Green knows this and uses it to hilarious, tounge in cheek results... pop music is in large pretense and no one knows this like him using a quote like that while at the same time the tune is groovin' beyond belief!! They are incredible. You know I even heard Elvis Costello give them props once so...
41jimmyp 2 years ago 2
my formula for pop perfection... one half has to be complete cheese and the other complete brillance... this band is the epitome of that.
41jimmyp 2 years ago
Tell me this wasn't the S-H-I-T back in the day...
Panzer928 2 years ago
still kind of is.... has aged pretty well to me
41jimmyp 2 years ago
@Panzer928 This has always been and always will be SHIT! It's so plastic there's no personality in it. Tears of sorrow. No tears of joy.
MisAnnThorpe 1 year ago
@MisAnnThorpe ....lol.... I feel what you're saying, and love your clever reference to the earlier song... but truly, whatever Green put his hand to was something that he really valued and was very interested in. In this instance, he was very much into U.S. R&B, and poured himself into it. One man's plastic is another's platinum (card). Alright.
P.S. I love your name ;-)
Tre404 1 year ago
@MisAnnThorpe ...also... consider that Green may have been poking fun at himself in this video. Seriously. This really can be read as the extreme self-consciousness that Green is so known for. Think about it. Wouldn't that be just like him? Thought of in this context, you may find this video bearable! Give it another chance with new insight.
Tre404 1 year ago
@MisAnnThorpe .... because I think you're taking at face value what is most likely a deeper purpose behind the visual. Give Green some credit here for still having his legendary sensibilities!! :-)
Tre404 1 year ago
@MisAnnThorpe ..that is to say, he's surrounded himself with all this hip kineticism, and he well knows that he has no dancing ability, and up to this point was nearly paralytic from fear when it came to performing live.... I just really see this video as Green pointing up his own "un-hipness" in the midst of people miming his music to really great visual effect—the plastic that you mentioned.
Tre404 1 year ago
@MisAnnThorpe.... It's late, and I'm not completely getting across what I mean, but hopefully you can carry the ball from here. Thanks for the great one-sided convo (thus far) :-) You made me think.
Tre404 1 year ago
@MisAnnThorpe... One more thing, and I'm gonna leave you alone... but the production techniques here are top-notch, too! If you love that kind of thing like I do, you'll notice the fluid dolly and boom shots (no pun intended ;) —just awesome, visually. And the choreography of all those mimes, made even better by the great editing... it's just great fun to look at from all the perspectives I've laid out (ad nauseum) this evening. Okay, I'm done. :)
Tre404 1 year ago 2
@Tre404 When I refer to plasticity I am talking purely about the music. With very few exceptions, videos mean very little to me. If the music is good then the video is pretty much irrelevant. This is one of the worst aspects of the 80s. All too often people talked about the video, to the extent that the music became almost an afterthought. To my mind the production on Provision takes precedence over the songs themselves. Btw Black bread white beer is one of the best things he's ever recorded.
MisAnnThorpe 1 year ago 2
I miss the original vid....
xBusNutter 2 years ago
Quintessential 80s song..
jimbotron70 2 years ago
BET used to show this at the time. Green forever. Roger R.I.P.
walkathon 2 years ago
I don't know why so many people label Scritti Polliti as just Synthpop and New Wave.
It irritates me how people don't see how much funk is in their songs. I'd say a correct genre to call them would be Synth-Funk if anything. You can easily hear Zapp and Kool & The Gang influences.
benxander 2 years ago
the brunette backing singer is my mum! =)
nemracmason 2 years ago
Oh wow, please write me and tell me her memories of working with Scritii Politti!!
trynow11725 2 years ago
I will =)
nemracmason 2 years ago
She says: "it was Great - lead singer is called Green - and was fun to work with - and cute!. We filmed it @ Brixton Academy - and Bruno ( Bassy - one of the boy dancers and I ) choreographed! All filmed in one day."
nemracmason 2 years ago
wow! She's so very pretty!! Did she get to give Green any support with his stagefright at all?
MystyMary 2 years ago
Ummm she's never told me she did, but she is very modist so perhaps ! =)
nemracmason 2 years ago
This is some 'RAZOR SHARP' funk! going on here.I think it's Marcus miller on bass guitar. Is definitely some of the best production ever heard! Wicked!!!
mooni007 2 years ago
I haven't heard this song in many years. Didn't even know there was a video. Reminds me of the soundtrack of many cheese movies that were out during that era. A good 80s song but I still like Perfect Way better. Sucks that they took it off youtube.
darkesthourglass 2 years ago
Not my favourite song from "Provision" but anyhow, a paradigm of "production meets ingeniuity". The PERFECT 80s song. Anyone out for more may buy "Provision". It's worth every single cent.
michaelpister 2 years ago
If the cassette in your attic is blank, my guess would be that you don't have the song anymore.
sshiley 2 years ago 2
Wow, digging up some old 80s tunes on YT and found this classic. Flash back to Summer 1988 when I first heard this on a Philly R&B station called "Power99FM" (It was number one many nights for weeks on a nightly show called the "Power 9 and 9(pm) - Some nights it was #2 Battle between Scritti Politti, Run DMC, Public Enemy. (Listeners would call in and vote for the number one song)
I know I have this on a blank cassette somewhere in my attic.
scrapplecheesesteak 2 years ago 2
Because Mr Green is such an unmeasurable musical genius he can probably be forgiven for having the charisma of a can of artichokes, but to put him in front of a gang of gorgeous groovers (he too is gorgeous) when he obviously could not stand still gracefully was an oversight at best, and at worst a deliberate sabotaging of a career that should have gone stella. My love for Mr. Gartside music is beyond measure and I would be happy to take him through some moves no one else got yet . Smile, tezzo
tezzo55 2 years ago
Green was always ill, n ill men are the best if u like ill men, I think his frozen woodenness looks like a nervous symptom and that evokes in me great sympathy and admiration as someone who loves to nurse
MystyMary 2 years ago
I remember this song & video. I absolutely love it.
Chipotle77 2 years ago
Probably explains why he is running off the stage here.
BayushiGemma 2 years ago 2
he's off to the pub lol.
MystyMary 2 years ago
Money is always the root of evil.
wwejuniors 2 years ago 3
it sure is
MystyMary 2 years ago
If money is the root of all evil, I'd like to be a bad bad man (this is an allusion to a Huey Lewis song by the way ;-) )
adamweishaupt81 2 years ago
this is fun and of course Green looks very handsome and performs very well, BUT SHAME ON THE PERSON, whoever it was, who must have bullied Green into performing in front of all those people!! Panic attacks and bad hearts are serious. They could have had his death or irretrievable psychotic collape on their hands! I won't say on their conscience, cos they can't have had one. Very heartless and selfish
MystyMary 2 years ago
Was he really that sensitive then? Or did he have some heart condition? He looks healthy from here.
vanderslagmulders 2 years ago
I have read he had a heart attack aged 23, due to severe stage fright which stopped him playing live until quite recently. Well, I'm not saying this is live, but there's a lot of people there isn't there, which surely would be an associated trigger? He looked to me very unemotional on this, like, he was zombified on some medication ie valium maybe (which I can relate to, as I'm agarophobic myself) -
MystyMary 2 years ago
Wow, I knew that he did not sing live because it made him feel very awkward, but this I did not know. I guess many of us carry around some sort of fright, but I´m glad that he still managed to overcome his fears far enough to become a great 80s artist. Love his music. Thx for the info btw.
vanderslagmulders 2 years ago