Scritti Politti - Wood Beez (pray llike Aretha Franklin) Top Of The Pops 1984

[MrRotor1987]

There's another cut of this song, that has a Trumpet or Bugle in it and a few more samples and effects, has anyone heard it?

[TheCapricornStrand]

No " Ernies ".... (Errrrrrrrrr neeeeee) with the electric guitar on this song ...thank god !

[shadowdog2005]

1of my favourites of the 80s. Luvv it. X

[shadowdog2005]

1 of my favourites of the eighties. Luvv it. X

[SashineB]

ARETHA, not Anita!!

[memorylane1980s]

@SashineB FFS! okay okay I;ll change it! people have f**k all else to do than complain! ;P

[SashineB]

@memorylane1980s THANK YOUUUUUUU. ARETHA and Anita thank you too. :)

[fridayfc]

tsk tsk tsk, you're all wrong, it Urethra.........buahahaaa

[jenskri99]

Aeretha's kid sister, Aneetha . Obviouosly the religious one....

[SimonDolan]

Loving the drummer x

[TheVascoPaiva]

Oh this is so fruity, i love it!

[supercourier73]

hes an enigma,his voice is sweeter than maple syrup.whether he lip synchs or looks uncomfortable up there is irelevant,thats part of the appeal

[memorylane1980s]

@supercourier73 I TOTALY agree. Wish I could write a song like that! I recorded this and when it came on it blew me away, regardless of miming or whatever it was mindblowing for THEN!

[GStricke]

1. I'm always disappointed when I see lip synching, yeah I know that it was modus operandi for these types of shows, I'm just disappointed when I see it.

2. He looks so scared or self conscious, it throws things off a bit.

3. I had no idea that Scritti Politti actually used instruments, or is that just for effect so he's not standing up there by himself? lol

[MarilynFinland]

I love Scritti Politti.

[coolphilipp]

haha look like a girl

[bettydaw1970]

not enough bass or cowball!!!

[TheMushroomone]

BTW it's ARETHA Franklin not Anita - lol!!

[TheMushroomone]

Mr Strohmeyer Gartside will be forever in my dreams - I am a die hard Scritti fan from the days .... love Green & Scritti xxx

[scottyandsergie]

the bass player looks really serious but cool, that we slide of his head near the start

[COMPFUNK2]

"Anita" Franklin? Really?

[iwillknifeya]

I love music like this. If they played this at clubs I would actually go out. Just live the synth and bass. Grand Theft Auto: IV Vice City FM channel got me into this along with heaps of others :D

[memorylane1980s]

@iwillknifeya rofl.. I will be playing GTA today!! just love the music on it and I don't think there's any game to compete with it..!

[cathridge]

Loved his music but his image was never video-friendly. He had a look but he was just so foppish and any videos of them trying to perform live just looked silly. Better off just making a video of Green singing to a girl like in "Hypnotize". The recordings are all basically studio craft rather than live anyway.

[scottyandsergie]

The 80s really ruled, modern music is cheap and you cant listen to it over and over, 80a like this is real music, alot of thought went into this

[kichichica]

The broach look is SO eighties ! Love it!

[scottyandsergie]

looks like he was dressed up as luke skywalker

[StephStance]

I so LOVED THIS CD!!!!!!

[scottyandsergie]

looks a tad like boy george lol fantastic music though, not like todays mixing crap, they really had to think this stuff up, love the keyboard!!!

[Isochest]

I always liked this band. I thought they were Canadian:-)

[thegunclub123]

Lmao these guys were so gay, loved it.

[mudpie95]

 Ahhhh.........the memories.

[razorback899]

Vice City FM!

[cujo9]

i love the drummer ;)

[lightsaber67]

FANTASTIC TOTP FOOTAGE GREEN AT HIS BEST!!!

[oldsynth]

Pure nostalgia! It reminds me of how seriously we musicians took ourselves in the eighties.

[Glamking1]

This was blocked before by WMG. but however it has seem to work, this was the first performance on that 20-min edition of 12/4/84, which had other performances by The Cure, Dead or Alive (1st appearence on the show), and the video top ten rundown with the number one by Lionel Richie and the playout by Rufus & Chaka Khan. But there was no TOTP on 5/4/84, that it was blacked out by industrial action and 16 hours of testcard music.