All this using up download credits on emusic mallarkey has been more testing than I thought. In a good way, of course.
Still, I was cockahoop to find this.
The tale of how Scritti Politti went from making anarcho-Marxist art squat anti-pop (or something) to supershiny chart smashes in just about five years has been well-rehearsed, especially, brilliantly, here; and I suppose that if there were a single 'transition' record, a beautiful bridge between what was and what would be, then this might well have been it.
I think it still sounds bloody marvellous, as a matter of fact.
Scritti Politti - 'The "Sweetest Girl"' (1981)
(very important those quotation marks; very "post-modern").
Ok, you seriously have no idea how much I love this track! Takes me way back to age 18, my first time in Big City, ecstatic to be able to listen to music when I want, as loud as I dared on my shiny new Walkman, away from family for the first time. Thanks so much for bringing this song back to me xoxoxo!
ReplyDeleteNow just tell me what "cockahoop" means, because I have a very naughty imagination xx
ReplyDeleteOhmygosh, I don't know how you do it. That track really was The One for me: I was young, single, leaving home to live in bedsitland, and this brings it back like nothing else! This was the first 12-inch single I ever bought, I think.
ReplyDeleteThat first Scritti LP is wonderful; I first heard it when I was about 14 and I thought it was just great pop music. Took me several years to work around the ideas therein!
ReplyDeleteNow I thought I haven't commented on Davy H's blog for ages. Then I saw that he's posted one of my favourite ever records. But here I sit and I cannot think of anything interesting to say. Nada. Zip. Zilch.
ReplyDeleteOh Triple, Hep and Blue!
This one resonates with quite a few of us then, huh? Cockahoop indeed x
ReplyDelete(It's a Cerys Matthews album Tart).
Sorry to upset you all but this band makes me want to inject crack into places where crack shouldn't be injected. Simply horrid.
ReplyDeleteI'd suggest a nice cup of tea and a bit of a sit down instead dear.
ReplyDeleteI feel much better after that, thanks.
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