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| | Provision | | | Music Artist : | | Scritti Politti | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Collectables Records | | Release Date : | | 2008-03-25 | | Store Price : | | $12.97 | | Artistopia's Price: $12.97 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Boom! There She Was
2. Overnite
3. First Boy In This Town-Lovesick
4. All That We Are
5. Best Thing Ever
6. Oh Patti-Don't Feel Sorry For Loverboy
7. Bam Salute
8. Sugar And Spice
9. Philosophy Now
10. Oh Patti
11. Boom! There She Was
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Scritti's LAST Great Album
Submitted on: 2009-05-04 |
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Although "Provision" could not nearly top the success, overall quality and innovation of 1984's Cupid & Psyche '85...it is still a very tight, commercialized effort from Green Gartside & Company. Thanks to Aretha Franklin's Producer Arif Mardin's rich layering of tracks and overall polish of the final product, "Provision" still scores three solid winners; the highly danceable and infectious, "Boom! There She Was," frat-boy fresh, "First Boy in This Town," and the memorably haunting, "Oh Patti."
Compared to "Cupid & Psyche'85"..."Provision" clearly shows how much Gartside and (David) Gamson's sound has matured. The audio production is mastered perfectly and way ahead of it's time, for 1988. For a pop album- "Provision" sounds just as good turned up loud, as it is quietly on your own headphones. Unfortunately, music today simply does not have the sonic quality of this underrated 1988 gem.
Gartside's foray into rap and other "experiments" hurt his subsequent releases badly. His latest 2006 CD, "White Bread Black Beer" sounds too much like a radical departure from his sharply-dressed, pretty boy youth and vitality. What can you expect- Green is suddenly no longer "green."
Buy this album, and keep it as a testimony to how versatile and dynamic Scritti Politti ONCE was.
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The soundtrack to my life circa 1987/1988
Submitted on: 2008-01-12 |
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I was living in South Yarra in Melbourne in the late 1980s and I bought both the CD and MC of this album and it was constantly on my walkman. "O Patti" was and still is a classic track. The rest of the album is very good. Sure, it wasn't quite as good as "Cupid & Psyche", but it was pretty darn good anyway and it was head and shoulders above anything else that was released around that time.
Miles Davis plays on this album and the general sound is full and luxurious - full marks to producer, Arif Mardin.
Many people don't "get" Scritti Politti and never will. However, for those who do, the rewards are great. Nice to see that Green Gartside is still making excellent music under the name of Scritti Politti.
Warning to 80s nostalgia buffs - this album probably will disappoint you - it sounds like it was recorded yesterday. |
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Get Out Your Headphones!
Submitted on: 2007-03-30 |
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| Provision drags a little on Bam Salute, and Best Thing Ever and Philosophy Now are fun, but not quite peak material. However, the first four songs and Oh, Patti are so heartbreakingly beautiful that listening to them in succession has taken on a ritualistic position in my life. Boom! is a giddy, hyper-synchopated rush of elation. Eminently danceable. Overnite can make you cry. Perhaps the most yearning song I've ever heard. Absolutely gorgeous. Lovesick is like a second dose of Boom!. All That We Are is heavenly and lyrically a complete mind bender. Oh, Patti is a dreamy-eyed classic and Sugar and Spice is a guilty pleasure if there ever was one. I bought Provision on vinyl before I had heard a note of any Scritti stuff. I'd seen the Scritti name mentioned alongside other abrassive post-punk bands like Joy Division, which I was listening to at the time. The first spin made me feel completely embarassed, sitting alone in my room. The cutesy pie tunes and wimpy singing was the last thing I thought I wanted to hear. But I kept coming back. It was the tunes, full of strange chord changes and bouncy beats that first hooked me. I wasn't sold on it as a masterpiece until a rather focused session with the headphones on. Every sound is sculpted and polished for infinite nuance. Green's disembodied voice seems to be speaking directly to you from a different realm of cryptic wordplay and robotic longing. No lyric should be taken at face value, and every sound should be savoured at length. It is a singular creative statement, unique as the mind that realized. If you can get a copy with World Come Back To Life (a masterpiece of its own), you will be holding your new favorite record. Cupid and Psyche is essentially perfect, but it lacks a certain strangeness and obscurity that defines Provision. Listen closely, and most important, listen again. |
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Underrated Gem
Submitted on: 2006-01-14 |
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Critically lambasted upon its release, "Provision" is superior to the overrated and bombastic "Cupid & Psyche". The production while still strong, is not overbearing and instead compliments the songs perfectly. "Oh Patti" is ...brilliant.
"Provision" needs to be put alongside other great synth inflected blue-eyed soul albums fron the 80s like ABC's "Lexicon Of Love" and The Associates "Sulk". |
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Never in my life had I had this sensation...
Submitted on: 2005-08-24 |
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This is an extremely exciting record:
- heavy bass
- tremendous treble
- record-setting rhythms
- superb songwriting
- fantastic singing
- outstanding lyrics
= all in all one of the time-stopping records of the late 80's.
On my watch, this is the record with the most intensive beat - ever. Everything's light (for the funky rhythm), and heavy at the same time (for the melody and the words make a perfect, profound houseshake).
I congratulate Scritti Politti for this milestone in music: play the funk popily and get all the freax dancin' while challenging the mindset - a perfect album.
It's been with me since 1988 (I even convinced my girlfriend of that time to marry me by listening to "Overnight" in one unforgettable session of lovemaking - she's with me even today...[2005]).
May you have the same luck by listening to and enjoying this unique record.
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