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 (UK chart position #12) - '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 (UK chart position #5), produced by legendary producer Arif Mardin: 'Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha)' (UK #10), 'Absolute' (UK #17), 'Hypnotise', 'The Word Girl' (UK #6) and 'Perfect Way' (US #11). - Two tracks taken from their third album, Provision (UK #8) - '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. - Top 20 single 'She's a Woman' a cover of The Beatles track, featuring guest vocals from Shabba Ranks - Four songs from 1999's universally acclaimed album Anomie and Bonhomie, 'Tinseltown To The Boogiedown' (featured guests Mos Def and Jimhal), 'Umm', 'Die Alone' and 'Brushed With Oil', 'Dusted With Powder'. - Two new and exclusive tracks 'A Day Late and a Dollar Short' and 'A Place We Both Belong' - the first to be released/co-written with long-time collaborator David Gamson since Anomie and Bonhomie.

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Media Type: CD
Artist: SCRITTI POLITTI
Title: CUPID & PSYCHE 85
Street Release Date: 07/06/1987
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP

Sophisticated production combined with intelligent, often humorous, lyrics made Scritti Politti a rock favorite of the 80s. This 1988 album was a top ten seller and contains their mega-hit Oh Patti and other popular hits.

With the release of White Bread Black Beer, the first Scritti Politti offering in seven years, Green Gartside experiments with lush Beach Boys-style harmonies and Beatles-esque melodies, subtly subverting them with touches of hip hop and reggae. Gartside once again offers instantly embraceable, pure-pop pleasure. If you plunge beneath these shimmering surfaces, however, you'll discover greater challenges and richer rewards--reservoirs of feeling and layers of meaning residing within Gartside's carefully arranged lyrics.

Sophisticated production combined with intelligent, often humorous, lyrics made Scritti Politti a rock favorite of the 80s. This 1988 album was a top ten seller and contains their mega-hit Oh Patti and other popular hits.

ARTISTS and tracks: 1 Katrina And The Waves - Walking On Sunshine 4:00 2 Tears For Fears - Head Over Heels 4:19 3 Men At Work - It's A Mistake 4:34 4 Dream Academy, The - Life In A Northern Town 4:18 5 Charlie Sexton - Beat's So Lonely 5:18 6 Gary Myrick - Guitar, Talk, Love & Drums 4:18 7 Strawberry Switchblade - Since Yesterday 2:56 8 Animotion - Obsession 4:04 9 Kid Creole And The Coconuts - Endicott 4:29 10 Scritti Politti - Perfect Way 4:06 11 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - So In Love 3:31 12 Arcadia (3) - Election Day 4:34 13 Paul Hardcastle - 19 3:40 14 Bronski Beat - Why? 3:58 15 Belouis Some - Some People 4:01 16 Lords Of The New Church - Like A Virgin 3:49