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Scritti Politti - Absolute (2011)

Scritti Politti - Absolute (2011)

BAND/ARTIST: Scritti Politti

Tracklist:

01. Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin) (Single Version) 3:37
02. Absolute 4:25
03. The Word Girl (Edit) 3:19
04. Perfect Way 4:03
05. Hypnotize (Short Version) 3:35
06. Oh Patti (Don't Feel Sorry for Loverboy) 4:23
07. Boom! There She Was (US Mix) 4:17
08. Umm 4:13
09. Tinseltown to the Boogiedown (Radio Edit) 4:04
10. Die Alone 4:23
11. Brushed with Oil, Dusted with Powder 5:51
12. Skank Bloc Bologna 5:51
13. The Sweetest Girl (2001 Remaster) 6:18
14. Asylums in Jerusalem (2001 Remaster) 3:15
15. Jacques Derrida (2001 Remaster) 5:01
16. She's a Woman (Little Way Different Version) 3:28
17. A Day Late and a Dollar Short 3:14
18. A Place We Both Belong 3:10

There is no easy and clean way to anthologize Scritti Politti. Within a couple years of surfacing, Green Gartside and his shifting array of associates switched from scrawny and inscrutable post-punk to pristine and R&B-laced sophisti-pop. Scritti vanished for a decade, reappeared in the late ‘90s with a tentative misfire, and then, after a seven-year absence, came back again with an understated, vaguely singer/songwriter-y gem. Absolute focuses on the Virgin albums -- 1985’s Cupid & Psyche (a masterpiece), 1988’s Provision, and 1999’s Anomie & Bonhomie -- and frontloads the material from them, which takes up over two-thirds of the disc. After that, it gets a bit random, with post-punk era highlight “Skank Bloc Bologna,” three highlights from 1982’s Songs to Remember, the 1991 non-album single “She’s a Woman” (a Beatles cover, featuring Shabba Ranks), and two new burbling electro-pop numbers. It’s neither a straightforward singles comp nor a thorough collection of highlights, but it’s somewhere in between and makes for a representative introduction.



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  • mufty77
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