scritti politti: provision

looks like i've got some homework to do

♫ tell us about it green ♫

"tell us about it green"

some of the tracks here seem underwritten to me but there's still lots to like about this record. i could choose any of half the songs as favorite.

lol xp

the subsequent albums are great but would take this over them.

Boom! There She Was is an all-time fave for me

i equally want to vote for "philosophy now" and "best thing ever" and "first boy in this town"

boom! there goes a brad poll

His next two albums are much better tbh. Most of these tracks are retreads. "Oh Patti" is all time though.

all of the albums are great for their own reasons. this one is great bc it sounds like waayyy too much cocaine

the Miles solo in "Oh Patti" is what period Talk Talk strove for.

fuckin exactly

god Green was so beautiful during this period

YEP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS7yg-UPoWc

First Boy in My Heart more like

i got your number

whole set is a solid piece of interpellated cloth but maybe "Overnite" reifies me most

or it's a pharmacopeia, obv

oh god, this is my favourite scritti album and I've never understood the consensus that this was a huge drop in quality after Cupid & Psyche 85, have to vote for 'All That We Are'

Love 'Oh Patti' but I think 'Sugar And Spice' just for Roger Troutman's voicebox...can't decide yet though...

in my head I always associate this album with Tin Drum by Japan as some kind of pinnacle of 80s inhuman perfection, and the way they both manage to sound strident/rigid and anaemic at the same time

on most days this might eke out ahead of cupid and psyche for me... think it might be how everything just runs together so well. cupid does this as well in terms of the sound of it and is a bit more varied in terms of songwriting... but there's just something intensely satisfying about how provision is sequenced or something? feels like hook after hook.

it's a bit like picking between something like court and spark and the hissing of summer lawns though. feel like two sides to the same coin.

great b-side too... feels almost a bit by-numbers but then there's that chorus!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB1b6i6q0rw

one of my favourite albums really

http://fs5.directupload.net/images/160104/vpk4f7yr.jpg

they're playing a show in london next month

related: how can i get to london cheaply next month

Voted "Sugar & Spice". I still think "C&P" sounds more glossily inhuman - therefore its the most satisfying album for me - but this is a fine sequel.

*it's

i think "tell us about it green" may be my favorite moment in music

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i'm having one of my regular 'how can these sounds possibly exist' moments with this record

which sounds in particular?

i always loved Cupid And.. but pretty much slept on everything else except Black Beer.. from a few years back.

also i totally slept on 'philosophy now', that song sounds great today

"measure for measure / in a 3 standard stoppages for you" smh XD

lolll i've never caught that lyric before

oh green

This album is kind of taking over my life at the moment. I can't believe the first time I heard it I thought it was a huge disappointment.

I would have voted for First Boy In This Town. The backing vocals are insanely good.

Overnite, Oh Patti, First Boy and Boom There She Was are all terrific, but I can't be doing with the rest of it to be honest. It sounds almost as if he spent the two years after the huge success of Cupid & Psyche 85 partying his head off and forgot to write more than four songs.

This is sounding so lush and fun right now. Love the Beach Boys-y harmonies on "Lovesick"! They shouldn't work but...they're perfect.

*backing vocals not harmonies