Love for Scritti Politti "Songs to Remember" and, a poll too, why not?

hoo boy

i think i have to vote "Gettin' Havin' & Holdin'" but really.

only track i couldn't vote for wd be "Lions" I think.

"Rock-A-Boy Blue" cd probly stand to lose a bit of the fannying about at the end

i voted "sweetest" without even thinking

lions is possibly my favourite, i'm shocked!

"sweetest..." lost its "" for the album, any ideas why?

i want it, i want it, i want that too
b-baby, b-baby, it's up to you.

It's got to be The Sweetest Girl but I really like every track. I much prefer this album to Cupid & Psyche 85.

"Jacques Der-RID-da"

"The Sweetest Girl". Never quite gotten the grip on this album to the same extent at the next two. Sure, it has its moments, but Green got so much better on "Cupid & Psyche".

TSG for me as well. a lot of the others sound pretty forced.

"sweetest" is my fav but i wanted "faithless" to have a vote, so for poll purposes, that.

Tears of joy.

yeah everything here needs a vote. Central as this album is to my personal canon I feel like nearly every track is flawed in some way, albeit the flaws are minor quibbles more than off-set by something genius happening. wd argue that the next 3 albums are more fully realised and perfect, but this album is his best lyrical dissection of love and music and other stuff that all probably belongs in quotation marks.

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17 votes... do we know something everyone else doesn't or are we just old?

I think a poll for Cupid & Psyche 85 would have got more votes. I really love this album but White Bread Black Beer is my overall favourite.

heh i wonder how many votes this poll would have gotten ten years ago. i know in 2001 i hadn't heard anything aside from "perfect way" as a child.

well, august 2001. weirdly, i first heard the early singles in late fall/early winter 2001.

Same here. Thanks to The Big Orange SPIN Book, I did manage to learn the existence of "Jacques Derrida" and found a copy on Napster in 2000 or 2001.

Oh no, me, I'm a Scritti fan from way back - I got C&P85 when it came out - I would have been 14 I guess? I loved it to death, still do. Enduring, crystalline production.

Yeah, talk to someone that bought "Skank bloc bologna" back in the day...

Most underrated song on this album: "A Slow Soul"? "Sex"?

Probably the latter for the jouissance derived from the driving "SEX SEX SEX" mantra of the background singers. That said, there's something about "yooou stuck in North London" on the former.