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jannerboy

Post subject: Scritti Polliti

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 8:39 pm

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Green Gartside is back...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1682443,00.html

I was actually at this gig by accident, cos' I went to see The Shortwave Set who were headlining.

I had no idea it was Green in the support band until I saw this article, although I think at the time it sounded a bit like him, but it was actually quite rubbish, and amateur rubbish too - I really did think it was a bunch of born again christians trying out a new recruitment strategy (there were lots of songs about Jesus). May be that explains why the audience were so ecstatic.

And this from the man that wrote "Jacques Derrida" & "Skank Bloc Bologna". Oh dear. But then again, he did do that single with Shabba Ranks too.

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Bovine Juice

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Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:31 pm

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I remember when I first heard The Sweetest Girl it was one of those hair on back of neck prickling moments. Or summat. Think it was on an NME tape (C80?)

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Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 10:26 pm

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C81

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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:08 am

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indeed. I've linked to the Wikipedia article. Worth a read as as all the music related ones I have read on the site.

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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:30 pm

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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 6:40 pm

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Post subject: Re: Scritti Polliti

Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 9:56 pm

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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:05 pm

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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:11 pm

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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:44 pm

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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 1:15 pm

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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 12:02 pm

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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 8:19 pm

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Captain Howdy

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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 8:42 pm

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Just as "'The Sweetest Girl'" (unconvincing faux-soul with a structure clearly dreampt up by a blind man with an EtchOSketch) was the beginning of the end for Scritti (actually, it was rather close to the end of the end), so "Whip It" (clunking satire - though not so clunking that mainstream America couldn't take it at face value - laced with some of the worst jokes in the Devo cannon) was a bleak day for the Akron pranksters.

Bet they don't cover "Slap Yer Mammy" or "Penetration In The Centrefold" or even "Gut Feeling" which contains my fave Devo couplet:

Centred round a long time ago on your ability to torment
When you took the tongs of love and stripped away my garment.

The tongs of love?!

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