Biography

Essentially the alias for singer-songwriter Green Gartside, Scritti Politti are one of the most successful and artistically adventurous bands to emerge from England's post-punk scene of the early 1980s. Transitioning from agit-prop punk beginnings in the late '70s to a pure pop ensemble and later an unabashedly commercial, yet conceptually intriguing R&B/dance band, Gartside and the Scritti Politti name have remained delightfully enigmatic since first appearing. Scritti Politti's critically acclaimed 2006 album WHITE AND BLACK BEER--recorded entirely by Gartside--reflects a more sunny, R&B-inflected classic pop sound.

Top Tracks

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• Absolute

• Asylums In Jerusalem

• Best Thing Ever

• Bibbly-o-tek

• Boom! There She Was

• Boom! There She Was [us Mix]

• Brushed With Oil, Dusted With Powder

• Confidence

• Doubt Beat

• Dr. Abernathy

• E Eleventh Nuts

• Hypnotize

• Hypnotize [short Version]

• Jacques Derrida

• Messthetics

• Oh Patti

• Perfect Way

• Skank Bloc Bologna

• Snow In Sun

• The "sweetest Girl"

• The Boom Boom Bap

• The Sweetest Girl

• The World You Understand (is Over+over+over)

• Umm

• Wood Beez (pray Like Aretha Franklin)

Discography

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• White Bread Black Beer

  Rough Trade

  2006

• Anomie & Bonhomie

  Virgin

  1999

• Provision

  Warner Bros.

  1988

• Cupid & Psyche 85

  Warner Bros.

  1985