Scritti Politti - Rough Trade (BBC4) video free download

djbethell

Rough Trades great loss!

Heather Ferreira

@CusterFlux: oh no, not QUITE so impossible to copy. Watch what I'm about to post. I've cut an original single as tribute to Green Gartside, Fred Maher and David Gamson... and oh yes you CAN replicate the Scritti Politti sound... but it beat the hell out of me to do it... I wouldn't advise it to anybody sane who would like to keep his sanity!

rebeccam9

Where did the woman drummer go? II thought she looked great in the band

SacredandBound

Just found this. Thanks for posting. Songs to Remember is still one of the best albums of all time.

The Perfumed Garden

Scritti Politti - Rough Trade (BBC4)Interview on their early years, Rough Trade and indipendent labels providing bands's ways into charts in the early 80s

Brooke

In America their most popular song,and still is, Perfect Way. They still play it on the radio every day.

canturgan

Everyone's a communist when they're a teenager. Except Richard Branson.

ignatzz1

wheres the footage of them playing from??

CusterFlux

@jonsilence Pretty much true ... though don't forget David Gamson for much of that, Cupid & Psyche '85 was so far ahead of its time that it remained nearly impossible to copy for at least a decade after it was released: I can only imagine the tension between Green & Gamson after being couped up for the better part of a year, non-stop, debating every last detail ... while making that record. Usually that ends in disaster, in their case, lucky for us, the results where incredible.

dogetcetera

@jrmetmoi That's Mayo Thompson from Red Crayola. He was involved with Rough Trade, and produced a lot of the bands on the label at that time. Scritti Politti toured with Red Crayola in the early days. I saw them both at the Acklam Hall in 1978 or 1979, great bands the pair of them, but early Scritti were astonishing.

jezzyby47

@jrmetmoi - can't remember now, some American A&R man or a lawyer i guess, i just went over the original tape about a week ago too, it will get shown again on BBC4, keep looking out for it.

jrmetmoi

@jezzyby47 Who's the guy in this with the American accent?

jonsilence

Wood Beez was the true beginning of Green/Scritti discovering his own genius. I was living in England (relocated from California) when it was released as a single, and it sonically towered above everything around it at the time. And to this day it is still in a class by itself.

oogie11

@feroxcvpiditas Me too...BBC4 or BBC2 should show this again :)

liberty isbest

thx for posting, wow

unfolk

This is a brilliant clip: from marxist indie-pop to intelligent chart-pop! ... and back to indie music with Early & White Bread Black Beer, both recommended!

Nealo81

No idea how SP started -- thanks for posting -- learned a lot . . .

jezzyby47

@feroxcvpiditas This is the entire scritti politti bit, there are 3 parts and if you watch you will see the linking pieces as they merge. The whole programme was about an hour long and had nearly every rough trade act on there. Hopefully BBC4 will show it again, keep a look out for it. There is somewhere on the BBC4 website where you can ask for shows to be shown again, email them and see.

Scritti Politti

Scritti Politti - Wood Beez (HQ)