Archives – 2001 – December – 05  

Just to counter the Scrit-Bit below
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— 5 Dec 2001 Tom Comment

Just to counter the Scrit-Bit below, heres Kevin Pearce on them, from Tangents. He tears into Songs To Remember, Scritti Politti’s just-reissued 1982 album, essentially accusing it of a kind of treachery, and asserts that history has judged wha[…]

End Of An Era!
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— 5 Dec 2001 Tom Comment

End Of An Era! “You know how the Beatles broke off, they all did their solo projects and they came back together and they were even stronger.”[…]

“The sound of Scritti Politti 1978 to 1985 is essentially the sound of Green Gartside getting better in bed.”
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— 5 Dec 2001 Tom Comment

“The sound of Scritti Politti 1978 to 1985 is essentially the sound of Green Gartside getting better in bed.”
Evidence:
1978-1979: lived in horrible communal squat. Would probably have presented you with itemised bill (sorry delineation o[…]

THE ESSEX GREEN MING
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— 5 Dec 2001 Sarah Comment

THE ESSEX GREEN MING
I can SMELL it coming and it honks like a bastard. It smells a little bit like a very old pair of corduroy flares bought from what those crazy Americans call a thrift store. They’ve seen a lot of action and the bottom is ra[…]

HAIL AND FAREWELL
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— 5 Dec 2001 Ned Raggett Comment

HAIL AND FAREWELL — whaddaya know, the new boss is the old boss. Tom Ewing has got that Fire in His Soul again and will be returning to edit Freaky Trigger as of, well, right now. So hurrah and thanks to him, and I’m sure he’ll do[…]

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