The Excellent 80's: Scritti Politti

Friday, May 14, 2010

#68

Aside from the hair and the clothes, you wouldn't even know today's video was from the 80's. The quick still shots, the hand-held shots, the different angles, the mix of color and black and white really makes for a pretty good video from a band that seemed to disappear as quickly as this song came onto the scene. Actually, it appears they have survived over the years with various lineups, but this is the only song I know from them and would recognize to this day. The British band is called Scritti Politti and the song at #68 today is "Perfect Way."

#68 Perfect Way
by Scritti Politti

Lyrics | Scritti Politti lyrics - Perfect Way lyrics

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

What's A Scritti Politti?

Well, as far as I know they were an interesting band.

To fill you with a little knowledge, according to Wiki... The name Scritti Politti was chosen as a homage to the Italian Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci: The name is generally understood to refer to Gramsci's political writings (although the correct spelling in Italian would have produced "Scritti Politici"). Green changed it to "Scritti Politti" as he thought it sounded more rock and roll, like "Tutti Frutti".

Now don't you feel more enlightened?

Here's Scritti Politti and a cool little ditty from 1985... "Perfect Way"...