Name: Absolute: The Best of Scritti Politti *
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Absolute

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Album: Absolute: The Best of Scritti Politti *
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin) (7" Version)	More Info...	0:03
2)	Absolute	More Info...	0:04
3)	The Word Girl (Flesh and Blood)	More Info...	0:03
4)	Perfect Way	More Info...	0:04
5)	Hypnotize (Short Version)	More Info...	0:03
6)	Oh Patti (Don't Feel Sorry for Loverboy)	More Info...	0:04
7)	Boom! There She Was	More Info...	0:04
8)	Umm	More Info...	0:04
9)	Tinseltown to the Boogiedown	More Info...	0:04
10)	Die Alone	More Info...	0:04
11)	Brushed With Oil, Dusted With Power	More Info...	0:06
12)	Skank Bloc Bologna	More Info...	0:06
13)	The Sweetest Girl	More Info...	0:06
14)	Asylums in Jerusalem	More Info...	0:03
15)	Jacques Derrida	More Info...	0:05
16)	She's a Woman (Little Way Different 7")	More Info...	0:03
17)	A Day Late and a Dollar Short	More Info...	0:03
18)	A Place We Both Belong	More Info...	0:03

Album: Absolute: The Best of Scritti Politti *
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin) (7" Version)	More Info...	0:03
2)	Absolute	More Info...	0:04
3)	The Word Girl (Flesh and Blood)	More Info...	0:03
4)	Perfect Way	More Info...	0:04
5)	Hypnotize (Short Version)	More Info...	0:03
6)	Oh Patti (Don't Feel Sorry for Loverboy)	More Info...	0:04
7)	Boom! There She Was	More Info...	0:04
8)	Umm	More Info...	0:04
9)	Tinseltown to the Boogiedown	More Info...	0:04
10)	Die Alone	More Info...	0:04
11)	Brushed With Oil, Dusted With Power	More Info...	0:06
12)	Skank Bloc Bologna	More Info...	0:06
13)	The Sweetest Girl	More Info...	0:06
14)	Asylums in Jerusalem	More Info...	0:03
15)	Jacques Derrida	More Info...	0:05
16)	She's a Woman (Little Way Different 7")	More Info...	0:03
17)	A Day Late and a Dollar Short	More Info...	0:03
18)	A Place We Both Belong	More Info...	0:03

Performer Notes

Liner Note Author: Simon Reynolds.
There is no easy and clean way to anthologize Scritti Politti. Within a couple years of surfacing, Green Gartside and his shifting array of associates switched from scrawny and inscrutable post-punk to pristine and R&B-laced sophisti-pop. Scritti vanished for a decade, reappeared in the late `90s with a tentative misfire, and then, after a seven-year absence, came back again with an understated, vaguely singer/songwriter-y gem. Absolute focuses on the Virgin albums -- 1985's Cupid & Psyche (a masterpiece), 1988's Provision, and 1999's Anomie & Bonhomie -- and frontloads the material from them, which takes up over two-thirds of the disc. After that, it gets a bit random, with post-punk era highlight "Skank Bloc Bologna," three highlights from 1982's Songs to Remember, the 1991 non-album single "She's a Woman" (a Beatles cover, featuring Shabba Ranks), and two new burbling electro-pop numbers. It's neither a straightforward singles comp nor a thorough collection of highlights, but it's somewhere in between and makes for a representative introduction. ~ Andy Kellman

Professional Reviews

Uncut (magazine) (p.91) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "The funk, when it happens, is clinical, and made more antiseptic by the sweet breeze of Green's voice; never better than on 'The Sweetest Girl'..."