Brilliant! Never heard this but got the Songs to remember album around 1980 and it's been a top 5 for me ever since. This is so from the same era - instant hit for me. Thanks so much for posting 😍
I don't think I've ever loved a band so much in the '70s and hated as much in the '80s as Scritti Politti. The images in this video are so evocative of a time. Being done without the expectation of much material reward, we were nearly all broke back then. Money just wasn't flushing around like it would become later in the '80s.
Awesome video, great find. The drummer at 0:42 had hair unseen back in 1979 and the guy in the record store at 3:11 his hair and clothes look more like 2019 instead of 1979.
Green's Mum: "you could have tidied up dear before you let the film crew in." Only joking, great find. I was Only about 10 or so when this came out but my older brothers were John Peel fans and exposed me to music like Scritti Politti, Joy Division etc
Apparently those boys' squat had no bathroom. I hope they had regular strip washes in the kitchen sink to keep themselves clean especially if the film crew were comingto see them jam!
The beautiful voice remains. It stands out over all the noise.
Happy to find this in 2024, who's with me?
Scritti Politti has always been my favorite.
Just adding my voice to the others saying I'm so glad there's a video for this I've NEVER seen... Fantastic early Scritti song..
Brilliant! Never heard this but got the Songs to remember album around 1980 and it's been a top 5 for me ever since. This is so from the same era - instant hit for me. Thanks so much for posting 😍
GENIUSES !!! BACK THEN AND NOW 🪄🪄❤❤👌👌💕💕😍😍☎☎
Where the hell did this come from? It's a most incredible find!
Never in a million years would I expect this footage to exist
WOW.... have owned this record pretty much since it first came out & have never seen this before...
Yep. 2024, same thing.
I don't think I've ever loved a band so much in the '70s and hated as much in the '80s as Scritti Politti.
The images in this video are so evocative of a time. Being done without the expectation of much material reward, we were nearly all broke back then. Money just wasn't flushing around like it would become later in the '80s.
Awesome video, great find. The drummer at 0:42 had hair unseen back in 1979 and the guy in the record store at 3:11 his hair and clothes look more like 2019 instead of 1979.
Incredible footage fantastic track off a classic 12 inch Ep
I don't have this EP anymore, but other tracks are great too, (Confidence, etc.), if you can find them.
My God I had such a HUGE crush on Green back then. Not too mention they were such a great band. So different from a lot of the others.
Fantastic piece of footage!
At 3:12 you can see the first Vic Godard album; it didn't come out until 1980.
Same with Raincoats “Odyshape”, which was 1981. Must’ve been made over the course of a couple years.
Adore ❤
Lovely to see the old Carol Street squat'n'squalor again x
did you live there?
@@chevgr not in their house but a couple of doors up, which was just as grungy 😂
Wow. Memories.
Syncopated rhythm is off the charts cool.
Green's Mum: "you could have tidied up dear before you let the film crew in."
Only joking, great find. I was Only about 10 or so when this came out but my older brothers were John Peel fans and exposed me to music like Scritti Politti, Joy Division etc
Fun fact: the house they squatted in had no actual bathroom. It was a legitimate health hazard, and contributed to Green Gartside being hospitalized.
The house is probably worth several million now.
Fantastic
Absolute, I come to you
Ha! Brilliant Denis - the whole story.
ufff great
Wow!!!!!
This is the Scritti Politti i loved. Not the pop stuff
Pure perfection 💘
Yes! So, what else exists?
Holy shit!
Apparently those boys' squat had no bathroom. I hope they had regular strip washes in the kitchen sink to keep themselves clean especially if the film crew were comingto see them jam!
Imagine the smell. The dubious sanitation in the squat was one of the contributing factors to Green's breakdown.
Am I listening to two songs at the same time?
Nah. Three
Wow!
omg i love this
❤❤❤❤❤❤
貴重な映像が出たな。。。
extra-ordinary
Fuck Yes
Absolute
no wonder Green felt out of his depth when entering Miles' place ten years later
HOLY SHIT
The band was pretty fucked up on various pills at this time (and every time, TBH). You can see it in Green's face at 1:09.
Yep. You’d have to be on speed to play guitar like that.
much prefer the early stuff
bought a copy just like featured at the end of the vid
was everyone isnpired by talking heads this timeline?
...and Joy Division.
"Capitalism is the most barbaric, of all religions"
"The means of production, the production of meaning"
"Being your own boss means being a boss"
Capitalism is not the problem. Its human greed.
Even socialism has a 1%. in fact, its designed, to protect the 1% from the rest
Why does this sound like Split Enz and Sophie Ellis Bextor got drunk and kind of political? In a good way.
wtf is this
Amazing isn't it.
Spoiler alert: they sold out and got better and smarter.
Holy shit!