Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche 85
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Artist: Scritti PolittiEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Word Girl (Flesh and Blood) - Scritti Politti, Green, C.
- Small Talk
- Absolute
- A Little Knowledge
- Don't Work That Hard
- Perfect Way
- Lover to Fall
- Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)
- Hypnotize
- Flesh & Blood
- Absolute
- Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)
- Hypnotize
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Free Music Review: The Perfect CD?
Hit: 5 Stars
I'm a child of the 80s and thus the Asschowder set list is loaded with classic 80s nuggets. One that we love to play when Burns is feeling it on the keyboards is Perfect Way, which may be the perfect song. Scritti Politti may be the perfect band. I remember getting Cupid and Psyche in 1985. I was 13 at the time and rolling like a full fledged champion. I was dating the hottest girl in 8th grade, I could throw a football 32 yards and my hair was parted on the left side, life was quite delish, then came this album. Yes, album. I bought it on vinyl and now own 2 copies of the CD in case I lose one.
I dig several tracks off this thing like Absolute and Wood Beez, but I think you've got to go with the gold standard as the greatest track of the 80s in perfect way. I got in a huge argument with my friend last week on whether C'est La Vie by Robbie Nevil or Perfect Way was a better track. I ended up getting suspended from work after beating him for even bringing up the idea that there was a better track than Perfect Way. It's Way perfect!!! That right there was awesome. The keyboard solo in that song is the finest ever. It's as if the Bible should have a book after Revelation called Scritti Politti. It would sound like this (Read this in a voice where you try to sound like god):
And there will be a great album, greater than anything ears have ever heard, it shall be called Cupid and Psyche '85. There will be a song on that album called Perfect Way, it shall be as such, perfect in every way. There shall be a keyboard solo in the last third of that song so perfect it shall be as if it were played by angels crossed with Burns.
And so it is done. Amen.
Cupid & Psyche 85 Poster
Around the time of Cupid & Psyche 85's release, Scritti Politti mastermind Green Gartside was fond of citing deconstructionist theory as an influence on his subversion of boy-meets-girl lyrics. He might just as well have named Elvis Costello, given the trenchant nature of bubbly-on-the-surface pop tunes such as the U.S. Top 20 single "Perfect Way" ("You want a margin of error for two") and "The Word Girl" ("The girl was never real / She stands for your abuse"). With veteran Aretha/Dusty/Bee Gees cohort Arif Mardin on board for several cuts, and contributions by pop subversives such as Fred Maher and Robert Quine, Cupid remains a classic of hyperintelligent post-new-wave pop funk. --Rickey WrightAlternative Rock Music CDs
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