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Myfavorite album of all time is Scritti Politti’s Cupid & Psyche 85, and my favorite band of all time is ScrittiPolitti. Because of that, I’ve wanted to write about Scritti Politti’s music(and the man behind the band, Green Gartside) for a very long time now, but forsome reason, I found that I could never quite bring myself to do so.

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Read and write album reviews for Cupid & Psyche 85 - Scritti Politti on AllMusic. Cupid & Psyche 85 is the second album by British/American pop group Scritti Politti, released in the UK on Virgin Records on 10 June 1985. The release continued frontman Green Gartside's embrace.

It’s likemy love for Scritti Politti’s music runs so deep that my mind was unwilling orunable to process that admiration in writing, or to make my affection for theirmusic a more public declaration. So rather than writing the kind of detailed postthat I usually write, I figured I’ll try instead to write about finding myselfunable to write about Scritti Politti, which will really end up being a meditationon how I came to love the kind of music that I do, along with a few of thereasons why I love it. Ifirst heard Scritti Politti’s Cupid &Psyche 85 thirty years ago now in 1986, at the age of thirteen, when I was on vacation with myfamily at a hotel in Florida, on a beach somewhere near St. Alsostaying at our hotel were two long-haired sisters, about three or four yearsolder than I was, who kept Cupid &Psyche 85 and one other album on constant rotation while sunning themselvesbeside the hotel swimming pool. (The other album was Robbie Nevil’s 1986self-titled debut, another record that I still love today.). Fromthat very first listen — I think the first track I heard on Cupid & Psyche 85 was either“Perfect Way” or “Hypnotize” — I was totally mesmerized by the songs, by theirdeft beats, sophisticated lyrics, and a sonic sweetness that lingered somewherebetween musical generations. I’d been raised on late ’70s and early ’80s popradio in Cincinnati, Ohio, but the songs I heard those two sisters playingpoolside on their boombox changed everything for me.

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The world in that sunlitFlorida air tilted and shimmered a bit, then shifted gradually back into focus. Thishappened at a very particular moment in the history of popular music. Theplayful sounds of synthesizers had recently begun to liberate the idea ofwho could make music professionally and how.

The same young people who’ddiscovered that loophole then mastered what exactly they could do with thosesounds and ventured to see just how far they could carry them. Also, the technologicalinnovation of digitizing music and distributing it widely on compact discs hadstarted to completely revolutionize the music industry and change its gamerules for good. Ithelped that Green Gartside, the founding force (and voice) of Scritti Politti,was quietly taking stock of all this from across the Atlantic. Sure, the ’80spop music scene in central London was already off and running, but Green was inlove with the innovations of American R&B, a love that explains the reggae-influencedslinkiness of “The Word Girl,” the laidback propulsion of “Absolute,” and theblazing danceclub-on-fire velocity of “Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin).” Bythe time he arrived at 1988’s equally fantastic album Provision, both Miles Davis and Roger Troutman would also be in themix on a pair of unforgettable collaborations.

Idon’t want to dwell on Green’s go-rounds with the major-label music business orhis ensuing semi-reclusiveness, because he’s stayed around, as smart as ever, andmade five albums the way that he wanted to make them. (I have a good feelingthat a sixth album might be on the way soon, too.) I do want to dwell for justa moment, however, on one of my favorite live concert memories ever, when I gotto see Scritti Politti perform here in Boston ten years ago, in November of2006. I never thought that would happen, especially not after two decades ofloving a band who’d remained so low profile. But when a shy Welsh white guy canhave a dance floor full of black women over 50 getting down to the bass beatsof “Wood Beez,” you know that he’s doing something right.

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