I didn't quite get Green's voice, but the grooves were funky!
"Cupid & Psyche '85" was a great album.
David Gamson & Arif Mardin Producers.

I like Songs to Remember, but that's all I know by them.

"PERFECT WAY" was the jam!

Green Gartside & Miles Davis

Warner Bros had the audacity to have thme produce a Roger cut. I don't remember the album, I think it was the one with Everybody Get Up.

Should I be embarrassed that I have the CD in my car's changer right now?

Had the cassette for years before getting the CD version.

LOVE IT!!

That Perfect Way hooked me back in the 80s. Been a fan ever since.

Absolute a power drive make it so 2 keep me alive











Oooooh, love you....ooooh love you

I´m absolutely not familiar with that group and that type of music but I like what they did with Mos Def.

Great band or artist (Scritti starts and ends with Green Gartside). Cupid & Psyche is one of the best albums of the 80s. Provision wasn't near as bad as the critics made it out to be (they loved mentioning how astounding it was that Miles Davis was on that album and not in a good way). As much as I love the sound/production from those two specific albums, their whole catalog has some appeal. Green's voice and choice of direction for each phase of the band's career is what make them so interesting. From post-punk to reggae to pop/rnb to hip hop to alt pop... he's not happy sticking with one genre. That voice was/is amazing (he still sounds great). He's like a white-boy Smokey. If you haven't heard anything of his since the 80s, I suggest checking out 1999's Anomie & Bonhomie and 2006's White Bread Black Beer. Anomie has an alt pop/hip hop vibe to it (with Mos Def on several songs. Production on that one was handled by his bandmate from the 80s incarnation of Scritti, David Gamson. Wendy Melvoin plays on it as well. White Bread Black Beer is more of an intimate alt pop album (not something you'd hear on top 40 radio at all). It definitely shows how interesting a lyricist Green is. I believe it was up for the Mercury Prize in 06 (album of the year in the UK).

pzlyprk said:

Really? I only have the Cudid album and the single for "Boom.." featuring Roger..howeverthe B-side "A World Come Back To Life" is funky as all heaven.

His lyrics are very hot and I even rememebr his website has some more than thoughtful play on words and imagination. Just wish the music stayed funky as well.

i also had that on cassette tape and used to play it during history class in high school

it would get me high and it was all i needed

meanwhile all my friends were on their way to becoming alcoholics

The guitar riff in Small Talk...Whooooo Boy!!

If my memory serves me correctly I'm sure David Gamson Produced the Tony Lemans album.

Romeoblu said:

Cupid and Psyche 85 is a classic. I own this album I have to dig it out

cupid and psyche has to be one of the greatest synth pop albums ever.
its so good, and so well produced, its fucking insane!

yeah, the last album was excellent, check it out.
The guy's voice is exactly the same!!

he has an amazing and distinctive voice, one of a kind, once you hear one note, you know its him.

I picked up Cupid & Psyche 85 in a charity shop a few years back I think - recognised the name and it piqued my interest.

V.Good album...catchy stuff.

Moonbeam said:

I have Songs to Remember as well! I "Jacques Derrida", "A Slow Soul", "Asylums in Jerusalem", "The Sweetest Girl", "Lions After Slumber", and "Sex".

Cupid & Psyche '85 is better, IMO. Especially the CD version with the extra dubs!
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