Being Green

I know it's ridiculous to still be talking about this, but the Scritti Politti record from 2005 refuses to leave my brain or my iPod. I listen to the old stuff, too, but only a song here and a song there. White Bread Black Beer goes the distance and then sticks around to do line drills after practice (that was a basketball metaphor).

Anyway, the only reason it's a problem is that almost everyone I know thinks of them as school bus pop from 1985, period. I will continue to nurse my fetish for both primary and secondary SP materials. Just found (and printed) this endlessly readable 40-page Green Gartside interview conducted by Simon Reynolds for his amazing Rip It Up and Start Again book. Then this good-ass 1999 BBC documentary (featuring Jacques Derrida!!!) on Scritti's comeback rock w/rap LP Anomie and Bonhomie (also good-ass), from the excellent www.bibbly-o-tek.com. Green has a dubious extra wide goatee here, but his story is sound sound sound.

And then of course there's this ridiculous nonsense, which is Scritti-heavy, perhaps prohibitively, but I loves it. And clearly, in this department, I'm inspired by Green's self-pacing.