Talk:Scritti Politti

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I've done a substantial cleanup job organizing and revising without adding much new information. I made an effort to convert the article to UK spelling and punctuation thruout and to wikify more terms (altho I'm unsure of the UK term "squat"). I excised a fair amount of gushing, but it still reads more like a music magazine retrospective than an encyclopedia entry. Also, the article needs a better description of Gartside's health problems and the band's subsequent breakup. And it really needs a picture. --Tysto 02:11, 2005 August 2 (UTC)

I noticed that the opening had become complicated again. The first sentence should explain what its subject is very simply for those who have never heard of it. Save the inspiration, origin, and evolution for later sentences. --Tysto 13:49, 2005 August 23 (UTC)

Green's "health problems" as I understand it consisted of a series of anxiety attacks, occasion so severe that he thought he was having a heart attack. Tom Morley, who is a friend of a friend, has also said that Green was prone to fly into rages.

"Squat" is quite a universal term in English, so no problems there.

I would suggest you amend "previously hidden reggae influence", because the band's first single "skank bloc bologna" was strongly reggae influenced, "skank" being used in the Jamaican sense of dancing to reggae (and much of the melody being lifted from common reggae tunes of the era).

You could e-mail Rough Trade and ask them for a pic, I'm sure they will be happy to oblige.

regards Chris