Songs to Remember

Album by Scritti Politti ‧ 1982
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Songs to Remember is the debut studio album by the British pop band Scritti Politti. The album's recording had to be delayed for nine months due to frontman Green Gartside's collapse and illness, and then after completion its release was delayed for a further year at the band's request. It was eventually released on 3 September 1982 by Rough Trade Records, peaking at number 12 on the UK Albums Chart. The album was heavily influenced by disco, reggae, and soul music, and marked the beginning of Scritti Politti's move from their underground DIY post-punk sound towards commercial pop music.

British music magazine Record Mirror placed it at number 14 in their critics' list of the best albums of the 1980s, and it was included in journalist Garry Mulholland's book Fear of Music: The 261 Greatest Albums Since Punk and Disco (2006) where he described the record as "a unique and modestly epic fusion of pop, reggae, funk, soul, jazz and lyrics submerged in the deep end of political philosophy."

Songs (9)

1.
Asylums In Jerusalem
03:15
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2.
A Slow Soul
03:17
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3.
Jacques Derrida
05:00
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4.
Lions After Slumber
06:11
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5.
Faithless
04:15
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6.
Sex
04:23
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7.
Rock-a-boy Blue
05:52
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8.
Gettin' Havin' And Holdin'
05:17
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9.
The Sweetest Girl
06:18
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