The guy comes across are an intelligent and articulate creative chap with very little ego. God bless him where ever he is today. I blast his tracks on a daily basis !!!
Green is, a (genious ), with a immaculate Angelic voice , way way far Ahead of his time , he,s a shy person. Completely a God send , in the Eveloution. Long live Green , your the best .
Am happy to say Scritti Politti were great, really a big influence on a lot of musicians in the 80's and 90's, so far ahead of their time, lyrics were also very innovative. The songs still sound good to me whenever played, in any format. Knockout when played on the radio
A great interview and a truly unique artist. Green has had so many health issues over the years, but thankfully modern technology has meant he is now able to perform his complex recordings live (anxiety and stage fright issues permitting) and that inimitable voice is still there.
I love the music of Scritti Politti - I too blast his music out daily - And have been invited to numerous parties because of my collection of Mr Gartside's music ! ... so long as I bring them with me !!!
I want to really thank this guy bcos I have had a few goes at songwriting but I always found the melody was not sound nor the lyrics fit but he has said the tune usually comes first then the lyrics I tried that. Not only did I get a structurey sound melody but the lyrics clicked in str8 away. A big thanx 4 this clever guy here for indirectly helping my songwriting skills I wish I cld have him as my tutor. He shld try teaching music. I think he wld do a great job X
@@sarasen8147 which is so odd because I love 80s pop, but I can understand people feeling it sounds dated, but somehow green managed along with David gamson to hit on a sound that almost 40 years later still sounds fresh. I always loved perfect way( one of my favorite 80s songs) , but in the states that was all we heard from the band...cupid and psyche 85 is chock full of great tunes and I have looked up his other albums and like them too.
@@michaelfrazia4569 yes i think cupid and psyche 85 was one of the cleverest-it helped to get me through being a teenager. Do you know what the last album was by him?
Love his music, love his outlook. ...and most unusually for someone his age in the 80's, very little if any ego and pretension. Makes sense now, that "the meeja" didn't propel them to U2/Simple Minds mega stardom. Thankfully.
bvg83 LOL, I had a crush on the guy throughout my teens and twenties! He's kinda my type -- thin, pale, beautiful eyes, gorgeous cheekbones, clean-shaven (well, that's not the case anymore) -- and I loved Scritti Politti's music, so the crush made sense. But then I grew past having celebrity crushes and when I was in my early thirties and found out that Green had finally gotten married, I was thrilled beyond compare and congratulated him on the appropriate social media channels.
LOL, he's a member of my tribe! Or I'm a member of his, more like, considering he's markedly older than I am. Anyway, we're both neurotics who waffle on about things -- like I'm doing now, in fact. :)
Glad to stumble across this, reminds me of the massive crush I had on Green as a teenager. *blush* Annnd... I've just noticed he has the perfect ASMR voice. (His speaking voice, I mean, not singing.)
what he says overall is true I'm with him on this one why change for the sake of change originality is everything and that is what he should hold on to.
I so admire Green for being so open and far from self indulged - hes saying "I´m not a vocalist really and we use technology" etc. Normally artists hide behind technology and don´t dare to embrace it openly like Green does. Why should they!? But actually I´ve heard him "live" in concert and he sounded great. Dunno if it was tons of backtracking but anyhow, love Scritti Politti for what they were and are! Kudos.
I recently interviewed Green for the new Absolute compilation. He shed much light on many of the mysteries of the intangible Scritti Politti. Would love for you read it and tell me what you think. Visit examiner.com and search for Scritti Politti and you'll find it there. It's titled Scritti Politti's Green Gartside comes clean for compilation.
Celebrate New Life by Bebe and Cece Winas has the scritti politti sound. It doesn't list david gamson/scritti politti as the producer but I'm pretty sure it was.
Scritti and Mr Gartside made Perfect pop music ... that still appeals today ... it`s well documented that he`s one clever cookie , so that`s why he sounds the way he does even if he comes from Wales ... he is however very honest and very candid ..and he and his band are still gigging ...and i admire him for that .. :-)
Get yer hand away from yer mouth, Green!! I love the guy’s songs and I think in this interview he’s comes across like a well-educated, north London squat-punk in a yuppie disguise! “It’s a matter of taste, for which there’s no accounting” - haha. So was he taking the mickey writing Cupid and Psyche ‘85? His music might have been sugary, but his words never are . . .
Another classic case of an 80's style TV interview where you get a daft interviewer; whose been furished with a crap set of questions; by divy reasearchers; who if they have used their loaf (Norfolk for intelligence) could have really got an interesting interview out of Green. Instead of a question and answer style interview, had they just gone for a relaxed "chat in the pub" style conversation they would have got a broadcasting masterpiece. No wonder Green hated doing TV appearences. He did do "Pop Quiz" I think it was, but you could see he really couldn't be asked, and who could blame him.
@AlphaOrange75 Are you saying he looks better now or back then, at the time of the interview? IMO, there's no question he was a major babe back then, as for today, I'd offer him a makoever anytime. Always loved him though & always will. I fell in love with the band back in the 80s & that was before I even saw a picture. So, no one give me aggro here, ok? Besides, guys are the same with female artists.
@AlphaOrange75 Its ok he's aged (don't we all?) but I hate the goatee hair clothes.Don't suggest he goes back to his 80s look: it'd be ridiculous. No matter if we disagree on the look. We don't on the music & that matters. I recall his retirement after Provision. Like lots of 80s acts, never thought I'd hear of him again. Just learned of the later output & it'll be a HUGE task to find it! Don't buy online + my friends have no taste & I have same prob w later output of 1 other 80s bands Sucks
I can't understand why all these Britsh popstars all of a sudden got rid of their native accents... Gartside's meant to speak like Tom Jones, he sounds like a member of the Royal Family!!! How come??? If you come from, say, CWMBRAN, sound like this?????
Gianmaria Framarin I can still detect a little bit of Welsh to his accent. To me he favors Richard Burton's type of Welsh accent more than anything. He's also why I took a very brief stab at learning Welsh but utterly failed at it, though IDK if he even knows Welsh himself.
@@220773 no problem, life happens! I feel like Green Gartside in the '80s still spoke in that lyrical way with rolling, almost bouncing intonations that Welsh people famously speak, even if it was very subtle. I feel like through the years that faded away more, especially since I remember hearing interviews with him from ca. 2005-ish (whenever he got married) where he sounded pretty much English, but around this time you could still detect that Green was Welsh. And no, I have no idea why he's tried so hard over the years to suppress his accent, much like I have no idea why Morriseey has flattened his Mancunian accent, though I'm probably being a hypocrite here because I'm someone who's worked very hard at neutralizing whatever Texan accent one might detect in my speaking, with the exception of my use of the word "y'all".
Texan? Southern aceents are the best in the US. I hate the Great Lakes, it's too rude and unclassy... NYC is too stereotypical, west coast is TV induced, so I'll definitely go for the South. I'm a Scot, so I should be fit for catching up with 'keltic leaning accents', I'm not... If you're Welsh to me you'll first harden that 'l' sound and avoid 'liquid l' sounds... then you'll never say 'know' the way people from Oxford would... at last you'll lengthen the last syllable to infinite, as in 'level' = 'leh-vehl', which is typically Welsh. Anyway, it's not only Gartside who lost it completely... mostly people from Newcastle and the whole North-East tend to lose it, the list is too long: Sting, Bryan Ferry, Dave Stewart, Trevor Horn, Mark Knopfler, Alan White of Yes fame (R.I.P.), they're a multitude... Mancunians soften their accent but you can still tell they're from the North-West, I've heard 10cc's members, they've all softened their accents but you know they're from there. Scousers can't lose their accent as much as we Scots won't. No way. We can try hard, no way either. Paul McCartney still sounds Scouse, RIngo has Americanised it a wee bit but he's still there, Lennon spoke with that accent, only Harrison made it closer to an RP English accent. Brummies can be confused either with northerners or with southerners. It's the Midlands, they've got both influences. Of course if they're pure Brummies they'll sound like Ozzy. Londoners will never lose their accent, it's so gloryfied they won't even think about that.
Green's on the edge of a panic attack here - he's also a terrible liar, but then again, so are most people; Regardless ... I liked Provision - but after the nuclear fusion that was Cupid & Psyche, how the hell do you follow that up? It'd be like trying to recreate your first heroin trip. Green needed to recharge - as did the team - but they didn't quite get the chance, and Green knew Provision wasn't up to his incredible standards - so his confidence went out the window.
I liked politti a lot until I learned more about them. I still like some of the songs, but...marxists...don't play live. Not a far step from Milli vanilli
The guy comes across are an intelligent and articulate creative chap with very little ego.
God bless him where ever he is today. I blast his tracks on a daily basis !!!
kidbean1 Green Gartside will be here in Japan next month. :))
@@SugaryMimi did he turn up then?
Errico Malatesta yess I saw them last November in Tokyo. With that Same sweet voice and sound!
Seen him live last night in Manchester UK. Was brilliant by the way..
green says " I'm not a singer " yet he has one of my favorite all time voices in pop
Best stylistic singer of the 80s no question. Just amazing.
@@Ukedc259 he's ridiculous...the perfect pop voice.....such ear candy
Totally agree!! I say he is a real singer, can't imagine why he thinks he isn't 🤔
He’s just so modest. His music and vocals were phenomenal 😍😍😍😍
Such a class act is Green, intelligent, elegant. Gorgeous human being.
Too true 👏❤️
Green is, a (genious ), with a immaculate Angelic voice , way way far Ahead of his time , he,s a shy person. Completely a God send , in the Eveloution. Long live Green , your the best .
Love Green and Scritti. He's gorgeous and that voice, what can I say ❤️
A very different level of human. Cool as f.
He is so modest about his singing, but his voice is like no other.
There’s something about lady di with him , amazing voice
I was thinking the same.. its the shy look.
Beautiful hands too
A voice as smooth as nectar.
An instrument by itself. Fabulous.
Am happy to say Scritti Politti were great, really a big influence on a lot of musicians in the 80's and 90's, so far ahead of their time, lyrics were also very innovative. The songs still sound good to me whenever played, in any format. Knockout when played on the radio
A great interview and a truly unique artist. Green has had so many health issues over the years, but thankfully modern technology has meant he is now able to perform his complex recordings live (anxiety and stage fright issues permitting) and that inimitable voice is still there.
he should try gummies.
His voice his soothing.. and well spoken. With such a high pitch singing voice.
His singing voice is like a cute little bumblebee buzzing
I love the music of Scritti Politti - I too blast his music out daily - And have been invited to numerous parties because of my collection of Mr Gartside's music ! ... so long as I bring them with me !!!
hes sooo handsome and a gaugious voice,just heavenley,thank you
I want to really thank this guy bcos I have had a few goes at songwriting but I always found the melody was not sound nor the lyrics fit but he has said the tune usually comes first then the lyrics
I tried that. Not only did I get a structurey sound melody but the lyrics clicked in str8 away. A big thanx 4 this clever guy here for indirectly helping my songwriting skills
I wish I cld have him as my tutor. He shld try teaching music. I think he wld do a great job
X
Smart bloke! Reminds of Paul McCartney in the way he speaks. Very considered and articulate.
gorgeous looking- sounded great so who cares about anything else? I will keep playing scrittis stuff as long as I live...thanks for this interview...
I love this band..his music always put me in a good head space
@@michaelfrazia4569 exactly, well put. It has stood the test of time, never outdating, ....especially how it makes us feel (even today.)
@@sarasen8147 which is so odd because I love 80s pop, but I can understand people feeling it sounds dated, but somehow green managed along with David gamson to hit on a sound that almost 40 years later still sounds fresh. I always loved perfect way( one of my favorite 80s songs) , but in the states that was all we heard from the band...cupid and psyche 85 is chock full of great tunes and I have looked up his other albums and like them too.
@@michaelfrazia4569 yes i think cupid and psyche 85 was one of the cleverest-it helped to get me through being a teenager. Do you know what the last album was by him?
@@sarasen8147 animie@bonimie ?
Oh my, who is this beautiful man? I think I’m in love.
Love his music, love his outlook. ...and most unusually for someone his age in the 80's, very little if any ego and pretension. Makes sense now, that "the meeja" didn't propel them to U2/Simple Minds mega stardom. Thankfully.
I always knew U2 were a bunch pop pompous twits but was very sad to see Simple Minds go that way.
@@ivorbiggun710 Indeed, they became a modern-day Rolling Stones... Bland, corporate entities.
GOSH, I'M IN LOVE NOW
bvg83 LOL, I had a crush on the guy throughout my teens and twenties! He's kinda my type -- thin, pale, beautiful eyes, gorgeous cheekbones, clean-shaven (well, that's not the case anymore) -- and I loved Scritti Politti's music, so the crush made sense. But then I grew past having celebrity crushes and when I was in my early thirties and found out that Green had finally gotten married, I was thrilled beyond compare and congratulated him on the appropriate social media channels.
@@ladyi7609 i super duper have a crush on him ! and wow your whole comment put it into words haha ! he's so gorgeous....
Genius. Very charismatic too.
Absolute genius
The greatest voice of the 80s so shy about it lol
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Quite articulate for such an obviously anxiety ridden man
Watch the hands! Playing with his hands.
LOL, he's a member of my tribe! Or I'm a member of his, more like, considering he's markedly older than I am. Anyway, we're both neurotics who waffle on about things -- like I'm doing now, in fact. :)
Glad to stumble across this, reminds me of the massive crush I had on Green as a teenager. *blush* Annnd... I've just noticed he has the perfect ASMR voice. (His speaking voice, I mean, not singing.)
Everything he says about the trials of performing live remind me of the same reasons Steely Dan retreated to the studio for literally decades.
great interview thanks a lot
WOW! The first "new" Scritti interview here in a couple of years! I am loving this.... thank you so much for uploading! Green is the man.
"Perfect Way" was Genius.
what he says overall is true I'm with him on this one why change for the sake of change originality is everything and that is what he should hold on to.
I so admire Green for being so open and far from self indulged - hes saying "I´m not a vocalist really and we use technology" etc. Normally artists hide behind technology and don´t dare to embrace it openly like Green does. Why should they!? But actually I´ve heard him "live" in concert and he sounded great. Dunno if it was tons of backtracking but anyhow, love Scritti Politti for what they were and are! Kudos.
Indeed! The chords underneath the "Apart from everyone" bridge part etc - just incredible.
glad you said it... if thought so since the album came out his sense of melody is amazing
Great music! Big fan of them. They sounded different!
@bandsreunited Thx so much for that info! Can't wait to read it.
I recently interviewed Green for the new Absolute compilation. He shed much light on many of the mysteries of the intangible Scritti Politti. Would love for you read it and tell me what you think. Visit examiner.com and search for Scritti Politti and you'll find it there. It's titled Scritti Politti's Green Gartside comes clean for compilation.
SCRITTI THOSE BAND MEMBERS YOU GOT TOGETHER WERE GENIUS' OF RHYTHM, MAYBE THE BEST IN THE WORLD
I'm in love
Celebrate New Life by Bebe and Cece Winas has the scritti politti sound. It doesn't list david gamson/scritti politti as the producer but I'm pretty sure it was.
Hate or like the fact of the matter is you have produced fine music in the past!!!
Not a real singer ? He was great at singing along with all his music
Hugh Cornwell 0:00-0:01 FTW!
Favorite music of all time
Scritti and Mr Gartside made Perfect pop music ... that still appeals today ... it`s well documented that he`s one clever cookie , so that`s why he sounds the way he does even if he comes from Wales ... he is however very honest and very candid ..and he and his band are still gigging ...and i admire him for that .. :-)
cotton candy for the mind
Get yer hand away from yer mouth, Green!! I love the guy’s songs and I think in this interview he’s comes across like a well-educated, north London squat-punk in a yuppie disguise! “It’s a matter of taste, for which there’s no accounting” - haha. So was he taking the mickey writing Cupid and Psyche ‘85? His music might have been sugary, but his words never are . . .
Another classic case of an 80's style TV interview where you get a daft interviewer; whose been furished with a crap set of questions; by divy reasearchers; who if they have used their loaf (Norfolk for intelligence) could have really got an interesting interview out of Green. Instead of a question and answer style interview, had they just gone for a relaxed "chat in the pub" style conversation they would have got a broadcasting masterpiece. No wonder Green hated doing TV appearences. He did do "Pop Quiz" I think it was, but you could see he really couldn't be asked, and who could blame him.
What would the 80 be with out scritti politti
It's the Christopher Walken look! :-) Love Green forever, man.
check out....duet with Manics..Between The Clock And The Bed
Why in the hell did they leave the videos off of this edited RUclips piece? Copyright issues, perhaps?
@AlphaOrange75 Are you saying he looks better now or back then, at the time of the interview? IMO, there's no question he was a major babe back then, as for today, I'd offer him a makoever anytime.
Always loved him though & always will.
I fell in love with the band back in the 80s & that was before I even saw a picture.
So, no one give me aggro here, ok? Besides, guys are the same with female artists.
Who else could take the word "Girl" and turn it into a song title!
@AlphaOrange75 Its ok he's aged (don't we all?) but I hate the goatee hair clothes.Don't suggest he goes back to his 80s look: it'd be ridiculous.
No matter if we disagree on the look. We don't on the music & that matters.
I recall his retirement after Provision. Like lots of 80s acts, never thought I'd hear of him again. Just learned of the later output & it'll be a HUGE task to find it! Don't buy online + my friends have no taste & I have same prob w later output of 1 other 80s bands Sucks
7:35 - There was talk of you doing a tour I seem to remember a couple of years ago, what happened, did you chicken out?
Steady on!! :-o
I used work with his sister.
cerebral musician
Green may be brilliant & talented as hell - but he's not a good liar.
all these guys went to art college at the time
He has a stack of A levels. You can tell
His left eye looks darker than the other? Is there a Bowie feature going on here?
lady di's doupleganger
LOL! Yeah... I see it. The mannerisms, and even some features.
aaahahahahahahahaaaa!!!!! agreed!
Who the heck is the woman interviewing him? Trying to figure that out.
She's good, doesn't mind the direct question
i had a teacher that looked a lot like mr garthside.
Like this version of him? Is he single?
@@ladyi7609 i don't think so, that was about 35 years ago.
Strikes me as very insecure and full of self doubt
Oh baby I understand ! - I think ?
INTROVERT AF HAHAHAH
6,15 pure Diana in 1995
hair jiggle @1:30
A+
that made me giggle like a 5-year-old thank you so much for this comment
god now i cant stop watching for his hair jiggles ! this brightened up my day
Ironic that he's one of my favorite singers of all time, yet he claims he's not a singer.
incredible how he matches the young jacques lacan's hairstyle, shirt, posture. haha
I can't understand why all these Britsh popstars all of a sudden got rid of their native accents... Gartside's meant to speak like Tom Jones, he sounds like a member of the Royal Family!!! How come??? If you come from, say, CWMBRAN, sound like this?????
Gianmaria Framarin I can still detect a little bit of Welsh to his accent. To me he favors Richard Burton's type of Welsh accent more than anything. He's also why I took a very brief stab at learning Welsh but utterly failed at it, though IDK if he even knows Welsh himself.
@@ladyi7609 I'd like you to point out what you feel close to a Welsh accent, lad. Sorry for being so late in replying!!!
@@220773 no problem, life happens! I feel like Green Gartside in the '80s still spoke in that lyrical way with rolling, almost bouncing intonations that Welsh people famously speak, even if it was very subtle. I feel like through the years that faded away more, especially since I remember hearing interviews with him from ca. 2005-ish (whenever he got married) where he sounded pretty much English, but around this time you could still detect that Green was Welsh. And no, I have no idea why he's tried so hard over the years to suppress his accent, much like I have no idea why Morriseey has flattened his Mancunian accent, though I'm probably being a hypocrite here because I'm someone who's worked very hard at neutralizing whatever Texan accent one might detect in my speaking, with the exception of my use of the word "y'all".
Texan? Southern aceents are the best in the US.
I hate the Great Lakes, it's too rude and unclassy... NYC is too stereotypical, west coast is TV induced, so I'll definitely go for the South.
I'm a Scot, so I should be fit for catching up with 'keltic leaning accents', I'm not...
If you're Welsh to me you'll first harden that 'l' sound and avoid 'liquid l' sounds... then you'll never say 'know' the way people from Oxford would... at last you'll lengthen the last syllable to infinite, as in 'level' = 'leh-vehl', which is typically Welsh.
Anyway, it's not only Gartside who lost it completely... mostly people from Newcastle and the whole North-East tend to lose it, the list is too long: Sting, Bryan Ferry, Dave Stewart, Trevor Horn, Mark Knopfler, Alan White of Yes fame (R.I.P.), they're a multitude...
Mancunians soften their accent but you can still tell they're from the North-West, I've heard 10cc's members, they've all softened their accents but you know they're from there.
Scousers can't lose their accent as much as we Scots won't. No way. We can try hard, no way either. Paul McCartney still sounds Scouse, RIngo has Americanised it a wee bit but he's still there, Lennon spoke with that accent, only Harrison made it closer to an RP English accent.
Brummies can be confused either with northerners or with southerners. It's the Midlands, they've got both influences. Of course if they're pure Brummies they'll sound like Ozzy.
Londoners will never lose their accent, it's so gloryfied they won't even think about that.
Don't worry yourself
He’s as pretty as his songs. Not a real singer? Oh, and LeBron is not a real basketball player. Green, you’re a wonderful singer!
Has anyone met his African cousin? He's called Brown Gartside
I really don't think I need enlightenment and I especially don't think I need any RUclipsr to tell me I need enlightenment, but thanks anyway. : )
Green's on the edge of a panic attack here - he's also a terrible liar, but then again, so are most people; Regardless ...
I liked Provision - but after the nuclear fusion that was Cupid & Psyche, how the hell do you follow that up? It'd be like trying to recreate your first heroin trip.
Green needed to recharge - as did the team - but they didn't quite get the chance, and Green knew Provision wasn't up to his incredible standards - so his confidence went out the window.
CusterFlux haha No he’s not, he is completely bored and politely enduring her questions.
The most clever lyricist doesn’t like clever lyrics?
@pmsan29 I'm not accusing Green of anything but people on drugz can't sit still they have to keep moving. Seen it @ clubz
Dude’s obviously an introvert, uncomfortable with being interviewed.
I liked politti a lot until I learned more about them.
I still like some of the songs, but...marxists...don't play live.
Not a far step from Milli vanilli
sir_NICKS_allot_ment I heard he eventually eased off on his Marxist notions. To what extent I don't know
How embarrassing for him.
He must cringe when watching this.
why?