{"id":416,"date":"2011-12-09T00:07:10","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T05:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=416"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:34:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T09:34:27","slug":"scritti-politti-pop-sublimity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=416","title":{"rendered":"Scritti Politti &#8211; pop sublimity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/07_2007\/scritti\/WordGirl.mp4\" target=\"_blank\"><img src='http:\/\/dvblog.org\/wp-content\/images\/wordgirl.jpg' alt='Word Girl'\/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/07_2007\/scritti\/WordGirl.mp4\" target=\"_blank\">The Word Girl (1985, 7.62MB, 3:14 min)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/07_2007\/scritti\/OhPatti.mp4\" target=\"_blank\"><img src='http:\/\/dvblog.org\/wp-content\/images\/ohpatti.jpg' alt='Oh Patti'\/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/07_2007\/scritti\/OhPatti.mp4\" target=\"_blank\">Oh Patti (1988, 20.3MB, 4:14 min)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two of the most perfect pop songs ever made, the first from<br \/>\n1985&#8217;s <em>Cupid &#038; Psyche<\/em> &#038; the second from 1988&#8217;s <em>Provision<\/em><br \/>\n(&#038; which features a trumpet solo from <b>Miles Davis<\/b> of  staggering<br \/>\neconomy &#038; otherworldly beauty).<br \/>\n<em>Pet Sounds<\/em> excepted, pop music just doesn&#8217;t come better.<br \/>\nThe vids aren&#8217;t just an adjunct &#8211; of course they have historical<br \/>\ninterest (that <b>weird<\/b> decade!), but there&#8217;s something fragile<br \/>\n&#038; haunting &#038; mysterious there which survives the occasional impossible<br \/>\nto overlook moment of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Naff\" target=\"_blank\">naff<\/a>ness.<br \/>\nWonderful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Word Girl (1985, 7.62MB, 3:14 min) Oh Patti (1988, 20.3MB, 4:14 min) Two of the most perfect pop songs ever made, the first from 1985&#8217;s Cupid &#038; Psyche &#038; the second from 1988&#8217;s Provision (&#038; which features a trumpet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=416\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,17,37,68,31,29,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-community","category-historical","category-music","category-music-video","category-performance","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11832,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/11832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}