Scritti Politti: Absolute (Live in Tokyo 2017)

[@graciestylistik6954]

The brilliant scritti!!❤❤❤😊

[@glenrichardson6396]

Bloody hell. I've just looked Green up and he's 64! 64 years old!! I would have knocked 20 years off of that.

[@MissTootle]

That beautiful voice is still exactly the same as it was in the eighties ❤️

[@hejsanhejda1921]

I was thinking the same 😀

[@gman7159]

Cupid and psyche 85. One of the best albums of the 80s. They just never got the recognition they deserved

[@miked3168]

I was there. Took a bullet train from Kyoto to see this

[@johnking7997]

Another brilliant 80s classic songs, by the master Green respect xx

[@bvg83]

I can close my eyes and still see you in the 80s with that voice!! 😉❤️

[@hejsanhejda1921]

Toujours aussi mélodique et la voix est toujours aussi limpide 🤩😍😘

[@tuyoshisawada1996]

ハウスミュージックのGTSさんがトリビュートされて以来、久々に聞きました！当時、私はカセットテープのアルバムを購入してウォークマンで聞いていたアブソリュート！懐かしいです～♪(´▽｀)

[@bendennis7730]

Incredible voice in the ‘80s let alone now! Huge respect to Green Gartside - good grief we were so lucky to have been born and grown up in the 70’s and 80’s!

[@ネコさち-v3f]

懐かしい🎵来日されてたんですね✨ 大好きなアルバムでした❗

[@anthonyduffy2440]

So cool to see Green and Scritti Politti still banging out those classics i grew up with in the 80s. Love it.

[@Underhills]

I'm punching holes in the air. So great to see this group still active, they played a large role in my 80's madness.

[@mrcrazyjonpresents4312]

i think you will find Green Gartside is the only member left of the original 4

[@marmalade144]

ここに居ました❤ Cupid & psyche85の年に生まれました〜ていう若者と盛り上がったのが思い出です😂

[@korosuke2]

来たの知らんかった。行きたかったなあ。

[@lukeyas78rtw]

Totally was not expecting them to sound exactly like they do on their recordings. Rocks!

[@willritter4076]

are you high? The studio recording was a million times better than this.

[@mereej8924]

listening in april 2020 in the midst of corona virus lockdown hell and this is making me feel happy and sad at the same time- man i wish i was back in the 80s...! Scritti politti made me so happy then and they are doing it still...

[@LatinoTropico]

@@mereej8924 you've hit it on the head. I too miss the 80s so bad. Where did it all go so wrong? Life was easier, simple and fun back then. Today, it's a cespit of ego and competition with everyone and everything.

[@YT-tr8pp]

グリーンの変わらない美声で涙が出ました。 このビルボードライブ東京に居たかった・・・

[@edreid7872]

Would roller skate the streets of NYC listening to Cupid&Psyche '85.... without a doubt, one of the best experiences of my entire life..

[@rhythmdroid]

Sounds like a special time! My best was riding my biking the streets of Tokyo listening to "Eternity" by Capsule in around 2009. Check it out, you might like it, 80s vibe on steroids!

[@edreid7872]

@@rhythmdroid I checked out Eternity...and I love it...Thanks

[@garysmith8073]

This sounds so good . When I saw them perform they didn't do this .I met him and he was so DELIGHTFUL.

[@mikeytesh9613]

Awwwww I love Green Gartside xx

[@senorpasso8670]

To present that voice to the public back in the macho 80's would have been quite brave. It's a beautiful type of semi-falsetto & very original.

[@bendennis7730]

That is exactly how I feel about Green Gartside it was genuinely brave for the time - excellent comment my friend 👍

[@farmyardflavours]

fantastic !!

[@shaynelowther8893]

Still looks and sounds fantastic

[@thehardestwordpodcast7411]

Complex song to do live.

[@DerekNewtonKeswick]

Great live performance. I just watched a video from 1988 where said they don’t perform live. I guess technology has come so far since then. Cupid & Psyche was ahead of its time and this song in particular is a real gem.

[@LatinoTropico]

My all time favourite SP song. Thanks for sharing

[@gregorythorley8212]

Didn't pay them much mind in the 80's....my loss still sound exactly the same what a great vocal sound. Green hasn't lost a single note or harmony. Just bought tickets for Nocturn at Blenheim Palace next June 2019. Playing alongside Tears for Fears. Can't wait.

[@tmmnskw4522]

ありがとうございます。観に行きました。まだ余韻が残ってます。最高でした。

[@shokokusaka925]

行きたかったー！ 次日本に来たら絶対行きます！

[@pab777]

one of my all time fab bands

[@helenbosworth627]

Great song

[@djhotdogboy]

Great performance! So glad to see and hear this!

[@leophillips7641]

Superb artist

[@collectoreffectors5558]

Best live clip of this song I've seen. The person running sound nailed it.

[@kimleitch544]

Best music Ever

[@arnauddairaine2220]

bravo,super captation,wish i was there...

[@atreyuprincipalh4043]

this artist has been a great inspiration to me true my life...thank you for posting this!

[@72soul]

Absolutely!

[@westcoasttrap]

1985年にこの曲の入ってたアルバムが出てたわけだから、それから32年後にいらしたわけですか・・・ キャリア40年で5枚のアルバム数ってのもまたすごい。

[@mrvibe9957]

Damn Greene sounds really good--Glad he's out there-so freakin talented

[@ronaldvanveen2433]

Amazing!

[@lesmartinsings]

Live yes, but a few tapes going on here (guitar and certain keyboards) as i suppose its hard to reproduce the original totally live. So pleased they are out there, one of my all time fave bands.

[@mbrew3244]

There's quite a fair bit of trickery going on

[@johnlux4836]

Completely fake band exept for Green's voice....

[@ScrittiSparkle]

thank you for this,wonderful xxx

[@tubagee]

I met him in Boston . Greenis a very nice guy . He actua lly sings like that . They were good . Wish they would have played more from the Cupid Psyche Album.

[@SS-ch9zh]

絶対ガッカリするだろうなと覚悟して観たけれど、まったくの杞憂でした。 素晴らしい！ ボコーダー（？）無しでもあの部分イケるんですね。

[@renedarwin]

Thanks, Clarissa!

[@ScrittiSparkle]

i cant help it,green is so handsome

[@banana1974]

うわぁ行きたかった…声変わってない！

[@dariangoyer6636]

I like bravo Nippon it's friends of Roma ,W il Duce !!!!!

[@末吉剛-u8y]

えっ！東京来たんですか？行きたかったなあ！知ってたら絶対行ってた！

[@mjfangirlgal45]

❤❤❤

[@simonpage9201]

Speaks with a normal male voice and pulls off this little child's singing voice. Don't know how he does it lol. Loved this tune

[@bandfromtheband9445]

Where is their Crowd??? This is nuts!! Louie Beeson should have been touring with them and making their stage sound Absolutely amazing and Outstanding! Rest in Peace, my Lover!

[@saoyama9865]

歌声変わらない〜

[@pinkberry50]

...how does his voice stay the same!?

[@DaredemoSoloPiano]

absolute.

[@barneymiller5488]

Same thought exactly.

[@KilsBkPower]

Coca-Cola ;)

[@dimi7171]

It’s called falsetto. It’s not his real voice.

[@pinkberry50]

@@dimi7171 Your comment is moronic.

[@stephendennis8739]

Here in 2020 12th July

[@rachelar]

Where's that bass synth tho?

[@johnlux4836]

On tape..

[@LatinoTropico]

Shame the drummer in the original video clip was not there as well.

[@amr7159]

Neither was David Gamson keyboard player.

[@blomegoog]

notice japanese audience seems to understand landscape on their phones. compare to western audiences. why? Except the iphone guy. is that the issue? the kind of phone you use?

[@Kay117jp]

えー、来日しての？ 知らなかった。 行きたかった。涙

[@Gazerdensplat]

Just got tickets to see them with Tears For Fears next year.

[@dantonkin91]

Oh wow, that would be my dream concert experience. Where and when is that show playing.

[@Gazerdensplat]

@@dantonkin91 Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire next June.

[@dimi7171]

Listen People. The way he is singing, called falsetto. Google it and then you have your answer why he still sounds the same. It’s not his real voice.

[@scandalousblue]

why have you been commenting this on every single live scritti video... green himself has said that the partial falsetto was used in order to create an artificial rnb femininity. however, it ended up becoming the way of singing he found most comfortable and it stuck. it sounds brilliant too - most men's falsetto is a lot breathier and less sweet sounding, along with it being hard to maintain this voice through the years. he is a talented singer nonetheless - so why not let people enjoy a mans singing voice?

[@thadschaeffer2563]

The singer still sounds about the same as he did decades ago.

[@askovmand]

The drummer is a bit sloppy on those e-drums (not easy to play). But Green nails it pretty good. Great albums. Love🎸

[@gyadewa2507]

Eh bravi I giapponesi gli scritti politti versions album sono N 1 con I depeche mode e I pm dawn

[@Pinakij]

It makes remember when I was skinny...now I'm a 🐷

[@peternorth6782]

Its funny...A guy who kept reclouse for so long now playing in a private sushi bar for dollars....i guess being a true artist didnt pay.

[@c.k.neubert1325]

It's a very respected, expensive jazz club in the heart of Tokyo though.

[@peternorth6782]

@@c.k.neubert1325 Thats my point.

[@willritter4076]

to say that this performance fails to live up to the studio version of Absolute would be charitable... no wonder Scritti never went out on tour back in the day. It would have shattered the mystique. Green's voice is still very good but the rest of it just sounds flat.

[@lbbork]

Amazing!

[@gyadewa2507]

Eh bravi I giapponesi gli scritti politti versions album sono N 1 con I depeche mode e I pm dawn