Scritti Politti - Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin) (US version)

[@FreddieFreethinking]

The Album Cupid & Psyche Is One Of The Greatest Pop Albums Of The 1980s. Released In 1985 A Masterpiece. 👈

[@itsjonathangray]

AMEN! 🔥🔥🔥

[@captainsnarge2668]

Sir Elton John says it's THE best electronic music album of the 80s

[@itsjonathangray]

@@captainsnarge2668 And he is indeed correct! If Sir Elton John declared so, then it's definitely a fact. 💯💯💯

[@FreddieFreethinking]

Amen! 🙏

[@OneHope4Heaven]

ABSOLUTELY! Its quintessential 80's Sound captured the decade in one album!

[@pauladaniels-bc7rj]

Where are you now Green my would be future husband of my teenage years ❤❤❤❤❤❤😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@marcushinton772]

A total masterpiece which hasn't got the recognition it deserves

[@Conpauleonina]

Still listening to this album to this very day,never gets old for me!❤️❤️❤️

[@itsjonathangray]

Same here. I listen to it on a daily basis. Especially songs like Small Talk and Don't Work That Hard.

[@Conpauleonina]

@@itsjonathangray It’s extremely rare these days that an album is just loaded with the singles . Then the rest is filler but this album is definitely not that!

[@itsjonathangray]

@@Conpauleonina True! This album is the very epitome of the phrase "All Killer, No Filler". For me, this is the only album I've heard from the 1980s where I don't even have to skip a single song. Each song is a bloody masterpiece. It's a perfect album.

[@Conpauleonina]

@@itsjonathangray totally agree! Short story sold my car last year and left this and provision in the glove box . Contacted the buyer and he said “aye I’ll post them to you is that the guys who got caught out miming ?(milli vanilli) 🤦🤦🤦

[@itsjonathangray]

@@Conpauleonina Provision is also a perfect album. I barely even skip that one. From Boom! There She Was to Philosophy Now (and World Come Back To Life), that album is terrific too. Wait, that guy thought it was Milli Vanilli? What the heck??? Is there oxygen on that guy's home planet? 😂😂😂

[@AmosAmerica]

I love this song. Love Green and Scritti Politti. Love Arif Mardin. Some how I am just seeing this version of the video. For a US audience music video in 1985... its a missed opportunity 😞 It's even more abstract than the UK version and you can barely tell that Supermodel Veronica Webb is featured here. Wah!

[@ericorbit]

i was 14 and i loved this.

[@RBS_]

...Jean Baptiste DID the damn thing on this Video! ...this re-release came out early spring, 1986, around the same time Grace Jones "Love Is The Drug (1986 remix)" & Culture Club's "Move Away" came out, and I was OBSESSED! ...Fashion, style, lighting, ART...I'll always treasure those times, 'cause it gave me an early sense of FASHION....Veronica Webb would AGREE!! ...ha-HAAA!!

[@Ryan_the_Caffeinated]

One of the greatest albums ever made. I was 8 when it came out. Scritti Politti was a major part of the soundtrack of my youth. Bless you, Mr. Gartside!

[@mikeL65000]

Never knew this version existed. Thank you for giving us Americans this.

[@wadesmith666]

WOW! 1985- love it, great video by Jean Baptise

[@joycenestor8314]

Love this song This song and absolute are my favorite scritti politti songs❤🎉

[@alexbundy6463]

Rip The Queen of Soul. ARITHA FRANKLIN. 2U WITH LOVE. MONDAY MAY 13, 1985. CAMP FAIRVIEW LAKE NEWTON, NEW JERSEY.

[@KaraDK]

This is giving me LIFE!!! ❤️🥺❤️🥺 Cupid and Psyche 85-one of my favorite albums ever

[@olaoluwaafolayan6554]

One of mine too!

[@skeelo69]

Kara..you made me cry ... thank you 😍😍😍

[@laurencepignot5473]

I^was^in^London^in^85....so^good^!!

[@michaelfrazia4569]

one of the best pop albums ever

[@itsjonathangray]

FACTS!!!

[@paulconnelly4050]

Im glad I grew up in this era.

[@hollyw1521]

Straight facts.

[@angelamartin5003]

Scritti politti made timeless classics and are class.

[@sambucca1817]

First time I heard this was in 1984. I was 13 years old. Brilliant!

[@itsjonathangray]

I remember the day I heard this song for the very first time. It was three years ago during a night when I was studying the Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion theory and some calculus for two tests. I was exhausted, so I took to KZbin and suddenly this song was recommended to me. I played it... and the rest is history. My favorite album from the 80s. This song is another reason why. 💞

[@dateddelvings1695]

Similar story: I first heard this in college two years ago. My poor roommate was so sick (not covid) that he couldn't even stand to have the lights on, so while passing time in the dark, I checked out Scritti Politti due to comments on a Prefab Sprout video, and that's when I ended up listening to Wood Beez for two hours straight (and Absolute for another hour).

[@itsjonathangray]

@@dateddelvings1695 Wow! And what a night that must've been for you to discover the brilliance of Scritti Politti. I hope your roommate enjoyed it too and recovered afterwards. Wood Beez and Absolute are two songs that define just how good 80s music can get. ✊✊✊

[@dateddelvings1695]

@@itsjonathangray I actually only played it through headphones because he was just trying to get some sleep (he recovered and is doing fine now), but yeah, that was the moment I found my sound.

[@itsjonathangray]

@@dateddelvings1695 Even better! Almost all of the songs I download ate played via headphones and it's a much more individual experience. Plus, headphones allow us to hear the song for all that it is - instruments and all. I'm glad your friend recovered. Which music artists do you love most?

[@dateddelvings1695]

@@itsjonathangray Some of my other favorite artists are Prefab Sprout (especially From Langley Park to Memphis), Nik Kershaw (esp. Radio Musicola, my favorite album before C&P85), Level 42 (esp. World Machine), The Tubes (esp. The Completion Backwards Principle), and Toto (hard to choose between Toto Ⅳ and Kingdom of Desire).

[@hollyw1521]

I don't remember this video whatsoever and I was a huge MTV fanatic. I was probably too wrapped up with my Duran Duran obsession to notice. Definitely enjoying ALL scritti politti now from the super intense oldies through the most recent 👌!!

[@kellym2764]

Love seeing the videos in HD! 💚

[@itsjonathangray]

Same here! 💞

[@RachelBurnett-nj7nr]

I was 12 I played thus all day nostalgia ❤❤❤❤

[@davidbull7210]

Never knew about this version. Released two years after the first video, for the US market.

[@FreddieFreethinking]

Don't forget Arif Martin. 👈 Legendary Producer.

[@itsjonathangray]

Absolutely!

[@Eggmanrocks]

you a genius i love your music

[@itsjonathangray]

YAY!!! I'M SO PSYCHED FOR THIS!!! Get it? 😎

[@cassisbrook]

One of my timeless essential tracks! Classic! ❤️🙏🏽

[@itsjonathangray]

Indeed! It is an amazing song!

[@FreddieFreethinking]

A Music Masterpiece In Every Single Way. Period. 😊 💫

[@lmlawt26]

Pure genius! Takes me right back to my middle school years🎶🎵❤🎶🎵

[@tinkler4]

First time ever hearing this group was when this song was released, but had a different music video to this? I preferred the offical video, as it had more of a meaning to it and it was fun! I was so impressed, never heard anything like this before? There was a lot of electro pop groups around, but not anything that had that heavy funky bass line and Green’s gold vocals.

[@jaybee7876]

There are two videos ! So hopefully the UK Wood Beez video will follow soon, can't wait!

[@Eriko-q7o]

This album is always my favorite .

[@LanderosNYC]

The beautiful Veronica Webb is featured in this video as well as in Perfect Way.

[@jeancarlo3608]

COOL!

[@HoratioFitzbastard]

All time favourite of mine 👍

[@Jaren929]

Great song from Vice City FM on GTA: EFLC.

[@EdDevon]

Vivid memories of Top of the pops Dave Lee Travis & kid Jenson introducing this plus Haircut 💈 100 & many other favourites. Music meant something and crafted your musical soundtrack.

[@bonniemarshall3498]

Cupid and psyche great post punk record. Loved all the videos too.

[@lyndagarforth6155]

♡ Fabulous !!! ♡

[@Tre404]

Supermodel Veronica Webb appears in nearly every shot of this video. She also appeared in "Perfect Way."

[@jeromecabral192]

One of my favorites. Song was featured in GTA

[@jeannecateau6389]

Oh wooooow amazing 😻

[@bonniemarshall3498]

I have wondered what happened to this young man. Aretha Franklin is my fave female vocalist of all time. Those young people in the UK are so hip.Beez Pray like Aretha Franklin. Great line. 🎉❤❤❤

[@spartacofusaro6703]

Scritti politti

[@saltlakedood]

Love it thanks!

[@jonathancrippen1615]

Can anyone tell me who the male model is in this video? I know about Veronica Webb as this is the 2nd Scritti Politti video she appeared in.

[@hallson2917]

Aretha FRanklin Rest in Peace

[@littlenige]

How is this different to the European version? Maybe I detected a tiny bit less synth work in the chorus but really - seems identical to me.

[@rasheedlewis1]

It’s referring to the video. There’s another MV for this track

[@chamberslesley]

💃💃💃

[@Brickwall2468]

Is this going onto Itunes like the word girl did ?

[@ScrittiPolitti]

Yes - hopefully very soon

[@Brickwall2468]

@@ScrittiPolitti Thank you for Itunes

[@vannjunkin8041]

@@ScrittiPolitti thank you for uploading this 🤘🤘

[@ardyjeen6144]

Cupid & Psyche ‘85 is such a great album; there wasn’t really anything like SP at the time, and I always found the lyrics to be high artistry. Pray up and may God bless us all.

[@andy7617]

Guitarist Andy Atherton lives in the north west now

[@johnstjohn6658]

Veronica Webb?

[@ahhhlindsanityyy]

[@ajs41]

I like the way the US version had to be less "sexual" than the British/European version in order to get played on MTV.

[@hollyw1521]

The U.K version didn't seem that sexual. Maybe sitting on the bed was too sexy?? Go figure 🤔🤣

[@rahsaanthomas7030]

I don't get it. There was no sexual content, just a band playing instruments in their pajamas. A dude grabbing some grease, a man dancing, two people fencing, and a reenacting of the black power salute at Olympic games.

[@Lennon_Adventures]

But this is us version

[@magnumsextendedmixes6158]

UK version far better

[@tur74d56]

The UK video is so much better