The Slits - Spend Spend Spend

Video clip from the 1979 album CUT

[@k.c.r.5974]

There is literally nothing like The Slits. 💜!

[@sexobscura]

because it's Siouxsie and the Banshees

[@herchelleonwood7463]

the Raincoats ?

[@k.c.r.5974]

@@herchelleonwood7463 Stop it! Get some help.

[@bartonted]

@@herchelleonwood7463 Yep

[@bartonted]

X-ray Spex were pretty out there musically (especially with a sax). But yeah the Slits were mad. wrong guitar, wrong voice, wrong beat. BUT a FUCKING GOOD BAND.

[@MrMusicbyMartin]

Hats off to the Slits and Dennis Bovell for this work of genius, lyrics way ahead of their time, music from Mars, and Ari’s incredible vocal pyrotechnics.

[@modulblok-e3168]

Rest in space ari 🌱🌿🌷⚘🦋

[@bartonted]

Really, an all band called the SLITS , during the punk era? They are funny and brill musicians, so there??!!

[@nimascolari1508]

Great lyrics. They're just strange. Strange is weired and weired is WONDERFUL.

[@stevebowness9435]

Genius

[@sexobscura]

Crazy

[@epzik8]

The Slits, the Pop Group, Rip Rig + Panic and PiL made the best "we are not a rock band" statements of their time.

[@rubymee1]

R.I.P Ari! ❤

[@craigplanting8804]

I bet Bjork listened to this when she was a little kid.

[@foxybox123]

Best band ever. Cut= the best album ever. The end

[@ExternalInputs]

A statement repeated under virtually any music video on KZbin, only the band and album/song name changes.

[@MPWEST83]

Fuhkin-a! Where've these gals been my whole life?!

[@Deedee-ee1sg]

Ari such a true one-off original and unique singer, R.I.P. ARI! BRILLIANT video, and great band THE SLITS! They would certainly liven up the current dull music scene!

[@gabrielponcerojas3297]

adoro a las slits! son de lo mejor.

[@neilwilson5785]

Me too, adoro les Slits, cool.

[@sexobscura]

Están bien en el mejor de los casos

[@kevinwhitaker119]

Yeah R.I.P ARI ...I LOVE THE SLITS I got into them in 1978 after hearing typical girl's.. I was also getting into PUNK and SKA, REGGAE, in fact I'm still a punk today 🏴😊💣💥🔥🔥 I like how they mixed PUNK ROCK AND REGGAE ... along with THE RUTS, THE CLASH, and later the SPECIALS who had the punk attitude, and mixed SKA AND PUNK , even now THE SELECTER ,, quite often play at PUNK gigs I still love the SLITS and their music 🍺😊👍🇧🇴🇧🇴☮️☯️🏴🏴🅰️🏴🏴🇧🇴🇧🇴...🏴😊💣💥🔥🔥

[@spencerharding4287]

10/10 song

[@MrSausagess]

Jane’s Addiction to a certain extent ripped this video off.

[@stevebowness9435]

Great point

[@mortalitysfatal3229]

So they ‘stole it’ 🤔

[@InFamousProductions]

to a certain extent , they ripped of everyone.

[@royalnass1029]

agree but I still like Been Caught Stealing

[@misterspookyman]

Visually as well as audio.

[@pablozewoppa]

There's so much I love about this. But those unhappy men😂

[@JODOROWSKY51]

I feel like I can hear some Beefheart in this...

[@MikesVideoMadness]

Pretty sure Viv Albertine the guitarist had some very eclectic tastes, in her biography she talks about the album Safe As Milk so Beefheart definitely was in there.

[@robh9079]

The good captain is said to have complemented Viv on her hat!

[@cclewes7373]

Terrific

[@SeaGullArt]

SPEND - IF YOU CAN - TO STIMULATE LIFE ( THE ESSENCE OF MODERN ECONOMIC THOUGHT )

[@manossparakis8117]

so good

[@jeanparmesan1438]

amazing

[@richardroyle9123]

they were 16-17 when they wrote and performed this; Britain Had Talent'

[@AnonAnonAnon]

Ari's singing style, reminds me of her father-in-law, John Lydon.

[@Jakegothicsnake]

John Lydon was Ari Up's stepfather. He married her mother.

[@AnonAnonAnon]

Yeah, realised my mistake when I posted. But thank you for pointing it put.

[@KalypsoKent]

I love Palmolive's drumming

[@pipergc3469]

i’m pretty sure it’s budgie drumming on this track and the rest of the album. palmolive is also great though, you can hear her in the peel session or any other early recording. she’s also the drummer for the raincoats second album and she’s great there too.

[@peterbrown6434]

Superb!!!

[@anewbugmusic]

Psychedelic.

[@ambientswamp1498]

Who else is here because they saw stevie T. Talk about this band?

[@CH0MSKYH0NK]

what clip is that?!

[@LunaLakshmi]

I wonder if Bjork stole a bit of her style from the slits?

[@JohnnyWrong]

Inspiration isn't theft.

[@jojojones2714]

right you r their matey!

[@ntrbeing]

Hmmm? Everything is theft and I love Bjork, even know her ex husband but this track sounds like 3/4's of everything the sugarcubes and kukl recorded ... which I love

[@TheMenProject1]

Nope. Listen to K.U.K.L.

[@ntrbeing]

@@TheMenProject1 I do. Esp the crass release. Kukl are what? Say.... 7 years after the slits

[@jonasabry9099]

I always wondered if some of the Slits music had any influence on Sublime like Fishbone with the fusion of Punk and Reggae.

[@jesserichardson4900]

You would think so, they sure don't get enough praise though do they

[@jonasabry9099]

@@jesserichardson4900 I also love the Raincoats and Neneh Cherry. They don't get the attention they deserve. Neneh Cherry even preformed with the Slits and X Ray Spex and is the sister of Eagel Eye Cherry. Off subject though.

[@jonasabry9099]

@@jesserichardson4900 And your going to laugh but, when I first heard Starships by Nicki Minaj and she was doing her fake cockney accent, I was thinking who is this lady trying to sound like the singer from the Slits?

[@jesserichardson4900]

@@jonasabry9099 now I'm going to have to check that song out!

[@jesserichardson4900]

@@jonasabry9099 now I'm going to have to check out that Nicki Minaj song

[@josephine3877]

I wish I was alive back then :((

[@drstevie]

So GOOD.

[@kyllew420]

This is too awesome:)

[@Stewartchampion]

Its all back to front....or is it really meant to be the other way around ... it sounds right to me

[@jonnygrowlately]

@ :25 ... is a dude the deception was real in the 80s

[@shepmathe]

Budgie from Souxie n the Banshee's, w/played drums on this record...dude.

[@alexkx8599]

Sounds like Bjork singing.

[@genebcolon]

noone is talking that banarama prob wanted to be like them….

[@Khultan]

❤💯🎶🎶🎶🎶🌅

[@lizrdgolfer]

History and music by THE SLITS and information on the New Wave and Post Punk period can be found at one of the best groups of Facebook. Where it’s about the music and the history and nothing else matters. facebook.com/groups/NewWaveAndPostPunkOnly/

[@lukedrnittis7614]

Frank zappa liked the slits

[@user-ub6tm1bt3z]

Trific tripods

[@gS0yeUE0udz7d]

Darks

[@Maliceuk]

I look through windows lol

[@mattthompson9395]

2:34 hahhaha

[@guteshoerenistwichtig5823]

Drei am Freitag @guteshoerenistwichtig: guteshoerenistwichtig.wordpress.com/2018/02/23/drei-am-freitag-the-good-the-bad-and-the-queen-the-slits-kate-bush/ like/follow: facebook.com/guteshoerenistwichtig/ Thanks! ;-)

[@sexobscura]

*Viv Nicholson's fave song*

[@anthonyjoserosario4654]

someone need to sample that beginning piano intro in a rap beat

[@lisazoria2709]

Ew no.

[@sweetpotato246]

no

[@randyatlantis2388]

Please don't.

[@lordsuccubus4701]

Anthony Jose Rosario no just no

[@fukcudave2686]

All of these people said no please do it

[@philipjohnson4175]

What a load of crap!

[@paulgriffiths1062]

Awful. Not for me.

[@mk91iw45]

Hawful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@emilianorivera9780]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!