Songs to Remember

Songs to Remember
Studio album by
Scritti Politti
Released3 September 1982 (1982-09-03)
Recordedlate 1980–August 1981
Studio
Genre
Length43:40
LabelRough Trade
Producer
Scritti Politti chronology
4 A-Sides
(1979) 		Songs to Remember
(1982) 		Cupid & Psyche 85
(1985)
Singles from Songs to Remember
  1. "The "Sweetest Girl""
    Released: 9 October 1981
  2. "Faithless"
    Released: 16 April 1982
  3. "Asylums in Jerusalem"/"Jacques Derrida"
    Released: 23 July 1982

Songs to Remember is the debut studio album by the British pop band Scritti Politti. The album's recording had to be delayed for nine months due to frontman Green Gartside's collapse and illness, and then after completion its release was delayed for a further year at the band's request. It was eventually released on 3 September 1982 by Rough Trade Records,[1] peaking at number 12 on the UK Albums Chart.[2] The album was heavily influenced by disco, reggae, and soul music, and marked the beginning of Scritti Politti's move from their underground DIY post-punk sound towards commercial pop music.

British music magazine Record Mirror placed it at number 14 in their critics' list of the best albums of the 1980s,[3] and it was included in journalist Garry Mulholland's book Fear of Music: The 261 Greatest Albums Since Punk and Disco (2006) where he described the record as "a unique and modestly epic fusion of pop, reggae, funk, soul, jazz and lyrics submerged in the deep end of political philosophy."[4]

  1. ^ "New Albums from Imagination, Who". Melody Maker. 28 August 1982. p. 5.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference UK chart was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "The Top 100 Albums of the Decade". Record Mirror. 25 November 1989. pp. 28–29.
  4. ^ Mulholland, Garry (2006). Fear of Music: The 261 Greatest Albums Since Punk and Disco. London, England: Orion Books. pp. 134–135. ISBN 978-0-7528-6831-8.