Scritti Politti

I’m going through a big post-punk phase right now, set off by Simon Reynolds’ exhaustively researched ‘Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984‘. I’ve got all the Joy Division and Throbbing Gristle(!) I can handle (though of anyone has a copy of ‘The Second Annual Report’ I can borrow, I would thank you), but I can not for the life of me track down any old Scritti Politti recordings before they went big time. I’m talking about the rock-band-as-art-collective socialist let-us-nationalise-the-banks Scritti. Pre-’Perfect Way’, in other words.

Does anyone know if the following singles are still in print?:

‘Skank Bloc Bologna’ (1978)
‘2nd Peel Session’ (1979)
‘4 A-Sides’ (1979)

Water on mars!

NASA – NASA Spacecraft Confirms Martian Water, Mission Extended:

“We have water,” said William Boynton of the University of Arizona, lead scientist for the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer, or TEGA. “We’ve seen evidence for this water ice before in observations by the Mars Odyssey orbiter and in disappearing chunks observed by Phoenix last month, but this is the first time Martian water has been touched and tasted.”

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