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Žanr: Džez, Elektronska muzika, Fank i Soul, Pop
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Studio album by Scritti Politti
Released 6 June 1988[1]
Recorded 1987–1988
Studio
Minot Sound
Atlantic (New York)
Hit Factory (New York)
Right Track (New York)
Sorcerer Sound (New York)
Britannia Row (London)
AIR (London)
Townhouse (London)
Sarm West (London)
Swan Yard (London)
Genre
Dance-popelectro-funksophisti-popsynth-popblue-eyed soulpop
Length 39:33 (LP)
53:14 (CD)
Label
Virgin (UK)Warner Bros. (US)
Producer
Green GartsideDavid Gamson (except `Best Thing Ever`, co-produced with John Potoker)
Scritti Politti chronology
Cupid & Psyche 85
(1985) Provision
(1988) Anomie & Bonhomie
(1999)

Provision is the third studio album by the British pop band Scritti Politti, released in the UK on 6 June 1988 by Virgin Records.

The album was the band`s second top ten hit in the UK, peaking at No. 8 on the UK Albums Chart, and was certified Gold by the BPI for 100,000 copies shipped.[5] Three singles were taken from the album, but only `Oh Patti (Don`t Feel Sorry for Loverboy)` reached the UK Top 40, peaking at No. 13 in May 1988. `First Boy in This Town (Lovesick)` peaked at No. 63 in August 1988, and `Boom! There She Was` peaked at No. 55 in the UK in November 1988, but reached No. 12 on the US Billboard Dance Club Songs chart, and No. 53 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.

The album was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.

Background
The track `Oh Patti (Don`t Feel Sorry for Loverboy)` features Miles Davis on trumpet; Davis`s 1986 album Tutu had included a cover of Scritti Politti`s `Perfect Way` from Cupid & Psyche 85. (A longer version of Davis`s trumpet solo can be heard in the extended mix of `Oh Patti`.) The tracks `Boom! There She Was` and `Sugar and Spice` feature Roger Troutman on talk box vocals.[6] The track `Best Thing Ever` was previously released on the soundtrack of the 1987 film Who`s That Girl. In an interview with David Gamson, he stated that `Provision took an incredibly long time to make. The initial drum tracks were all recorded with the Synclavier and at that point the Synclav`s sequencer was extremely primitive. Lots of inputing kick and snare hits via SMPTE numbers rather than beats and bars. Ultimately, I think we kinda lost the forest for the trees on that album.`

Green Gartside`s health was deteriorating before and after Provision was recorded. Gartside recalled in 2011, `Promoting Cupid & Psyche knocked chunks out of my already fragile psyche... I was in a poor state, physically and psychologically. I was living in various hotels and apartments in America. Cocaine was briefly a problem. After promoting Provision, that`s when the complete collapse happened.`[7]

Interviewed in 2021, Gartside recalled,

I don`t think I was the full fucking shilling when Provision was made and I certainly wasn`t afterwards... I crawled from my hospital bed to film `Boom! There She Was` and returned to hospital when it was finished... I was really out of it. Management were very upset and angry about having to film it, because I was too ill to get through it. We had one attempt to get it right. I`d wanted to present Scritti as a party like Morris Day And The Time`s performances. It was probably how we`d have presented ourselves if we`d done any concerts at the time, but my health was so precarious by then. I went straight back to hospital and from there to live the life of a hermit in the Welsh countryside for a good few years.`[8]

After Provision, Gartside would release a couple of new Scritti Politti singles in 1991, and also contribute vocals to the BEF album Music of Quality and Distinction - Volume Two, but would not release another Scritti Politti album for eleven years (1999`s Anomie & Bonhomie).

All songs written by Green Gartside and David Gamson, except where noted.

Side one
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. `Boom! There She Was` 5:00
2. `Overnite` 4:44
3. `First Boy in This Town (Lovesick)` 4:23
4. `All That We Are` 3:31
5. `Best Thing Ever` Gartside, Gamson, John Potoker 3:51
Side two
No. Title Length
6. `Oh Patti (Don`t Feel Sorry for Loverboy)` 4:21
7. `Bam Salute` 4:33
8. `Sugar and Spice` 4:11
9. `Philosophy Now` 4:53
CD and cassette bonus tracks
No. Title Length
10. `Oh Patti (Extended)` 6:32
11. `Boom! There She Was (Dub)` 7:15
A song recorded during the Provision sessions, `World Come Back to Life`, was released as the B-side of the `First Boy In This Town (Lovesick)` single but was never included on any edition of the Provision album.
`Oh Patti (Don`t Feel Sorry for Loverboy)` and the shorter US mix of `Boom! There She Was` were later included in the compilation album Absolute: The Best of Scritti Politti (2011).
Personnel
Scritti Politti

Green Gartside – vocals, guitars (3), vocal arrangements (3)
David Gamson – keyboards, drum programming, arrangements
Fred Maher – drums, drum programming, timbales (5)
Additional personnel

John Mahoney – Synclavier programming
Raymond Niznik – Synclavier programming
Jason Miles – additional keyboard programming (5)
Dann Huff – guitars (1, 4, 6-9)
Roger Troutman – talk box (1, 8)
Nick Moroch – guitars (5)
Marcus Miller – bass guitar (1, 7-9)
Bashiri Johnson – percussion (5, 7-9), timbales (7, 9), congas (9)
Mitch Corn – horns (5)
Joe Mennonna – horns (5)
Andy Snitzer – saxophones (7, 9)
Michael Davis – trombone (7, 9)
Miles Davis – trumpet (6)
Chris Botti – trumpet (7, 9)
Kent Smith – trumpet (7, 9)
Tawatha Agee – backing vocals (1, 2, 5, 7, 8)
B.J. Nelson – backing vocals (1-5, 7-9)
Fonzi Thornton – backing vocals (1-4, 7, 8)
Rory Dodd – backing vocals (3, 4, 6, 9)
Eric Troyer – backing vocals (3, 4, 6, 9), vocal arrangements (3, 6)
Diva Gray – backing vocals (5)
Yogi Lee – backing vocals (5)
Mark Stevens – backing vocals (5)
Production
David Gamson – producer
Green Gartside – producer, sleeve design
John Potoker – co-producer (5), engineer (5), drum sample recording
Ray Bardani – engineer (1-4, 6-9), mixing (1-3, 5, 7, 8)
Mike Shipley – mixing (4, 6)
Michael O`Reilly – recording for Miles Davis (6)
Mike Shipley – mixing (4, 6)
Julian Mendelsohn – mixing (9)
Claude Achille – assistant engineer
Stuart Breed – assistant engineer
Graham Meek – assistant engineer
Hugo Nicholson – assistant engineer
Arabella Rodriguez – assistant engineer
Bunt Stafford-Clark – additional tape editing
Howard Gray – additional tape editing
Tony Cousins – mastering at Townhouse Studios
Susie McKinley – production coordinator
Keith Breeden – sleeve design
Juergen Teller – sleeve design, objects photography
Andy Catlin – group photography
Lawrence Lawry – group photography
Robert Warr at Partisan Management Ltd. – management