The Sweetest Girl (Single):Madness

"The “Sweetest Girl”" is a song by British band Scritti Politti, released in 1981 as a single. The single peaked at number 64 in the UK Singles Chart.[1]  The piano is played by Robert Wyatt.

The B-side, "Lions After Slumber" takes its title and quotes, in its final lines, from the 1819 political poem The Masque of Anarchy by Percy Bysshe Shelley.



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[hide]  *1 Track listing  ==Track listing[ edit] == ===7" and 12" vinyl (UK, US, Germany)[ edit] === ===7" vinyl (France, Japan)[ edit] === ==Madness version[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">]  == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">The cover of the song by ska-pop band Madness was included on their 1985 album Mad Not Mad and released as a single the following year. The song spent 6 weeks in British charts peaking at number 35. ===Track listing<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ====7" vinyl<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== ====12" vinyl<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">]  ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Although the "dub mix" is only a voxless version of the "extended mix", the kind of version which usually appears as mere filler on 12" vinyls, it appears alone on Side one, the "extended mix" which usually is the main version appears on Side two with the 7" Side two filler song. ===Chart performance<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===
 * 1.1 7" and 12" vinyl (UK, US, Germany)
 * 1.2 7" vinyl (France, Japan)
 * 2 Madness version
 * 2.1 Track listing
 * 2.1.1 7" vinyl
 * 2.1.2 12" vinyl
 * 2.2 Chart performance
 * 3 References
 * Horns:- Gary Barnacle
 * Backing Vocals:- Afrodiziak