JOHN COOPER CLARKE Disguise In Love 1978 UK CBS 1st PRESS MINT
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JOHN COOPER CLARKE Disguise In Love 1978 UK CBS 1st PRESS MINT
JOHN COOPER CLARKEDisguise In Love
1978 UK CBS (83132) ORIGINAL PRESSING
HIS FIRST MAJOR LABEL RELEASE ACCOMPANIED BY THE INVISIBLE GIRLS ON ALL BUT TWO TRACKS - "SALOME MALONEY," A TALE OF BALLROOM DANCING AND DEATH, AND "PSYCLE SLUTS 1&2," AN AMPHETAMINE-PACED PAEAN TO BIKER WOMEN PRAISED BY FRANK ZAPPA AS AN EXAMPLE OF CLARKE'S "EXQUISITE DICTION" - BOTH RECORDED AT THE RITZ BALLROOM MANCHESTER 8 MAY 1978
LOVELY COPY - BARELY PLAYED - FLAWLESS SOUND
MATRIX: CBS-S-83132 A2 'ALMOST HATT 23' / CBS-S-83132 B1 'JACK C'
VINLY: MINT
SLEEVE: NEAR MINT
Disguise in Love was Clarke's major-label debut. This album finds the Mancunian bard at his adenoidal, alliterative best, delivering some of his more memorable satirical verses.
Fixated on the daily, warts-and-all miseries of life in postwar Britain and beyond, Clarke casts a wide misanthropic net, taking on everything from track suits to extraterrestrials.
The Invisible Girls (featuring Bill Nelson, Pete Shelley, and Martin Hannett) provide musical backing that complements each poem, from a minimal, heartbeat-style jogging groove ("Health Fanatic") to a cheesy disco pastiche ("Post War Glamour Girl").
Clarke's performance works well with these arrangements, especially on "(I Married A) Monster From Outer Space" -- a story of intergalactic love gone wrong set to sci-fi electronics -- and "Readers' Wives," on which lurid observations on D.I.Y. polaroid porn are adorned with an appropriately kitschy soundtrack.
Clarke's ear for the rhythms of everyday language and his galloping, sometimes staccato delivery can be best appreciated on two unaccompanied pieces: "Salome Maloney," an apocalyptic tale of ballroom dancing and death, and "Psycle Sluts 1&2," an amphetamine-paced paean to biker women praised by Frank Zappa as an example of Clarke's "exquisite diction."
Side A:
I Don't Want To Be Nice (3:51)
Psycle Sluts1 & 2 (3:12)
(I've Got A Brand New) Tracksuit (1:50)
Teenage Werewolf (3:58)
Readers Wives (3:13)
Post War Glamour Girl (3:37)
Side B:
(I Married A) Monster From Outer Space (3:30)
Salome Maloney (2:05)
Health Fanatic (5:47)
Strange Bedfellows (4:08)
Valley Of Lost Women (4:23)
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