SOCIAL CLIMBERS LP/1981 US/No Wave/Post-Punk/Drum Machine Driven Urban Art Funk
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SOCIAL CLIMBERS 's/t' LP (US, Drag City/Yoga Records, Catalogue #DC466/Y6) Brand new/unplayed copy of limited year 2011 Drag City/Yoga Records co-label LP edition of seminal 1981 Post-Punk/Drum Machine driven Urban Art Funk album by New York No Wave band Social Climbers (originally released in LP form in 1981 on the Hoboken Records label.)
(NOTE: LIMITED VINYL EDITION!)
It's almost 1980. Soho, New York is fertile with young, no-wave punks getting sharper and increasingly angular: Branca, DNA, Teenage Jesus, Contortions, Suicide, et al, as well as the groups they would spawn. Coveted and revered bands for many today, this music was peripheral at the time. Unheard by most save for the underbelly, these were artists living free and dirty, trying to outdo each other. Within the periphery of this periphery, Social Climbers made sounds that were of their environs yet remarkably unique, leaving an indelible stamp on the scene while somehow managing to slither undetected out of all the history books. A downtown New York art band as much as any other, Social Climbers also claimed midwestern roots and actual musicianship that many of their contemporaries lacked, and in trade dismissed and essentially protested the snotty pretensions that drove many others within the scene. Social Climbers are an absolute post-punk blueprint: fat bass (often two), guitar, drum machine (dubbed "the monkey"), feverish vocals, and organ. Their lone, self-titled album is agitated and impossibly wild, yet danceable and composed. Gulcher Records initially released the album as a triple 7". Their record was barely picked up by the local underground rock distributor, as is common in a crowded scene, and the group disbanded in 1982. Their one artifact is as earnest as it is fractured and terrifying. Mostly, it's just fucking cool. And it's here, again, sounding as relevant today as it did when it was of the moment; perhaps, even more so.
Tracks on this LP are as follows:
A1 Domestic 2:44 A2 Chicken 80 3:55 A3 Western World 5:00 A4 Chris & Debbie 6:56 B1 Palm Springs 4:02 B2 That's Why 2:40 B3 Ernie K 3:07 B4 Hello Texas 2:52 B5 Taipei 4:57Shipping in US is $4.98./CANADA AIRMAIL is $16.98./MEXICO AIRMAIL is $22.98./OVERSEAS AIRMAIL is $23.98. (Shipping totals will be consolidated for multiple winning bids.)
Record shipped in professional, superior rectangular shaped, corner-protecting corrugated cardboard record mailer with filler pads. Satisfaction guaranteed!
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