JOHN COOPER CLARKE Snap Crackle & Bop - Original UK LP + Book - Invisible Girls

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	$		41

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JOHN COOPER CLARKE

Snap Crackle & Bop

Original UK LP released on Epic Records in 1980. 'Pocket' sleeve with book.

EPC-S-84083-A1   /   EPC-S-84083-B2

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Punk poet John Cooper Clarke was born January 25, 1949 in Manchester, England; he first began performing his verse backed by a local folk group called the Ferrets, but in 1977 signed to the Rabid Records label to release the Martin Hannett-produced single "Psycle Sluts." With his rapid-fire verbal delivery and stinging social commentary, Clarke quickly emerged as the poet laureate of the punk movement, and he read his work as an opening act for groups including the Sex Pistols and the Buzzcocks; an LP, Disguise in Love, followed on Epic in 1978. After supporting Elvis Costello and the Attractions on their legendary Armed Forces tour, Clarke scored a Top 40 hit with the single "Gimmix; " a live disc, Walking Back to Happiness, appeared in 1979, and a year later he released a second studio effort, Snap, Crackle and Bop. While hugely popular as a stage performer, his records sold poorly, and 1982's Zip Style Method was his final release for Epic; while still maintaining a high visibility as a live act, Clarke appeared less and less frequently in the years to follow, spending the better part of the 1980s battling an addiction to heroin. (He also spent several years romantically involved with former Velvet Underground chanteuse Nico, no stranger to drug problems herself.) By the following decade Clarke cleaned up his act, returning to the stage and contributing regularly to poetry journals.

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On the one hand, this album demonstrates business as usual with latter-day beat poet John Cooper-Clarke; on the other, there's unease in terms of Cooper-Clarke's direction, thanks to a more than casual nod to the obligations of a musical approach -- Cooper-Clarke comes perilously close to singing in some spots, and dangerously close to copping a rap approach in others, while the Invisible Girls' backing keeps falling into a low-budget pop trap. Cooper-Clarke's poems remain quirky, and sometimes have his old cynical bite ("Beasley Street" sees him pouring words out against a gradually more urgent backing). Still, he remains unique.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

Evidently Chickentown
Conditional Discharge
Sleepwalk
23rd
Beasley Street

Side Two

Thirty Six Hours
Belladonna
The It Man
Limbo (Baby Limbo)
A Distant Relation

Released on 'Epic Records' in 1980

Catalogue No. S EPC 84083

Disc is in EX condition (some light surface marks)

Sleeve is in EX+ condition

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