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[[File:Something-Completely-Different-Plekhanov.png|thumb|[[Mayo Thompson]] and [[Christine Kozlov]] performing "Plekhanov" in ''[[And Now for Something Completely Different]]'' (1976)]] | |||
== Lyrics == | == Lyrics == | ||
{{Lyrics| | {{Lyrics| | ||
Who's learned the language | |||
Of the Internationale? | |||
The granma had a personnel | |||
Crazy enough to eschew | |||
Historic investments — | |||
Of which there were few | |||
Locally | |||
Who's learned the language | |||
Of the Internationale? | |||
Nobody's crazy enough | |||
Locally | |||
— Nor can they be | |||
In a way that | |||
Obviates pathology | |||
The crazy are consigned, then | |||
To third-world iconography | |||
Who? What? When? How? | |||
What for? | |||
Act, agency, scene | |||
And actor | |||
Is hating something communally | |||
(It’s clear | |||
To volunteers.) | |||
Our 'conversation' | |||
Has volunteered | |||
For seventeen years | |||
Plekhanov | |||
A priori | |||
Neither anticipation | |||
Nor fulfilment | |||
Is realistic | |||
In dialectic | |||
Who was ever disowned | |||
By his Granma? | |||
}} | }} | ||
== Chronology == | == Chronology == | ||
* {{RLink|Corrected}} | * {{RLink|Corrected}} {{MediaLink|YouTube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EspQmin76Y}} | ||
* {{RLink|Kangaroo}} | ** [[Christine Kozlov]] - vocals | ||
** [[Mayo Thompson]] - piano | |||
** {{RLink|Dark}} | |||
* {{RLink|Now}} | |||
** [[Christine Kozlov]] - vocals | |||
** [[Mayo Thompson]] - vocals, organ | |||
* {{RLink|Kangaroo}} {{MediaLink|YouTube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl80uQuCnRc}} | |||
** [[Mayo Thompson]] - vocals, piano | |||
** [[Lora Logic]] - saxophone | |||
** [[Allen Ravenstine]] - synthesizer | |||
*{{RLink|Shotgun}} {{MediaLink|Bandcamp=https://saj-rec.bandcamp.com/track/plekhanov}} | |||
**[[Mayo Thompson]] - vocals | |||
== Retrospectives == | |||
[[Art & Language]], 1981<ref>Art & Language and The Red Crayola, ‘[https://www.art-language.org/texte/a/TI71h.htm#anglais Notes on the Songs]’, booklet published in connection with L.P. ''Kangaroo?,'' Rough Trade records, London, 1981.</ref><blockquote>We’ve learned the words of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Internationale The Internationale] – they are inflated and overwrought. The discourse of the cultured (and that includes the musical) left has ''volunteered''. For what? A loquaciously theorised exile from the substantive tasks of the class struggle.</blockquote> | |||
== Interpretations == | == Interpretations == | ||
[[wikipedia:Georgi_Plekhanov|Georgi Plekhanov]] | |||
== Live recordings == | == Live recordings == | ||
{| class="wikitable" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
!Show | !Show | ||
! | ! | ||
! | ! | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | |[[Shows/1995-08-02|August 2, 1995]] | ||
| | |vocal: [[Jim O'Rourke]] | ||
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| | |September 23, 1995 | ||
| | |video, vocal: [[Jim O'Rourke]] (as Gastr del Sol) | ||
| | |{{MediaLink|YouTube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhrCiqYZYU4}} | ||
|} | |} | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
{{Navbox Corrected Slogans}} | |||
{{Navbox-Kangaroo}} | |||
[[Category:Songs]] | [[Category:Songs]] | ||
[[Category:Lyrics by Art & Language]] | |||
Latest revision as of 16:02, 27 August 2024
Lyrics
Who's learned the language Of the Internationale?
The granma had a personnel Crazy enough to eschew Historic investments — Of which there were few Locally
Who's learned the language Of the Internationale?
Nobody's crazy enough Locally — Nor can they be In a way that Obviates pathology The crazy are consigned, then To third-world iconography
Who? What? When? How? What for? Act, agency, scene And actor Is hating something communally (It’s clear To volunteers.)
Our 'conversation' Has volunteered For seventeen years Plekhanov A priori
Neither anticipation Nor fulfilment Is realistic In dialectic
Who was ever disowned By his Granma?
Chronology
Corrected Slogans 
- Christine Kozlov - vocals
- Mayo Thompson - piano
Too Dark to Read
And Now for Something Completely Different
- Christine Kozlov - vocals
- Mayo Thompson - vocals, organ
Kangaroo?
- Mayo Thompson - vocals, piano
- Lora Logic - saxophone
- Allen Ravenstine - synthesizer
Shotgun Wedding 
- Mayo Thompson - vocals
Retrospectives
Art & Language, 1981[1]
We’ve learned the words of The Internationale – they are inflated and overwrought. The discourse of the cultured (and that includes the musical) left has volunteered. For what? A loquaciously theorised exile from the substantive tasks of the class struggle.
Interpretations
Live recordings
| Show | ||
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| August 2, 1995 | vocal: Jim O'Rourke | |
| September 23, 1995 | video, vocal: Jim O'Rourke (as Gastr del Sol) |
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References
Music-Language | |||||
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 Corrected Slogans |
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 Nine Gross and Conspicuous Errors | |||||
| And Now for Something Completely Different | |||||
| Songs |
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| Non-album singles | |||||
| Single | |||||
| Related articles | |||||
- ↑ Art & Language and The Red Crayola, ‘Notes on the Songs’, booklet published in connection with L.P. Kangaroo?, Rough Trade records, London, 1981.