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=== Art & Language ===
=== Art & Language ===
Vocals


=== The Red Crayola ===
=== The Red Crayola ===
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* [[Jesse Chamberlain]] - drums
* [[Jesse Chamberlain]] - drums
=== Writing ===
* [[Michael Baldwin]] - lyrics
* [[Philip Pilkington]] - lyrics
* [[Mayo Thompson]] - music


=== Technical ===
=== Technical ===
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| Initial pressing of 1000 copies
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Revision as of 12:00, 17 April 2023

Original 1976 cover
Reissue cover

Track listing

Side A
No.TitleLength
1."Maharashtra"1:35
2."Keep All Your Friends"2:20
3."Imagination I & II"1:11
4."Coleridge vs Martineau"1:26
5."An Exemplification"1:08
6."Postscript to SDS' Infiltration"0:25
7."War Dance I & II"3:30
8."An Harangue"3:05
9."Ergastulum"3:01
10."The Mistakes of Trotsky... Thesmophoriazusae"2:09
11."Louis Napoleon"2:33
Side B
No.TitleLength
1."Seven Compartments"2:42
2."Petrichenko"2:47
3."Don't Talk to Sociologists..."2:14
4."What Are the Inexpensive Things the Panel Most Enjoys? ... An International"1:01
5."History"3:55
6."It's an Illusion"1:43
7."Penny Capitalists"2:31
8."Plekhanov"3:08
9."Natura Facit Saltus"1:20
Total length:46:34

Background

Personnel

Art & Language

Vocals

The Red Crayola

Writing

Technical

Cover art

Issues

Release Format Artist Label Cat. No. Notes
1976-06-18 LP Art & Language (Music-Language / (Provisional) Art & Language) self-released 1848 Initial pressing of 1000 copies
1977-06-28 LP Art & Language (Music-Language / (Provisional) Art & Language) self-released 1848 New cover design from 'Illustrations' series, sold at Robert Self gallery exhibition
1982 LP Art & Language and The Red Crayola self-released 1848 Distributed by Recommended Records
1982 LP The Red Crayola with Art & Language People's Records PR 004
1997-06-16 CD Art & Language and The Red Crayola Dexter's Cigar/Drag City DEX09/DC096CD
2015-04-21 LP Art & Language and The Red Crayola Drag City DC96
2018-04-01 Digital The Red Krayola Drag City DC96

Live performance

2015-11-06 at REDCAT (at CalArts Downtown Center for Contemporary Arts) https://www.dragcity.com/news/2015-11-06-the-red-krayola-present-corrected-slogans-live

Reviews

Art Monthly

December 1977, no. 13[1]

Peter Smith

Interview

January 1978, vol. 8, iss. 1[2]

Glenn O'Brien

The best LP I borrowed this month was Music-Language: Corrected Slogans by Art & Language. You won't find this in any record stores, but maybe at a great art book store like Jaap Riteman (W. Broadway & Spring). It's words and music by a noted bunch of conceptual art agitators and sounds for the most part like Monty Python gone to Stalinism and folk music, but one cut really knocks me out and that's "An Harangue" which features a Velvet Underground influenced New York garage-rock rhythm guitar solo with an Oxford accented Marxist/Leninist/Anarchist/et seq. class analysis tract overdubbed.

OP Magazine

198?[3]

Bonnie Gordon and Edward Kaplan

Combine the nerdiest aspects of folk music with the creepiest parts of political rhetoric, and add a dash of "music" that is nearly inaudible. To give an example of some of the rhetoric: "The struggle for realism, a social practice is vitiated by private commitment. The only first step is the performance of concrete organizational tasks. Organization on class lines against the institutional ideology." Now take these words, and sing-talk them, just off the top of your head, the way a nine year old might do it. Only try to do it with as little imagination as possible. Also: sing as if you're tone deaf. Pluck a few guitar strings, sounding as lame as possible. You're getting the idea. you just can't dance to it. A lot of language here, very little art.

The Trouser Press Guide to New Wave Records

1983[4]

SG

[...] Rather unusual even for that time, [The Red Crayola] faded into limbo until turning up to do sessions in 1976 with the art rock band, Art & Language, which yielded the demos collected on Corrected Slogans; work on the album parallels the serious/silly music of Robert Wyatt. Largely acoustic in nature, with extremely simple songs, complex with satirical/political lyrics, and operatic vocals, Corrected Slogans qualifies as rock only by association.

Image gallery

  • Postcard advertising the (Provisional) Art & Language exhibition at John Weber Gallery June 18 - July 14, 1976
    Postcard advertising the (Provisional) Art & Language exhibition at John Weber Gallery June 18 - July 14, 1976
  • Postcard advertising A-L 3.3 and Corrected Slogans
    Postcard advertising A-L 3.3 and Corrected Slogans
  • Postcard advertising Art-Language 3.4 and Corrected Slogans
    Postcard advertising Art-Language 3.4 and Corrected Slogans
  • Catalog photo of Corrected Slogans for Germano Celant's 1977 exhibition 'The Record as Artwork'[5]
    Catalog photo of Corrected Slogans for Germano Celant's 1977 exhibition 'The Record as Artwork'[5]
  • Copy from 1977 exhibition at Robert Self gallery
    Copy from 1977 exhibition at Robert Self gallery
  • Advertisement for People's Records' Corrected Slogans reissue in Spex fanzine, October 1982[6]
    Advertisement for People's Records' Corrected Slogans reissue in Spex fanzine, October 1982[6]

References

  1. ↑ https://www.proquest.com/openview/2ad72578a1a715afe7466a762c2aa0ac/
  2. ↑ https://archive.org/details/sim_interview_1978-01_8_1/page/n35/mode/1up?q=Corrected+Slogans
  3. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck44z-sOFO2/
  4. ↑ https://archive.org/details/trouserpressguid00robbi/page/252/mode/1up
  5. ↑ Archive.org
  6. ↑ https://www.fromthearchives.com/tw/chronology.html
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