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== Background ==
== Background ==
* Written between 1973 and 1976


== Personnel ==
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== 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 ==
== Reviews ==

Revision as of 16:41, 20 April 2023

Corrected Slogans
Studio album by Art & Language
Released 1976
Recorded
Studio


Label
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Track listing

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

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.

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