Gorki & Co. / 33 Songs
Gorki & Co. / 33 Songs is a book by Mayo Thompson / The Red Crayola. It was published in 1986 by Albert Oehlen's Meterverlag.
Background
- The book was advertised along with other Meterverlag books in the German magazine Spex
- The CD booklet for Amor and Language contains a photo of model Rachel Williams holding a copy of the book
- Description in Spex ad:
- Mayo Thompsons "Gorki & Co." (engl.) eine politische Novelle nebst 33 vergnuglichen neue Gedichten und Texten.
Contents
145 pages[1]
Gorki & Co
An essay by Mayo Thompson on the soviet writer Maxim Gorky.
33 Songs
33 songs written by Mayo Thompson, Albert Oehlen, and Werner Büttner — supposedly in a single night. The group recorded a number of them for Malefactor, Ade. Some were later rerecorded for The Red Krayola and Hazel, including "Jimmy Silk" and "Another Song, Another Satan".
Possible inclusions
| Song |
|---|
| "Jimmy Silk" |
| "Supper Be Ready" |
| "Pessimisty" |
| "Pride" |
| "14" |
| "Extremism" |
| "Baby Jesus Frog" |
| "Steve McQueen's Garden" |
| "Colour Theory, No. 4" |
| "Franz Von Assisi" |
| "Sex Machine" |
| "The Coaster" |
| "Break a Leg" |
| "Dope" |
Retrospectives
Mayo Thompson, 2010[2]
I don’t know [if the Gorki & Co. book is ever going to be republished]. I have the idea of publishing some writing, but I don’t know. [...] Art for me is out of my domain; I have some associations, productive history, along those lines, but I am not myself a visual artist. I studied art history in school, so I have some interest in it, and so I talk to get to think out loud about things like that, by looking at those things. I’ve written some fiction in my day. I’ve written one or two comments that have gone into the front of art catalogs, I don’t do that anymore, but I’ve done a few of those things. I wrote that one book that was a crazy, messed-up book, it’s not your usual presentation of history, and a little bit mad, with the funny lyrics and so on, but that was for some funny German guys I know who had a publishing company. That was a while ago.