Three Songs on a Trip to the United States / Bismarckstr. 50

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Three Songs on a Trip to the United States / Bismarckstr. 50
LP by The Red Crayola
Released 1983
Recorded 1983
Studio


Label Pure Freud
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Track listing

Three Songs on a Trip to the United States

  1. Monster One
  2. California Girl
  3. Caribbean Postcard

Bismarckstr. 50

  1. X
  2. Wives in Orbit
  3. Ergastulum
  4. Portrait of You

Background

Bismarckstrasse 50

Main article: Shows/1983-08-28

Cover art

The photos on the cover were taken by Red Crayola co-founder Frederick Barthelme. They appeared previously in Barthelme's book Rangoon (illustrated by Mayo Thompson) in a chapter titled "The Chair". The cover of Soldier-Talk features a similar grid of photos.

Personnel

The Red Crayola

Retrospectives

Mayo Thompson, 1996[2]

After Black Snakes, I made a record called Three Songs on a Trip to the United States, which had three originals on one side, and the other side was live, recorded at some festival in Switzerland. [...]

Reviews

Spin Alternative Record Guide

1995[3]

Byron Coley

Part studio, part live, Three Songs has a muzzy rambunctiousness that is lacking in its immediate precursors. It is the trippiest Red Crayola side since the International Artists days. Not that you'd think it originated then. Allen Ravenstine's synth bloobles and Jesse Chamberlain's wrist-snapping are a far cry from the smudge pyros of the Familiar Ugly.

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