JOHN COOPER CLARKE

[updated May 9th, '98]

NME/ROUGH TRADE

A compilation cassette only release from - I think - around 1981, (correction anybody please).

This album features a vocal only reading of The Day My Pad Went Mad by JCC and a bunch of the staff from NME. I'm told everyone on it sounds highly intoxicated, and it does say... “Recorded live in a stupor” on the track listings.

The credit acknowledgement on it goes to... 'THE MASSED CARNABY ST. JOHN COOPER CLARKE'S.' This was either a way to get around potential copyright infringment or because they were all totally pissed (I'm not sure which), but April Music is credited.

To hear a (300k) .wav recording of the promo for C.81, click here.

To hear the THE (2.2 Megabyte) MASSED CARNABY ST. JOHN COOPER CLARKE's, click here.

TRACKS:

Side 1:

  1. The Sweetest Girl - Scritti Politti
  2. Twist & Crawl Dub - The Beat
  3. Misery Goats - Pere Ubu
  4. 7,000 Names of Wah - Wah Heat
  5. Blue Boy - Orange Juice
  6. Raising the Count - Cabaret Voltaire
  7. Kebab Trauma -- Live - D.A.F.
  8. Bare Pork - Furious Pig
  9. Bourgeois Blues - Panther Burns **
10. I Look Alone - Buzzcocks
11. Fanfare in the Garden - Essential Logic
12. Born Again Cretin - Robert Wyatt

Side 2:

  1. Shouting Out Loud - Raincoats
  2. Endless Soul - Josef K
  3. Low Profile - Blue Orchids
  4. Red Nettle - Virgin Prunes
  5. We Could Send Letter - Aztec Camera
  6. Milkmaid - Red Crayola
  7. Magnificent Dreams - Television Personalities **
  8. The Day My Pad Went Mad - The Massed Carnaby St. John Cooper Clarkes
  9. Jazz is the Teacher, Funk is the Preacher - James Blood Ulmer
10. 'Close to Home' - Ian Dury
11. 'Greener Grass' - Gist
12. Parrallel Lines - Subway Sect.


Other credits on it read as follows...

This cassette began as a mail order only offer through the NME. Two tracks (marked **) are new, due to contractual oblications. Many thanks to the NME for their efforts.

Daf appear by the incredibly kind permission of Mute Records. Orange Juice, Aztec Camera and Josef K are all on the Postcard label. Buzzcocks appear to be part of the of the EMI Leisure Combine; Ian Dury appears courtesy of Stiff Records; Wah Heat appear couresty of Inevitable Records, and Subway Sect appear courtesy of Oddball.

All the rest are on the Rough Trade labels 221 - 1100.