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1990 piece by [[Albert Oehlen]], [[Mayo Thompson]], and [[Werner Büttner]].
1990 piece by [[Albert Oehlen]], [[Mayo Thompson]], and [[Werner Büttner]].


== Sources ==
* "The Quiet Album comprised a banner showing a black and white reproduction of a photograph of Oehlen, Büttner and Thompson life-size, singing with their faces pressed against the closed windows of Oehlen’s Porsche Targa parked in the snow in Hamburg. It was a limited edition, came in a white box modeled on The Beatles “White Album,” and sold out immediately."<ref>2004 Drag City Red Krayola biography</ref>
PopAlphabet May 1995<ref>http://www.le-musterkoffer.de/alpha/thompson06.html</ref>
* Krayola discography lists "The Quiet Album (Leiterwagen)"


White Rose discography:
* "Described by Thompson as a picture of the band, their faces pressed to a car window, printed onto parachute silk. There was no album per se."<ref>Puncture no. 33, summer 1995</ref>
* print? (unknown german label) 1989? "described by thompson as a picture of the band, their faces pressed to a car window, printed onto parachute silk. there was no album per se." [puncture number 33, summer 1995]
 
2004 Drag City biography:
* In 1991 the single “The Red Crayolas on Forty-five” b/w “Your Body is Hot” and The Quiet Album were released on Oehlen’s Leiterwagen Records
* The Quiet Album comprised a banner showing a black and white reproduction of a photograph of Oehlen, Büttner and Thompson life-size, singing with their faces pressed against the closed windows of Oehlen’s Porsche Targa parked in the snow in Hamburg. It was a limited edition, came in a white box modeled on The Beatles “White Album,” and sold out immediately.
 
The Wire 2005:
* ...from the beatbox and Euro-pop of 1989's ''Malefactor, Ade'', the roaring silence of 1991's ''The Quiet Album'' (a play on the monochrome stylings of The Beatles' ''White Album'')...
 
Whitney Biennial Index 2012:
* listed, description not accessible


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Revision as of 03:42, 1 November 2022

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1990 piece by Albert Oehlen, Mayo Thompson, and Werner Büttner.

  • "The Quiet Album comprised a banner showing a black and white reproduction of a photograph of Oehlen, Büttner and Thompson life-size, singing with their faces pressed against the closed windows of Oehlen’s Porsche Targa parked in the snow in Hamburg. It was a limited edition, came in a white box modeled on The Beatles “White Album,” and sold out immediately."[1]
  • "Described by Thompson as a picture of the band, their faces pressed to a car window, printed onto parachute silk. There was no album per se."[2]

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  1. ↑ 2004 Drag City Red Krayola biography
  2. ↑ Puncture no. 33, summer 1995
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