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* First sold at Art & Language's 'Music-Language' exhibition on June 18, 1976 | * First sold at Art & Language's 'Music-Language' exhibition on June 18, 1976 | ||
* Cover design consisted of glued-on text labels | * Cover design consisted of glued-on text labels | ||
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File:Corrected-labels.jpeg|Unused original cover labels, 1976 | |||
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* Alternate sleeve with artwork from Art & Language's series "[[Ten Posters: Illustrations for Art-Language]]". This image, reportedly a caricature of Joseph Beuys<ref>Sounds zine October 1982</ref>, was used for all subsequent issues of the record | * Alternate sleeve with artwork from Art & Language's series "[[Ten Posters: Illustrations for Art-Language]]". This image, reportedly a caricature of Joseph Beuys<ref>Sounds zine October 1982</ref>, was used for all subsequent issues of the record | ||
* Sold at Art & Language's exhibition at Robert Self gallery starting June 28, 1977 | * Sold at Art & Language's exhibition at Robert Self gallery starting June 28, 1977 | ||
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File:Corrected-10-posters.jpg|One of '[[Ten Posters: Illustrations for Art-Language]]', 1977 | |||
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=== Recommend Records reissue === | === Recommend Records reissue === | ||
Revision as of 19:56, 3 May 2023
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| Studio album by Art & Language | |
| Released | 1976 |
| Recorded | 1974-1975 |
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Track listing
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Maharashtra" | 1:35 |
| 2. | "Keep All Your Friends" | 2:20 |
| 3. | "Imagination I & II" | 1:11 |
| 4. | "Coleridge vs Martineau" | 1:26 |
| 5. | "An Exemplification" | 1:08 |
| 6. | "Postscript to SDS' Infiltration" | 0:25 |
| 7. | "War Dance I & II" | 3:30 |
| 8. | "An Harangue" | 3:05 |
| 9. | "Ergastulum" | 3:01 |
| 10. | "The Mistakes of Trotsky... Thesmophoriazusae" | 2:09 |
| 11. | "Louis Napoleon" | 2:33 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Seven Compartments" | 2:42 |
| 2. | "Petrichenko" | 2:47 |
| 3. | "Don't Talk to Sociologists..." | 2:14 |
| 4. | "What Are the Inexpensive Things the Panel Most Enjoys? ... An International" | 1:01 |
| 5. | "History" | 3:55 |
| 6. | "It's an Illusion" | 1:43 |
| 7. | "Penny Capitalists" | 2:31 |
| 8. | "Plekhanov" | 3:08 |
| 9. | "Natura Facit Saltus" | 1:20 |
| Total length: | 46:34 | |
Background
Personnel
Art & Language
Vocals
- Michael Baldwin - lyrics
- Philip Pilkington - lyrics
The Red Crayola
- Mayo Thompson - music, vocals, guitar, piano
- Jesse Chamberlain - drums
Technical
Issues
First pressing
- Initial pressing of 1000 copies
- Self-released in the US and UK
- First sold at Art & Language's 'Music-Language' exhibition on June 18, 1976
- Cover design consisted of glued-on text labels
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Unused original cover labels, 1976
Robert Self gallery version
- Alternate sleeve with artwork from Art & Language's series "Ten Posters: Illustrations for Art-Language". This image, reportedly a caricature of Joseph Beuys[1], was used for all subsequent issues of the record
- Sold at Art & Language's exhibition at Robert Self gallery starting June 28, 1977
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One of 'Ten Posters: Illustrations for Art-Language', 1977
Recommend Records reissue
- In October 1982, the German zines Spex and Sounds reported that People's Records was releasing the first reissue of the record. However it appears that the label folded before this could come to fruition
- This reissue was distributed by Recommended Records who would also release Black Snakes in 1983
Drag City reissues
CD reissue
- Released June 16, 1997 on its sublabel Dexter's Cigar
LP reissue
- Released April 21, 2015
Reviews
Art Monthly
December 1977, no. 13[2]
Peter Smith
Interview
January 1978, vol. 8, iss. 1[3]
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?[4]
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[5]
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.
Image gallery
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Postcard advertising the (Provisional) Art & Language exhibition at John Weber Gallery June 18 - July 14, 1976 -
Postcard advertising A-L 3.3 and Corrected Slogans -
Postcard advertising Art-Language 3.4 and Corrected Slogans -
![Catalog photo of Corrected Slogans for Germano Celant's 1977 exhibition 'The Record as Artwork'[6]](/w/images/thumb/7/78/Corrected-record-as-art.jpg/118px-Corrected-record-as-art.jpg)
Catalog photo of Corrected Slogans for Germano Celant's 1977 exhibition 'The Record as Artwork'[6] -
Copy from 1977 exhibition at Robert Self gallery -
![Advertisement for People's Records' Corrected Slogans reissue in Spex fanzine, October 1982[7]](/w/images/thumb/c/c3/Corrected-Peoples-ad.jpg/120px-Corrected-Peoples-ad.jpg)
Advertisement for People's Records' Corrected Slogans reissue in Spex fanzine, October 1982[7]
![Catalog photo of Corrected Slogans for Germano Celant's 1977 exhibition 'The Record as Artwork'[6]](/wiki/File:Corrected-record-as-art.jpg)
![Advertisement for People's Records' Corrected Slogans reissue in Spex fanzine, October 1982[7]](/wiki/File:Corrected-Peoples-ad.jpg)
References
Music-Language | |||||
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 Corrected Slogans |
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 Nine Gross and Conspicuous Errors | |||||
 And Now for Something Completely Different | |||||
- ↑ Sounds zine October 1982
- ↑ https://www.proquest.com/openview/2ad72578a1a715afe7466a762c2aa0ac/
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/sim_interview_1978-01_8_1/page/n35/mode/1up?q=Corrected+Slogans
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck44z-sOFO2/
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/trouserpressguid00robbi/page/252/mode/1up
- ↑ Archive.org
- ↑ https://www.fromthearchives.com/tw/chronology.html