Corrected Slogans

Track listing

Side A
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

Side B
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

The Red Crayola

Mayo Thompson (vocals, guitar, piano), Jesse Chamberlain (drums)

Technical

Cover art

Issues

Release	Format	Artist	Label	Cat. No.	Notes
1976-06-18	LP	Art & Language (Music-Language / (Provisional) Art & Language)	self-released	1848	Initially pressing of 1000 copies
1977-06-28	LP	Art & Language (Music-Language / (Provisional) Art & Language)	self-released	1848	New cover design from 'Illustrations' series, sold at Robert Self gallery exhibition
1982	LP	Art & Language and The Red Crayola	self-released	1848	Distributed by Recommended Records
1982	LP	The Red Crayola with Art & Language	People's Records	PR 004
1997-06-16	CD	Art & Language and The Red Crayola	Dexter's Cigar/Drag City	DEX09/DC096CD
2015-04-21	LP	Art & Language and The Red Crayola	Drag City	DC96
2018-04-01	Digital	The Red Krayola	Drag City	DC96

Live performance

2015-11-06 at REDCAT (at CalArts Downtown Center for Contemporary Arts) https://www.dragcity.com/news/2015-11-06-the-red-krayola-present-corrected-slogans-live

Reviews

Art Monthly

December 1977, no. 13^[1]

Peter Smith

Interview

January 1978, vol. 8, iss. 1^[2]

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?^[3]

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^[4]

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

Unused labels for the original Corrected Slogans cover
Postcard advertising the (Provisional) Art & Language exhibition at John Weber Gallery June 18 - July 14, 1976
Postcard advertising Art-Language 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'^[5]
Poster from 'Ten Posters: Illustrations for Art-Language' (1977) used for the reissue cover
Copy from 1977 exhibition at Robert Self gallery
Advertisement for People's Records' Corrected Slogans reissue in Spex fanzine, October 1982^[6]

References

[1] ttps://www.proquest.com/openview/2ad72578a1a715afe7466a762c2aa0ac/

[2] ttps://archive.org/details/sim_interview_1978-01_8_1/page/n35/mode/1up?q=Corrected+Slogans

[3] ttps://www.instagram.com/p/Ck44z-sOFO2/

[4] ttps://archive.org/details/trouserpressguid00robbi/page/252/mode/1up

[5] Archive.org

[6] ttps://www.fromthearchives.com/tw/chronology.html

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v t e The Red Crayola with Art & Language
Albums	Corrected Slogans Kangaroo? Black Snakes Baby and Child Care Sighs Trapped by Liars Five American Portraits
Videos	Nine Gross and Conspicuous Errors And Now for Something Completely Different Letters to the Jackson Pollock Bar in the Style of the Red Krayola
Other	Victorine Karaoke Bar Art & Language Sings a Song Interview with Mayo Thompson Letters to the Red Crayola