7.09.2005
Slow Crimes
The Work Slow Crimes LP (Woof, 1982)
Perhaps it is a bit late to slag New York's modern mutant disco scene, but, fuck that rehash. And find this album by The Work and you'll say fuck them twice again.
The Work was Tim Hodgkinson's band after he left Henry Cow and before he did a bunch of other arty stuff with other folks. They put out one LP and one 7", I Hate America. Both are great blends of art punk, no wave, post punk, and funk. The vocals are fey as hell and this borders on artfag hell BUT there are enough interesting things and rude/abrupt twists that it has held my interest for months. The guitars and noises take this to places all the rehashers can't even begin to to imagine that they imagine that they imagine. This is that far beyond such modern day nonsense.
I dragged this pup out of a great record store in Paris called Bimbo Tower, which I very much recommend you visit when in that nifty town. I bought because store co-owner (and member of the great kids music band, Dragibus) Franqo looked at me and said, "Hmmmm hmmmm, vou theenk vou know artfaag. Hmmmm hmmmm stupid American." Then he threw it on the store record player. Damned if I didn't know my artfaggotry! And damned if I didn't feel very stupid. Not wanting to be a seen as a stupid, artless, fagless American in the eyes of the French people, I bought the record.
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What the hey!!! I also bought this LP in Paris! For a measley 40 francs (ah, those pre-Euro days..) or something like that. Pretty good record, but for some reason I never bothered to hunt down the 7". Paris must be a good place for artfag stuff because I picked up the Art & Language LP (Red Krayola related) as well, a super lame record, but with one killer track. If I remeber correctly my brother picked up the Electric Eels LP (on Homestead) and the Charles Manson LIE LP on the same trip! I think the name of the shop was Crockodil or something, think they had two branches i Paris.
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yeah, crockodil has two stores, one next to the other. one has rock and one has jazz, soul, world, etc. Both are good. I hit most of the record stores there in March and came away very happy. Though the prices were higher than I am used to paying, they were lower than internet prices (like Metal Boys LP for $20 US instead of $50 US). But I also found cheap stuff, too. The really expensive thing there are American pressings and even for dogshit like Bruce Springstein. Went into one store on a side street by the Louve that was stuffed with US records, none under 20 euro, most of it crap I could find in bargin bins here.
Great disc! I'm pretty sure I still have it... it may've been a victim of a mid-'90s purge, but you've made me want to look for it. Great site, by the way: an eclectic mix I can chew on.
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