LIPSTICK TRACES UK LP - LILIPUT Slits CLASH Adverts BUZZCOCKS Kleenex RAINCOATS

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Original UK LP released on Rough Trade Records in 1993. Includes insert.

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Greil Marcus’s sprawling, idiosyncratic and essential, Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century has long been viewed as a music history classic. The book is about a single serpentine fact: late in 1976 a record called Anarchy in the U.K. was issued in London, and this event launched a transformation of pop music all over the world. Made by a four-man rock band called the Sex Pistols, and written by singer Johnny Rotten, the song distilled, in crudely poetic form, a critique of modern society once set out by a small group of Paris-based intellectuals.

Lipstick Traces, well, traces the critique of capitalism from the Dada art movement through the Situationist International and the May 1968 uprisings in Paris, through to the Sex Pistols and the punk rock explosion. In other words, it is the hidden history of the artistic opposition to capitalist society. It was heavily influenced by the revolutionary avant-garde punk zine “Vague” (a parody of Vogue, if that’s not obvious). Marcus cribbed a lot from Tom Vague for Lipstick Traces, which is not to take anything away from Greil Marcus at all, but to simply give credit where its due.

Although a lot of criticism that was levelled at Lipstick Traces by reviewers when it first came out, the book’s thesis was on pretty firm ground. It has certainly stood the test of time and remained in print to this day.

But many ardent admirers of the book don’t know that Rough Trade released a companion “soundtrack” album to Lipstick Traces that came out in 1993. The selection runs the gamut of weird old hillbilly folk, doo-wop, to punk rock from the Slits, Buzzcocks. Gang of Four, The Adverts, Kleenex/Liliput, The Raincoats, The Mekons, a recording of the audience at a Clash gig, and best of all, the blistering mutant be-bop of Essential Logic’s “Wake Up.” Interspersed between the music is spoken word material from French philosopher Guy Debord, Triatan Tzara, Richard Huelsenbeck and even Marie Osmond reciting a brain-damaged version of Hugo Ball’s nonsense poem “Karawane” that must be heard to be believed.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

Slits - A Boring Life
Orioles - It's Too Soon To Know
Tristan Tzara, Marcel Janco, Richard Huelsenbeck - L'Amiral Cherche Une Maison Á Louer
Jonathan Richman - Road Runner 
Guy Debord - Excerpt From Guy Debord's 1952 Film "Hurlements En Faveur De Sade"
The Roxy, London: Ambience
Jean-Louis Brau - Instrumentation Verbale (Face 2)
Buzzcocks - Boredom
Adverts - One Chord Wonders
Raoul Hausmann - Phonème BBB
Gang Of Four - At Home He's A Tourist
Adverts - Gary Gilmore's Eyes
Kleenex - Ü (Angry Side)
Guy Debord - Excerpt From Guy Debord's 1961 Film "Critique De La Séparation"

Side Two

Clash - Stage Talk, Roundhouse, London, 23 September 1976
Mekons - Never Been In A Riot
Liliput - Split
Peter Blegvad, et al - Rohrenhose Rokoko-Neger-Rhythmus
Essential Logic - Wake Up
Kleenex - You (Friendly Side)
Gil J. Wolman - Megapneumies, 24 Mars 1963 (face 1)
Raincoats - In Love
Guy Debord - Excerpt From Guy Debord's 1952 Film "Hurlements En Faveur De Sade" Marie Osmond - Karawane
Bascam Lamar Lunsford - I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground
Mekons - The Building
Benny Spellman - Lipstick Traces (On A Cigarette)

Released on 'Rough Trade Records' in 1993

Catalogue No. R2901

Disc is in VG+ condition (some light surface marks)

Sleeve is in EX condition

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