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Snap Crackle and Bop | 
| Artists: John Cooper Clarke, The Invisible Girls
Label: Sony
Category: Music
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 7025
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5099751984122
ASIN: B0009A221Q
Release Date: June 20, 2005
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| Tracks:
| • | Evidently Chickentown | | • | Conditional Discharge | | • | Sleepwalk | | • | 23rd | | • | Beasley Street | | • | Thirty Six Hours | | • | Belladonna | | • | The It Man | | • | Limbo (Baby Limbo) | | • | A Distant Relation | | • | Beasley Street (live Bonus track) | | • | Gaberdine Angus (live Bonus track) | | • | Twat (live Bonus track) |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
Hazy Pleasures August 17, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
That young Johnny Clarke's been at it again. More 'produced' than his first outing, but a fine performance from himself and his Invisible Girls. As I get older I tend to prefer his raw unaccompanied solo live rants, but there's a hazy pleasure to be had from the studio tracked backs as well. I used to think he'd be back.
punk poet at his best April 13, 2004
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
this is probably his best cd and its well worth buying....i have seen him live and he is funny and charming....this cd is powerful and reminds us of the late 70's and early 80's feelings of despair in thatcherite Britain...it is also very funny and witty...if you can go and see him perform live....if not then buy this cd....
The grit hits the fan! May 2, 2002
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is an album of prophetic genius.
"Chickentown", with its barely concealed undercurrent of restive urban violence, sits up there with some of the "Jam's" early vitriol.
"Conditional discharge", with its seemingly humourous lyrics, is a poignant preamble to the AIDS epidemic.
JCC's picture of sheer hopelessness and despair in the gritty, no holds barred "Beasley Street"
underlines the the caustic spite about to be poured on ordinary, working class people in the rampant, right-wing eighties of Thatcherism.JCC had 'em all sussed!
The Manchester Punk Poet at his best November 29, 2001
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This his third album from 1980 finds John Cooper Clarke th his poetic best. Here he describes life in late '70's britain, the high unemployment and the class gap, fans in the south yorkshire area should check out Phil Murray and the boys from Bury who perform similar ditties, with the legendary Steve Carter at the helm!!!!That's Right
Street poetry at it's best. The man is a genius. January 27, 2000
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Having heard the LP version back in the late eighties, I was well and truly hooked. From the opening violence of Chickentown to the wonderfully depressing view of life on a back street of Manchester that is Beasley Street, Clarke's penetrating and disturbingly accurate portrayal of everyday life can be both alarming and humorous. Once you have played it, you will not only never forget it, you will always find it near the top of your collection. A classic album from the North's greatest streetpoet.
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