John Cooper Clarke - Où Est La Maison De Fromage?

Original Release Date

1978

Release Information

UK LP 1978 (Rabid - NOZE 1)
UK CD 2005 (Castle Music - CMQCD 1234)

1 The Serial (Part One)
2 Letter To Fiesta
3 Film Extra's Extra
4 Majorca
5 Action Man
6 Kung Fu International
7 Sperm Test
8 Missing Persons
9 Split Beans
10 Dumb Row Laughs
11 Bunch Of Twigs
12 Trains
13 The Cycle Accident
14 Gimmix
15 Readers Wives
16 Ten Years In An Open Neck Shirt (Part One)
17 Nothing
18 (I Married A) Monster From Outer Space
19 Ten Years In An Open Neck Shirt (Part Two)
20 Daily Express (You Never See A Nipple In The)
21 Ten Years In An Open Neck Shirt (Part Three)
22 Salome Malone
23 Psycle Sluts (Part One)
CD Bonus Tracks
24 Bronze Adonis
25 (I Married A) Monster From Outer Space (John Peel Session)
26 Readers Wives (John Peel Session)
27 Health Fanatic (John Peel Session)
28 Split Beans (John Peel Session)
29 Suspended Sentence
30 Innocents
31 Psycle Sluts (Parts 1 & 2)
32 Daily Express (You Never See A Nipple In The) (Live)
33 (I Married A) Monster From Outer Space (Live)
34 The Massed Carnaby Street John Cooper Clarkes / The Day My Pad Went Mad

Chart Placings

UK Indie Hits: 7, 10 wks

Credits

LP:

This record comprises of twenty three tracks compiled from a selection of material recorded at performances and rehearsals in Manchester. These early tapes contain both previously unpublished poems and firm live performance favourites from John's extensive repertoire. It's an essential album.

Reviews & Opinions

PUNKY GIBBON: This isn't a proper album, rather a collection of live recordings and studio doodles. However, it does capture his formative style on such epics as 'You Never See A Nipple In The Daily Express', 'Sperm Test', 'Kung-Fu International' and three installments of his autobiography 'Ten Years In An Open Necked Shirt'. Good, but it's really one for completists only. I've played it twice in the twenty years I've owned a copy.

TROUSER PRESS: ...a sloppy, ragged, (almost) unaccompanied, poorly recorded but enthralling hodgepodge - demos, rehearsals and recitations - of pieces that wound up on later albums.

Additional Notes

There are minor variations in song title spelling between teh LP and CD.

Images

UK LP 1978 (Rabid - NOZE 1). Click here for more

UK CD 2005 (Castle Music - CMQCD 1234). Click here for more