Album artwork for The Very Best Of by John Cooper Clarke

back in stock. punk poet john cooper clarke releases a cheap 20 track best of. maybe john cooper clarke's brief window of fame passed with the demise of punk. but his poems are every bit as arch and funny now as they were in the '70s. there are sly wordplay, groaning puns, and also plenty of strong social observation. he essentially took the ethos of the liverpool poets of the '60s, using common language and bringing in lots of humour, but made his mark through speech, not print. this collection, cherry-picked from his major-label work, is an absolute joy. backed by the relatively all-star invisible girls (which included pete shelley of the buzzcocks), the bard of salford deadpans his way through the epic 'psycle sluts (parts 1 and 2),' 'the day my pad went mad,' and the piece that really gave him his first big exposure, 'i married a monster from outer space.' but in 'beasley street' and 'postwar glamour girls' there's a more serious undercurrent happening, while 'kung fu international,' for all its lightheartedness, shows that little has changed in english street violence, and 'twat' remains as deliberately outrageous and hilarious as it was on its initial release. culled from the four albums cooper clarke did for epic, it shows that what was good then is still good. the world needs a cooper clarke for the new millennium.

John Cooper Clarke

The Very Best Of

Album artwork for The Very Best Of by John Cooper Clarke
CD

£10.99

Released 18/08/2011Catalogue Number

5063432

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John Cooper Clarke

The Very Best Of

Album artwork for The Very Best Of by John Cooper Clarke
CD

£10.99

Released 18/08/2011Catalogue Number

5063432

Learn more

back in stock. punk poet john cooper clarke releases a cheap 20 track best of. maybe john cooper clarke's brief window of fame passed with the demise of punk. but his poems are every bit as arch and funny now as they were in the '70s. there are sly wordplay, groaning puns, and also plenty of strong social observation. he essentially took the ethos of the liverpool poets of the '60s, using common language and bringing in lots of humour, but made his mark through speech, not print. this collection, cherry-picked from his major-label work, is an absolute joy. backed by the relatively all-star invisible girls (which included pete shelley of the buzzcocks), the bard of salford deadpans his way through the epic 'psycle sluts (parts 1 and 2),' 'the day my pad went mad,' and the piece that really gave him his first big exposure, 'i married a monster from outer space.' but in 'beasley street' and 'postwar glamour girls' there's a more serious undercurrent happening, while 'kung fu international,' for all its lightheartedness, shows that little has changed in english street violence, and 'twat' remains as deliberately outrageous and hilarious as it was on its initial release. culled from the four albums cooper clarke did for epic, it shows that what was good then is still good. the world needs a cooper clarke for the new millennium.