Name: The Very Best Of
Brand: John Cooper Clarke

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

5063432

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2011-08-18

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Sony

Tax rate GB

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

John Cooper Clarke

Genre GB

New Wave / Post Punk

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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.

The Very Best Of

Music GB