Disguise in Love

by John Cooper Clarke

Disguise in Love cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: October 1978
  • Label: CBS
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 47:24
  • Community rating: 3.27/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The 'Bard of Salford' delivers a rapid-fire barrage of cynical, working-class poetry over driving post-punk backing tracks produced by Martin Hannett. 'Disguise in Love' expertly marries biting, satirical spoken word with modern synthesizer textures, establishing Clarke as the definitive voice of the punk poetry movement.

Genres

Descriptors: vulgar, satirical

Tracklist

  1. I Don't Want to Be Nice (3:51)
  2. Psycle Sluts (3:12)
  3. (I've Got a Brand New) Tracksuit (1:50)
  4. Teenage Werewolf (3:57)
  5. Readers Wives (3:12)
  6. Post-War Glamour Girl (3:33)
  7. (I Married a) Monster from Outer Space (3:31)
  8. Salome Maloney (2:07)
  9. Health Fanatic (5:40)
  10. Strange Bedfellows (4:09)
  11. Valley of the Lost Women (4:19)
  12. The Pest (2:26)
  13. Gimmix! Play Loud (3:39)
  14. Kung Fu International - B side (1:50)

Credits

  • John Cooper Clarke - primary artist, performer, written-by
  • Paul Burgess - drums, percussion
  • Bill Nelson - guitar
  • John Scott - guitar
  • Lyn Oakley - guitar
  • Pete Shelley - guitar
  • Steve Hopkins - keyboards, synthesizer [programmed by], written-by
  • Steve Maguire - painting [front cover]

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