Duck Rock (Malcolm McLaren)

i) Albarn is a musician and McLaren doesn't bother with that shit.

ii) Albarn on eg Mali Music does this whole oh it's-just-jamming (which it *is* i.e. the songs are knock-offs and cast-offs) whereas McLaren is much more willing to be honest about locking his ego with others' talent.

i'll bet that if someone like dennis rodman were to do a compilation of jamaican booty music it'd be a massive critical favorite.

'merengue' is my favourite song outside the singles

gobsmacked you've not heard it before, Tom, actually

I think a similar concept could still work today, but you'd probably have to pillage different things - and the results might be less fun. Nordic folk music anyone?

Wow, old-ILM really ~breaking it down 4 u~...

I just posted on the Noize Borad w/r/t the "ethno-tourism mix" of Duck Rock shares the feel of a Sublime Frequencies "Transmissions..." comp.

What are some other records that have this same pastiche format (culturally tourist or not)?

That Yello record? I dunno.

I've heard it elsewhere and did not pay attention because I think I was annoyed by the effect.

What are some other records that have this same pastiche format (culturally tourist or not)?

bungle side project secret chiefs 3, lotsa stuff on the crammed label, david byrne (?), dan del santo, manu chao, jade warrior, mick fleetwood's "the visitor"

canaxis, the very best, the books first two kinda, though none of these maybe

this was supposedly coming out on a remastered CD with a docu. anyone know what happened to it?

christ why have i never heard this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAYfL2TbLRY

it's co written by anne dudley and wipes the floor with most of Duck Rock.

I have posted elsewhere on ILM about how Swamp Thing is so...I'm not even going to say underrated, just underheard. Great album.

Trevor Horn and Gary Langham are breaking the album down in "An Evening With.." style.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/trevor-horns-classic-album-playback-duck-rock-tickets-59445768895?fbclid=IwAR3-LIlC_arAyh-f0C38yeTzZSdZPbMBrviWpA6VdwWyjpiC_chKZrNLiAc

I love 'Duck Rock', but charging nearly £45 to watch a couple of guys play a record and talk about it, is a wheeze McLaren would be proud of.

this album is fucking great

The full VHS 'video album' was recently uploaded by some mad genius

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjARarGg_nI

^ fuck yeah

The lengthy Double Dutch sequence is fantastic.

Inspired by Sleeve's post on the "what was the last 'classic album' you got and were knocked out by?" thread, I checked out "Duck Rock", which I had someone never heard though I'd heard a couple of the singles back in the day. Pretty cool! I had no idea this album intersected with Trevor Horn and Anne Dudley and that early Art Of Noise was basically being recorded at the same time.

I noticed there's a 40th anniversary release that added an EP of b-sides:
https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/malcolm-mclaren-duck-rock-2lp-limited-edition/

Given that, I wondered what else is out there to be collected. Here's what I found:
Buffalo Gals (Scratch version aka Special Stereo mix) - 3:41
Buffalo Gals (Trad Square) - 3:41
She's Looking Like A Hobo - 3:33
Double Dutch (Long version) - 8:23 - same as "New Dance mix" but adds 8 bars before vocal starts
Hobo Scratch (She's Looking Like A Hobo) - 9:05 - Discogs says there's a shorter version too
D'ya Like Scratchin' (Special version with the Red River Valley Gals) - 5:24
World's Famous (Radio ID) - 3:19
Hobo (Scratch) - 5:42
Would Ya Like More Scratchin' (New York City remix) - 3:09

I think I got it all, though back in those days, remixes were carelessly re-labeled on different pressings or sometimes attributed to LP versions, edits were often unlabeled and things get confusing pretty quickly.

^ great post

Co-sign. I bought this LP within the last 6 months but not had a turntable for a while. Time to correct that. I hadn’t made the AoN connection but makes sense.