Lipstick Traces
various artists

LP/CD (1993)
Rough Trade Records [R2901]
United Kingdom

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Front cover of Lipstick Traces
A Boring Life :: Slits
It's Too Soon To Know :: Orioles
L'Amiral cherche une maison à louer :: Tristan Tzara, Marcel Janco, Richard Huelsenbeck
Road Runner :: Jonathan Richman
Excerpt from soundtrack to Hurlements en faveur de Sade :: Guy Debord
Ambience, The Roxy, London
Instrumentation Verbale (Face 2) :: Jean-Louis Brau
Boredom :: Buzzcocks
One Chord Wonders :: Adverts
phonème bbbb :: Raoul Hausmann
At Home He's A Tourist :: Gang Of Four
Gary Gilmore's Eyes :: Adverts
Ü (angry side) :: Kleenex
Excerpt from soundtrack to Critique de la séperation :: Guy Debord
Stage Talk, Roundhouse, London, 23 Sep. 1976 :: Clash
Never Been In A Riot :: Mekons
Split :: Liliput
röhrenhose-rokoko-neger-rhythmus :: Peter Blegvad, et al.
Wake Up :: Essential Logic
You (friendly side) :: Kleenex
Mégapneumies, 24 Mars 1963 (Face 1) :: Gil J. Wolman
In Love :: Raincoats
Excerpt from soundtrack to Hurlements en faveur de Sade :: Guy Debord
Karawane :: Marie Osmond
I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground :: Bascam Lamar Lunsford
The Building :: Mekons
Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette) :: Benny Spellman
Notes: An entertaining soundtrack to Greil Marcus' Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century (Harvard University Press, 1989), a sprawling rumination on anarchist/dadaist outbursts in music and culture. "Never Been in a Riot" is reprised from the band's first 7"; "The Building" is culled from The Mekons Story. Marcus also writes about the Mekons in Ranters & Crowd Pleasers, a collection of his essays from 1977-1992 (Doubleday, 1993). Look for this stuff and more at his official website, where you can also learn more about the stage production of Lipstick Traces. It was an amazing show....

Lineup: See entries for The Quality of Mercy... and The Mekons Story.

Updated September 14, 2002

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