Duck Rock (Malcolm McLaren)

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.