Joggers and Smoggers

Joggers and Smoggers
Studio album by The Ex
Released 1989
Genre No Wave
Experimental rock
Label Fist Puppet Records
The Ex chronology

Aural Guerilla
(1988)
Joggers and Smoggers
(1989)
Treat
(1990)
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Joggers and Smoggers is a double album by punk artists The Ex, released in 1989 as a double vinyl record album, and issued as a double CD in 1992. It is the first of the Ex's albums to feature extensive use of improvisation and instruments outside of the standard guitar/bass|drums arrangement of punk rock, as well as great numbers of international guest musicians, most notably New York's Sonic Youth, Glasgow's Dog Faced Hermans, Amsterdam's Instant Composers Pool, as well as numerous folk musicians from a variety of European and Middle Eastern traditions. The album marked a turning point in The Ex's artistry, foreshadowing many collaborations and delvings into avant-garde, experimental, improvisational, folk and world music that the band would mix with their abrasive trademark post-punk sound in the 20 years to come.

Track listing

  1. "Humm (The Full House Mumble)"
  2. "At the Gate"
  3. "Pigs and Scales"
  4. "Coughing"
  5. "Morning Star"
  6. "Wall Has Ears"
  7. "Invitation to the Dance"
  8. "Tightly Stretched"
  9. "Ask the Prisoner"
  10. "To Be Clear"
  11. "Gentlemen"
  12. "Make That Call"
  13. "The Buzzword Medley"
  14. "Shopping Street"
  15. "Crackle Engines Vrôp Vrôp"
  16. "Greetings from Urbania"
  17. "Wired"
  18. "Got Everything?"
  19. "Waarom Niet"
  20. "Courtyard"
  21. "Burst! Crack! Split!"
  22. "Brickbat"
  23. "Hieronymus"
  24. "Nosey Parker"
  25. "People Who Venture"
  26. "Watch the Driver"
  27. "Let's Get Sceptical"
  28. "Tin Gods"
  29. "The State of Freedom"
  30. "Provisionally Untitled"
  31. "Kachun-K Pschûh"
  32. "The Early Bird's Worm"
  33. "Catkin"
  34. "Upstairs with Picasso"

Personnel

The Ex

Additional instruments: grill, birdcage, double-bass, fire extinguisher + hammer, bamboos, piano, electric razor, dobro, spoons, human beatbox, wire, glass, castanets, bow, cracklebox, cowbells, cabasa.

Guest musicians

Recorded at ADM's Koeienverhuurbedrijf, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Produced by Dolf Planteijdt.

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