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- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: RERHCSH1
- Format: CD
- UPC: 752725019026
- Street Date: 12/03/13
- PreBook Date: 10/29/13
- Label: Rer Megacorp »
- Genre: Progressive Rock
- Run Time: mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Year of Production: 2013
- Box Lot: 25
- Territory: US,CA
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Slapp Happy/Henry Cow - Desperate Straights
- List Price: $16.99
- Your Price: $10.53
- In Stock: 42
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Desperate Straights came about in 1974 when two very different groups, Slapp Happy and Henry Cow, got drunk over Bacardi one night, and decided on a merger. The album sports a staggeringly effective sequence of short songs, by turns witty, twisted, epic and apocalyptic. An obsessive song about hats, a mini-symphony on Europe, a Brechtian reflection on the faults of the other songs on the album , Peter Blegvad singing about how he's "Gone astray", to the accompaniment of Hawaiian guitars
