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

• Terrie (guitar)
• G.W. Sok (vocals)
• Luc (bass)
• Katrin (drums, vocals)

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

• Wilf Plum (organ tk 2, drums tk 3, 21, 24, birdcage tk 3, voice tk 12, bodhran tk 23, kabassa tk 26, bamboos tk 27, spoons tk 32, backing-vocals tk 31)
• Jeroen (birdcage tk 3, voice tk 12, 23, backing-vocals tk 31, piano-sequenzer tk 12, various soundscapes)
• Dolf (guitar tk 2, acoustic guitar tk 5, voice tk 24, space-stations tk 26)
• Ab Baars (saxophones tk 14, 15, 18, 32, 34)
• Bram (guitar tk 10, 34)
• Doan Gurkensalat (saz tk 9)
• Dorpsoudste de Jong (voice tk 1, 19)
• Ferrie Meurkerrie (trumpets, trombones tk 22)
• Floris van Manen (control-programma orkaterdrum tk 20)
• Gabi Kenderesi (voice, violin tk 16)
• Gerhard Bornefeld (piano tk 33)
• Harry Roberts (bamboos tk 27, backing-vocals tk 31)
• Jeroen de Groot (bagpipes tk 2, 7)
• Lee Ranaldo (guitar tk 8)
• Lena (accordion, voice tk 20)
• Nick Hobbs (voice tk 27, announcement tk 25)
• Thurston Moore (guitar tk 11)
• Thijs Vermeulen (bass tk 6,17,21)
• Wolter Wierbos (trombone tk 14, 15, 18, 32)

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

Notes

• Cogan, Brian. Encyclopedia of Punk Music and Culture. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2006. p. 70. ISBN 978-0-313-33340-8.
• Mount, Heather. "Three Looks into The Ex". In Crane, Larry. Tape Op: The Book about Creative Music Recording, Volume 2. Milwaukee: Hal Leonard Corporation, 2010. pp. 230–233.
• Robbins, Ira A., ed. The Trouser Press Guide to '90s Rock: The all-new 5th edition of The Trouser Press Record Guide. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. ISBN 0684814374.
• Sok, G.W. A Mix of Bricks & Valentines: Lyrics 1979–2009. New York: PM Press, 2011.
• Temporary Services. Group Work. New York: Printed Matter, March 2007.

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