[bomp] Gulcher Reissues The Korps 1978 HELLO WORLD Album!!

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The Korps
HELLO WORLD!
(Gulcher 427)

"The Worst Band In The World" was the headline in Sounds Magazine
on March 10, 1979.  They were describing The Korps and their new LP,
HELLO WORLD.  Ouch!  But then the text continued, "The worst band
in the world make an album of superlative chic."  The reviewer, Dave
McCullough, went on to give the LP five out of a possible five stars--the
highest possible rating.

How could a widely read, respected, mainstream magazine describe the
Korps as the worst band in the world?  How could they turn around and
praise their 1978 album in terms so lofty it seemed that HELLO WORLD
might take a place in the pantheon of most overrated records of all time?
Did this make any sense?  What was it all about?  Why am I asking you?

The reason people were so gaga about the Korps (pronounced "core")
was that they had actually recorded a blazing hot rock album.  This
brilliantly packaged Gulcher reissue contains the original 16 tracks and
four outtakes from HELLO WORLD, the 1977 Ken Kaiser solo 45,
and a final bonus 1979 cut by The Kennes.  Add 'em up--23 slices of
prime number weirdness!  The sound is crisp, clean, strong, and loud.
Tossed in the mix are the Slickee Boys' Kim Kane, the amazing vocals
of Martha Hull, a 10-page booklet featuring incisive song analyses by
Ken Kaiser, and a slew of unpublished photos.  All combine to give
the album a spontaneous zeitgeist of manic energy and the unabashed
enthusiasm of ignorant youth.  HELLO WORLD has a great sound
and is fun to listen to.

The songs are short, catchy sing-a-long refrains.  "We Are The Only
Real People" kicks off this raw, distorted roller coaster ride.  "Winner By
Elimination," "Designs On You," and "Mad At The World" are ready-made
pop classics.  Martha Hull's vocal brilliance is undeniable--hear her moving,
preternaturally beautiful voice on "(I Wanna) Burnout."  One of the themes
which permeates every track is a sort of giggling, in-joke-infested insanity.
Check out "Don't Get Fresh With Me" and "I Went Downtown, To See
My Gal, She Wasn't There--So I Left."  It's obvious that these guys had
fun making this record!

Kenne Highland and Kenny Kaiser met during the recording of the Afrika
Korps MUSIC TO KILL BY album in 1977.  That LP, reissued on CD
in 2001 (Gulcher 405), was picked by Julie Burchill as the best album of
the year in New Musical Express.  One year earlier Kenne Highland had
already commenced leaving his footprints on the face of posterity with the
proto-punk legends the Gizmos.  Together, the Korps duo had absorbed
the best of Iggy & The Stooges, the Ramones, the Dictators, Moe and
those earlier Stooges, Kiss, Alice Cooper, the Who, and all the weird,
wild, and wonderful stuff that they could find.  They digested it all down
to its barebones essence, then regurgitated the entire mix onto a pizza pie
of bright blue vinyl.  That was HELLO WORLD!

The Korps were together for just one year, but Highland and Kaiser would
work  together for the rest of the 70s and the first half of the 80s.  Kenne
Highland remains world-renowned, notorious as one the few true wildman
geniuses of all time.  Both Kennes have gigged extensively in and around
their homebase of Boston, Massachusetts, and performed on innumerable
records, tapes and CDs.  HELLO WORLD was one of the high points
in the recording careers of both Kennes.  Now is your chance to hear for
yourself what all the fuss was about. You have my personal guarantee that
you will love this CD, and I oughta know!  (Ken Kaiser, 2005)

Gulcher Records
D.I.Y. Since '75!
www.gulcher.gemm.com

COMING SOON ON GULCHER:
Fearless Leader/God Bless The Devil
Lou Rone/Alone
Gays In The Military/People Is Beautiful
Angel Corpus Christi/Louie Louie
Gynocologists/Feces & Psychopaths
Screamin' Mee-Mees/Live At Siltbreeze 1994


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