Snap, Crackle & Bop is the fourth album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by John Cooper Clarke

John Cooper Clarke

John Cooper Clarke is an English performance poet who first became famous during the punk rock era of the late 1970s when he became known as a "punk poet"...

, originally released in 1980. As with Disguise in Love

Disguise in Love

Disguise in Love is the second studio album by John Cooper Clarke, first released in 1978. Most of the tracks are spoken over musical accompaniment provided by Clarke's band The Invisible Girls, except "Psycle Sluts 1&2" and "Salome Maloney" — both live recordings from the Ritz Ballroom in...

, the album was backed by The Invisible Girls

The Invisible Girls

The Invisible Girls were a British rock band, formed in Salford, Greater Manchester in 1978, to provide a musical backdrop to the recorded output of Salford punk poet John Cooper Clarke...

 and produced by Martin Hannett

Martin Hannett

Martin Hannett , sometimes credited as Martin Zero, was a record producer and an original partner in Factory Records with Tony Wilson...

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Original first pressings of the LP included a booklet with the lyrics from John Cooper Clarke's 1978 album Disguise in Love together with photographs and artwork, the booklet was housed in a pocket which formed part of the jacket on the LP cover's photograph.

Track listing

All tracks written by John Cooper Clarke

John Cooper Clarke

John Cooper Clarke is an English performance poet who first became famous during the punk rock era of the late 1970s when he became known as a "punk poet"...

, Martin Hannett

Martin Hannett

Martin Hannett , sometimes credited as Martin Zero, was a record producer and an original partner in Factory Records with Tony Wilson...

 and Steve Hopkins except where noted:

1. "Evidently Chickentown" – 2.23
2. "Conditional Discharge" – 3.1
3. "Sleepwalk" – 4.35
4. "23rd" – 3.38
5. "Beasley Street" – 6.56
6. "Thirty Six Hours" – 3.35
7. "Belladonna" – 4.18
8. "The It Man" – 3.48
9. "Limbo (Baby Limbo)" – 4.31
10. "A Distant Relation" – 3.53
11. "Beasley Street (live Bonus track)" – 3.28
12. "Gaberdine Angus (live Bonus track)" – 1.01
13. "Twat (live Bonus track)" – 2.23

Personnel

• John Cooper Clarke – vocals
• Paul Burgess – drums
  Drum kit
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  , percussion
  Percussion instrument
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• Martin Hannett
  Martin Hannett
  Martin Hannett , sometimes credited as Martin Zero, was a record producer and an original partner in Factory Records with Tony Wilson...
  
   – bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Steve Hopkins – keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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