I was at that Middle East gig as well! Brilliant it was. Also not been into his work since, alas.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 21 June 2013 16:41 (ten years ago) link
only 100 people attended that show but every one of them wasted the rest of their life on ilx
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 21 June 2013 16:53 (ten years ago) link
JC MidEastShow Support Group
If my memory isn't tricking me, I remember he also did a pretty fun interview on 'BCN when he was in town, which struck me as odd, as they were mainly playing Stone Temple Pilots and Candlebox round that time. He either played or had them play that tune that mentions Madonna and Courtney Love too, which the internet tells me is "Conspiracist Blues."
― mr.raffles, Friday, 21 June 2013 17:14 (ten years ago) link
Quietus review sounds about right:
http://thequietus.com/articles/12603-julian-cope-revolutionary-suicide-review
― mr.raffles, Friday, 21 June 2013 21:03 (ten years ago) link
http://i57.tinypic.com/2u3vdvr.jpg
Fucking hell, man.
― "a bit of goatery, some demonry" (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 11:18 (nine years ago) link
like some sort of neolithic boogie-rock dustman
― john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 11:53 (nine years ago) link
a silbury hillbilly
― john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 11:56 (nine years ago) link
that's pretty much what the records sound like these days too.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 13:39 (nine years ago) link
has the band name WAZZOCK been taken yet?
― john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 14:24 (nine years ago) link
i'm getting a hellboy vibe from the gloves
― arthur treacher, or the fall of the british empire (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link
Why the WTF? have you not seen him a while or something?
― Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 17:10 (nine years ago) link
He's looked like that (on and off) since about 1982.
― everything, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 17:29 (nine years ago) link
He had to give up the Scott Walker to do it, though.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 17:41 (nine years ago) link
― john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 11:56 (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
V good.
― djh, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link
i'm about as likely to read his novel as i am to wake up tomorrow speaking perfect inuit, but i think i would probably enjoy reading his thoughts on bono/blake or scottish independence right now
― john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 18:51 (nine years ago) link
Autogeddon is amazing btw - I prefer it to Peggy Suicide if not Jehovahkill. So goddamn crazed and psychedelic - it's almost up there with Fried in terms of pure beautiful goofball madness, and it evokes a state of confused apocalyptic bliss - driving as the ultimate freedom as well as the means of damnation
― twunty fifteen (imago), Saturday, 7 November 2015 00:25 (eight years ago) link
Glad you revived this, for I've been listening to Jehovahkill all week and think it's one of the '90s best albums.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 7 November 2015 00:26 (eight years ago) link
nice, you're right.
― twunty fifteen (imago), Saturday, 7 November 2015 00:28 (eight years ago) link
Peggy Suicide through Interpreter is probably one the best all-time five-albums runs in music.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Saturday, 7 November 2015 01:24 (eight years ago) link
I agree that Autogeddon is great. It seems v. underrated.
― Tim F, Saturday, 7 November 2015 01:25 (eight years ago) link
the emphatic pro-assassination stance of the album probably limited its appeal
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Saturday, 7 November 2015 01:30 (eight years ago) link
Even though it was two years later, Autogeddon felt to me at the time to be in the long shadow cast by Jehovakill and the brilliant dates he played for that tour.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 7 November 2015 10:43 (eight years ago) link
Autogeddon has some utterly shattering moments but it's not on the level of Fried, Jehovahkill and Citizen Cain'd for me.
― banned on ixlor (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 7 November 2015 15:20 (eight years ago) link
Is there a story behind the lyrics change in "Greatness And Perfection", i.e. he really sings "greatest imperfection". It's a clever twist.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 13 March 2017 18:48 (seven years ago) link
Put your head back in the clouds, Mr. Cope. His best.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 01:34 (six years ago) link
you got room for one more, fear loves this place is in there twice! maybe it should be, it's one of his best.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 01:49 (six years ago) link
Maybe Kolly Kibber's Birthday or Screaming Secrets, and they're past your cut-off but Autogeddon Blues or Dust from Interpreter.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 01:59 (six years ago) link
good catch! Replaced.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 02:09 (six years ago) link
you should certainly, certainly check out 20 Mothers fyi - it's full of lovely little pop songs (like Try, Try, Try, which I'm sure you'd love, and the amazing Highway To The Sun)
― imago, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 10:06 (six years ago) link
Yeah I like 20 Mothers more than autogeddon or interpreter tbh
Latterly, Citizen Cain'd is brilliant -- it has his hookiness AND his post-megalithic heaviness
― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 12:49 (six years ago) link
"Try Try Try" is amazing because at that point he's clearly no longer interested in Top of the Pops but you just feel him saying "by the way, just so you know, I can still effortlessly produce incredibly hooky pop songs"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 14:23 (six years ago) link
Given the other songs you liked, I'm surprised no "5 O'Clock World" -- why, because it's a cover?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 14:26 (six years ago) link
5 O'Clock World is such an odd cover, by that point he'd been a pop star for like ten years.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 16:47 (six years ago) link
was he ever really a pop star? Serious question. I know he and the TE had a few hits.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 16:48 (six years ago) link
Teardrop Explodes at the time were Duran Duran level huge in the UK, no? He was pop pinup for sure. And World Shut Your Mouth was definitely in heavy rotation on MTV in the early 80s... also his My Nation Underground singles were constantly on Post-Modern MTV and 120 Minutes in '89 (how I first got interested in him), Island was definitely trying to make him one again.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 17:02 (six years ago) link
Yeah, in my link I mentioned the CMJ and modern rock chart hits ("Charlotte Anne" hit #1).
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 17:03 (six years ago) link
Yeah, the sort of subdued psych aspect of Charlotte Anne is what made me buy My Nation Underground back then!
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 17:09 (six years ago) link
Not that I would have described it that way then, probably more like "this has that same weirdness the Legendary Pink Dots exhibit"
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 17:10 (six years ago) link
I bought St. Julian on the strength of a newspaper review and goddamn if it wasn't the most amazing thing I'd ever heard -- both just like the classic rock I was listening to and also totally not -- it rewired me
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 19:49 (six years ago) link
he is absolutely one of the greats (imago canon)
― imago, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 22:27 (six years ago) link
Teardrop Explodes at the time were Duran Duran level huge in the UK, no? He was pop pinup for sure.
neither he nor the teardrops were ever really household names.
― new noise, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 22:30 (six years ago) link
When "Try try try" came out, I got a postcard from "KAK' promotions from Julian Cope basically bigging it up excitedly. I was more "Hey, its nice but aren't you more out-there than this?"
(I didn't write back, that's not what I mean)
Anyway, he did do TOTP. with Try*3 and he looked happy doing it. I think it was the last time he did the pop single hit thing, but hey.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 22:41 (six years ago) link
Planetary Sit-In seems like another stab at it
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 24 August 2017 00:56 (six years ago) link
Anyway, he did do TOTP. with Try*3 and he looked happy doing it
Little did I know!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 24 August 2017 03:52 (six years ago) link
Planetary Sit-In is more spacey-hippy-dude than upfront poppy; the Interpreter album overall is pretty accessible though!
― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Thursday, 24 August 2017 03:59 (six years ago) link
Well I for one remember hearing it on the radio and thinking it was going to be a bigger hit than it was. Definitely sounds to me like he had a hit single mind:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd5Fmb17jjY
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 24 August 2017 13:03 (six years ago) link
in
― Guayaquil (eephus!),
otm – and I only heard it a decade ago
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 August 2017 13:15 (six years ago) link
Check out the CD version, "Radio Sit-in". Very daft.
― Mark G, Thursday, 24 August 2017 14:00 (six years ago) link
... and in a cabinet close to the exit an arrangement of football shirts with green-and-white hoops: Glasgow’s Celtic FC, of course. Like Edinburgh’s Hibernian, Celtic FC came into being during the late 1880s, in celebration of Scotland’s ancient Irish roots.
... if you ever needed definitive proof that Julian Cope had long ago lost his marbles.
― High profile Tom D (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 15:55 (four years ago) link