I have a feeling the best is yet to come. I didn't care much for his 80's work and Peggy was one of my favorite 90's records. I loved Dark Orgasm and just heard for the first time his "Verses" off SUNN O)))'s "My Wall" which I love.
Haven't read his books.
I love this man though
If you like Peggy Suicide
give 'Fried' a try, because it's really garage and quite different from Saint Julian and My Nation Undergroud.
I'd say his most consistent was either Peggy Suicide or Jeohovahkill which is mindblowing if only for Idiot Train, Necropolis and Upwards At Forty-Five Degrees but has about a million other awesome songs on it and is incredibly consistent. In fact, Fried, Peggy Suicide and Jehovahkill are probably his own consistent records. Obviously Kilimanjaro and Wilder are also utterly, utterly brilliant.
Head-On/Repossessed, his memoirs of the Liverpool punk scene and subsequent decline into Acid-fried mentalness, is well worth a read, I'd lend it to you, but I believe that Fihiki has got my copy.
The Modern Antiquarian is also very interesting and a great travel guide. I've been to a fair few of the sites in Yorkshire and The lake District and I think me and my mate are going to do the Welsh ones fairly soon. He has a copy of The Megalithic European floating around somewhere too.
I own a copy of Japrocksampler but still haven't read it, just flicked through the list of records. Some of the stuff he recommends is incredible though.
And yes; he is basically a genius.
That's ...erm, very well thought out tristan
like you were waiting for this thread...hehe. So I defer to you.
Y'know, as big a Bunnymen fan as I am...I don't think I've ever heard a Crucial Three song. I know they were only together like a month or something.
I always found St Julian to be rather hit 'n miss. But when he's good he's really freakin good.
* except Read It In Books
is a Mac/Cope written tune, eh.
i'm just a little tipsy
and listening to Julian to purge my brain of pop punk
He is basically my hero though. I can't think of any other musician who has inspired me so much, in terms of his own music and also introducing me into other cultural/musical ideas and awesomeness. As well as being amazing in his own right, he's introduced me to so much other amazing stuff: paganism, the KLF, krautrock, Scott Walker, stone circles.
and in my bands
i basically aspire to sing/write lyrics like him. he's so ridiculously incredible. incredible incredible incredible.
Plus
he has an awesome model airplane collection. :)
no way
the plastic air plane glue kind or balsa extravaganzas?
I think both
I saw one of those MTV dealies where he's chattin and walkin thru his house and he has a closet full (a big closet!) of unopened model airplane boxes ...mostly of the plastic variety that I could tell/remember.
I've got a couple in my closet too
A B-36 (my dad crewed on one in the 50's during operation "Chrome Dome")
And a Northrup P-61 Black Widow night fight (a model I built when I was about 10)
I love singing to his records
it's big fun.
thanks,
I'm definitely going to catch up with JULIAN.
I can't add a thing except
Thanks!
And, have you heard the sunn o thing?
or dark orgasm?
neither, are they worth checking out?
i'm not so up with his newer stuff. i just know he has incredibly good taste in music and would REALLY like him to curate ATP at some point....
also
my favourite Cope song of ALL ALL ALL is Sunspots on Fried.
I can't wait to here it
I'll order up
Yes!
Dark Orgasm is 2 discs. Disc One is some great rock stuff. The first song has the same chords as "I'm So Glad"- he gets milelage with a few chords and there is lot's of social commentary of course. Disc Two is well, I'm still working on Disc Two.
SUNN O))) WHITE 1 is the album, "My Wall" is the song.
He's written about 30 verses of cool, cool, bleak stuff which he sing speaks like Dylan or David Tibet- in fact "My Wall" reminds me of Current 93. Sunn o))) is Doom/Drone- not my fav but "My Wall" is worth the price of the CD!
awesome!
i love Julian SOOOO much!
is he touring this summer? i saw he's playing Latitude
Don't know
But he's long been on my list of desired lives. He's never toured withing striking (1,000 miles) distance of me. He toured in the UK after Dark Orgasm came out cause I remember seeing pics of him onstage with a bass guitar, leather biker jacket and a WW ll German Officers hat- and biker boots too.
where d'you live?
Red Lodge, Montana
S.E. Central Montana, N..W. America
I am enjoying
the Julian Cope love, the man is rather cool indeed. Upwards of Forty Five Degrees is completely awesome, as is the rest of Jehovahkill...his voice is consistently strong and so varied (and I know someone who frequents these boards that loves him more than I do). I listened to Kilimanjaro all through my first and second years at uni through a shitty CD player held together with sellotape and Im pretty sure that listening to it permanently damaged my hearing because much of it requires volume.
JEHOVAHKILL
JEHOVAHKILL
JEHOVAHKILL
JEHOVAHKILL
Peggy was about the second cd I ever bought
vinyl and cassettes up till then. Seems I had Jehovkill and Autogedden at some points but didn't get into them. I'm going to try them again- for sure. Hope you finally got a decent cd player- ha
Cope is a genius
Jehovahkill is his high point, closely followed by Peggy Suicide. The more recent ones have been diminishing returns really, but they have their moments.
Head On & Repossessed are hilarious and The Modern Antiquarian is a really fucking impressive work. I've based whole holidays around it. He's generally considered something of an authority in that area now. The TV version is on Youtube, carved up into about six segments and is well worth watching to get a measure of his sheer piledriving enthusiasm.
I truly love him.
I was only aware of the German and Japanese music compendiums
I'll track down the other books.