The song has been around for a while, there are recordings in YouTube from 2017 and I heard him play it on his last pre-Covid tour, but it’s his new single nevertheless and it’s also this evening’s earworm for some reason.
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“Is there someone else we could talk to?”
Just thinking about Droolian the other day.
Would love to see him live
I was a big fan/follower in 1980s to early 2000s then it just got a bit too painful/worthy musically so I jumped ship.
I saw him live in 1987 on the St Julian tour with the weird mic stand and it was amazing.
I will always love him for this.
Peggy S is pretty much his peak.
Floored Genius is also superb. One of the best career overviews ever.
I like most of his official releases but then I started buying quite a few of the head heritage releases and they are really quite poor. I love him as an artist and there is not doubt he is a man of great intellect but his filter has sadly disappeared.
Bill Drummond wrote, some years ago now, that he needs a proper producer, someone to say, “no Julian that’s not good enough, go and do it again.” Absolutely bang on.
I need one of those for my life..
That ain’t Passionate Friend or World Shut Your Mouth, is it?
It’s no Sunspots, either…
Not Reynard the fox or Charlotte Anne.
But, something I am increasingly enjoying seeing in the elder, “serious artist”, he has a bit of a pot on him these days. See also Keef, RT. Makes ’em more human and frail. A guitar can hide a lot.
Julian with a pot? Nah, not having it. Doesn’t work. I less it’s on a leg because he got stuck in the mud whilst rootling for runes in Ruritania.
Maybe “Julian has a bit of pot on him these day” – as opposed to shrooms or aceeeeed…
I posted this as a would-be satirical comment on current affairs rather than a musical appreciation, but I pretty much concur with the comments above. Up to and including Autogeddon I think Cope is great, but later only in flashes. I had always wanted to see him but was disappointed when I did at the Barbican on his last tour. At least one other member of the forum was there and disagrees with me, but I found him rather lifeless and that his renowned charisma failed to reach our seats in the upper balcony. The Light agreed with me by falling asleep.
I saw him solo at the CFF years ago and he was, not a word I thought I’d ever use to describe Copey, boring.
And this is me calling someone else dull.
Rather than bored, F, surely you should have been, if not inspired then at least enervated by such levels of tedium?
I’m beginning to reassess my earlier wish to see him live after reading this thread
I recall leaning over to the similarly dismayed Mrs F and whispering into her ear: “fancy going for an ice cream?”
Some boring things work me up to a dullgasm: technical minutiae, microphone polar patterns, etc. And some are just crap.
A Pedant Writes: enervating describes the loss of energy, not gain.
I know.
It was a joke.
The joke being that enervating is the opposite of energizing/inspiring and therefore is more apt for dullness
Big fan, but like many got a bit lost after the mid 90s, did download his drunken album a few years ago, it was quite good. Also bought new version of Droolian recently, plus The Skellington chronicles (on cassette!), the latter has some good stuff that I never heard before.
Have never seen him live solo surprisingly but saw the Teardrops a couple of times in Liverpool, the first time just as Kilimanjaro came out, the second time less than a year later when they had hit the too 10 with Reward and he had become a pop star, completely different audience, there were teenagers getting hysterical there. He soon moved on from that.
That should read top 10, and regarding teenagers, I just remembered I was one myself! (wasn’t screaming though)
Agree with most of the above. Absolutely loved him. I reckon the run from Peggy Suicide to Interpreter is about as good a run I can think of (and PS and Jehovahkill are desert Island disks for me). Drifted away rather after that. The post-‘fame’ compilation Trip Advizor does have some good stuff on it but it doesn’t want to make me dig any deeper into the last 25 (!) years.
Still the best concert I ever saw at the Town & Country Club in 93 I think. He supported himself with a solo set. Then did a Peggy Suicide and Jehovahkill set. Then a greatest hits one including Teardrop stuff. I remember walking away from the gig holding a giant Jehovahkill poster, t-shirt and mug and someone saying to me ‘so you’re a fan then?’ Answer: Yup.
I think I might have been there for that. It was breathtaking in it’s scope and was absolutely brilliant. A great night.
Was a big fan of Wilder from when I lived in Liverpool in 1981. Met Julian once waiting in the queue at Midland Bank near Rodney Street, and my girlfriend bizarrely started asking him about what A Levels he did and what grades he got. He didn’t tell her to fuck off. Haven’t listened to him much since Peggy Suicide. Came across this interview with a guy who worked with Cope and thought he was a cunt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1dl2yb_6so
My ex wife went to high school with him in Tamworth. Years later when she and her mates were arranging a school reunion they contacted him and apparently he was very rude.
Mind you my ex wife could make most people rude.
I don’t think he had a very good time at school. Still, good manners don’t cost nuffin’…
Didn’t Cope end up in studying in Liverpool precisely because he did badly in his A-Levels? Or have I dreamt that up? I seem to recall him saying so in Head On (which is a great read, by the way).
I was listening to the BBC tracks on the expanded Wilder reissue earlier. Really amazing stuff, an alternate way of hearing (half of) the album, plus some bonus material. Must check out the equivalent on the Kilimanjaro reissue (3 CD version)
May as well piggyback on this Julian Cope thread to heap some praise on his Modern Antiquarian book, a nutty and idiosyncratic guide to megalithic sites in Britain. I managed to bag a (relatively) cheap second hand version last year and it’s been a nice little guidebook to many fascinating places I never knew existed.
As I type this, we are on holiday in Galloway and over the past few days I’ve seen some amazing ancient places that have blown my mind.
His Krautrock book was great, and a total eye-opener for many folks including me at a time when a lot of that music wasn’t even available. Ironically you can now buy the music but not the book.
I’ve read and greatly enjoyed his collection Copendium, even though I have zero intention of listening to more than about five percent of the music he endorses in it. He writes at the pitch of his lungs. It should just be exhausting but his enthusiasm is great fun.
The Sampler book is excellent, and goes for absolute silly money on s/h book sites. I seem to remember Fopp had them for ages very cheap, but never bought one. I hear that you can download a pdf of it on the internet…
I heard that too, I don’t believe it for a second. Who would do such a thing…