This months Classic Rock magazine has the only the only mag/paper review of Cope's Rome CD I've
come across. I only bought the mag 'cos it has a fairly large Gong article, so I was pleasantly surprised to see the review which I have reproduced below for those interested -
Julian Cope - "Rome Wasn't Burned In A Day"
"Recorded as a soundtrack to a series of live multi media extravaganzas last halloween weekend that marked Cope and his band's first electric shows in 7 years, the 8 songs that comprise 'Rome Wasn't..." surpass all reasonable expectations.
Furthermore, they're destined to stand as defining moments in the former Teardrop Explodes vocalist's astounding solo metamorphosis from pouting pop star to towering, left-field colossus.
Saint Droolian - a noted scholar of both the megalithic antiquities of pre Roman Britain and obscurist Kraut rock - has casually combined the two in a psychedelic miasma of Syd's Floyd sonic scintillation, lyrical invocations of druidid pre-history and guitar propelled aural assaults to singe the very woad from your whiskers.
From the sprialling introductory freak-outs of 'Shrine Of The Black Youth" to the closing six string squalls of the epic & apolcapytic 'Eccentrifugal Force', Cope's inherent pop sensibilities far outmanouevre his subtarranean ambitions. Julian might eulogise Kraut based primitives doomed to perpetual anonymity by their self consciously ludicrous endeavours, but is himself afflicted with an indomitable ear for a good tune. Consequently, however 'far' he aims to go 'out', Julian can't avoid being commercially palatable"
**** (4/5)
Ian Fortnam.
Well there you go!
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