Julian Cope presents Head Heritage

I would of course argue in return that the Mary Chain sucked harder longer on the VU tit than Marillion ever did on Gabriel's but so much easier to go for the crowd pleasing jibe than actually listen to the music.

Overall I think the problem is that I just can't get it up for the Spartist view of musical history. Reminds me too much of squats, dog eared copies of City Limits and Socialist Worker, snakebite, cat piss in the kitchen and the self-styled hipsters with plastic shoes, faux cockney Strummer accents and Lawrence Corner coats. 25 years later it's way too grim and self-limiting a world-view for a bourgeois fucker like me. Even Burchill and Parsons have let it go.

Happy new year.