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When did you get in touch with Julian Cope music?
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IanB
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Edited Jul 11, 2010, 12:45
Re: When did you get in touch with Julian Cope music?
Jul 11, 2010, 12:42
keith a wrote:
IanB wrote:


I hated the Madchester scene and all that Second Summer of Love stuff. And Grunge was even worse in many ways. Peggy seemed like an amazing, radical and timeless reinvention of mainstream guitar rock and what you could say in a rock song.


But more than a little 'baggy' at times, Ian! ; )


Totally (the "East Easy Rider" rhythm track for one) but great songs will ultimately surive any production treatment. It doesn't sound dated now like some of the hip n happening stuff in 91. You can trace a lot of those baggy groves back to New Orleans and The Meters etc and also to the likes of Little Feat. Cope sounds like he might be familiar with the originals rather than just taking it off the peg to get a good NME review. And it had a killer guitar attack.

I really hated baggy and Acid House - hated the music. Really hated the look. There are a couple of tracks by the Roses and Mondays that were ok (usually because of someone else's production ideas) but the likes of The Milltown Bros, The Farm, Flowered Up, Inspiral Carpets etc were really not meant for me. Neither were the drugs de jour. Can you really see any of that lot coming up with "Hanging Out" , "Promised Land" or "You"? To be fair I was probably 5 years too old for all that. I can see how it might have seemed different if you were 17 - 25 in 1991 and had grown up with the worst of the early and mid 80s.
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