beltaneboy
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Re: Psychedelic Revolution
Feb 27, 2012, 15:25
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Can anyone make out the worrds in the track 'psychedelic revolution' - it's driving me nuts trying to work it out: 'if you're a greed head, you're going down, if you're a fat cat, you're going down' WHAT IS THE NEXT BIT? the best i've come up with is 'if you're a pork whore' but surely not? What d'ya think?
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Squid Tempest
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Re: Psychedelic Revolution
Feb 27, 2012, 15:42
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I refer your good self to this other section of the current thread:
http://www.headheritage.co.uk/headtohead/unsung/topic/64827/threaded/824121
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valis23
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Re: Psychedelic Revolution
Feb 29, 2012, 17:09
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Damn - I've just read 13 pages of posts, trying to catch up with y'all. Homeopathy, metaphysiks, real and fake AK-47s, future and failed revolutions, the death/rebirth of rock und roll and something about pork.
And STILL I'm only on disk one of PR. And still loving it. There's something whimsical here that I've rarely gotten from Julian's albums before, a feeling of musical freeness and playfulness, even amidst the intensity and muck und mire. Somehow, it being a 2012 release and all, I imagined a Son-of-Interpreter or something, very spacerock and star-reaching. Instead, it's a very grounded album so far, the sound of Julian and folks making music together. I can almost feel the heat from the fireplace. I'm going to burn disk 1 to my iPod so I can finally absorb the lyrics, and I'll move to disk 2 tonight as well.
Odd note, maybe... I've never been a massive Stones fan, yet I discovered Let It Bleed not long ago and can't stop listening. There's something loose and together in common with these two albums, again to do with the sound of people in a room putting out some rawk.
I'll go back to waxing my harpsichord now, I reckon!
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MARTASE
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Edited Feb 29, 2012, 18:03
Re: Psychedelic Revolution
Feb 29, 2012, 18:01
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Convinced myself now that it's 'Bought Whore' and that er.. it makes sense!
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Moon Cat
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Re: Psychedelic Revolution
Mar 01, 2012, 15:42
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"Board Whore"? As in on the board of a company?
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Moon Cat
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Edited Mar 01, 2012, 16:10
Re: Psychedelic Revolution
Mar 01, 2012, 16:01
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I got back to Mancunia and thus my pod yesterday to find Psychedelic Revolution waiting for me. Which was nice.
I must admit, I can't remember, having read the various 'nays' & 'Yays' on this thread, having quite such a feeling of trepidation when playing a new Cope album. Only had a couple of spins so far so it's early days but more 'yay' than 'nay' from me thus far. Bit late to the party but here's my initial impressions...
Sonically and lyrically it seems to be a continuation of the Black Sheep album and Preaching Revolution/Unruly Imagination material. Nice to see Julian tapping into his gift for melody, even dabbling with folky-prog nuances on a couple of tracks. I think the whole thing is a bit more playful and toying with absurdity than the gun-on-the-sleeve and overall stance might initially imply. I keep coming back to Julian's referring to himself more than once in recentish interviews of having a cartoon quality and there seems to me to be elements of that here. Afterall, it's an album called "Psychedelic Revolution" which, to me, has connotations of the 'peacenik' and 'revolutionary' almost at odds and jostling for space with each other like Cope's earlier, hippyish stone-hugger persona (remember when he was "fluorescing"? Happier Times maybe?) is finding it increasingly hard to define himself in the fuck-up Kapitalist kaos we are currently enduring. The whole last few years would seem to have been something of a reactive-phase (big on phases is Julian) in terms of contemplating and reflecting the world morphing into a pro-active phase, or at least trying to find a pathway through it all and this album seems to be another aspect of this phase.
I need to live with it a bit longer, but so far, although some of the lyrics and imagery are a bit uncomfortable to me, it's not quite as "RAGH! KILL!" as I feared. And, thankfully, there is humour still there as well as some lovely, catchy music.
ps Mind you, a bit worried that one of the photos is captioned something like "Kat Killer salutes the dawn at Yatesbury". Sticking it to The Man is one thing, but what have fluffy moggies done? 8^(
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Squid Tempest
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Re: Psychedelic Revolution
Mar 01, 2012, 16:19
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Well put, as always.
I agree with your points, and I quite like the album, but I must admit it isn't getting that many repeat plays Chez Tempest. Maybe it's just that at present I have heaps and heaps of CDs and records that I think are gobsmackingly good to listen to. It has been a splendid few months for new stuff I reckon.
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Moon Cat
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Re: Psychedelic Revolution
Mar 01, 2012, 16:25
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Ta.
Must say, I was stunned to read that the lady vocalist on the title track hails from Cannock! If you've ever been there, and I know it well due to family connections, you'll understand just how 'revolutionary' that is! Good for her sez I!
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MrsSevenrealm
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Re: Psychedelic Revolution
Mar 01, 2012, 16:29
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Oh, go on, tell me who she is and what she does, if only to save me googling her name with tragic death to felines consequences.
Pretty please with sugar on?
And a cherry on top.
And some sprinkles.
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Moon Cat
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Re: Psychedelic Revolution
Mar 01, 2012, 16:34
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I've no idea who she is and what she does (apart from singing on the new album). It's just that she's apparently from Cannock, which is a place in Staffordshire where the clock stopped in 1974 and never quite got started again. Lovely countryside but benign apathy is an artform/lifestyle choice and enthusiasm for anything results in being summarily executed behind the supermarket. Tis a strange place!
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