Sin Agog
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Re: Psychedelic Revolution
Feb 09, 2012, 22:38
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Being the hypocritical white extreme liberal antiestablishmentarianist that I am, and a longtime lover of tuneful Cope anthems, I can imagine which side of the fence I'll fall on. Even if it does get a bit too on the nose, lyrics have always mostly washed over me, anyway. I'm imagining this as a semi-sequel to Black Sheep [the album].
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Boxnudger
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Re: Psychedelic Revolution
Feb 09, 2012, 23:02
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Just given it my first listen. I'm preferring the "Leila Khaled" disc so far, especially the title track - who is this Lucy Brownhills?
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bladup
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Edited Feb 11, 2012, 01:48
Re: Psychedelic Revolution
Feb 10, 2012, 00:34
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It's clever, funny, shocking, pretty, alien, right, ugly, thoughtful, violent, loving and full of tunes, and yes psychedelic, a little bit of everything ( julians whole career no less), what more could you want, he even throws in a funeral song for us, he's a fucking treasure, there's no one quite like him, he is just truly been himself, julians many voices have never sounded so strong, the title track made me laugh as much as any song ever (and it's a good idea), and beautifully sung, you can feel the snarl, 2012 indeed, it's growing and growing ,i say 'get it' !!!!!!!!!
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bluntlaser
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Edited Feb 10, 2012, 03:03
Re: Psychedelic Revolution
Feb 10, 2012, 03:00
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sorry
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bluntlaser
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Edited Feb 10, 2012, 03:06
Re: Psychedelic Revolution
Feb 10, 2012, 03:02
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Initial Impressions
1. This two cd thing is getting increasingly pointless and wasteful.
2. Get a drum kit for fucks sake.
3. Raving On The Moor is pretty damn good.
4. Some good tunes in there, just bored of some of the usually dreadful bassdrum accompaniment.
I love Julian, i just long for some Jehovahkill quality material. I know that was 20 years ago but i don't think he's done anything particularly different since Citizen Cain'd. I still like a few tracks on each album but my interest has definitely been waning.
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bluntlaser
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Edited Feb 10, 2012, 03:04
Re: Psychedelic Revolution
Feb 10, 2012, 03:02
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how do you delete posts?
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MrsSevenrealm
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Re: Psychedelic Revolution
Feb 10, 2012, 09:21
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Ha! You can't, but you can click edit and remove yer text so it's all blank! I know what you mean about Cope's stuff. I was going to leave a post to the effect of "is this another LP of slightly out of tune shouty stuff?" The ghost of Bill Drummond......endlessly wishing he'd go back and do it again but better this time....although I haven't bought any of his stuff since Autogeddon (which I still don't like much) and at the risk of getting his boot up my arse again, ah, I dunno how to put it into words.
I just love the guy to death, been a fan for so many years, but I'm a sucker for the older stuff. No lectures please!!!!!!
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IanB
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Edited Feb 10, 2012, 09:59
Re: Psychedelic Revolution
Feb 10, 2012, 09:56
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copius-freakus2 wrote: Loving this Cope and co on fine form
I love the tunes. The production doesn't bother me one bit.
Perhaps I am taking it too literally but I am deeply uncomfortable with people advocating the legtimacy of acts of violence that they will never engage in themselves. To me it's the same argument that blew up eighteen months ago over the fire extinguisher incident.
On the other hand his "Guns on the Roof" style G20 self-mythologising is so ridiculously Wolfie Smith that it is hard to take especially seriously. Then again Woflie Smith didn't, as far as I can remember, eulogise the "heroism" of hijackers and the Baader Meinhof gang (funny how one minute it is politically expedient to believe they were murdered and the next that they took their own lives).
Cope is genuinely great when writing about old Rock and old rocks and linking the two through a righteous, wounded shaman routine. I believe *that* projection of Cope the rock artist but I don't believe this one with the obsession with guns and stab vests and such.
That said he can at least lay genuine claim to two specialist subjects and that is one or two more than most people who make pop music records.
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copius-freakus2
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Re: Psychedelic Revolution
Feb 10, 2012, 10:13
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It's a psychadelic revolution great tune dead catchy to the point that after several listens I can't get the tune out of my head!
Overall a good one from Cope, one of the better recent offerings.
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WankHerod
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Edited Feb 10, 2012, 10:56
Re: Psychedelic Revolution
Feb 10, 2012, 10:53
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Hmm...I dunno. All this waving of semi-automatic rifles, detonations as percussive accompaniment and revolutionary posturing...surely, to lend the whole endeavour credibility, the next step has got to be nothing less than a sustained mortar attack on London's financial district. Failing that, a simple political assassination will do.
I need to switch on the six o'clock news and be faced with some shaky mobile phone footage of Julian's instantly recognisable silhouette scrambling for cover from the bombed-out remnants of 30 Millbank. I wanna hear Julie Etchingham utter the immortal words "...and today, former singer with 80s new romantic band The Teardrop Explodes has been charged with a sniper attack on George Osborne...". Otherwise, I'm just not ever gonna be able to take this album entirely seriously.
By the way, 'Raving On The Moor' is a great song, an instant hit, very 'Autogeddon Blues'. The rest of the album...well, it's early days. I suspect, or hope, it's a grower.
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