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Citizensmurf
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Re: Black Sheep notes
Jun 24, 2023, 19:17
MARTASE wrote:
MARTASE wrote:
Citizensmurf wrote:
Got mine yesterday, a nice booklet and collection of outtakes and such.

This is the first time we've had an extended piece of writing from JC regarding his post 1990 albums. Lots of insights into the inspiration and the motley crew of sheep who he gathered.

Also love the list of books and music ala LAMF at the end. I have many of those, but always good to learn about more. Fuck me, if anyone has that Shiva's Tongue cd, holler at me, that's a rare one.


Agreed. The most compelling bit of Julian's writing since Krautrocksampler.
That and the wonderful alt version of All the Blowing Themselves Up... are worth the price of entry.



...though the sentiments behind Free the Jews are questionable to say the very least.
I really don't get it. I listen for irony, but I don't think it's there.

EDIT: unless, of course, he means freeing Jewish people from the actions and policies of the State of Israel...



He addresses these "controversial" topics in the Notes, saying he held back on some even more thorny ones. I don't believe we have to love everything he sings, and he's so vague at times it's hard to perceive exactly what message he's sending out. Most of the time, I take the lyrics not as gospel, but as information.
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