Julian Cope

JULIAN COPE – Highly Acclaimed Album ‘PEGGY SUICIDE’ Turns 30

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20 April 2021

Artist: JULIAN COPE (Welshmen, 63 years old)
Album: PEGGY SUICIDE – 7h solo album
Released: 22 April 1991 – 30 years ago

ALL MUSIC wrote: “Casting the ill-advised attempts at too-clean modern rock from his late-’80s days firmly aside and fulfilling the promise of Skellington and Droolian, Cope on Peggy Suicide produced his best album to date, overtopping even his Teardrop Explodes efforts. Showing a greater musical breadth and range than ever before, from funk to noise collage — and more importantly, not sounding like a dilettante at any step of the way. An absolute, stone-cold rock classic, full stop.” Score: 4.5/5 – Full review here.

TURN UP THE VOLUME‘s favorite tracks: Pristeen / Double Vegetation / East Easy Rider / Soldier Blue / Hanging Out & Hung Up On The Line / You / Beautiful Love / Las Vegas Basement

Album in full (#1- #18)

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JULIAN COPE: Facebook – Website – All Albums

BIG BLASTS FROM THE PAST – 5 Cracking Singles Turning 35 In 2021

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All released in 1986…

1. ‘Living Too Late’ by THE FALL

Finally going through old parasite gate
But there’s a 24-hour clock watch
And I’m living too late
Think

R.I.P…

2. ‘Kiss’ by PRINCE

You don’t have to be beautiful
To turn me on
I just need your body, baby
From dusk ’til dawn

Kiss here…

3. ‘Walk This Way’ by RUN DMC

She told me to
Walk this way!
Talk this way!

Walk here…


4. ‘World Shut Your Mouth’ by JULIAN COPE

She sings, “World, shut your mouth, shut your mouth
Put your head back in the clouds and shut your mouth

Be quiet…

5. I Want You by ELVIS COSTELLO

I want you, you’ve had your fun, you don’t get well no more
I want you, your fingernails go dragging down the wall
Be careful, darling, you might fall

Love here…

THE TEARDROP EXPLODES Released Debut Masterstroke ‘KILIMANJARO’ 40 Years Ago Today

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10 October 2020

Band: THE TEARDROP EXPLODES (Liverpool)
Active: 1978-1982
Album: KILIMANJARO – debut LP
Released: 10 October – 40 years ago today

BBC Music: “Knowing how troubled was the genesis of Kilimanjaro it’s
amazing that something so perfectly formed emerged. Like Love’s ‘Forever
Changes’ it inhabits a strange alternative universe that seems to have little
relationship with contemporary sounds. For that reason alone it remains
timeless.”

The Guardian: “LSD lover and Princess Di eulogiser
Julian Cope was once almost sunshine pop’s golden boy.”

Julian Cope: “I get twitchy if I don’t pick up a guitar or sit at the
piano every now and then… I have to do it; I don’t have a choice.”

Turn Up The Volume: “Don’t shut your mouth, Julian”.

The top singles…

– REWARD –

– TREASON –

– SLEEPING GAS –

Full album…

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THE TEARDROP EXPLODES: All Albums – Bio

‘WORLD SHUT YOUR MOUTH’ By JULIAN COPE – Released 1986

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27 January 2020

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Artist: Julian Cope (former frontman of The Teardrop Explodes)
Song: World Shut Your Mouth (same title as his solo debut LP,
but the song was not on it)
B-side: Umpteenth Unnatural Blues
Released: September 1986
Album: Saint Julian – his third solo LP
Score: The single peaked at #19 in the UK

Here’s the big mouth…

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