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Julian Cope

Friar Tuck

Head Heritage

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u/avbl

Cat Number

HHLP40

Release date
11 Apr '25

The Prince of Fried has brung forth 12 brand new humdingers: all hummable and lyrically compelling and replete with wah-acoustic guitars and beautiful orchestrations of Mellotron 400 from Liverpool’s Blondest. So inhale the garage fuzz dub of 'R in the Hood'; the mantric powerdrive of 'Four Jehovahs in a Volvo Estate'; the sentimental Pete Burns lamentations of 'In Spungent Mansions'… and who could resist the affectionate micro-trolling of 'Will Sergeant’s Blues'?

Stay cosy, defiant and edgy this autumn with these 12 fruits of FRIAR TUCK.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Julian Cope returns, following his album of off-piste Mellotron excursions with this scathing blast of proper scuzzy classic-Cope garage rock and / or roll. Snappy, witty and scathing, this is cope at his raucous best.

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1. Too Freud To Rock'n'Roll Too Jung To Die
2. You Gotta Keep Your Halfwits About You
3. Four Jehovahs In A Volvo Estate
4. The Dogshow Must Go On
5. 1066 & All That
6. In Spungent Mansions
7. Me And The Jews
8. A Shipwrecked Song
9. Sol Invicto
10. R. In The Hood
11. Done Myself A Mischief
12. Will Sergeant's Blues

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Julian Cope

My Nation Underground - 2024 Reissue

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My Nation Underground is an album ripe for rediscovery - This re-issue faithfully replicates the original 1988 Mercury Records UK release and is pressed onto high quality 180g vinyl.

Saint Julian had established Julian Cope as something of an establishment antihero and audiences, who'd been reacquainted with him were expecting more of the same. Instead, Cope changed his band line-up and attempted to mix funk and Krautrock on his new material; Chris Blackwell paired him with veteran US producer Ron Fair. The album produced three singles including "Charlotte Anne" which was a minor hit in the US. Album opener, "5 O'Clock World", a cover of a 1965 Vogues song, is light and poppy and the seven-minute title track, complete with strings and a harmonica solo, is one of the greatest (and perhaps only) attempts to merge go-go beats with post punk. There is a great deal to enjoy on My Nation Underground, underlining as it does Julian Cope's desire to continually push the envelope.

STAFF COMMENTS

Ashley says: Both bizarre and brilliant, Copey never failed to surprise us.

TRACK LISTING

5 O'Clock World
Vegetation
Charlotte Anne
My Nation Underground
China Doll / Someone Like Me
Easter Everywhere
I'm Not Losing Sleep
The Great White Hoax

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Julian Cope

Saint Julian - 2024 Reissue

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Released in March 1987, Saint Julian was seen as a storming return to form for Julian Cope - This re-issue faithfully replicates the original 1987 Mercury Records UK release and is pressed onto high quality 180g vinyl.

Signed to Island Records, his Iggy Pop/ Jim Morrison side was cultivated, the weirdness dialled down, leathers were worn and a rock'n'roll microphone stand was utilised. The lead track "World Shut Your Mouth" gave Cope his first solo UK Top 20 hit, a big, brash slice of garage rock, it was a post- punk equivalent to David Bowie returning with Let's Dance; simple, straightforward. Backed by what Cope called his 'two-car garage band', the album reached No 11 in the UK chart, his highest placing to date whether solo or in The Teardrop Explodes, it also entered the US Billboard Hot 200. It's not all straight- ahead stomp, the eight minute closer "A Crack In The Clouds" harks back to the Teardrop Explodes' Wilder, and Kate St. John's oboe on the title track evokes his Mercury albums.

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Andy says: This was a very exciting return for the erstwhile Acid Pop King with four huge numbers in particular Eve's Volcano, Trampolene, Spacehopper and ofcourse the imperious title track, all made sure that JC wasback where he belonged!

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Trampolene
Shot Down
Eve's Volcano
Spacehopper
Planet Ride
World Shut Your Mouth
Saint Julian
Pulsar
Screaming Secrets
A Crack In The Clouds

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Julian Cope

Fried - 2024 Reissue

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Julian Cope's second album of 1984 - Never re-pressed in its original format, this re-issue faithfully replicates the original Mercury Records UK release with poster, and is pressed onto high quality 180g vinyl.

'Fried' is one of Julian Cope's boldest. It made many think that after a while teetering on the edge, Julian Cope had finally tipped over into an artistic madness, amplified by his wearing a turtle shell and staring at a toy van on a landscaped spoil tip in Warwickshire on the album's sleeve. Opening track 'Reynard The Fox' added to it all, a six-minute psychedelic garage rock tour-de-force, breaking down to a Cope monologue where he gravely intones English folk tales from his vantage point, referring also to an onstage stomach-slashing incident from 1983. 'Sunspots', the sole single taken from the album, is one of his greatest recordings in a career that spans over 40 years.

'Fried' is up there with some of the very best works of the singular British eccentric.

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1. Reynard The Fox
2. Bill Drummond Said
3. Laughing Boy
4. Me Singing
5. Sunspots
6. The Bloody Assizes
7. Search Party
8. O King Of Chaos
9. Holy Love
10. Torpedo

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Julian Cope

World Shut Your Mouth - 2024 Reissue

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Originally issued in 1984, 'World Shut Your Mouth' saw the mercurial leader of The Teardrop Explodes establish himself as a fully-fledged solo artist - Never re-pressed in its original format, this re-issue faithfully replicates the original 1984 Mercury Records UK release and is pressed onto high quality 180g vinyl.

When The Teardrop Explodes finally ground to a halt in late 1982, all eyes were on what leader Julian Cope would do next. After retreating to the village of Drayton Bassett in Staffordshire for an extended period, Cope began writing 'World Shut Your Mouth', his first solo album.

Released in March 1984, it is the closest to his old band of all his solo work ('Metranil Vavin' and 'Pussyface' were both originally intended for the Teardrops), 'World Shut Your Mouth' featured Gary Dwyer on drums, and giving the album its most distinctive sound, Kate St. John on oboe. Beautifully pastoral, it is full of highlights such as 'Strasbourg', 'Kolly Kibber's Birthday' and the wistful, reflective 'Head Hang Low'. The strange, string-led, schizophrenic, 'Sunshine Playroom' was the album's first single, followed up by 'radio hit' 'Greatness And Perfection'.

'World Shut Your Mouth' is a deeply satisfying album, worthy of reappraisal.

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1. Bandy's First Jump
2. Metranil Vavin
3. Strasbourg
4. Elegant Chaos
5. Quizmaster
6. Kolly Kibber's Birthday
7. Sunshine Playroom
8. Head Hang Low
9. Pussyface
10. Greatness And Perfection
11. Lunatic And Fire-Pistol

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Julian Cope

Japrocksampler

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Julian Cope, eccentric and visionary rock musician, follows the runaway underground success of his book "Krautrocksampler" with "Japrocksampler", a cult deconstruction of Japanese rock music, and reveals what really happened when East met West after World War Two. It explores the clash between traditional, conservative Japanese values and the wild rock 'n' roll renegades of the 1960s and 70s, and tells of the seminal artists in Japanese post-war culture, from itinerant art-house poets to violent refusenik rock groups with a penchant for plane hijacking.

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Julian Cope

Head-On/Repossessed

Element Books

Julian Cope's highly acclaimed autobiography and its long-awaited sequel in one extraordinary volume. Julian Cope shot to fame with eighties band â€˜Teardrop Explodes' during the Punk era. Hailed as a visionary by those people who recognise his genius and a madman by those who find him perplexing, he has become a cult figure in the music world.

Head-On/Repossessed is written in Cope's own inimitable style and follows his journey through a time of incredible change within the music industry. Head-on is the highly acclaimed autobiography that The Observer viewed as â€œbook of the yearâ€ when it was first released. Repossesed picks up in 1983 where Head On ends and continues up until 1989.

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Julian Cope

Self Civil War

Head Heritage

Across 13 keenly observed and beautifully orchestrated songs, Julian Cope’s new album Self Civil War heaves with unrest and the spirit of 2020. Pure Cope: compelling earworms of barbarian intelligence. Celebrate the arrival of this new decade with Julian Cope’s rampant new album Self Civil War. Crammed with songs that reach deep inside you, each possessed of its own micro-worldview, Self Civil War showcases Cope’s songwriting at its most searching since JEHOVAHKILL. Road-testing the zeitgeist with kitchen sink psycho-dramas like ‘A Dope on Drugs’, ‘Your Facebook, My Laptop’ and ‘Billy’, Self Civil War also showcases the insightful Heroic Ballads ‘Einstein’ ‘You Will Be Mist’ and ‘The Great Raven’. In typical Cope stylee, the 13 songs of Self Civil War brim with sound FX, enormous orchestral arrangements, timeless uprisings of Ur-folk and hefty near-Krautrock anthems. It’s the first release in Cope’s ‘Our Troubled Times’ series, and a fine temporary refuge from our daily bombardment by media luvvies and fuckhead world leaders who take us all for idiots.Celebrate the arrival of this new decade with Julian Cope’s rampant new album Self Civil War.

Crammed with songs that reach deep inside you, each possessed of its own micro-worldview, Self Civil War showcases Cope’s songwriting at its most searching since JEHOVAHKILL. Road-testing the zeitgeist with kitchen sink psycho-dramas like ‘A Dope on Drugs’, ‘Your Facebook, My Laptop’ and ‘Billy’, Self Civil War also showcases the insightful Heroic Ballads ‘Einstein’ ‘You Will Be Mist’ and ‘The Great Raven’. In typical Cope stylee, the 13 songs of Self Civil War brim with sound FX, enormous orchestral arrangements, timeless uprisings of Ur-folk and hefty near-Krautrock anthems. It’s the first release in Cope’s ‘Our Troubled Times’ series, and a fine temporary refuge from our daily bombardment by media luvvies and fuckhead world leaders who take us all for idiots.

TRACK LISTING

1 That Aint No Way To Make A Million
2 A Cosmic Flash
3 You Will Be Mist
4 The Great Raven
5 Berlin Facelift
6 Immortal
7 Einstein
8 Billy
9 A Dope On Drugs
10 Your Facebook My Laptop
11 Requiemfor A Dead Horse
12 ‘Self Civil War’
13 A Vicory Dance

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Julian Cope

Trip Adviser (The Very Best Of Julian Cope 1999-2014)

Head Herritage

Released on Head Heritage's brand new Lord Yatesbury record label, Trip Advizer collects together sixteen songs from the last decade-and-a-half of the Archdrude's musical career. The songs have mainly been culled from Cope’s past seven albums – Rome Wasn’t Burned In A Day, Citizen Cain’d, Dark Orgasm, You Gotta Problem With Me, Black Sheep, Psychedelic Revolution and Revolutionary Suicide.

The anthology also includes a couple of concert favourites – ‘Conspiracist Blues’ and ‘Julian In The Underworld’ – and features a special re-recording of the Psychedelic Revolution title track. The Archdrude might well be up for the odd interview or three, but admits that this will be entirely dependent on the grandness of each individual journalist’s cultural status. His TV blackout remains in place, but he can be seen in the flesh (by UK residents only) touring this baby throughout the dark winter days of early 2015.

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These Things I Know
Hell Is Wicked
Psychedelic Odin
Raving On The Moor
I'm Living In The Room They Found Saddam In
They Were On Hard Drugs
A Child Is Born In Cerrig-y-Drudion
Cromwell In Ireland
Woden
Zoroaster
Julian In The Underworld
Revolutionary Suicide
All The Blowing-Themselves-Up Motherfuckers
Conspiracist Blues
Psychedelic Revolution
Shrine Of The Black Youth

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Julian Cope

The Collection

Universal

As the title suggests, this is a compilation of some of the finer moments of his solo career so far.

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