Drawn And Quartered

Happy birthday to my oldest and dearest friend, Stuart. 

 

Friends since primary school and Julian Cope fans for nearly as long, there was really no other choice for today.

This selection is pure 21st Century Cope, from 2000 album An Audience With The Cope up to the newest, umpteenth album, England Expectorates, which was released on MP3 and CD on Friday. I'm holding out for the physical copy so I've included the lead single and closing track, which I posted about at the end of June.

This is the Arch Drude at his more melodic - I hate to say poppy - and mostly short and snappy songs, with one detour into his Brain Donor side project. Nothing longer than six and a half minutes, many under three.

 

There are a couple of live favourites that took a few years to make it onto an album: the aforementioned Cunts Can Fuck Off has been performed in concert since at least 2014, whilst Liver Big As Hartlepool 'only' took 3 or 4 years to make it from stage to studio, with 2017's Drunken Songs. And yes, the latter's title is a piss-take pun on this Pete Wylie song.

 

As mentioned many times here and elsewhere in the blogosphere, Stuart and I have been to many Julian Cope gigs since the late 1980s and was the last live music we saw together in 2020, shortly before COVID forced the UK into it's first lockdown. With things opening up and a new Julian Cope album released to the world, fingers crossed that the Arch Drude will be hitting the road sometime soon. 

 

This one's for you, dear friend.

Side One

1) Zennor Quoit (2003)

2) Billy (2020)

3) Paradise Mislaid (2013)

4) Gang Of Four (At Home He Feels Like A Tourist) (2009)

5) Get Back On It: Brain Donor (2003)

6) Cunts Can Fuck Off (Album Version) (2022)

7) The Everlasting No (Version) (2015)

8) Liver Big As Hartlepool (Album Version) (2017)

9) Soon To Forget Ya (2007)

Side Two

1) A Sassenach Tune (Recorded for the Robbie Burns Festival) (2006)

2) Feed My Rock 'n' Roll (2008)

3) Very Krishna (2018)

4) Blood Sacrifice (2008)

5) Mother, Where Is My Father (Cover of David Peel & The Lower East Side) (2009)

6) Holy Mother Of God (2000)

7) The Death & Resurrection Show (Finale Edit By Khayem) (2005)

 

2000: An Audience With The Cope: B6

2003: Rome Wasn't Burned In A Day: A1

2003: Too Freud To Rock 'n' Roll, Too Jung To Die (By Brain Donor): A5 

2005: Dark Orgasm: B7

2007: You Gotta Problem With Me: A9

2008: Black Sheep: B2, B4

2009: Floored Genius 4: B1

2009: The Unruly Imagination: A4, B5

2013: Revolutionary Suicide: A3 

2015: Trip Advizer EP: A7

2017: Drunken Songs: A8

2018: Skellington 3: B3

2020: Self Civil War: A2 

2022: Cunts Can Fuck Off EP: A6

Side One (31:26)

Side Two (31:09)

 

Drawn And Quartered (A Dubhed Selection By Khayem) (1:02:34)