A Beautiful Number

I was thinking that this blog was long overdue more Julian Cope. A quick check also revealed that I posted a themed Cope selection on 21st July 2023, so the fates have spoken. 

 

As an added bonus, here's a photo of the Arch Drude stripped to his banana yellow keks on stage at the first Phoenix Festival in Stratford-Upon-Avon on 16th July 1993. I was there and no matter what consciousness-altering substances the audience may have consumed, Julian Cope out-psyched us all.

 

Today's dozen songs span releases from 1984 to 2024, from second solo album Fried to the most recent Cope's Notes collection of outtakes and lost versions, this time focusing on 1992's magnum opus Jehovahkill.

Amazingly, given the number of JC compilations I've posted already, I think I've managed to avoid using any songs (or versions, at least) that have featured on a previous Dubhed selection. Check for yourself, as I've reactivated links to all fifteen of them below. 

 

Is there really such a thing as too much Julian Cope?!

 

1) Paleface (1992)

2) All The Blowing-Themselves-Up Motherfuckers (Will Realise The Minute They Die That They Were Suckers) (2008)

3) Senile Get (1995)

4) Odin In Lindisfarne (2023)

5) Pristeen (Album Version) (1991)

6) Preaching Revolution (Album Version) (2009)

7) Poet Is Priest, A Number Of Numbers (1995)

8) Vive Le Suicide (2012)

9) Pulsar (Janice Long Session) (1984)

10) Desi (1989)

11) Stop Harping On About The Way Life Used To Be (2018)

12) Me Singing (Album Version) (1984)

1984: Fried: 12

1989: China Doll EP: 10

1991: Peggy Suicide: 5

1992: Fear Loves This Place EP: 1

1993: Floored Genius 2: Best Of The BBC Sessions 1983-1991: 9

1995: 20 Mothers: 3

2008: Black Sheep: 2

2009: The Unruly Imagination: 6 

2012: Psychedelic Revolution: 8

2018: Skellington 3: The All-New 21st Century Adventures Of Skellington: 11

2023: Robin Hood: 4

2024: Cope's Notes #6: Jehovahkill: 7

A Beautiful Number (47:28) (KF) (Mega)

A Cope cornucopia, for your listening pleasure...

 

And Suddenly! The Teardrop Explodes: 16th June 2024 / 1st July 2023

Born To Entertain: Live 1987-2020: 25th May 2021

Copeulation: 24th April 2022 / 25th April 2022

Drawn And Quartered: 21st August 2022 

Drude, Where's My Car?: 21st July 2023

Everything Blows Me Away: 28th July 2021 

If You Can Call That Progress, Then We're Riding Different Bikes: 21st November 2021

Living One Hell Of A Heaven: 19th September 2021

Riding Through The Glen: 28th July 2023

Strangely Committed: 1st April 2023

The Hooded Antiquarian: 22nd November 2023

Upwards @ 65 Degrees: 21st October 2022

Urban Head Musics: 7th July 2021 / 15th February 2022

You Think It's Cool: 13th August 2021

21 Revolutions Per Minute: 21st October 2023