Julian Cope
Floored Genius 2: Best of the BBC sessions 1983-91
Nighttracks
CDNT003
(1993)
Rock/Pop
CD, 17
Tracks, 61:42
Length
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01 |
The Greatness & Perfection of Love |
Julian Cope |
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03:22 |
02 |
Head Hang Low |
Julian Cope |
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04:06 |
03 |
Hey High Class Butcher |
Julian Cope |
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04:05 |
04 |
Sunspots |
Julian Cope |
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02:55 |
05 |
Me Singing |
Julian Cope |
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03:33 |
06 |
Hobby |
Julian Cope |
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01:11 |
07 |
24a, Velocity Crescent |
Julian Cope |
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03:47 |
08 |
Laughing Boy |
Julian Cope |
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05:27 |
09 |
O King of Chaos |
Julian Cope |
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02:18 |
10 |
Reynard the Fox |
Julian Cope |
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03:25 |
11 |
Pulsar |
Julian Cope |
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03:33 |
12 |
Crazy Farm Animal |
Julian Cope |
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03:09 |
13 |
Christmas Mourning |
Julian Cope |
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02:58 |
14 |
Planet Rider: Transmitting |
Julian Cope |
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03:50 |
15 |
Soul Medley |
Julian Cope; Funkadelic |
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08:11 |
16 |
You Think It's Love |
Julian Cope |
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01:58 |
17 |
Double Vegetation |
Julian Cope |
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03:54 |
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Packaging |
Jewel Case |
Spars |
DDD |
Sound |
Stereo |
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Vocals |
Julian Cope |
Guitar |
Donald Ross Skinner |
Bass |
James Eller |
Keyboards |
Tim Bran |
Drums |
Chris Witten |
Drums |
Gary Dwyer |
Drums |
Rooster Cosby |
Guitar |
John Dillon |
Guitar |
Don "Moon-eye" Fair |
Producer |
Barry Andrews; Dale Griffin; John Porter; John Sparrow; Mark Radcliffe |
Engineer |
Martyn Parker; Mike Engles; Nick Gomm; Paul Lohn; Ted De Bono |
Cover by |
Rob Carter |
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Index |
#
732 |
Owner |
Dave |
Tags |
Alternative Rock, Experimental, Pop Rock, Psychedelic Rock |
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Purchased |
New |
Imported from |
England |
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Although Julian Cope was largely a social hermit during the mid-'80s, his darkest years personally, he remained a friend and favorite of BBC DJs Janice Long and John Peel, who regularly coaxed him from his Tamworth home into their studios for sessions. (In keeping with his craving for solitude, the majority of the mid-'80s recordings feature Cope strumming away at a guitar with only a cheap and clattery drum machine for accompaniment.) The results are startling for those familiar with the more polished studio recordings; stripped of its relatively lush orchestration, "Reynard the Fox" sounds like Roky Erickson at his most paranoid. The full-band sessions recorded just before and during the recording of 1991's Peggy Suicide find Cope utterly revitalized, off drugs, happily married, and, happily, even weirder than before. The throbbing "Soul Medley" jams together Funkadelic's "Free Your Mind & Your Ass Will Follow," the Mothers of Invention's "Are You Hung Up," and Cope's own Krautrock-inspired meltdown, "Hanging out and Hung up on the Line," for a mind-melter that no mere drug could provide. Although it's no substitute for the albums Julian Cope was recording in these years, The Best of the BBC Sessions: Floored Genius, Vol. 2 is essential for fans. -- Stewart Mason (allmusic.com)