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In 1979 Julian Cope appeared as lead singer with the deceptively pop Teardrop Explodes just as the first wave of punk rock washed over. They were part of a new wave of Liverpool bands that included Echo & the Bunnymen. Their debut album "Kilimanjaro" was their first breakthrough and was soon followed by the Top 10 single 'Reward' in 1981. The band split two years later."
Cope ventured out on a solo career and had a string of single chart entries through to 1996, the best-known and biggest being 1986's 'World Shut Your Mouth'. His 1991 double album "Peggy Suicide" garnered many good notices and was a commercial success also. More recently, most of the music output has been collaborations as L.A.M.F, Brain Donor and Black Sheep and sufficiently extreme as to guarantee not to trouble the charts."
Alongside his music career he also developed as a writer and in 1995 he published Krautrocksampler, the definitive book on German underground music from the late 60s. 2005's Japrocksampler was similarly definitive on post-war to punk war Japan."
He has also written outside the music world with two highly regarded books: The Modern Antiquarian, an exhaustive guide to Britain's ancient sites, complete with maps, photographs and illustrations, and The Megalithic European, which explores the prehistoric wonders of Europe. The Independent described him as "writer, rocker, goddess-worshipper and self-styled shaman". His Head Heritage website is a vehicle for writing about his idiosyncratic taste in the outer vistas of music old, new, psychedelic, uncompromising, highly personal and frequently uncomfortable."
This year Faber & Faber published a Copendium of this writing and, with Ace handling the backroom functions, have produced a triple CD soundtrack to the book which is now available on Faber & Faber Records."
Never less than real, the compilation is as refreshing as it is challenging. It launches from the opening riff of Lord Buckley into a chronological trip through the dawn of hard rock/psychedelia/soundscapes of the late 60s/early 70s, arriving in the outer limits of punk at the end of Disc 1. With a great leap across the 80s, Disc 2 is an intense destructo-guitar fest in the age of grunge. By Disc 3 anything goes acoustically or electrically driven, but the intensity does not abate. Not for the faint-hearted, it is held together by the Cope doctrine of music."
The booklet features a note by Rob Young, author of the highly acclaimed Electric Eden. All of the music, sequencing and audio have been overseen by Julian Cope."
Side 1
Supermarket - Lord Buckley
Tio Minuter - Pärson Sound
Feathers From Your Tree - Blue Cheer
Einladung (Invitation) - Achim Reichel & Machines
Zu neuen Abenteuern (To New Adventures) - Achim Reichel & Machines
Im Zauber der 7 Sinne (In The Magic Forest) - Achim Reichel & Machines
Im Irrgarten des Geistes (In The Labyrinth Of The Mind) - Achim Reichel & Machines
Beim Walzer der Triebe (At The Walz Of The Inclinations) - Achim Reichel & Machines
Unter dem schwarz-grün-roten Banner (Under The Black-Green-Red Banner) - Achim Reichel & Machines
Internationalhymne (International Anthem) - Achim Reichel & Machines
Fall - Cold Sun
King Of The Streets - Armand Schaubroeck Steals
All My Life - Mirrors
Helicopter - Sand
Electro Rock - Simply Saucer
Tidal Wave - The Electric Eels
TV As Eyes - Chrome
Side 2
Crypto-Zoological Disaster - Monoshock
Mass Destruction - VON LMO
Hurricane - The Tight Bros From Way Back When
Oso Malo - Thrones
The Jaybird - Sunburned Hand of the Man
Baptism > Bar > Blues - Vibracathedral Orchestra
Return To Heaven - Comets on Fire
Stranded in Ashland - The New Lou Reeds
Side 3
The Temple - Haare
Child Of Orion - Vincent Black Shadow
Geryon's Throne - Orthodox
Ghost Eye Gaze: Ghost Eye See - Crow Tongue
Weissensee - Matt Baldwin
Lighter Slinger Festival - Gunslingers"
