Reviews (page 6 of 7)
Long album. There’s some interesting tunes and sections but I’m just not a fan of his voice.
There are a few tracks on this record that I think are decent. The rest of the record is kind of a dumpster fire. Favourite Track(s): Pristeen Least Favourite Track(s): Western Front 1992 C.E., Hung Up And Hanging Out To Dry
Here it is officer. Here's the fucker that's bringing down the brit average. Nick him lads. I'll quote my ex-wife. Too vapid, too British, and so long it almost hurts. Glad to see it gone.
Hørt og glemt.
Langt - kedeligt - weird
Did not care for this one. Songwriting is unfocused, production is weak, and runtime is bloated. This feels like an amateur basement project
I feel like one day with this album is not enough to really appreciate it. I will probably get back to it at some point.
Overall, not upset that this was included, but I didnt connect strongly with it. More interesting to me was Julian Copes obsession with krautrock.
I was not previously familiar with the artist or album. It's a sort of rock that has a dark but fast vibe. I didn't mind this at first, but I feel that it went on a bit too long and was a bit too repetitive, and I got tired of it by the end. I won't listen to this again.
Yeah it's got some parts I like but they are few and far between. Kinda lands with a thud for me. It doesn't even make me want to listen to it again later and see. It's just there taking up time.
Really, this is one of the 1001 albums one must listen to? Of all albums and all music varieties in the world? No, that is simply not true. As is the case with so many other albums on this list. Still, the album is ok. But is in no way special. It is comparable to thousands of other albums out there.
I like a good bit of the music, but generally found myself disliking the vocals and lyrics most of the time. And even the music had highs and very low lows. So a really uneven experience. I’d give it a 2.5 if I could.
Not unlistenable, but not really my style.
This feels like an album for snobs who know better than you, explaining this is Cope's breakout album. But who the fuck is Cope and why should I care about his breakout if this is the result. It wasn't bad, just long, and felt like an artsy-fartsy grunge album. I guess 1001 albums leaves a lot of room for filler too ...
Favorite Tracks: Soldier Blue, If You Loved Me at All Cope cuts an interesting figure in the British music scene. One of the many skinny long-haired post-punk 80s figures who leaned more into the esoteric the further he grew away from the scene. His books are maybe more interesting than his music; his Krautrocksampler and The Modern Antiquarian books being massively influential in 2000s blog culture. I'm cold on the music though. It's quite long and split up across a few different sounds, none of which it sticks with for long enough for me to get the spirit. The best songs are Mancunian imitations; The Fall and Happy Mondays but not as singular. Soldier Blue, with its Lenny Bruce samples, and dark trippy sound is the album's highlight pulling on Cope's own exploding political consciousness and his love for history.
Not sure how this one made the list. It’s just kind of there.
Sometimes it feels like to make a respected 90s rock album, you don’t need great musicianship or powerful songwriting, you just needed the right "vibe." When people point to the decade as the last time rock had mainstream relevance, I don’t think it’s because the music was so good and successful. I think it’s because, with some very notable exceptions, it was too self-absorbed and fractured for people to care about. Was going to give this 1 star but I like the guitar work on "Hanging Out and Hung Up On the Line."
Every album is a time capsule and this project is a time machine. Once again I'm presented with an artist I had never heard of and once again I'm left knowing why. There are moments on this album that I found myself enjoying, some good bass lines. I really only enjoyed one track "If You Loved Me At All". Otherwise it was forgettable...for me anyway.
Julian Cope is a bit of a sage. Among other things, he was blowing the whistle about climate change here, in 1991. I found this record to be an exercise in the endurance of tedium though.
Not my thing and way too long
Насправді альбом дуже посередній,хітових пісень немає,слова це дитячий садок,є гарні зачатки,а так це не те щоб я слухав 2 з 5
Pristeen - 3/5 Double Vegetation - 4/5 East Easy Rider - 3/5 Promised Land - 3/5 Hanging Out & Hung Up on the Line - 3/5 Safesurfer - 1/5 If You Loved Me at All - 4/5 Drive, She Said - 5/5 Soldier Blue - 3/5 You... - 3/5 Not Raving but Drowning - 3/5 Head - 4/5 Leperskin - 2/5 Beautiful Love - 1/5 Western Front 1992 CE - 3/5 Hung Up & Hanging Out to Dry - 1/5 The American Lite - 1/5 Las Vegas Basement - 3/5 Average score: 2.8/5 (rounding down) for some reason i had high hopes i'd enjoy this more than i did. maybe just cuz the album art looked interesting i didn't like this enough to justify rounding up my score
No começo nao gostei, no final ate que tava gostando...lembrou um pouco de happy mondays 2,5
Super interesting wiki on this dude. Not sure about the music
I delayed listening to my album for the day for 2 or 3 months because I so didn't want to listen to this album (that I'd never heard of). Finally listened today and it's not nearly as bad as I had thought it would be. It's fine, I guess, but the only interesting song is Beautiful Love. Marginally. I don't expect I'll ever listen to another song from this album.
Yeah, I'm not sure what to expect when I get these weird and obscure albums on the generator. It really is not great. I don't know, I don't really have much to say, it's just really long and dull. It's just a snoozer, that's it. Favorite Tracks: Pristeen, Promised Land Rating: 2/5
REM for incels.
Music was good but couldn’t take his voice.
Can't find a single reason why this would be an essential album to listen to
Eh
I went into this album blind. It wasnt bad- the sound was somewhat interesting but nothing really captured me. The instrumentation was decent, but the lyricality was a miss for me. Overall- probably a 2.5
I was kind of surprised at how little I liked this one. I've heard a few of Julian Cope's songs over the years ("World Shut Your Mouth", "Trampoline", "All The Blowing-Themselves-Up Motherfuckers...") and I like those. I've heard Peggy Suicide referred to as his masterpiece. The band he's got on here is fantastic - loved the music. Unfortunately, the lyrics kind of killed it for me. Maybe it's because I wasn't British in the 90s? After reading up on the album, there is apparently quite a bit of political commentary going on, but I didn't really catch that. So, I guess, mad respect for him and the album, but it's not my thing.
Before listening: "Who he fuck is Julian Cope?" After listening: "Makes sense why I don't know him"
songs that just lazily repeat the song title as the primary lyric without any nuance drive me CRAZY. this hatred is probably borne of having to play "the Prince is Giving a Ball" 800 times. whatever. Pristeen wasn't my favourite.
I certainly didn't need 75 minutes of this. The opening song "Pristeen" asks, "How much can you take?" It turns out, not as much as Cope was dealing out. I fast forwarded through 3/4ths of the songs before bailing out from disinterest and boredom.
# 570 : Peggy Suicide Peggy Suicide - A Marathon of mild disappointment I went into Peggy Suicide with low expectations—and somehow, it still managed to underwhelm. Clocking in at a soul-draining 2.5 hours, this album immediately tests your patience. The opening track “Pristeen” asks, “How much can you take?” and by the end of it, I was already asking myself the same question. There’s no denying Cope had ideas here—lots of them. But ideas don’t make an album. This is a sprawling, meandering journey through half-baked concepts, forgettable melodies, and vocals that sound like someone reading their journal out loud in a pub. It’s listenable, technically, but not enjoyable. No hits, no hooks, no reason to return. I skipped a few tracks. I zoned out. I got bored. And I couldn’t wait for it to be over. Verdict: Ambitious in length, forgettable in impact. A marathon of mild disappointment. Best Track (if you must): [None stood out.] Closing thought: I have to ask—do the people giving this five stars actually listen to the albums they’re rating, or just admire the word count? Listened: 17/09/2025
Wasnt the biggest fan of this album
Album had a good start with a pristeen and then it became the most mediocre album I ever heard. I also checked and guy release by an album yearly like come on. Mediocre at best. Fav tracks: Pristeen Safesurfer (but it reminded me a lot of Pink Floyd) 2/5
point9.
Peggy Suicide is ambitious and sprawling, with Julian Cope clearly aiming for something big and important, but it does not always land. The album stretches across a lot of styles, from psychedelic rock to poppier moments, and while that variety keeps it unpredictable, it also makes it uneven. A few tracks have interesting grooves and flashes of strong writing, but just as often the songs meander or feel overextended. The biggest issue is that the record tries to carry too much weight. There are ideas about politics, the environment, and spirituality running through it, yet the music itself often struggles to hold attention. It feels more like a statement than an album you want to revisit regularly. There is no doubt Cope poured a lot of himself into Peggy Suicide, but the result is patchy and inconsistent, more admirable in scope than enjoyable in execution.
Not for me.
This was fine. Far too long, and the sound I wasn't a huge fan of, but it certainly could have been worse.
I'm just not a psychedelic rock fan. Not the worst in genre though.
I didn’t hate this, but being at just over 75 minutes, it’s just too freaking long. Sometimes listening to the albums on this list feels too much like work, and this was one of those times. After getting about halfway through the album, I skipped ahead to Beautiful Love, since I noticed it was by far the song most downloaded on the album. I can see why, as it was catchy and had some commercial appeal. But again, for me this record was work…not fun.
First I’ve heard of Julian Cope and looking at the reviews, I’m not too hopeful. Let’s see… …all feels a bit cheesy and self-important. I can almost see him listening back to the recordings, basking in self-glory. Just nothing particularly grabbing or skillfull. Lacking substance or heart. Actually looking forward to this album finishing and there is still SO much to go. Urgh. And the length only strengthens my views above. Get. Over. Yourself. Yeh, not gonna give you the play stats, my man - 2* and your lucky. As someone else said Julian NOPE.
Too long, another victim of the CD, like much of the 90s. Not bad music but it felt soooo bloated. Will not listen again
Listenable and fun, but a deluxe version with an entire 2nd disc is a treat too rich for my tastes
Best Song: You... The saxophone gave some well-needed energy to this otherwise stagnant album. Worst Song: Hung Up And Hanging Out To Dry. Everything that happens in this song sounds like it happens accidentally. Overall: Nothing against him, but this just sounds like a regular guy? This feels like a weekend garage project. He's got some decent, stock-standard dude rock, and I love that for him, but what about any of this is so important that it ought to be included on a list called "1001 albums to hear before you die?" Somehow, I feel like even the artist would be confused by his own entry. And for the love of Christ, 29 songs?
Not familiar with the singer. It was OK.
The best part of this album is that I could tune it out. 2 1/2 hours is just too long, and most of the tracks just seemed like noise.
It wasn't bad, but will I listen to it again? Nope. Will I even remember the name "Julian Cope"? Nope, I had a hard time remembering it even while I was listening to the music. Still, the music isn't terrible. Forgettable, but not terrible.
Never heard of them before, not sure I'll listen to them much more again.
Sounds like every warm up band I ever saw. Fine to bob along to but otherwise nothing that really engaged me
Way too fucking long. I actually don’t hate the vibe so it would be a 3/5 if it was actually edited!! Pristeen & Hanging Out and Hung Up on the Line stood out. But 2/5 because it wore down my soul.
I feel like there was a mediocre album in here trying to get out but it was smothered in too many songs - if ever there was an argument for bringing back vinyl and limitations of that as a format, it’s this cacophony of indulgence.
Just not my thing. Don't think I'll be back to give it a second chance either.
2.5 hours... Every time I see this I think that the artist is some kind of experimental person that could not limit themself to fewer songs. This album aligns with that theory. It's too much for me... Some songs I could not finish as they got too annoying, others were okay again. But letting me go through 2.5h of that is borderline torture.
Meh
Surprised this made the cut. Nothing memorable here
196/1089 - "It is generally seen as the beginning of Cope's trademark sound." Sounds like generic furniture advertisement music most of the time. Competent but nothing is exciting to me. Between a 2 and a 3 on this one. I liked the sax solo in "You..."
Whiny, out of tune singing and mediocre instrumentals. As background music ok but come on, this must be a troll right
Not quite
Maybe about 60 minutes too long, but the remaining moments are surprisingly decent.
*British voice* what a wanker Just barely a 2. Consider yourself lucky Julian Cope
Kind of interesting but definitely not for me
Difficult to finish. Might have been 3 stars if it weren't over two hours long
The second half of the album is certainly better than the first. But that is a low bar. I do give credit for having a variety of different styles and sounds within the album. But I really didn't care for it.
I'm so over this album I don't even have the words to say how over it I am. 2/4
Need more time with the album but first impressions aren't good.
This just isn't my jam. It's like a poor man's Nick Cave
Not a fan. Favorite track: Safesurfer
Dumb album for dumb-dumbs.
Meh I like the Teardrop Explodes a decent bit but this one was just alright. It started to win me over throughout the second half but still doesn't feel like a necessary inclusion on the list. Also unrelated but it astounds me how many times I see a review complain about the bonus tracks thinking they are part of the main album. Do some people not even read the wikipedia pages with the track lists before listening? Rating: 2.4
Quite an experimental rock album. I am not so sure, I enjoy it 2/5
I dislike performatively deep male voices like this. It's a poor substitute for being an interesting vocalist. This did nothing for me and I think I listened to the dreaded Expanded Edition by accident.
It's a pretty easy listen, I found it to be kinda average art rock. Not bad by any means, but not noteworthy for me. It was also way too long for my taste. Instrumentally it has nice moments, some nice solos and some interesting compositional ideas. Cope's vocals weren't my favourite, I found him a bit underwhelming. Some instrument selections were really underwhelming too, like the "trumpet" synth on "Beautiful Love", which I found way too cartoon-ish and honestly it sounded awful. Lyrically, Cope delves into several different themes and isn't afraid to get political, but honestly, none of it really struck me or I found particularly memorable. In terms of specific songs, I have to commend "Safesurfer" because it's pretty interesting musically, a nice epic composition even though I didn't like much the chorus and the singing. "Leperskin" was nice too. I also really liked "Hang Up And Hanging Out To Dry", has a nice drum beat and I liked the production, maybe also because it was mostly an instrumental?
Its a long album split into 4 parts but I'm not too sure about why the parts are split the way they are. There isn't much to differentiate each of them with this album being pretty stylistically consistent throughout. The music itself is decent/competent all the way through, though for 75 minutes of runtime you have to bring better than that to justify its length. Half of the runtime could be cut without any real loss in my opinion. There is nothing here I would call outright bad but nothing that really made me have any desire to listen again.
2.2 Come on now. 75 minutes is extremely long for an experimental album. Just comes across like a rambling mess. Some brief moments of enjoyment, but brief being the key word.
Good god what a boring slog. Literally felt time slow down and my life force drain away
I only listened to the original album, not even the deluxe edition, and I got a say, this album is about 12 songs too long. The music itself is fine, nothing special, very 90s. I think I'd view it more favorably if it hadn't felt so interminable.
I did not like this album. Safesurfer had some interesting stuff going on, as did You.... Not a fan of the vocals, or the music for the most part. 2
I've found this to be a pretty genuine attempt to make some good music, but it fell short of resonating with me. The lyrics could have used a song writer. Weird and interesting stuff.
Meh
Boring folk and rock songs about sex and cars, but with knowing winks at the audience to assure us that it has a satirical edge and if we think it's bad than we have just missed the point. Happy for this to whoosh over my head.
i’m tired
There might be some good bones here but I’m not sticking around to figure it out
Hella long, i hope it's good It was meh
10/06/2025 So long, so weird, so bloody boring.
Has enjoyable moments but very bloated and has its low point but an okay listen but not great
Disc 2 was an upgrade from the 1st
Really cool sound but the vocals are a drug induced disaster.
Aside from a couple solid solos (guitar in Safesurfer, sax in You...), I thought this album was kind of bland. Slightly psychedelic, mostly forgettable.
Just because you're good at playing guitar, doesn't mean you know how to create good music.
really didn't connect with this
Not for me, couldn't get into it
really, really did not enjoy this. almost a 1.
some of this was fun but i said "what the fuck" a lot during it, and he sounds like jv nick cave often. "enigmatic storyteller, contrarian, mystic, and hallucinogen enthusiast" yeah sure man
Am I glad weird little dudes are making weird music? Yes. Did I like this? No. 2.5 rounded down because some of it was repetitive in a way I disliked and I didn't really like his voice. Yes it's subjective but I am subject to my personal view and interpretation of the world!!!
If you loved me at all you wouldn’t make this album over 2 hours long. A prime example of why you shouldn’t put every song you’ve ever written on the album, nothing special, pretty boring
A little too experimental for my taste!
4.5/10
Fine album, not that interesting to me
Far too long 2/5
Shite
The music was average to meh. The vocals were overly distracting.
This album is like a huge box filled with packing peanuts and somewhere in there are some really nice pieces of jewelry. It's too big with too much filler to have to root through to find the few good songs Check out St Julian or his singles collection
another mid album by a british man
Good for Cope (lol) for being included in this list I guess. Liked Safesurfer.
This is what a hip corporate executive at Nike would listen to in 1992.
Not saying all music needs to have point or a purpose, but what the fuck was the point of this? What is the intended response from the listener? And who is the intended listener? This was all over the place and honestly I’m trying to figure out what Julian Cope was even trying to do here. I’m sure there is an audience for it, but I’m not in it, and honestly my life would have been perfectly fine if I never heard this. I’ve heard worse, but I’ve heard a lot better.
He intentado terminar este álbum cuatro veces hasta que por fin he conseguido sentarme a escucharlo con tranquilidad. Y la verdad es que preferiría haber invertido este esfuerzo en otro álbum, porque este tampoco es que me haya causado gran impresión. Tiene una amalgama de estilos curiosa, siempre orbitando alrededor de una estética sureña, pero con ciertos toques experimentales/psicodélicos o incluso post-punk. Probablemente "art rock" sea la mejor forma de etiquetarlo. Los temas suelen ser simples, pero con pequeños toques que los hacen interesantes: un cambio de estilo, un instrumento inesperado... Por su parte, las letras son aún más abstractas que la música, poéticas y de temática muy personal. Pues bueno, no está mal. Un álbum más de otro cantautor británico excéntrico pseudo-punki de alma libre. Podría haberme muerto sin haberlo escuchado.
2.5
Stylistically it's all over the place. There are some interesting moments scattered throughout, but over 18 tracks those moments are spread too thin. Overall it feels like a record of half fleshed out ideas.
This would be a decent album if it were half as long (and I even only listened to side A)
I'm not quite sure what I think of this album. It's not bad, but it isn't really grabbing me either. I'm going to listen to it again before submitting my rating. I don't have to listen to it again. I just don't like it.
I knew nothing bout Julian Cope when I heard this album. First off, it’s very long and a bit exhausting. The first song of interest to me was Promised Land, I enjoy how it slowly builds to soaring guitars. I’m not interested in type of music so I’m not to spend much time here.
01) Pristeen - 6,0 02) Double Vegetation - 5,5 03) East Easy Rider - 6,5 04) Promised Land - 6,0 05) Hanging Out & Hung Up on the Line - 5,5 06) Safesurfer - 5,5 07) If You Loved Me at All - 5,5 08) Drive, She Said - 5,5 09) Soldier Blue - 6,0 10) You... - 5,5 11) Not Raving But Drowning - 5,5 12) Head - 6,0 13) Leperskin - 5,5 14) Beautiful Love - 6,5 15) Western Front 1992 CE - 4,0 16) Hung Up & Hanging Out to Dry - 4,5 17) The American Lite - 6,0 18) Las Vegas Basement - 5,5 TOTAL: 5,61 (56/100) This drags on forever. The album cover is terrible, the songs aren't that terrible but they're not that special either. I don't know what this album did to deserve to be one of the 1001.
2 hours of self indulgent nonsense. Not every album by a British rock band has to make the list.
So Julian Cope is just a student of Jim Morrison huh. Way too long and indulgent. Way too up it’s own ass. “East Easy Rider” was groovy…
A couple songs were kinda catchy but this was all over the place
this album is sooo mid. the opening track was solid and hooked me into the album but everything else afterwards just was okay and not all that great. just personally not for me. julian copes voice is just so boring to me personally. and nothing really stook out to me. the whole time i was just waiting for the album to over. but i was glad to hear something new. also the last song on the album was also not that bad but literally every other song was just sooooo just lame.
Das war lang und es hat sich auch noch gezogen, die Lieder fand ich ziemlich langweilig und ähnlich.
I have no idea what this was but it wasn't good. DNF, wouldn't relisten
2.5
Reminded me of Dave Graney sometimes
bruv... nah
A lot of effort when into this album. Ambitious in scope. It’s fine. Quite ambling for me. Studio rawness doesn’t do it for me.
Bored me a little. Nothing currently stuck in my memory.
Meh. Started out kind of catchy but I got very bored. WAY too long.
I find Julian Cope the media identity a lot more interesting than many of his records actually play out. Julian Cope's voice is OK, but he really only sings the same basic tune over and over again (and it wasn't that great the first time). Given his interest in krautrock (he literally wrote the book), this is much less krautrock-y than I would expect. Not very motorik,. Not very interesting, or psychedelic. The tinny early 90s production grates on my ears. And so fucking long... this album is twice as long as it needed to be. This album made very little impression on me, other than to test my patience.
Een ietwat lange plaat die wel echt een beetje voelt als een reis door alle alternative rock stijlen die zijn oorsprong vonden in de UK over de jaren 70 en 80. Ik ken deze gozer van de post-punk band The Teardrop Explodes, die echt wel leuke dingen maakte. Nogal een vreemde gozer, en creativiteit die daar bij past. Maar zoals ik al zei, het meandert wel een beetje van stijl naar stijl, maar zonder ooit echt raak te schieten. Het is 'mediocre at best'. De opener 'Pristeen' en 'Safesurfer' zijn aardig, voor de rest maakt het weinig indruk. Maar wel een goed moment om The Teardrop Explodes weer eens aan te zetten! 5,5/10 Highlights: Pristeen Safesurfer
Deze gast en dit album kan ik met alleen een luisterbeurt totaal niet plaatsen. Dat verdient eigenlijk een goeie deepdive. Daar heb je overigens genoeg tijd voor tijdens dit album. Was die lengte nou nodig? Er zit wel energie in Julian, die is aanstekelijk. Toch vraag ik me af waar de nominering voor deze lijst nu vandaan komt. Het voegt alles samen wat in de drie decennia daarvoor reeds is verschenen. Het is een mix van te veel, en daardoor lijkt het niks te zijn geworden. 5/10
Just fuck right off. 1.67
It's really something.
Not necessarily bad, just boring to me. There were some good moments, but nothing really worth returning to for me. 2/5
Didn’t do much for me
Liked a couple of tracks. That’s it though.
Julian has always struck me as someone who wants to be known as An Artist, but he just grates on me.
maybe the most boring album i've ever listened to.
я хоть и не пегги, но суицид под это мог бы сделать
I’m not listening to 2.5 hours sorry
My first thought was that the vocals on the first track were abrasive and offkey and his repeated command to "tell me how much you can take" at the end sounded like he was daring me to get through the whole album. I ended up really enjoying the funk of "East Easy Rider," and "The American Lite" also stood out to me. Overall, I enjoyed the album a lot more than I thought I would based on the first track, even though it did sometimes veer into that British new wave territory I've learned I hate (especially in the vocal production). I was surprised by the end by my thought that I might listen to this again.
, Seethe, Dilate Some of these songs are marginally less bad than the others and are technically the standouts. E.g. Safesurfer
Stopped at the first remix, since it seems to go on forever. Julian is definitely talented, and the album has a very unique sound, but I just didn't find myself getting even remotely excited about it.
Onko brittejä oikeasti olemassa? Tarkoitan, että niiden täytyy olla meemejä, niissä ei ole yhtään mitään. Ja tarkoitan sitä. Käydään todisteet läpi: Mistä ne ovat kotoisin? Yhtään maata maailmassa ei ole nimeltään Britannia. Jotkut sanovat tulleensa Englannista ja Englanti on Britannian sisällä, mutta jos näin olisi, he olisivat brittejä, he olisivat englantilaisia. Mitä he syövät? Jokaisessa maassa on ainakin yksi pääruoka. Jopa Yhdysvalloissa on hampurilaisia. Mutta mitä nämä britit syövät? Kuulin joidenkin ihmisten yhdistävän ne teehen, mutta kaikki tietävät, että se on aasialaista. Eikö niiden pitäisi tulla Euroopasta? Mitä kieltä he puhuvat? Haastan sinut, laitan kaikki rahani ja perseeni tänne, etsimään oletettu "brittiläinen" henkilö, joka puhuu äidinkieltään. Suurin osa sitten puhuu vain rikkinäistä ENGLANTIA. Kyllä, englanti. Todella epäilyttävää, vai mitä? Katsoin "brittiläisen sanakirjan googlesta" ja se mitä löysin oli järkyttävää: jokainen sana oli AMERIKAN. Minä huijasin sinua. Mitä tämä voisi tarkoittaa, on yli kykyni. safesurfer
honestly... didn't love it. this was a weird one.
Pretty boring. I had a good analogy for this when I was listening to it but it’s been a few days now. 2 stars.
I hate his voice, I hate the lyrics, and I the length of this album. That being said, I love the actual music. Get a new lead singer and a producer to cut some songs down and you would have a 4 star album.
Weird stuff, not terrible but I couldn't really vibe with it
I’m not convinced that Julian Cope isn’t just Nick Cave in a wig, figuring out what works and getting the worst of his Birthday Party impulses out of his system.
Nothing stands out in this album. Just there. 2.5/5
Plus one for trying to do something different. Another one for touching very different genres and styles. That's it. 3/10
Nothing noteworthy or revolutionary present here... 1991 was an important year for music, and this feels like a remnant of the past.
It was ok
Æi, ég er kannski of dómharður, því hér voru alveg ágætir sprettir inn á milli, en Jesús hvað þetta er langt og alltof oft boring, bæði rödd og drón. Það er góð 40 mínútna plata þar grafin í 90 mínútum af leiðindum.
Couple of OK moments, but this is pretentious, long and boring. Pass.
Decent, kinda boring after awhile as it sounds the same
Favorite Song: If You Loved Me At All
2.5
Another one for my never-ending baffling inclusion of quite-niche "not that great really" UK artists from the 70s/80s list
I like some stuff with similar elements, and there's particular songs I like, but the longer this album went, the less I cared for it.
Not into this. It had its moments musically, but not a lot of them, and the vocals were just terrible.
It started so well with the first two tracks but then it went downhill horribly and never recovered. Believe me, I wanted to like it, I gave it a fare shot, but it wasn't good beyond Double Vegetation.
I feel bad for the people who thought they had to slog through the deluxe edition; the original album is hard enough at 76 minutes.
A challenging album to get into. Julian Cope’s deep, often tuneless voice does grate quite often and even though there’s so many different styles swirling around here there’s just not much in the way of quality songwriting so this act of throwing a hundred things against a wall and trampling over it in monotone boots comes off as super indulgent and messy. And crushingly long. 2.5 stars.
Good, nothing noteworthy.
So so weird, he just kept moaning
Well I cannot criticise this for not being varied. It was a bit all over the place! Found it too cooky for my liking. But interesting listen..
Another one of those "what are we doing heres"
🎧The sonic equivalent of scrambled eggs mixed with horseshit. Favorite track: If You Loved Me At All
And if you read Wiki article it shows what sh**s Led Zeppelin are!
Never heard of this guy. This doesn't hit for me even though I feel like it should. Cannot put my finger on it - wait, it came to me on track 3: if Rusted Root discovered U2. Also: Deluxe edition? 2 fucking hours long? I got stuff to do, man.
This was ok, but nothing stood out enough to listen to again
- Boah ich will ehrlich sein, ich hab mir das Album nicht komplett von vorne bis hinten durchgehört. 2,5 Std. - da müsste es schon meine Lieblingsband sein, damit ich mir so ein Album in einer Session einfach mal reinziehe und selbst da würde es mir wahrscheinlich irgendwann schwer fallen. - Aber ich habe trotzdem in jeden reingehört (manche Songs komplett aber immer min. 30 sek.-1 min.) und ich erlaube mir nun trotzdem ein Urteil - Ich finde es ganz schwer, dieses Album zu bewerten, denn ich finde es musikalisch gar nicht mal so schlecht. Irgendwie hat der Stil was echt cooles. Aber leider ist das Album und die Songs selber so minimalistisch und dadurch leider größtenteils sehr eintönig. - Also zwischen den Songs kann man durchaus unterscheiden, viele der Songs selber sind aber seeehr unabwechslungsreich, teilweise nur 2 Akkorde, die sich durch ganze Songs ziehen. - Finde ich an sich auch nicht schlimm. Komme dann aber doch wieder darauf zurück, dass das Album zweieinhalb Stunden geht und dann wird es doch leider recht zäh. - That beeing said, ich fand viele Songs auch absolut cool und kreativ. - Und dann waren da auch noch Songs, die zwar nicht eintönig, waren aber mir dafür wiederum zu experimentell - Und jetzt weiß ich nicht, was ich vergeben soll. Hätte ich einzelne Songs bewertet, wären wahrscheinlich die meisten so 3/5. Durch diese unnötige epische Breite ist das Album aber als ganzes dann doch gesunken. Rating: 2,5
Nie najgorsze ale nie do zapamiętania. I bardzo długie. 2/5
I know he isfamous for reinventing himself, but if every song is different from the next, and they all are terrible..
Did not enjoy
Sooo long and not energizing or inspiring. A lot of it was ambient dance track sounding things. Like Moby
Meh. Lost in the obscurity that was the 90s.
There is some interesting things here. but it's all over the place, and I really don't like the vocals but I do like weird music. I'm not sure how to rate this one yet, but I might be a 2
This is like a less-interesting, less-dark Nick Cave. 2 stars.
Sigh
Starts really bad. Pristeen sounds like a kids song. Gets a little better after a few songs. The guitar work is great, especially in Safesurfer. Too bad the lyrics suck. Most of his songs, he just repeats the same thing over and over. Some decent stuff, but oh so repetitive. Best song: Safesurfer
I really like how cacophanous the first track got towards the end. It droned for a bit (specially for an intro to an album), but I liked where it ended up. I was hoping for more to grab me after that but I didn't end up really feeling this album. Maybe it's not a bad album per se but another inclusion on the list that doesn't really feel too incredible or inspired to me. There's some cool grooves in there and some interesting structures but I feel like I'm reaching to find things to compliment rather than hearing an album and then hurrying to this review input field to make sure I capture all of my excited reactions. 2/5.
I couldn't cope.
What an utterly pointless and bloated album. A few songs do the trick, but when you include 18 tracks on an album, you better have a damn good reason.
I didn’t really care for Cope when he was with the Teardrop Explodes. I don’t much care for him as a solo artist either. With this many skippable songs it’s almost a crime to include 18 of them.
bad.
I don’t know why this is on here. Truly flabbergasted, as I was with that one echo and the bunnymen album.
Vissa bra låtar, mycket filler.
Another entry on this list that can round out your understanding of music, but really isn't even faintly essential to anyone. Especially as an album. Julian Cope is one of those that DJs, Reviewers and commentators generally persist with. They persist in making out he's a true original and the world is a more fascinating place with his music in it. But when I listen I just hear some fairly ordinary rock and pop with a few odd production choices thrown in. It is fine I suppose but really had enough by track 13. For those of you complaining this is self-indulgent or too arty or pretentious, you need to keep working your way through this list cos this barely registers in terms of poncery.
Hit or miss songs, and not a big fan of the singing. There is some nice guitar work on a couple of the songs. Mood and tempo seem to change a bit around 2/3rds of the way through. Overall underwhelmed.
There’s so much amazing rock music from 1991 that Julian Cope doesn’t really measure up. It started to get a bit more interesting, if not necessarily better, with “Hanging Out and Hung Up On The Line” and the overlong “Safesurfer.” Went back to largely less interesting after that though. “Peggy Suicide” is better than Cope’s other appearance on the list as lead singer of The Teardrop Explodes, but even that isn’t enough to get up to 3-star range. At least I got something out of this - I learned about the 1990 poll tax riots in England in response to Margaret Thatcher and the Conservatives’ attempt to put in place a ridiculous flat tax. (Cope joined the protests and his political views were pushed further by them.) The spot on the list would be better used by non-rock entries that were overlooked in ‘91, such as Boyz II Men’s “Cooleyhighharmony.”
There are some worthy nuggets sprinkled throughout this album. My main issue is that there is too much other drab stuff the part through in order to find it.
Nope
I listened to some and it was fine but I'm sorry, 2 and a half hours is unforgivable
First of all, WOW! In a bad way - this was over 2 hours long with two Discs and took forever to go through, as it was also painfully annoying at times. The reason why I am giving the album such a high rating is because of this one song - Safesrufer, that gave off good vibes during the guitar solo but then the dude started singing again. Basically, if you were to listen to the instrumental only, you would rate this 3-4 stars, but because there is singing involved, which ruins the whole vibes, this is getting only 2. It would be 1 but this one song was alright. "If You Loved Me At All" was a song that you could only (maybe) enjoy while on drugs, but I guess there is a market for this kind of music, it's just not my kind of music.
Didn’t listen to the whole album, just the first four songs. The repetition in the first song started to hug me until it began to build. Then I thoroughly enjoyed it. The rest didn’t stay with me. I’m giving what I listened to a 2.
Meh
Chore to get through
Underwhelmed.
Enjoyed "Safesurfer" despite the terrible title, "If You Loved Me at All," and "Beautiful Love." Otherwise, seemed artificial and pretentious.
The first song was just weird. It got better but not great.
woof
weird album. took me hours to finish this album.
I liked Safesurfer. There's some other decent stuff here too, but this wore out its welcome long before the end of its 1hr 16 running time. The single Beautiful Love is one of the weakest on the album IMO.
#284. This is in no way, shape, or form something that anyone needs to hear before they die. Every track on this album is skipable. 2/5: uninteresting.
Can’t get into his voice
Julian, my man, how do you Cope with putting out another bad album? :/
It’s a shame when you read this is an artist’s best album and it’s still not that good
Favourite song- Easy east rider. 2.5 stars
Sounds interesting, but I don't really get it. His singing is somewhat off-putting for me.
Somewhere in between not particularly memorable and just plain boring.
This is very strange and very long. I like to give albums like this 2 listens because I’m not familiar with it and it’s hard to review on only 1 listen. However, the length and repetitiveness of this is keeping me from wanting to do it. My wife listens with me on the weekends and hated it so much that she made me put on headphones to listen to it. In the end, I think the British bias of the book editors comes into play here. I could have died happy having never listened to this.
Wel ok maar mist iets ofzo . Ook beetje rare lyrics soms ofzo
Listened to this a 2nd time and still undecided. Some good songs and some strange stuff. Overall too long
Molto banale e poco significativo , non ho ascoltato tutto
Too long this took my whole morning
Jesus Christ. There’s nothing absolutely terrible about this, but there’s nothing notable about it either. I haven’t liked plenty of the well-known and loved albums on this list, but I’m fine to listen bc they have significance. This is just, ugh. Excuse me while I go listen to the new Taylor Swift. 2.7
Still not a fan
TWO HOURS AND THIRTY FOUR MINUTES.
I've never heard of this artist before and I struggled to get through the 1st disc. This album is not my style.
This is the album of a boy who didn't get enough attention from his mommy -- or got too much. It starts and ends pretty well, but in the middle it's pure self-indulgence.
Julian Cope is an English musician who champions obscure and underground music. His album "Peggy Suicide" is an art rock album - a broad assortment songs, covering a wide number of topics, with a variety of feature instruments. Cope's deep voice has a very cool aesthetic and is probably the best part of the album. While this album is lauded as Cope's best work, this artist and album have been unable to escape the UK.
Peggy NOOOOO 😳 I dunno, I see the appeal to this, and if I actively listened enough times I could find the enjoyment in it. But I don’t think I should have to do that much legwork to meet this album where it is, especially when there are more albums of it’s time that execute its sound better. Respect, but not enjoyment
Kinda silly and meandering. Not bad, but really not great.
Did not convince me
In most cases on this list, versatility is a good thing. In this case it's a curse. There are some good moments, good tunes, but a lot of the music is weird compilation of guitar play and average singing. 2.5/5.
Some cool psychedelic guitars but those can’t really save this giant pudgy slog of an album. Overlong and self-important.
interesting choice...i figured if a julian cope record were represented here it would be the one with world shut your mouth or charlotte anne on it. i've never been a big fan of his, but at least those singles are better than...east easy rider and beautiful love here. i can appreciate the ambition here, but outside of safesurfer i barely even liked most of the songs here. 2.5/5
Not a fan.
I cant Cope.
It's OK. Instrumentation and song writing is good but none of the songs especially grabbed me. 18 songs is too long and I got bored of it.
4/10 meh? 1001 albums is a lot of albums it seems. 3-12-2024
Weird
Blech
It feels like an album people trying a bit too hard to come across as tragically hip tell everyone they like even though they've never actually listened to it. Not me. I could tell I wouldn't care for it before even listening.
2.5
I had no idea Julian Cope was in Teardrop explodes! Totally makes me want to revisit that band and the rest of Julian Copes catalog! But this album didnt do much for me.
Unfortunately, this does nothing for me. Not the fault of the artist ofcourse. It's mine, for being a silly goose.
Not sure how to classify this UK rock? Not for me though.
not my cup of tea but could understand why some ppl would relate
bit rubbish
Interesting to hear something new. Some good rock beats and guitar riffs. Not convinced about the songs overall, look lyrics and melodies.
Why? What is special about this?
2h34 minutes? Gtfo. This album was not nearly good enough to justify it, soured me on the whole experience.
Not my cup of tea
Liked the first half of the album but the second half lost me. It became too out there in a way that did not grab me.
This is a super long album. A double album. The first disc was pretty solid. Experimental rock/psych that sounds like something Nick Cave would make if he was so inclined. The second album is a lot of remixes and electronica heavy experimentation. This second disc drags the whole album down pretty bad. It's like an electronica themed reimagining of the first disc. He should have just cut it off at one disc and left it alone. It doesn't help that the total runtime for the album is 2 hrs 34 mins. It definately over stays its welcome. Especially given the fact that it descends into fucking electronica garbage around the same time you are starting to get sick of the album. It's a Shame, because the first disc is easily a 4, but this God awful second disc drags the whole thing down to a 2 at best. Favourite songs: Hanging Out and Hung Up On The Line, East Easy Rider, If You Loved Me At All, Beautiful Love Least favourite songs: You..., Hung Up and Hanging Out To Dry, Ravebury Stones, Love (L.U.V.) - Beautiful Love Remix, Dragonfly, Heed: Of Penetration and the City-Dweller - Head Remix, Safesurfer - 1991 Tour Single, Butterfly E, Straw Dogs, Anyway At All (basically the whole 2nd disc is shit) 2/5
I am usually in for the super weird stuff. But this was weird in a boring way. There just wasn't anything in there for me. It felt like a REM cover band in a few moments. And those moments were actually really good! There were other good moments as well. But no good entire songs. Which I would think would be crucial for a record to be successful even if half of this list is trying to prove otherwise.
not really my thing
Tracks that are way too long and repetitive...didn't really like it
Musically it sounds good. But it is not my taste at all. Can it be pretentious if he's very sincere about it and really lives the life? It's like Andy Warhol for me - I see what he's trying to say n and he's interesting about it, but none of it connects to me or engenders any feelings.
Mehhhh
This thing is over two hours long. The first half was just inoffensive brit rock, but the rest was just confusing and weird. I just can't understand why it was so long. I should be compensated for sitting through that much of dollar store Mick Jagger
Really wasn't my thing
Meh. Some of these songs have a serious wannabe-Doors vibe to them.
I remember reading interviews of Julian Cope in magazines during the nineties. It looked like he was a totally bonkers shamanic figure, and it made him... endearing, in a way. I didn't have the opportunity to listen to his music until now. So I have to thank this app and the 1001 Albums book for this occasion. What I didn't know was that Julian Cope was also a TV host of sorts, hosting a game show named "Spot The Influence" (the secret name of *Peggy Suicide*). "Welcome to the show ! Today we have Cyril, a player hosting from France ! How do you do?" "Fine, Julian. Thanks for having me here!" "Sure, Cyril! Now let's play the game. Spot the influence! What's the influence on track 1 of my album?" "... Er... Let Me Think... Velvet Underground? Except that the production values are stemming from the late eighties. Which is... I don't know. A little weird for that type of song." "Ah, but you can still feel the nineties coming, can't you?" "Yeah, well, a little..." "Anyway... That's one point of view and that's one point FOR you! You can applaud Cyril, ladies and gentlemen (*The live audience applauds*) Track 2, now..." (*A very cheesy song is now heard on the PA*.) "Simple Minds!" "Ah, quite good. Two points! And quite a jarring jump between the two cuts, right?" "Er... Right. Guess the eighties aesthetics are the only common denominator here..." "Track 3, now!" (*A formless jam on a very dated *Screamedelica*-like type of rythm section ensues*). " ... Beats me. The Stone Roses and Primal Scream on *more* drugs?" "Well, I won't give you the correct answer now, Cyril. But you're not so far off the mark. About the drugs, I mean. Track 4!" "This one's not so bad. Pre-Brian Jonestown Massacre and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club by way of 60's psychedelia!" "And that's one more point! Yeah, you can reverse the influence thing, I guess. Track 5, now..." "Lame attempt to imitate Iggy Pop circa-*Lust for Life*?" "Oh, that's just very mean! What's so wrong about my voice?" "I don't know... The overaffected pretense, maybe. And the lack of conviction in the middle of it all..." (*The crowd boos the unhappy candidate after his jab at the TV host*) "Er, Okay... Now let's go to track 6. Maybe Cyril will gain the points he just lost when he said that inappropia..." "Excuse me? Julian?" "Yes?" "The thing is, I've listened to *Peggy Suicide*, as long as it is in its "deluxe version"... And it was quite a drag, to tell you the truth! The thing is, I could name all sorts of other influences I haven't quoted yet, from Nick Cave to The Doors, from John Cale to David Bowie, and from folk to funk and kraut, or new wave/post-punk. Yet I don't see the *fucking point* of this piling of influences. Especially when *nothing* in this record is up to the level of its obvious models and inspirators. I get that your lyrics are topical and/or metaphorical, which is fine. But the overall mood of this LP is so *dreary* and sloggish and dated. At least musically speaking. No offense, OK? I just tell it like I feel it. Besides, Julian, there's one thing you didn't tell me... What will I win if I give the maximum of correct answers in this game?" "Well, there's nothing to win. Apart from listening to my fine, fine album, said to be the start of my *more mature* period by prominent critics of the early nineties." (*The crowd cheers and bursts into a riotous applause, prompted by the TV host's assistant.*) "Ah OK. Goodbye, then." (*And on this, without any other word, the unhappy candidate gets out of the studio*) -- What? What do you want me to say? From my memory of those interviews, I thought Julian Cope's music would be as wild as the public figure he seemed to be. Turns out this record is both tame and overlong, filled with "exercises in style" that don't even have the charm such endeavors usually have. There are *some* good moments in this record, (and maybe even one *great* moment, the mantra that's repeated in the middle of "Safesurfer"), but they're drowned by the vapid meanderings found everywhere else. I just can't believe one of the reviewers in here compared this album to The Soft Boys's *Underwater Moonlight*. *Underwater Moonlight* is a neat, catchy, vital affair from start to finish. That's how you make very *different* influences coalesce, folks! The very contrary of what happens in *Peggy Suicide*. Since starting this equally meadering review, I've read stuff about Julian Cope's life online, and believe me, I have nothing but sympathy for the political activist, wild philosopher, and music erudite that he is (that book he wrote about krautrock would certainly interest me, even with those "factual errors" in it--his humble words, not mine--ones that made him refuse to publish it again). If only for this, because Cope's heart seems to be in the right place--just as it seemed to be for *Peggy Suicide*--I won't give him a 1/5 grade. Yet if we're talking about "essential" albums here, I honestly can't see this record being part of them. Maybe the problem with music erudites is that they know so much--or at least, are open-minded to so many different influences--that it becomes impossible for them to make all those influences cohere into a single pot. Maybe another album by Cope could convince me in the future. But as of now, I feel quite dumbfounded by what I've heard here. 2/5 for the purposes of this necessarily subjective list of "essential albums, translating to a 7/10 grade for more general and "objective" purposes. Next, please. Number of albums left to review: 327 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 301 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 163 Albums from the list I won't include in mine (including this one, many other records are more important to me): 218
It's fine, kinda weird, but I like some of it, a couple of glimmers of hope.
Pristeen // Safesurfer // 1.5/5
Long!
A bit strange but not 1 star bad. Some songs remind me slightly stoopid. His vocals aren’t horrible.
Hippien metkuja. En minä näistä kosmisista shamaaneista niin välitä. 2/5
Nope
It was okay
songwriting is boring
Agradou sem deixar muitas reminiscências.
😐
M’eh
Feels like the writers were grasping at straws to fill the book and asked random people on the street what the final albums should be and one of those people happened to be Julian Cope. 3/10
Impossible d'être heureux
Just did nothing for me. One and done.
HL: “East Easy Rider”, “Safesurfer”, “Beautiful Love”, “Las Vegas Basement” The sound collage in ”Western Front”, the Beatles energy in “Beautiful Love”, the furious sax in “You”, and the marimba of “Drowning” all imply an album I should be interested in. SHOULD. But it’s not doing it for me today (or yesterday either, since I kinda broke it into two halves). “Leperskin” and “Pristeen” are some examples of songs I was bored with on the 1st listen. Maybe I goofed by playing a Teardrop Explodes song before the album to prime myself on this unknown-to-me chapter of British post-punk. The difference in enjoyment between that single and the first couple tracks of Peggy Suicide was stark November 2nd, 2023
I just don't know. It seems like an AI generated early 90s rock album. Nothing here is catchy or memorable enough to stick with me.
Wow
What?: I don't really understand what the point in this album was. I didn't come away with anything other than 'that wasn't very good'. There just isn't much to say other than, bad. It felt uninspiring and just could've been so much more. I think Cope needs to go work on this some more.
This one sounded a bit like The Doors to me, but like a cheap knock off with some 80s elements mixed in. Kinda psych, but more on the drone side. Not very impressed. Couldn't get into the dude's voice.
i hate double albums. just make two better albums with more of a throughline.
Its yom Kippur and I have listened to half this tripe and already I feel like I've atoned for my sins. Just total wannabe eccentric trash.
Nothing at all special about this. Dull and forgettable. The fact that so many music critics gush over it just proves how pretentious and worthless most music critics are.
Long and dull.
Pretty crap. I stopped listening hard and was weirdly enjoying it by the time it got to the extended edition remixes, which made me want to go back and listen to the originals again, and then they were still crap. There's something in it, but it does sound a lot like a talented, burnt out, crusty going on and fucking on.
Jaysus Jules, two and a half hours?! I struggled to get through both sides of the album. There were some good songs, but I spent most of it wondering what the feck is going on? 2.5
interesting, I liked Safesurfer
Weird, not always in a good way. Absolutely no need for this to be on the list, I can only guess the editor is a friend of, a fan of, or actually is Mr Cope.
Je crois que Robert nous provoque, là. Fais très attention Robert.
Mais qu'est ce que c'est que cette merde encore Robert, t'as pas bientôt fini de te payer notre tête ?!
I didn’t listen to the album in it’s entirety but it reminded me of Nick Cave or Iggy Pop and I’m not great fans of either. Perhaps I would have enjoyed it better if I felt better? Anyway, 2*
Feels like a totally random selection of mediocre songs that go on and on and on. How'd this make the list? Or am I just completely missing what he's doing here? Either way, I didn't have a good time.
-this first song isn’t really giving anything -never heard of this guy before, like the album cover -double vegetation is kinda crazy -pop off with those cries king -OH THIS ONE SOUNDS COOL -i do really like the guitar in all these songs but sadly thats the only part i Really like -these lyrics sure are interesting! -this album was definitely weird but in a fascinating way
Highlights: If You Love Me At All, Hanging Out And Hung Up On The Line Leave Em's: Anyway At All, Straw Dogs Overall Thoughts: Another album with less then notable vocal performances and harsh production balance between abrasive instruments and softer features. The only songs I enjoyed I will credit to shear volume on this album. The old saying "even a blind squirrel finds a nut occasionally" holds true to my belief about the songs here. This album felt like a waste of time, especially with some of the nine or more minute songs that just go on and on and on. I wouldn't consider there to be anything remarkable about this album but it wasn't the worst thing that I have heard throughout this project. Score Breakdown: 2.590 & 1 -> 1.795
I think with enough time this album could grow on me, but the album is a little long for what it is. There are interesting bits here and there. American Lite was probably the stand out, but I can't see myself thinking about this album at any time in the future. Mid 2
The problem with any album that runs for 2.5 hours is that it's going to get old no matter how good it is. I don't care who you are, that's too much. When it's 2.5 hours of Julian Cope, it got old LONG before the halfway mark. That's not to say that it doesn't have its moments of greatness. The problem is that not a one of those moments lasts a whole song. I thought "Safesurfer" was going to be that song but then Julian wrecked it by repeating the line "You don't have to be afraid, love / 'Cause I'm a safesurfer, darlin'" ad infinitum and throwing some atonal solos over top of what was, up until that point, some REALLY tasty guitar work. And that's really the whole 2.5-hour experience in a nutshell. Flashes of genius drowning in a sea of pretentious nonsense. Shame. Those few moments were brilliant and I would have loved more of that.
Not likely to listen to again
Sounded like a 90’s album by the who were their way out of their prime and trying to do new shit that just doesn’t work. I was hoping forked from this one cuz the description was saying it was the teardrop explodes frontman maturing as a songwriter but it just sounded like him slowing down. Like literally, the songs were all mid tempo and didn’t have the charm of the tight sounding new wave music from his past band. Some of the instrumentals were good but his singing sucked so bad on this album
D+ Pristeen - 1 Double Vegetation - 2 East Easy Rider - 1 Promised Land - 2 Hanging Out and Hung Up On the Line - 2 Safesurfer - 3 If You Loved Me At All - 2 Drive, She Said - 2 Soldier Blue - 2 You… - 2 Not Raving But Drowning - 2 Head - 2 Leperskin - 2 Beautiful Love - 2 Western Front 1992 C.E. - 2 Hung Up and Hanging Out to Dry - 2 The American Lite - 2 Las Vegas Basement - 2 I seriously don't understand how some of these albums make it on to here. 1001 albums isn't that many in the grand scheme of things. There are so many albums more deserving. This wasn't bad, but it was just boring, much like most of these albums.
AJ: musically, very British pop punk rock with a twang of Syd Barret era Pink Floyd. His voice annoys me and his Wikipedia makes me think we wouldn’t be friends. Mr Smartest Guy in the World. Mr I am not a musician I’m an artist. Some cool musical moments, though.
Meh.
There were no songs that I recognized. It was alright, I guess, at points and at others, eccentric. No desire to revisit. Better than a 2 but not really a 3. I will round down
2.3 - Possibly the dorkiest record I’ve ever heard. Cope croons with the sex appeal of a middle-aged dad who’s proudly displaying a scalp full of fresh hair plugs. Every track contains some senseless declaration (“you don’t have to be afraid, love/‘cause I’m a safesurfer, darling”) and/or some unsubtle and ill-conceived sound experiment. A colossal waste of time though at times it does toe into the realm of “so-bad-it’s-good.”