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Murder Dog Presents SK1 [Explicit Lyrics]
Robert Gordon with Link Wray/Fresh Fish Specials [Extra tracks]
Memphis Rockabillies, Vol. 4: Hillbillies and Honky Tonkers
From My Home: Music from the Baltic Countries
Retrospective, Rarities & Instrumentals
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Genuine rock eccentrics are so hard to come by these days that we settle for transparent poseurs in bad Halloween makeup. Julian Cope is the real deal-so thoroughly out there that he was too weird even for American Recordings. Fans in the U.S. have had to wait a year for him to find a domestic label for this, his 20th album(!), but now it's here, and it doesn't disappoint. The former leader of The Teardrop Explodes is once again examining some of his favorite themes-environmental panic, pagan mystery, goddess worship, and technological fascism-tying them all together in a concept album about aliens visiting the earth in ancient times and giving us the secrets to personal happiness. I don't claim to understand it all, but the massive hooks, freaky Krautrock synthesizers, driving rhythms, and Cope's Iggy Pop-on-acid vocals mean that I don't have to, and neither will you. Just check out "I Come From Another Planet, Baby." Truer words were never sung. --Jim Derogatis
Album Description
New album featuring the singles 'I Come From Another Planet, Baby', 'Planetary Sit-In' & 10 other tracks.Packeged in a flip-top brilliant box with a fold-out color booklet. Coming out domestic on Cooking Vinyl on June 24, 1997. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.