From 1991. A cracking wee bit of pop from Julian Cope. In reaching #32 in the UK singles charts, this remains one of his best-performing solo efforts.
At this point in time, Julian was fond of writing wonderfully entertaining an but often obtuse sleeve notes for all his songs. Here's what he said on this 12":-
mp3 : Julian Cope - Beautiful Love
Is a campfire song written to the elements and sung to the 4 corners of the world, enthusiastically and in a bad dialect. "Beauty-full love, where have you gone?" Aaf Verkade provides the White Man's Trumpet as hauntingly innocent as watching Charles and Di clapping ON the beat at the Nelson Mandela concert earlier this year. From the forthcoming album "Peggy Suicide".
mp3 : Julian Cope - Port Of Saints
Is self-explanatory. Balfe and Bill Drummond now exist only in mu unconscious, but I shall always be paranoid of their desire to do me wrong. Quite a timely slag-off really, as Drummond has just seen fit to release all kinds of old material without asking anyone's permission. That poor guy - ever the entrepreneur - torn between '80s W.A.S.P. intellectual KAKA and a superb organisational ability.
mp3 : Julian Cope - Love L.U.V.
Hugoth Nicolson took this poor innocent song and introduced it to a weekend in the big city. The obvious results are clear to see like Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave in 'Smashing Time'. 'Beautiful Love' got laid, got drunl and got hungover and hoping to die. Remix engineers? I shit 'em.
mp3 : Julian Cope - Unisex Cathedral
"Where the bitches stand in line." Previously released in April 1990 on the Texas-only LP 'DROOLIAN'.
For once the songs match the notes. It's mostly good stuff.
Happy Listening
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