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 Splendid! Truly Copey! Sep 01, 2006
While so-called fans of JHC will bemoan the fact that this isn't "Teardrop Explodes" or his older solo efforts - they need to get over it... This is Copey at his best. He's eccentric indeed. But his music is fantastic and the lyrics are even better. Those who pan it are either nostalgic and/or unintelligent! Sorry for the candour! But this is fact. Head Heritage is for thinkers - not for fools. If you're nostalgic, listen to your 80s records. Forward thinkers who feel the vibe, buy this now...and buy Copeys books, The Modern Antiquarian and the Megalithic European. You'll understand this (and other, later) works better.
A Cope Classic Apr 22, 2005
This is the first Cope CD I bought and it opened my eyes and is still my favorite. His angry violent tripped out, yet brilliant vibe fills the CD throughout. From ranting rages to humor tinged comments on the impossibility of living outside of where you live. He takes car culture out back for a good flogging but admits "There ain't no gettin' 'round gettin' 'round"
This is the album Psychic TV should have made.
Mention should also be made of Thighpaulsandra's excellent synths and production. His hand is apparant in the lushness of the overall sound and the brilliance of the synthesizer work (it was his connection that got me to buy this record in the first place). I think the 3 records he worked on are the best produced of what I've heard by JC.
This album may just blow your mind and tune you into a Head Heritage you never suspected was there.
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 Can't Cope Jan 12, 2004
I am a certified (certifiable?) Copey drood. This album is a real disappointment & sounds like a lot of lazy demos strung together. It's the least appealing of any of his albums. It's worse than Jehovahkill & 20 Mothers. If you really like his "pop" side try Interpreter instead - that's a great album.
sketches of druidian Jul 01, 2002
It is not as strange as Cope's more recent projects, as there are the project that I cannot name, but the albumname is Metal Ambient and the other project, called Queen Elizabeth with that awsome album, but it is there second album, check it out and you'll know what I mean.Autogeddon is more in line with albums like Jehovakill, Peggy Suicide and 20 Mothers, but, at the other hand, Autogeddon is also NOT in line with the aforementioned albums. Autogeddon is more like sketches of those albums. It's like a notebook. It is as if Cope awakened one night with some need ideas for songs, and he grabbed a guitar and played and sung a bit in a dictaphone so he wouldn't forget what the ideas were in the morning, and it is as if he just published what was on the dictaphone and did not bother anymore 'finishing' the songs.
So what you'll here are not songs, they are IDEAS for songs. And they're great ideas. It's like watching a documentary about how the greatest album of all time was composed, only you'll have to fantasise how the album would have sounded if it WAS finished. Autogeddon is a good album. It is spontaneaous. It is living. It is in progress. And Cope is nothing short of a genious. Just like Cope is singing in the Archdrude's Roadtrip-part of the Paranormal in the west country-medley: "I love my life; I love it...; if I were Cope I would be rather crazy about my own life too...!
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The effects of hallucinogens - laid out plainly & poorly Sep 24, 2001
Julian Cope has created so many wonderful songs, but he's never "gone album". Cope's imagination and truly fearless musical adventure guarantees that each release will have some highs and often embarassing lows. This CD is just a big low. Only studied (but not excited) fans of obscure 'kraut rock' could even appreciate this, let alone love it. It surely sounds like noone else, but it has maybe two hooks in the entire CD, used not as a chorus or a melody, but as middle-8th breaks. 'Fried' was and is a truly psychedelic pop record - 'Autogeddon' is just free-form jamming. Without direct lyrics (never a Cope quality), or sly accessability, this CD is the only Cope studio album I've traded in. (You'll find many copies at your local used store). Too bizarre to be a disaster, too meandering to be a success.
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