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Julian H. Cope

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saintbletch

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Some more stuff if you liked him -

"Sold"

http://www.youtube.com/watch#v=EVpHp_jgwG0&feature=related

"Tragic Turn of Events/Move Pen Move (with Shane Koyczan)"

http://www.youtube.com/watch#v=S2UmkpAia6Q&feature=related

 

Wow. OK you got me with that second one. A beautiful song. I'm going to have to invest in a CD. Although I'm not sure whether it's the song or the poem "within" the song. Incredibly moving and personally very poignant right now. I was moved to look up the words.

 

Stay.

That's what mothers say when their sons and daughters go away, they say stay.

My mother said go.

So I wasn't there the night she fell out of her wheelchair, so frustrated that she amputated her own legs, or rather tried to with a steak knife. Her life leaking out on the white floor blossoming like roses in the snow.

Our relationship was an anthem composed of words like "gotta go". So we went. Sent our regards on postcards from other places we'd been with stories about all the things we'd seen, and that's how it was with you and I; why say good bye when we could still write.

But then it took your hands. We should've practiced our good byes, because then it took your eyes. And I was somewhere, in the middle of nowhere watching the sun rise over a stop sign placed down the centre line of a highway filled with sudden turns for the worse. Running back home 'cause I gotta play nurse.

Gotta figure out which pill aleviates which pain, which part of your brain is being used for a boxing bag as your body became a never ending game of freeze tag, taking place in an empty playground. I was left looking for your limbs in a lost and found, and I couldn't set you free.

So we just sat there, our heads bent towards each other like flowers in the small hours of the morning, while light wandered in like a warning that time is passing and you right along with it, bit by bit every day.

So we just keep talking, and she smiles whenever she remembers something as simple as walking.

And if I could I would write you some way out of this, but my gift is useless. And my mother says no. Write me a poem to make me happy.

 

I wrote move pen move, write me a bedroom where cures make love to our cancers... But my mother just motions toward a bottle full of answers and says "help me go".

And now I know something of how a piano must feel when it looks at the fireplace to see sheet music being used for kindling, smoke signaling the end of some song that I thought it would take too long to learn. I just sit here watching you burn away all those notes I never had a chance to play, to hear the music of what you had to say.

But I count out the pills just to see if I can do it, and I can't even get halfway through it before I turn back into your son and say Stay.

 

I could hook up my heart to your ears, and let my tears be your morphine drip because maybe it's easier to let you slip away than it is to say goodbye.

So I hold my breath. because in the count down to death the question of "why" melts into "when". How much time do we have left, because if I knew what I know now then... move pen move, write me a mountain. Because headstones are not big enough.

My mother says stop, write me a poem to make me happy. So I write this.

Stay.

She smiles, and says "gotta go". I know. Goodbye.

 

I can also see the Nick Drake comparison and also a bit of Tom Baxter. And in speaking that poem over the top reminded me of that other great Canadian poet 'Laughing' Leonard Cohen. Stunning.

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St Landrew

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Never heard of that before.

Any good?

 

I love '25 O'Clock'.

 

Blimey..! Really never heard of it..? I think you'll find plenty of it on Youtube.

 

It's actually 2 EPs combined into an album:

 

First one is 25 O'clock

 

1. 25 O'clock

2. Bike Ride To The Moon

3. My Love Explodes

4. What In The World

5. Your Gold Dress

6. The Mole From The Ministry

 

Second one is Psonic Psunspot

 

1. Vanishing Girl

2. Have You Seen Jackie..?

3. Little Lighthouse

4. You're A Good Man

5. Collideascope

6. You're My Drug

7. Shiny Cage

8. Brainiac's Daughter

9. The Affiliated

10 Pale & Precious

 

Have fun finding them.

 

At the moment I'm listening to Peter Gabriel - 2

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Wow. OK you got me with that second one. A beautiful song. I'm going to have to invest in a CD. Although I'm not sure whether it's the song or the poem "within" the song. Incredibly moving and personally very poignant right now. I was moved to look up the words.

 

I can also see the Nick Drake comparison and also a bit of Tom Baxter. And in speaking that poem over the top reminded me of that other great Canadian poet 'Laughing' Leonard Cohen. Stunning.

 

The second one is a really beautiful song, helped along by the marvellous reading of the poem by Shane Koyczan, who also wrote the poem while Mangan wrote the music for it at a later date. If you're going for a CD i'd go ahead and get Postcards and Daydreaming (2007) which is a lovely album. He's also got various EPs and singles out, so if you're going to go the full hog get the Roboteering EP as well, which includes Tragic Turn of Events (the song you just heard). Would love to see him live sometime, but he doesn't come over to the UK very often although he was touring in early 2009 so I just missed him. Blast.

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Some more stuff if you liked him -

"Sold"

http://www.youtube.com/watch#v=EVpHp_jgwG0&feature=related

"Tragic Turn of Events/Move Pen Move (with Shane Koyczan)"

http://www.youtube.com/watch#v=S2UmkpAia6Q&feature=related

 

Got there eventually. It's not the easiest listening. ;)

 

But it is worthwhile.

 

There is music I can listen to in short bursts, and music I can take lots of. This falls into the first category. The anger and sorrow, the love and tragedy is very intense, and I don't think I could take an album of it, straight off. Does that make sense..?

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The second one is a really beautiful song, helped along by the marvellous reading of the poem by Shane Koyczan, who also wrote the poem while Mangan wrote the music for it at a later date. If you're going for a CD i'd go ahead and get Postcards and Daydreaming (2007) which is a lovely album. He's also got various EPs and singles out, so if you're going to go the full hog get the Roboteering EP as well, which includes Tragic Turn of Events (the song you just heard). Would love to see him live sometime, but he doesn't come over to the UK very often although he was touring in early 2009 so I just missed him. Blast.

 

I had a brief look round last night for the Roboteering E.P. but couldn't see it in physical form - only downloads. Looks like it might be out of stock. I love having my music downloadable, but only once I've bought the CD. Ah well I might have buy the download version.

 

Re the tour, I'm forever doing that. Bloody frustrating.

 

Got there eventually. It's not the easiest listening. ;)

 

But it is worthwhile.

 

There is music I can listen to in short bursts, and music I can take lots of. This falls into the first category. The anger and sorrow, the love and tragedy is very intense, and I don't think I could take an album of it, straight off. Does that make sense..?

 

I know exactly what you mean. I think it's the sort of song that you really don't want to listen to too many times anyway. It's appeal is its directness and its impact relies on it being fresh.

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Blimey..! Really never heard of it..? I think you'll find plenty of it on Youtube.

 

It's actually 2 EPs combined into an album:

 

First one is 25 O'clock

 

1. 25 O'clock

2. Bike Ride To The Moon

3. My Love Explodes

4. What In The World

5. Your Gold Dress

6. The Mole From The Ministry

 

Second one is Psonic Psunspot

 

1. Vanishing Girl

2. Have You Seen Jackie..?

3. Little Lighthouse

4. You're A Good Man

5. Collideascope

6. You're My Drug

7. Shiny Cage

8. Brainiac's Daughter

9. The Affiliated

10 Pale & Precious

 

Have fun finding them.

 

At the moment I'm listening to Peter Gabriel - 2

 

Ah, so it's a 'double pack' of the two albums..... Cheers.

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Today Ive been playing:

 

UNKLE - Psyence Fiction

Either a bloated ego-**** or a life changing epci, depending on where you sit

 

The Hellacopters - Supersh!tty To The Max

Potent Swedish fuzz-filled punk rock

 

Nine Inch Nails - Broken and Fixed

Reznors best work? possibly.

 

Saul Williams - Saul Williams

Superbly aggressive cathartic hip hop with beats to die for.

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Julian H. Cope

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Having lots of fun on Spotify today, so far I have had the pleasure of:

 

Danny Wilson - Mary's Prayer

 

Voice Of The Beehive - I Say Nothing

 

Hue & Cry - Labour Of Love

 

Sydney Youngblood - If Only I Could

 

Fiction Factory - Feels Like Heaven

 

Furniture - Brilliant Mind

 

Haircut 100 - Whistle Down The Wind

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