Interpreter

Julian Cope | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 17, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Cooking Vinyl
• ASIN: B000000211
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #227,894 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I Come from Another Planet, Baby

2. I've Got My TV & My Pills

3. Planetary Sit-In

4. Since I Lost My Head, It's Awl-Right

5. Cheap New-Age Fix

6. The Battle for the Trees

7. Arthur Drugstore

8. S.P.A.C.E.R.O.C.K. With Me

9. Re-Directed Male

10. Maid of Constant Sorrow

11. The Love Boat

12. Dust

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

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

Product 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 an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great 'pop' album, November 25, 2000

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[e-mail] (Perth, WA Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Interpreter (Audio CD)

Cope's albums from Peggy Suicide through to this one represent a sustained output of near genius. Interpreter is let down just a little bit by its at times silly lyrics, but is full of great tunes with not a dud track. Like all of Cope's albums of the 90s it is best listened to in a single sitting as the tempo builds and the songs run together in a way that highlights their strengths more so than as a collection of individual tracks. Cope's new EP is now released and a new album is not far away. He is a relatively undiscovered & unknown treasure.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Give me Cope, August 6, 1999

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[e-mail] (some bar in topeka) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Interpreter (Audio CD)

Every song is great. Every lyric is great. The mix is great. The musicianship is great. There is even great packaging.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Music of Megalithic Proportions, July 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Interpreter (Audio CD)

Julian Cope does it again. This is a superb album. I Come From Another Planet Baby was a great rock single, with an hypnotic rhythm and great lyrics. Then comes a rehashed favourite I've Got My TV & My Pills...brilliant stuff. My favourite track is The Battle For The Trees, a politically motivated song, maybe, but this is Cope at his best. The album loses its way a bit in the second half, but finishes strongly with Dust. A great album from a great artist.