Peggy Suicide [IMPORT]

Julian Cope

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 8, 2002)
• Original Release Date: March 1991
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Island UK
• ASIN: B000001G0I
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #19,199 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Pristeen

2. Double Vegetation

3. East Easy Rider

4. Promised Land

5. Hanging Out and Hung Up on the Line

6. Safesurfer

7. If You Loved Me at All

8. Drive, She Said

9. Soldier Blue

10. You...

11. Not Waving But Drowning

12. Head

13. Leperskin

14. Beautiful Love

15. Western Front

16. Hung Up and Hanging Out to Dry

17. American Lite

18. Vegas Basement

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Deluxe digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of the eccentric British rocker's 1991 album including a bonus disc that contains 11 bonus non album tracks. Peggy Suicide was the fifth official solo album from the former leader of The Teardrop Explodes. It was accompanied with extensive notes in which Cope explained the meaning of each song and stated that the entire album was a meditation on humanity's relationship to mother Earth. The album was written in the aftermath of the British anti-poll tax in 1990, to which several songs refer. Many songs are given very idiosyncratic interpretations, such as Cope's account of "You" which asserts that the Conscious Mind "acts like a cross between Tony Wilson and Bill Drummond but looks a lot like Lew Grade. The Unconscious mind...looks like Iggy Pop playing Syd Barrett." 30 tracks. Universal. 2009. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Endlessly Inventive and Enjoyable Ride., May 6, 2002

By	WILLIE A YOUNG II "willow" (Houston, TX.) - See all my reviews

He's never enjoyed the commercial success of lesser talents and his problems with addiction are well known, but hardly anyone has the same lyrical panache' and way with a melody as Julian Cope. I first became aquainted with his work around '84-'85 with the "World Shut Your Mouth" LP, but this double LP length opus is by far his most fully realized effort. Arriving as it did a decade ago, "Peggy Suicide"(his nickname for the ravaged and scarred Mother Earth) is not just some intellectual's exploitation orgy, but a sprawling masterwork that touches on politics ("Soldier Blue") love and trust ("Pristine") and even a brilliant, punkish little ditty about addiction and family ties ("Hanging Out And Hung Up On The Line") which features the best lyrics on the album ('well the blues had a baby and the ba***rd couldn't sing', 'someone shouted, "let's keep the afterbirth and throw the kid away!", 'and I fried my brainsac for the pain I felt today')and a driving delivery with great chiming guitars and a backbeat that doesn't let up for a second, you're gonna love it! All of "Peggy...." is stunning and finds Cope stretching out to staggering effect on a host of topics. This is real music from a brilliant (if somewhat troubled) mind and will entertain and dazzle as well inform, and you can dance to it!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing, even for the uptight among us..., January 26, 2004

By	opinion-o-matic "ben_amazon_omatic" (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This is not one of those albums you can neatly categorize. It's kind of like Julian, Hamell on Trial, and Built to Spill got together one night and took a heroic dose of acid :) Except this was all in 1991... It goes through a whole range of moods.. is a little hard to get into in Phase One with some pretty raw tracks like Pristine and Hanging Out... But after a few listens of the whole album it makes more sense. Phase Two and Phase Three are much more flowing and sometimes repetitive in a good way.. probably influences of underground electronic music I imagine he had been hearing a lot at the time. Just a guess there.. It's just one great musical moment after another! The track Safesurfer alone is worth buying the whole album. Phase Four lightens it up a bit musically, with the "hit" track Beautiful Love which is downright pop-ey yet not at all in a bad way, another great track, Western Front is really cool as is Hung Up and Hanging Out to Dry. The album plays more like a movie or a show than an album, with ideas appearings in one song and then coming back modified in another. Really great moments all the way through, and very few bad ones... BTW, to the other reviewer who doesn't know what "Not Raving but Drowning" is about, read the liner notes! It's based on the true story of a guy who was tripping on acid, and accidentally fell off the railing on a ferry... The song is a guess at what he might have been thinking as he went down... Anyway, a great album, one of my favorites for 12 years and by far my favorite of all the work Julian Cope has done. Highly recommended if you like Built to Spill or Radiohead... Great instrumental work through the whole thing too, excellent guitars... It is a real masterpiece...

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars PEGGY SUICIDE: JULIAN'S FINEST MOMENT, May 20, 1998

By	Benjamin Adams ([e-mail]) (Carson City, Nevada, USA) - See all my reviews

From start to finish, this is a startlingly perfect album. Never before did Julian Cope's kaleidoscopic genius shine forth so brightly, and never since has he produced a work of such cohesion and power. Standout tracks include the intelligent rocker "Double Vegetation," the ominous "Safesurfer," and the utterly wonderful ode to Julian's wife, "The American Lite."