Autogeddon [ORIGINAL RECORDING REISSUED] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]

Julian Cope

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 28, 2000)
• Original Release Date: August 9, 1994
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B00004S53P
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #112,387 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Splendid! Truly Copey!, August 31, 2006

By	L. E. Camp "heidentor" (USA.) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

5.0 out of 5 stars A Cope Classic, April 21, 2005

By	D. Miller "Italian Dan" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

5.0 out of 5 stars sketches of druidian, June 30, 2002

By	"videozap" (holland, europe) - See all my reviews

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...!