| Artist |
Julian Cope |
| Album Title: |
Black Sheep |
| Album Cover: |
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| Primary Genre |
Alternative & Punk: Indie |
| Format |
CD (2) |
| Released |
09/08/2008 |
| Label |
Head Herritage |
| Catalog No |
HH23 |
| Bar Code No |
5 050693 213329 |
| Packaging |
Jewelcase with Sleeve |
| Tracks |
| Black Sheep |
| 1.
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Come The Revolution (5:02)
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| 2.
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It's Too Late To Turn Back Now (4:31)
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| 3.
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These Things I Know (5:04)
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| 4.
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Psychedelic Odin (7:13)
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| 5.
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Blood Sacrifice (4:28)
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| 6.
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The Shipwreck Of Saint Paul (6:50)
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| Black Sheep [Disc 2] |
| 1.
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All The Blowing-Themselves-Up Motherfuckers (Will Realise The Minute They Die That They Were Suckers) (3:04)
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| 2.
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Feed My Rock'n'roll (6:36)
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| 3.
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Dhimmi Is Blue (8:32)
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| 4.
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The Black Sheep's Song (4:52)
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| 5.
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I Can Remember This Life (11:15)
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| Date Acquired |
11/09/2010 |
| Personal Rating |
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| Acquired from |
Electric Fetus - Minneapolis |
| Purchase Price |
22.00 |
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Notes |
℗ & © 2008CE Head Heritage Ltd
Distributed by Cargo
Made in England
Comes in cardboard slipcase with tracklist in English and Japanese.
Design [Album Design] – Holy McGrail
Engineer – C. Olley
Management [Asgard Representation] – Mick Griffiths
Management [Literary Representation] – Robert Kirby
Management [Publicity] – Mick Houghton
Mastered By – Adam Whittaker
Other [Blasphemous Movie Division] – Big Nige
Other [Law Council] – Big Nige, Holy McGrail, Vybik John
Painting [Sleeve Painting] – Julian Cope
Photography By – Acoustika, Julian Cope
Producer, Directed By – Julian Cope
Synthesizer – Holy McGrail
Translated By – Ikuko Shiratori Wilson
Vocals, Acoustic Guitar – Acoustika
Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Bass Drum [30"] – Michael O'Sullivan
Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Harmonica, Drums [Drum-kit] – Doggen
Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Mellotron [400], Synthesizer, Bass Drum [30"] – Julian H. Cope
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Head Heritage Ltd.
Copyright © – Head Heritage Ltd.
Distributed By – Cargo
Barcode: 5 050693 213329
Matrix / Runout (CD1): CA HH23CD1 @@
Matrix / Runout (CD2): CA HH23CD2 @@
Mastering SID Code (Both Discs): IFPI LY88
Mould SID Code (Both Discs): IFPI 1271
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Analyzed Folder: Julian Cope - Black Sheep.Disc 1_dr.txt
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DR Peak RMS Filename
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DR7 -0.30 dB -9.26 dB 01 - Come the Revolution.flac
DR8 -0.30 dB -9.47 dB 02 - It's Too Late to Turn Back Now.flac
DR9 -0.30 dB -11.83 dB 03 - These Things I Know.flac
DR8 -0.30 dB -10.37 dB 04 - Psychedelic Odin.flac
DR8 -0.30 dB -13.23 dB 05 - Blood Sacrifice.flac
DR5 -0.30 dB -7.56 dB 06 - The Shipwreck of St. Paul.flac
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Number of Files: 6
Official DR Value: DR8
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Analyzed Folder: Julian Cope - Black Sheep.Disc 2_dr.txt
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DR Peak RMS Filename
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DR7 -0.30 dB -8.43 dB 01 - All The Blowing-Themselves-Up-Motherfuckers.flac
DR7 -0.30 dB -11.39 dB 02 - Feed My Rock'n'Roll.flac
DR9 -0.30 dB -12.40 dB 03 - Dhimmi Is Blue.flac
DR14 -0.30 dB -16.88 dB 04 - The Black Sheep's Song.flac
DR10 -0.30 dB -13.00 dB 05 - I Can Remember This Life.flac
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Number of Files: 5
Official DR Value: DR10
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| Reviews |
All Music Guide Review:
Review by Alan Severa
Black Sheep presents further dispatches from the ongoing campaign to change the world by "the Arch Druid" Julian Cope (who, by the way, holds court continually on his Head Heritage website). Ever since the publication of The Modern Antiquarian in 1998 (his ambitious book exploring ancient pagan ritual sites), Julian Cope's world has been defined by the cornerstones of anti-monotheism, a love of minimalist musical structures, and a kind of rock primitivism, in line with his emphasis on archaic virtues. All his albums since then have kept to this new approach (starting with the first album under the alias of Brain Donor in 2001). It's a much more austere world compared to what listeners were used to from him until the late '90s, but the sheer fanaticism with which he has followed his mission since the dawn of the new millennium remains compelling. The drawback is that the music isn't always quite as rewarding as one would hope, tending toward the threadbare a bit too often. The minimalist production technique tends to stymie the efforts at "rocking out" (which the rhetoric of the packaging would lead one to expect). On this album, the rocking often floats on waves of Mellotron sounds and the rest is folk contemplation, all definitely harking back to precedents from the early '70s. As usual, the packaging is striking and helps to bring home the message. In defiance of the dictates of CD technology, the album again comes on two CDs to ensure that each represents what in the old days would have been "one side of an LP." In addition, those half-LPs have their own titles, Return of the Native and Return of the Alternative, again enhancing the message. Such lyrical invention remains a hallmark of 21st century Julian Cope, but as with the music, the high points are scattered rather erratically over the course of the set. Nevertheless, Black Sheep stands out a bit in the newer Cope catalog, due to the focus it gives to his (longstanding) vision of a new (or rather, corrected) world-view. Central to that is the dismissal of the concept of a single God (as brought to Europe by St. Paul), which, according to him, tragically displaced the superior concepts of a religious outlook based on a closeness to "Mother Earth" (the Norse gods being his favored alternative). A "wild man ethic" paired with scientific argumentation is the strange brew that informs all these recent Cope "packages" (as does the preponderance of earnestness paired with smatterings of humorous implications), and the Black Sheep title of this album went on to be used as a rallying point and project name for the next album, bearing the characteristic title Kiss My Sweet Apocalypse. Thus the Arch Druid's campaign continues onward.
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