It's great to make a new discovery but a little perplexing when it's someone who's been around for decades. How is it that I've never heard of Julian Cope before? The name was scribbled down on the list I keep of things to get and people to check out but I had no idea of who he was or what kind of music he does. I got a selection tonight of a sampler of tracks from his various albums and I like what I'm hearing. So is he well known? Moggers? Anyone? It's hard to categorize his music (well, it always is for me - I don't like to label things even though it's sometimes necessary). I guess you could call it pop but that's a little misleading, making his stuff sound lighter weight than I think it probably is. Maybe you could just say that they're well-crafted songs and leave it at that. I don't think a musician's eccentricities should overshadow his music but ... he's, erm, _interesting_. Sample sentence from "his Allmusic bio":http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:41867uq0h0jk~T1 "By 1984, Cope's love of hallucinogenics as well as a toy car collection that occupied nearly an entire year of his life was at an all-time high."Anyway ... I'm just starting to familiarize myself with him. And what's great is that, when you're sometimes feeling jaded, thinking that there's nothing new or interesting left to listen to (_not_ what I'm feeling right now but sometimes I've been in that place), you can be assured that there's lots of hidden treasures and good stuff out there waiting to be found.
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