Classic Albums
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Copendium
Julian Cope - Book - by Julian Cope
(2013)
Eschewing
the usual criteria of chart success or acknowledged influence, the
Copendium - a collection of album reviews and themed track samplers -
takes energy, originality and heaviness as its bearings. The result is a
feast of obscure and neglected masterworks that together form a
surprising but entirely credible new tradition. Krautrock, motorik and
post-punk, stoner and doom metal, occasionally even jazz, spoken word
and hair metal: they are all represented in a wholly persuasive
sequence.
Cope
is the perfect guide to this novel terrain: impeccably informed,
passionate, insightful and deeply funny. The Copendium is his
re-imagining of a useful canon of popular music, and it is set to become
required reading.
