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Jehovahkill

~ Julian Cope
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Product details

  • Audio CD (17 Mar 1994)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Island
  • ASIN: B000001DX9
  • Other Editions: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 60,856 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

1. Soul Desert
2. No Hard Shoulder To Cry On
3. Akhenaten
4. Mystery Trend
5. Upwards At 45 Degrees
6. Cut My Friends Down
7. Necropolis (Phase 2)
8. Slow Rider
9. Gimme Back My Flag
10. Poet Is Priest
11. Julian H Cope
12. Subtle Energies Commission
13. Fa Fa Fa Fine
14. Fear Loves This Place
15. Tower
16. Peggy Suicide Is Missing

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JEHOVAHKILL continues--and refines--Julian Cope's crusade to make music safe for acid-damaged intellectuals. This time out, his main target is the reclamation of pagan ideals and symbolism appropriated by Christianity--when was the last time you listened to a pop-rock album with goals as extravagant as that? Cope's ultimate brilliance is that he is able take concepts such as this and render them in a manner that is hard to take offense at. Whether you agree with him or not, the songs are gentle, catchy statements of their author's beliefs, never preachy and always shot through with just enough psychedelic weirdness to keep the experience musically arresting.
Standouts include the opening track, "Soul Desert", which sneakily prepares listeners for the combination of musical styles that will follow; the simple acoustic guitar and vocal combination (along with the occasional cymbal and synthesizer squelch) of "Up-wards at 45" that builds to a full-on rock freak-out; and the redemption and joy of "Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fine". Though perhaps not the best place to begin with Cope's catalogue--neophytes should investigate the FLOORED GENIUS compilation--JEHOVAHKILL is a excellent example how Cope and his band can incorporate everything from funk, punk, surf, and neo-techno into 70 startlingly original minutes.

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Hmmmm..........., 20 Mar 2003
By "cardylover" - See all my reviews
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This was a bit of an oddity at the time - we were used to 'electric Julian', and had not really heard a lot of accoustic stuff from him. That saying, there is a fantastic rave/dance workout called 'Poet Is Priest' which is worth the five stars on its own! Other highlights are the opening 'Soul Desert', which builds from accoustic guitar to restrained freakout. 'Give Me Back My Flag' is a bass heavy, spacey track, which is really compelling and 'Fa-Fa-Fa Fine' is a top pop track. Takes a few listens, but when it hits the spot, it REALLY hits the spot!
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15 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Cope's 1992 masterpiece..., 8 Jan 2004
By Jason Parkes "We're all Frankies'" (Worcester, UK) - See all my reviews
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that got him dropped from Island!

Jehovahkill advanced on the double-album format of Peggy Suicide (1991), Cope undergoing an epiphany & going upwards at 45 degrees after a minor-diversion towards the mainstream (see autobiography Repossessed/Head-On). Cope had some success with Peggy Suicide, delivering an album in phases, & Jehovahkill both advances & continues that. The Floored Genius-compilation had sold well & the Jehovahkill-tour, which had epic shows, sold out. So, why was Copey dropped shortly after the release of this?????

Jehovahkill has dated brilliantly- & along with Peggy Suicide & 20 Mothers is his most consistent album of the 90s (the others were good, sometimes great, but with poor moments). Cope & long-time collaborator Donald Ross Skinner with drummer/saxophinist Rooster Cosby are the band for this album, which advanced Cope's autogeddon/megalithic/enviromental concerns & comes with a booklet leading towards Cope's books The Modern Antiquarian and The Megalithic European: stone-circles, pre-Christ cross, quotes from forward-thinking drudes like William Blake & Philip K Dick...

The music sounds great now, it has dated brilliantly- it's easy to see an influence on the Radiohead of Kid A/mnesiac here: Poet is Priest is futurist-dance music that Radiohead would do now to acclaim, while No Hard Shoulder (To Cry On) has a mindblowing guitar sound that prefigures records like OK Computer. Cope is acoustic here (the beginning of Soul Desert, the humourous Julian H Cope) - but the album flows between these points. There are spacerock-inflected instrumentals (Necropolis, The Subtle Energies Commission), divine alt-pop (The Mystery Trend, Slow Rider, Fa-Fa-Fa Fine)& strange psychedelic droning classics like Know (Cut My Friend Down) & Gimme Back My Flag.

The stand-out tracks for me remain the immense Upwards at 45 Degrees, which moves from acoustics to full on rock mode; the epic The Tower, 10-minutes of what The Doors would sound like if they'd been Can & single Fear Loves This Place- which is a wonderful anthem...

Really, Jehovahkill is a wonderful album- it deservedly did well on a recent poll of the best albums ever on Cope's Head Heritage website- & sounds simply perfect now! Fried remains my fave album of Cope's- it's been a brilliant career- but Jehovahkill pretty much slays that now I think! Jehovahkill was the last record Cope recorded for a major label: their loss!

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