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Fried [Import]

~ The Go-Betweens, Julian Cope
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Audio CD (19 Jul 1990)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Import
  • Label: Fontana
  • ASIN: B000001F9T
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 491,898 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

1. Reynard the Fox
2. Bill Drummond Said
3. Laughing Boy
4. Me Singing
5. Sunspots
6. Bloody Assizes
7. Search Party
8. O King of Chaos
9. Holy Love
10. Torpedo

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars His best album???!?!?!?!!, 20 Mar 2003
By "cardylover" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fried (Audio CD)
Wonderful, fanitly psychedlic, pop songs from Mr Cope. Certainly my favourite album from his extensive back catelogue. Starts with the harsh guitar clatter of 'Reynard The Fox' - moves brilliantly into the reflective daze of 'Bill Drummond Says' and further on to the bizarre, but great 'Sunspots'. O King Of Chaos is another highlight - featuring solo voice, piano and organ - Cope barks his lyrics with great force. Superb album.
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars How classic is this album?, 13 Nov 2002
By Jason Parkes "We're all Frankies'" (Worcester, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fried (Audio CD)
In 1986 I first heard Julian Cope (although I had known songs like Reward, Treason & Passionate Friend from TOTP)and the following year, a friend got into him big time. Came across a tape of this in a garage in Buckinghamshire (?) and this became my fave album of his, well apart from Wilder, World Shut Your Mouth & Peggy Suicide...

The making of this album is well documented in Repossessed/Head On (Thorsons)- it was made in the maelstrom that followed the Teardrops' demise, the financial fallout & the failure of his great debut album. Cope was being set up as a Syd Barrett for the 80's , plenty of odd rumours (selling songs to people on Paul McCartney's trout farm, living on a traffic island) surfaced and looking at the coolest cover of an album ever, it was possible to see why...

The album opens with Reynard the Fox, Cope moving towards myth as the song mutates into a blend of Helter Skelter & The Doors with a rockabilly freakout towards the end (and strange psychedelic guitar). This is the best version released.

The lovely Bill Drummond Said is next, this is shimmering guitar music of the finest order- even if it's about the KLF/Zoo geezer who wrote the not so classic Julian Cope is Dead. You can hear why Morrissey named this his fave album of 1984.

Laughing Boy is up next, sounding like Tim Buckley on valium - though its title comes from a track on Hall&Oates Abandoned Luncheonette! This is a very English hell and far from funny- which I suppose is the point...

Me Singing is another sublime acoustic song, very much influenced by Tim Buckley's Happy Sad and Van Morrison's TB Sheets- and not far from 70's breakdown album Third/Sister Lovers by Big Star. This came from an imaginary conversation Cope had with his wife while she was away; how great is that?

The classic single and international hit (well, in my universe) Sunspots is next- "Eh Oh/It goes away" demonstrates a lyrical influence on the Teletubbies and a wonderful drum sound is complemented by heavenly washes of keyboards and parping brass. Someone told me it sounds like The The, not so sure myself. As great as songs like An Elegant Chaos & Strasbourg regardless.

The Bloody Assizes kickstarts the second half of the album, though it is songs like Search Party, O. King of Chaos (Madness dabbling in the occult) and Torpedo that stand out. Oh, and Holy Love shows that he can do the whole pop thing like Reward or Greatness & Perfection whenever he felt like it.

The extra tracks come from the Sunspots-e.p. and the krautrock-inflected Mik Mak Mock and the mindblowing Land of Fear are as good as anything on the great album proper (Land of Fear would be re-recorded for 20 Mothers. Lovely...).

Fried is an absolute total classic masterpiece up there with, well any album ever; Cope may have went crazy but the album transcends that. Timeless stuff.

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Eighties acid drops, 9 Feb 2003
This review is from: Fried (Audio CD)
The eighties largely passed me by, being busy raising kids and listening mostly to Irish music. I bought this out of curiosity having read of Julian Cope's strange transformation thanks to an acid binge. I'm glad to say I really enjoyed it - just the right mix of fey playfulness and strange observation to put it alongside classic sixties LSD music. My points of reference are wildly out of date but, for what it's worth, I thought "Reynard the Fox" was like XTC but with better singing, Sunspots is a great laugh (we've all been there), "The Bloody Assizes" is a dead ringer for the Yardbirds playing live (Julian even sounds like Keith Relf) and I thought I heard shades of Syd Barrett, Magical Mystery Tour era Beatles and a bit of Cap'n Beefheart on Mic Mak Mok. "Fried" is a great addition to that tradition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Mad Cope Laughs
the infamous second solo record from Julian Cope, Fried. I use the word "infamous" because Fried marks the point at which Cope began to find himself at odds with major record... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars How do you like your music?...... Fried or boiled?
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5.0 out of 5 stars All these years on....
Great collection of songs."The" Syd Barrett album of the Eighties.Pour a favourite tipple,put headphones on,turn the volume up and savour. Read more
Published 22 months ago by bish

4.0 out of 5 stars eeeeeeeeeooooww.................
Julian, mystic, stones, mad, syd, melody, sarcasm, humour, vulnerability, human, genius, lost and found. Read more
Published on 16 Oct 2007 by Si

5.0 out of 5 stars The Acid trip paid off Saint Julian!!!
This some what visionary album gives a strange but actual insight of a mad-cap forward thinking mystic who is still to this day out there doing his thang ! Read more
Published on 8 Feb 2001

4.0 out of 5 stars Not Julian's Best!
Damm fine album. Not as good as 'World Shut Your Mouth' though! (I of course refer to the album, WSYM, not the song which turned up years later on 'saint Julian' another fine... Read more
Published on 8 Feb 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars Music at its very best
This has to appear in the top 10 albums af anyone with the slightest taste. It has absolutely everything that god intended for music. Read more
Published on 26 Dec 1999 by david.lee6@which.net

5.0 out of 5 stars Julian's best
Dripping with Psychedelia this is Julian's finest. "Reynard the Fox" starts the album and its' hillbilly lake country stomp rocks harder than anything Julian has done... Read more
Published on 18 Nov 1999

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