Julian Cope - Laughing Boy

[blackandtanful]

８０年代、異色のﾎﾟｯﾌﾟUK･ｱｰﾃｨｽﾄ～ｼﾞｭﾘｱﾝ･­ｺｰﾌﾟ～ｱﾙﾊﾞﾑ"FRIEND"より､詩的美を醸し出した­優秀曲"ﾗﾌｨﾝｸﾞ･ﾎﾞｰｲ"



[puerkola]

Late Night Tales brought me here

[tremolo1965]

Great songs on this record.

[sebastianflash64]

still listening to fried now after all those years and it sounds good... 1984 was a good year.



[PeregrineTrousers]

Fried again! 

[KarmicAnarchist]

Julian, if you ever read this, I love you dearly, and this is a beautiful track, from a seminal album. There is no way to improve on the package.

But Geezer, the video! The Turtle shell? What the fuck? I realize and fully accept there was a modicum of acid in the making of this, I've got a similar pair of huge balls myself when it comes to tripping, so I totally get where you were coming from. But still, what the buggery fuck were you thinking? Fuck you You Magnificent Bastard!

! Hail Eris!

[djh29971]

'Fried' has always been in my top ten albums, but it's an album you can only ever get away with recording once. Had the next album been like this it would have tainted 'Fried' as it is not what you could call original. Never would get released now, so thank the 1980's!!!

[Noodles37UK]

Why can't I upload Search Party?

[diskochimp]

This really is something... x

[sixbladeknife44]

Stellar under the radar gem, Fried was Julian's best....

[larskerk]

perfect

[PeregrineTrousers]

Brilliant work. Still in my all time top-ten albums 'Fried'

[keinsignal]

Laughing Boy has no bass! The gypsies had no homes! Don't let that scare you - let it *free* you.

[Anhedonistic]

He also said in an interview in about 86/7 that there was no bass on because it didn't need any!

[YCSMusic]

Essence of Syd Barrett here I think...but JC is a quality writer and performer anyway.

[oogie11]

Beautiful, if slightly haunting video...where was the video filmed?

[copeyattamsworth]

@oogie11 Deri, Mid-Glamorgan.

[oogie11]

@copeyattamsworth Oh, in Wales, oh, I see, thank you. I assumed that it was filmed in Wiltshire. Umm, but yeah, Wales, that's lovely.

[BubbaCletusPeburges]

@copeyattamsworth

Nah mate, it was filmed on his home turf at the time, just outside Tamworth. It is on the site of the old Pooley Colliery, now a nature reserve with the pools you see created by subsidence and woods of silver birch trees have sprung up all around and now most of the way up the big mound since this was filmed. You can also see the M42 being built and the train in the vid is running north on the west coast main line towards Tamworth. Looks quite different these days! :o)

[diskochimp]

Wow, never seen this before...

[enirx]

One of my top songs...

[sebastianflash64]

this must be one of julians best albums .how can you not like fried it could have been over after sunspots!!!!. but the bloody assizes kicked in round two ...... and what a round 10/10 for fried..

[Noodles37UK]

@sebastianflash64 Yup. Search Party twins this.

[kosmischesynth]

this whole album smells of summer, strange, usually Julian Cope albums smell of weed

[loorambient]

This whole album is an amazing piece. Get it!

[SkimmerLover]

Gawd i could do with a day out like again.

[carefreecrow]

KWALITY !! many thanks

[neilus]

hoorah, i always wanted a way to experience LSD without the risk of serious mental illness, this vid comes pretty close...nice post, cheers

[jawshchevyvan]

awesome post, thank you immensely!

[makeminea99]

What can u say about this song and the album? Listening to my big brothers Fried LP one summer and gazing at the back cover with the smoke rising from the horizon was a strange awakening for me. Remember seeing Julian on newsnight or culture show circa Peggy Suicide saying there is no bass on this track because they forgot to do bass for it. :)

[oogie11]

@makeminea99 Yeaah, I saw that Late show clip and, yeah, he said that they forgot to put bass on it...it still sounds good without bass :)

[Noodles37UK]

@makeminea99 I am so glad they forgot bass because this has to be my favorite track ever. Sounds like a sunset over the sea. No aggression. Just thought and reflection: ) I got no place to go.

[Kelly14UK]

The greatest song done by anyone, anywhere, EVER.

[pkdick67]

've thought so for many years, i swear, and still ranks so high

[PeregrineTrousers]

Well you can't say he never shelled out. When we were terrapins he tortoise. No amphibian!

All time Mr C

[laudiepug]

I never knw his existed......I miss my turtle-shell poster!

[mycroft999]

soundtrack to a stoned youth. thank you. I'd heard about this film but never seen it before. Good effort old chap

[micmacmoc]

this is goddamm gorgeous and no mistake

heh

lets get neekid and listen to mrcope AGAIN!

who knows...its the new revelations?

[catblanket14uk]

THIS IS MY ALL-TIME FAVORITE SONG.

[bubblegumbo]

Fried is a masterpiece!and the Drude is a living legend!thanks so much to darthnutmeg for posting this I had no idea such a thing even existed,this is absolutely brilliant!

[potricknipperdimple]

Makes me want to read Julians Brilliant autobiography again, but i cant because someones nicked it from me! Great song and video ta.

[theface79]

"Head", you mean? Brilliant indeed, and the one who nicked it is no doubt a happier person now. "Look! They´re coming to visit US!"

[catblanket14uk]

Hey , the face79, i've funny feeling we've spoken before on YouTube... maybe i'm wrong.. BTW.. What's his book like?

[theface79]

It must be a flashback of yours - his book covers his life and career until the end of the Teardrop Explodes. A lot of funny scenes inside the goldmine of Cope´s world.

[sylvanhart]

Very rarely do you get a video that fits the song...PERFECTLY.

[JagBetty]

Wow, a quality post there. Thanks for that. Julian as Turtleboy. Fried is such a great album, anyone got the the vid to Sunshine Playroom?

[julesgreaves]

ide like to see that aswell. didnt radio 1 ban it like relax .david baily had something to do with it i think.

[mstrmoog]

mega

never thought I'd see this

[julesgreaves]

from stop to start FRIED is a fantastic album. and will allways be one if not the best albums jules has done, and hes done some fantastic stuff.i cant wait till someone downloads suffocate on 12 inch the string arrangement is just tops, aint heard it for ages.

[jonjolly1963]

fantastic the best album by far. "bill drummond said" is my fav

[jampot64]

I love this video , such a beautiful song.

[truemansparks]

thats great i really like fried its my favourite julian album well one of my favourite albums full stop laughing boy and me singing are two eeriely beautiful songs

[catblanket14uk]

Fried was one of my favorite albums for about 10 years...Search Party, Laughing Boy, Torpedo... the lot.

You were bang on about this song.

World Shut Your Mouth and Saint Julian are annoyingly impossible to get.

[sparkeezy]

AT LAST! COPEULATION APPEARS ON YOUTUBE!

Thanks so much!