Black Sheep (Julian Cope album)

Black Sheep
Studio album by
Released8 September 2008
GenreRock
Length67:27
LabelHead Heritage
ProducerJulian Cope
Julian Cope chronology
You Gotta Problem with Me
(2007)
Black Sheep
(2008)
The Unruly Imagination
(2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
The Great Rock Discography6/10[2]

Black Sheep is a double album by Julian Cope, released on Head Heritage in 2008. It is Cope's twentyfourth solo album and features 11 protest songs across two half-hour CDs.[3] Each CD represents "one side of an LP" with their own titles, Return of the Native and Return of the Alternative.[4] Cope described the album as "a musical exploration of what it is to be an outsider in modern Western Culture".[5]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Julian Cope

Disc one – Return of the Native
No.TitleLength
1."Come the Revolution"5:02
2."It's Too Late to Turn Back Now"4:31
3."These Things I Know"5:04
4."Psychedelic Odin"7:13
5."Blood Sacrifice"4:28
6."The Shipwreck of St. Paul"6:50
Total length:33:08
Disc two – Return of the Alternative
No.TitleLength
1."All the Blowing-Themselves-Up Motherfuckers (Will Realise the Minute They Die That They Were Suckers)"3:04
2."Feed My Rock'n'Roll"6:36
3."Dhimmi is Blue"8:32
4."The Black Sheep's Song"4:52
5."I Can Remember This Life"11:15
Total length:34:19 (67:27)
Poetry (printed in booklet)
No.TitleLength
1."The Aberfan Disaster" 

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Strong, Martin C. "Julian Cope Biography". The Great Rock Bible. Archived from the original on 13 June 2018. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
  3. ^ "Julian Cope / Black Sheep". Headheritage.com. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  4. ^ Severa, Alan. "Black Sheep - AllMusic Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  5. ^ "Julian Cope / Black Sheep". Headheritage.com. Retrieved 9 January 2012.