Black Sheep (Julian Cope album)

Black Sheep
Studio album by Julian Cope
Released	8 September 2008
Genre	Rock
Length	67:27
Label	Head Heritage
Producer	Julian Cope
Julian Cope chronology
You Gotta Problem with Me (2007) Black Sheep (2008) The Unruly Imagination (2009)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Great Rock Discography	6/10 [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.	Title	Length
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.	Title	Length
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.	Title	Length
1.	"The Aberfan Disaster"

Personnel

• Julian Cope – vocals, guitar, bass, Mellotron 400, synthesizer, 30" bass drum, producer, directed by, photography, sleeve painting
• Anthony "Doggen" Foster – guitar, bass guitar, harmonica, drums
• Christopher Patrick "Holy" McGrail – law council, synthesizer, album design
• Ady "Acoustika" Fletcher – vocals, acoustic guitar, photography
• Michael O'Sullivan – acoustic guitar, 30" bass drum
• Big Nige – law council, blasphemous movie division
• Vybik Jon – law council
• Chris Olley — engineer
• Adam Whittaker — mastering

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.

External links

• Black Sheep on Discogs.com