Black Sheep (Julian Cope album)

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Black Sheep
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Studio album by
Julian Cope
Released8 September 2008
Genre Rock
Length67:27
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
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [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]

Contents

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

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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.
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