Julian Cope on BOC

[Albert Bouchard]

But odd that he didn't mention Imaginos. It certainly seems like it
would have fit into his concept of the true BOC. I guess he doesn't
consider it a REAL BOC album. Rightly so.
Al
On Oct 4, 2005, at 1:56 PM, Chip Hart wrote:

> Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
>> As for BOC, the good Mr. Cope seems to be trying to say "I like a lot
>> of
>> that stuff, but not all of it, and I wish I liked more of it, or that
>> there was more I liked, or something, but since that's not enough to
>> fill this web page (what is?) I'd best go off on a rant about ...
>> stuff!" :)
>
>         In thinking about it, I thought was an interesting discussion
>         about _why_ one likes BOC.
>
>         For example, on this list there are 3 camps (that I can
>         identify):
>
>           - Those who think that BOC-through-ST is "the" BOC.
>
>           - Those who think that parts of their early stuff, big
>           sections of the middle (AOF until RBN) and a little from RBN
>           and on are the "best" parts.
>
>           - Those who like it all.
>
>         Cope is firmly in the first camp, as the "attitude" and
> "intent"
>         of BOC at the time seems more important to him than, say, how
>         cool the melody is on "I Love the Night" or something.
> Although
>         there are signs of what was to come in the earlier albums
> ("Last
>         Days" and "Flaming Telepaths"), BOC really did change after
>         OYFOOYK.  Could Godzilla have lived on any of the albums before
>         Spectres?  I don't think so.
>
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