Julian Cope on BOC

[Albert Bouchard]

That would probably be a worthy project but one that would require more
time than any of us BSNYC folks have right now. Also the other factor
is that holding to these conceptual forms is almost anti-commercial so
if we wanted to make the Surgeons pay for itself it would not be the
thing to do. Wait didn't The Mars Volta just do that?
Al
On Oct 5, 2005, at 7:30 AM, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:

> On 05/10/2005 02:14, Albert Bouchard wrote:
>> 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.
>
> "True", but not "Real"! :)
>
> When I first heard Imaginos, I thought it was a) great and b) a "real"
> BOC album: both a return to form and an update that worked better than
> the early 80s albums (admittedly, I heard *any* BOC, other than Reaper
> on classic rock radio stations, until I went to university in the early
> 90s, so I was thinking of "form setting" in the early albums and "form
> returning" for Imaginos almost simultaneously :)
>
> When I eventually learned real story of Imaginos, I still thought it
> was
> great :)
>
> I dunno, perhaps I'd have different feelings about the trajectory of
> BOC
> if I'd been a big fan back in the early 70s instead of a toddler.  I
> came to basically the band's whole catalog -- the good, the bad, the
> ugly -- at once.  Seeing it as a block, I had no trouble thinking of
> "Vengeance" or "Unknown Tongue" as being from the same band as
> "Transmaniacon" or "Astronomy".  (I only wished, not being an
> aficianado
>  of the lo-fi "Detroitish" vibe, that the early recordings sounded as
> good as the later ones!).  I only thought about songs I like more or
> less and albums that felt stronger or weaker.
>
> So, whether Imaginos was real or not always took a back seat to whether
> it rocked or not.  And, well, with giant riffs and huge prodcution
> overlying uebercryptic Cthuloid imagery, what's not to like? :)  "I Am
> the One" remains one of my fave tunes :)  It is *criminal* that it
> didn't receive some sort wild MTV promo video and zoom to Number 1!
> tBS
> should feel free to bring it back out of mothballs as and when :)
>
> Cheers,
> Carl
>
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