Julian Cope - Peggy Suicide (Deluxe Edition)

Peggy Suicide is the fifth official solo album by Julian Cope released in 1991. It was accompanied with extensive notes in which Cope explained the meaning of each song and stated that the entire album was a meditation on humanity's relationship to mother Earth.

The album was written in the aftermath of the British anti-poll tax in 1990, to which several songs refer. Margaret Thatcher, the British Prime Minister, resigned between the album's recording and its release. Hence the lyric to Leperskin, in which Thatcher was referred to as an "apostolic hag", lost some of its edge. Many songs are given very idiosyncratic interpretations, such as Cope's account of "You" which asserts that the Conscious Mind "acts like a cross between Tony Wilson and Bill Drummond but looks a lot like Lew Grade. The Unconscious mind...looks like Iggy Pop playing Syd Barrett."

Disc 1 - Side 1
            Title         Additional Info     
1.             Pristeen             
2.             Double Vegetation             
3.             East Easy Rider             
4.             Promised Land             
5.             Hanging Out And Hung Up On The Line             
6.             Safesurfer             
7.             If You Loved Me At All             
8.             Drive, She Said             
9.             Soldier Blue             
10.             You...             
11.             Not Raving But Drowning             
12.             Head             
13.             Leperskin             
14.             Beautiful Love             
15.             Western Front 1992 C.E.             
16.             Hung Up And Hanging Out To Dry             
17.             The American Lite             
18.             Las Vegas Basement             
Disc 2 - Side 1
            Title         Additional Info     
1.             Easty Risin         East Easy Rider Remix     
2.             Ravebury Stones             
3.             Love (L.U.V.)         Beautiful Love Remix     
4.             Dragonfly             
5.             Heed: Of Penetration And The City-Dweller         Head Remix     
6.             Bring Cherhill Down         Vocal Version     
7.             Safesurfer         1991 Tour Single     
8.             If You Loved Me At All         1991 Tour Single     
9.             Butterfly E             
10.             Straw Dogs             
11.             Anyway At All             

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