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Dark Orgasm

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Dark Orgasm
Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 2005[1]
GenreRock, hard rock
Length48:40
LabelHead Heritage
ProducerJulian Cope
Julian Cope chronology
Citizen Cain'd
(2005)
Dark Orgasm
(2005)
You Gotta Problem With Me
(2007)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Guardian[3]
The Great Rock Discography4/10[4]

Dark Orgasm is the twenty-first solo album by Julian Cope, released in 2005. It contains eight songs of guitar-heavy hard rock split into two short CDs.[5] Alexis Petridis of The Guardian described the album as "a roughly recorded Stooges-meets-prog concept album about atheism and feminism".[3] It was dedicated to "Freedom and Equality for Women".

Track listing

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All songs and poems written by Julian Cope

Disc one
  1. "Zoroaster" – 4:05
  2. "White Bitch Comes Good" – 3:46
  3. "She's Got a Ring on Her Finger (& Another Through Her Nose)" – 4:01
  4. "Mr. Invasion" – 3:19
  5. "Nothing to Lose Except My Mind" – 3:47
  6. "I've Found a New Way to Love Her" – 3:59
  7. "I Don't Wanna Grow Back" – 4:10
Disc two
  1. "The Death & Resurrection Show" – 20:58
  2. (untitled) – 0:35
Poetry (printed in booklet)
  1. "Who Makes the Festival Under the Hill?"
  2. "Creedist Blues"
  3. "No Second Opinion"
Note
  • Track 2 on disc two is the first 35 seconds of "The Death & Resurrection Show".

Personnel

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Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.[6]

Musicians

  • Julian Cope — vocals, guitar, bass, mellotron, arrangement
  • Anthony "Doggen" Foster (credited as Døgntank) — lead guitar, bass guitar, arrangement
  • Ian "Mister E." Bissett – drums, arrangement

Technical

References

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  1. ^ Head Heritage – Story of the Drude Headheritage.co.uk. Retrieved 21 March 2018
  2. ^ Mason, James. "Dark Orgasm". AllMusic. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
  3. ^ a b Petridis, Alexis. "Julian Cope, Dark Orgasm". The Guardian. 25 November 2005. Retrieved on 21 March 2018.
  4. ^ Strong, Martin C. "Julian Cope Biography". The Great Rock Bible. Archived from the original on 13 June 2018. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
  5. ^ Head Heritage – Discography Headheritage.co.uk. Retrieved 21 March 2018
  6. ^ Dark Orgasm (CD liner notes). Julian Cope. Head Heritage. 2005.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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