Julian Cope- They Were All On Hard Drugs

Julian Cope- They Were All On Hard Drugs

[sawtoothiandi]

i love the scent of a souterrain in the mourning....

[movieholic]

I find myself humming this each day at work

[tonymack]

Learned and funny in equal measures. Mr. Copey has now left the building!

[hastekulvaati]

Some artists do huge variety of work but never seem to change.

JC will always be far out. No one is ever going to do a cover of this on Britians Got Talent.

[TheTropicalPioneer]

how rad was that boileroom set by Andy the other day? so great.

[EyeSpyHiFi]

Boiler Room, last night, Weatherall, pure class!

[lloydjones]

Just brilliant. Fancied hearing this and just look who put it up! Heehee, nice work Mr Tomo! xx

[michaelroberts]

Panda paw guitars on the head on tour, so so good. I'll take those gigs with me

[ferroxglideh]

oh DRUDE, this is epic.   makes me want to scrape the ephedra off of the low tide line of my ear canal and just SOAK for 10 000 years.  umm, ohmm. seriously.  PROPS!

[oOLucilOo]

Absolutely...! Class and punk at once. ;)

[EyeSpyHiFi]

Great stuff, thanks for the up. Peace.

[williamconstande]

I want to hang out with Julian Cope. I feel I could learn something unteachable.

[conradolutynski]

Kraut-rock, psicodelia, LSD, the best album of Julian

[robertommundsen]

living on a stoned?love it.krautrock from england

[cheekymouse]

I giggle the way he says Rother ham! Teehee

[TheAphex]

[spoken intro]
they’re going into their caves now, it’s all quite startling!
running around, dancing! they’re allowing themselves to make a mess!
it’s all quite startling, it’s exhilarating, it really is
studying their rocks, looking really up close
they’re outside almost permanently nowadays, they’ve certainly abandoned their churches
not entirely, as refugees they can still pack them in, and psychic refugees, those times have gone
it’s the caves now, they’re going into their caves!

gather ’round i gotta clear up the mystery
about the ancients who created our history
and why they made do with such simple sophistry
they were all on drugs
they were on hard drugs


for evidence i’ve travelled all the world over
and for decades i’d say that i was a rover
but i never saw a single place that was sober
we were all on drugs
they were on hard drugs

i’ll tell you a few:
tokyo (drugs!)
mexico (drugs!)
birmingham (drugs!)
rotherham (drugs!)
silbury (drugs!)
avebury (drugs!)
all of them on hard drugs

the ancients travelled with ephedra and cocaine
to stave off hunger or to put down a migraine (pr-n. mee-grain)
and no authorities would label them insane
’cause they were all on drugs
they were on hard drugs

for those of you who hear this history lesson
i hope the evidence is not too depressing
but otherwise i knew that you would be guessing
that they were all on drugs
they were on hard drugs

i’ll tell a few:
tokyo (drugs!)
mexico (drugs!)
rotherham (drugs!)
nottingham (drugs!)
silbury (drugs!)
avebury (drugs!)
all of them on hard drugs

(spoken) learning the hard way
learning the hard way

now in conclusion to my story so clinical
whenever cultures are achieving their pinnacle
it’s not a product of the smug and the cynical
it’s the ones on drugs
those who’re on hard drugs

the stonehenge people story is telling
psychedelic mushrooms lay around delling
came from the same place as the stones they were felling
yes they were all on drugs
they were on hard drugs

i’ll tell you a few
waterloo
beetaloo [?]
bakerloo
port-a-loo
liverpool
sunday school
all cultures on hard drugs

[colinhoodless]

Andrew Weatherall brought me here on his boiler room.

[sawtoothiandi]

if you take the r out of resistance
what a ya got mate?
esistance (easy stance)
and in this instance
of instantaneous
existence
rated R
mere fools are we to believe
we are out side of time
or
inside it
because its not a place
at least
not an exclusive place
or exclusive to a place
its essentially
everywhere and NOW

[chrishenniker]

Is this a song about the Stoned Ape Hypothesis?

[anthonyparker]

Wait...some people need lyrics? I don't need me no lyrics...but maybe I was on hard drugs...