Dark Orgasm Explained

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.^[2] 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

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

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.^[4]

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

• Julian Cope – producer, directed by, mixing engineer
• Terry Dobbin — recorded by
• Adam "Randy Apostle" Whittaker – recorded by, mixing engineer, mastering engineer
• Benji Bartlett – photography
• Christopher Patrick "Holy" McGrail — design

External links

• Dark Orgasm on Discogs.com

Notes and References

1. https://www.headheritage.co.uk/julian_cope/storyofthedrude/ Head Heritage – Story of the Drude
2. http://www.headheritage.co.uk/julian_cope/discography/darkorgasm/ Head Heritage – Discography
3. Petridis, Alexis. "Julian Cope, Dark Orgasm". The Guardian. 25 November 2005. Retrieved on 21 March 2018.
4. Dark Orgasm. CD liner notes. Julian Cope. Head Heritage. 2005.