Peggy Suicide

Infobox Album | Name = Peggy Suicide
Type = Album
Artist = Julian Cope


Released = 1991

Recorded =
Genre = Indie rock
Length = 75:44
Label = Island Records
Producer = Julian Cope, Donald Ross Skinner
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:judfyl3jxpmb link]
*"Rolling Stone" rating|4|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/juliancope/albums/album/100318/review/5942473/peggy_suicide link] |Last album = "Droolian"
(1990)
This album = "Peggy Suicide"
(1991)
Next album = "Jehovahkill"
(1992) |

"Peggy Suicide" is the fifth official solo album by Julian Cope (non-official releases include Skellington and Droolian, neither of which gained official distribution), 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 Mininster, 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." [Julian Cope, Peggy Suicide, 1992]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Julian Cope

#"Pristeen"
#"Double Vegetation"
#"East Easy Rider"
#"Promised Land"
#"Hanging Out and Hung Up on the Line"
#"Safesurfer"
#"If You Loved Me at All"
#"Drive, She Said"
#"Soldier Blue"
#"You..."
#"Not Raving But Drowning"
#"Head"
#"Leperskin"
#"Beautiful Love"
#"Western Front 1992 CE"
#"Hung Up and Hanging Out to Dry"
#"The American Lite"
#"Las Vegas Basement"

Personnel

Julian Cope (as DeHarrison) - vocals, guitar, bass, Moog synthesizer, string arrangements
*Donald Ross Skinner - guitar, bass, organ
*Michael "Moon-Eye" Watts - guitar
*Ron Fair - piano
*G.S. Butterworth - Moog synthesizer
*Rooster Cosby - drums, percussion, conga
*Mike Joyce - drums
*J.D. Hassinger - electronic drums, tambourine
*Ronnie Ross - baritone saxophone
*Aaf Verkade - trumpet
*Dan Levett - cello
*Lulu Chivers, Edwin Vernon, Camilla Mayer - background vocals

References