Julian Cope - Laughing Boy

[@simonm8127]

Fried is right up there, one of my all time favourites, I can put it on at any time and it takes me back to those heady days of the 80's, I appreciate them so much, this track reminds me of travelling around Europe and listening on a walkman as a teenager. Give anything for that time again.

[@rushshukla4636]

One of life's biggest mysteries is why Fried didn't sell. It's the best album ever made and his most profound musical statement. If there's only one album of his you must own it's Fried.

[@zincubuz3911]

Well the video alone will put most people off listening to this track

[@duncefunce1513]

The. Best. Album. Ever. Made. OK, dude.

[@duncefunce1513]

@@zincubuz3911 I think the video is great

[@heroicdosedo]

What I kind of love, is the 1st Julian Cope album I bought was 20 mothers at a used CD shop. Almost every album of his I own I got at a used album shop. I have most of them. Love him. I was born in 84' so I found him later on.

[@bluegreenglue6565]

I feel honored to be of the generation that can wake up at 3 a.m. with this song in their heads.

[@lindagrant3104]

Iwad 14 and watched bthis from afar so wanted ro talk to them but was so scared to approach them

[@lindagrant3104]

I was a 16yr old cope fan watching this from afar saw it all but didnt want to interrupt

[@dhumph1969]

Genius - the world needs more Julian Cope

[@anthonyhume-ring810]

Julian Cope is a God!!!

[@beefheart1410]

As a 53 year old Brit, I've got to say: back in the day, this was NEVER viewed as Psychedelia. This was Post Punk whimsy. Cope's fans in that era understood it as such.

[@marksolomon5000]

...haughtingly beautiful...xxx

[@alexfenton229]

Wow!!! This must have influenced Verve’s early album. So hypnotic and beautiful 😍

[@jamesferns6300]

This is exactly what I've always thought! I'm so glad somebody else has said it.

[@briancoker3547]

what a moody and lovely song fried one of the best album's I saw him open for Siouxsie in 87 in NYC

[@teodelfuego]

The sounds and layers in this song are what an imaginative boy from America would imagine Britain to be like. Very dream-like, very good

[@mattiemclean9882]

Hahaha.... don't come here then! You'll be very disappointed! The only places of beauty are where the humans are not (the middle of fields and on the banks of rivers)

[@Ergates]

Haunting, shimmering, ethereal, unforgettable...... That is all.

[@sebastianflash64]

fried seems to be the album that i come back too, its like some kind of comfort blanket smotherd in holy love.

[@Kelly14UK]

For many years it was my favorite album ever. Laughing Boy and Search Party are the greatest songs of all time.

[@marksolomon5000]

.myself ...my partner...my children...my friends...we all utterly love fried...its full of astonishing tracks like this...time stands still during this song...breathtaking stuff...

[@saippuakivikuappias]

@copeyattamsworth Nah mate, it was filmed on his home turf at the time, just outside Tamworth. It is on the site of the old Pooley Colliery, now a nature reserve with the pools you see created by subsidence and woods of silver birch trees have sprung up all around and now most of the way up the big mound since this was filmed. You can also see the M42 being built and the train in the vid is running north on the west coast main line towards Tamworth. Looks quite different these days! :o)

[@sebastianflash64]

still listening to fried now after all those years and it sounds good... 1984 was a good year.

[@ZINCOVIX8754]

Fantastic song.

[@Sr19769p]

Wonderful. Very Syd Barrett, love it

[@gregbruce5601]

Very Blur

[@sebastianflash64]

this must be one of julians best albums .how can you not like fried it could have been over after sunspots!!!!. but the bloody assizes kicked in round two ...... and what a round 10/10 for fried..

[@truemansparks]

thats great i really like fried its my favourite julian album well one of my favourite albums full stop laughing boy and me singing are two eeriely beautiful songs

[@gregbruce5601]

This was probably Blur's favourite Julian cope album as well

[@PeregrineTrousers]

Brilliant work. Still in my all time top-ten albums 'Fried'

[@faunoram]

The waking hours are the loneliest ones For the sinister boys like me

[@Kelly14UK]

Ta. I have to rely on my brother's knack of internet downloading to track down Cope's stuff. Twenty five years ago, I'd listen to Cope quietly last thing at night. Everyone in my suburban household were in their beds. So you can see how these songs impacted on me.

[@lornai7171]

Fried is absolute perfection 😍

[@dwelleronthethreshold9484]

so beautiful

[@nodiggity9472]

"Come, come to the top of the hill friends, and I shall show you the timeless dance of the Turtle folk"

[@FoogouFilms]

If you're into this, Rob Young;s book "Electric Eden" is well worth a read.

[@JagBetty]

Wow, a quality post there. Thanks for that. Julian as Turtleboy. Fried is such a great album, anyone got the the vid to Sunshine Playroom?

[@tonymack66]

There is a completely different version of "Search Party" to be found on the CD Zoology. It's the original; different lyrics and over dub bass. It's called "Richie Blofeld." It's basic on a tape recorder circa 1978.

[@karenjherbert]

Beautifull x

[@potricknipperdimple]

Makes me want to read Julians Brilliant autobiography again, but i cant because someones nicked it from me! Great song and video ta.

[@enirx]

One of my top songs...

[@LaughingboyMox]

its truly a wonderful simple A to D song. Sheer genius

[@tetrahedron3100]

For me, the second-best track of the 1980s, with the best being He Said's 12 inch version of Pump.

[@sgtscheetje]

Fancy someone knowing and even enjoying He Said! Thumbs up!

[@makeminea99]

What can u say about this song and the album? Listening to my big brothers Fried LP one summer and gazing at the back cover with the smoke rising from the horizon was a strange awakening for me. Remember seeing Julian on newsnight or culture show circa Peggy Suicide saying there is no bass on this track because they forgot to do bass for it. :)

[@PeppyOoze]

Pooley Pit - closed down in the mid-1960s. Then 20 years later they built the M42 motorway thru it... Notice the rust-orange lakes.

[@tonymack66]

We don't realise how depressed he was at the time. I was gonna upload the early version of "Search Party", but it isn't serious enough; not compared to the version that appeared on "Fried." You're a Midnight Cowboy fan, eh? Nice!!!

[@tremolo1965]

Great songs on this record.

[@sparkeezy]

AT LAST! COPEULATION APPEARS ON KZbin! Thanks so much!

[@theface79]

It must be a flashback of yours - his book covers his life and career until the end of the Teardrop Explodes. A lot of funny scenes inside the goldmine of Cope´s world.

[@sixbladeknife44]

Stellar under the radar gem, Fried was Julian's best....

[@Kelly14UK]

The greatest song done by anyone, anywhere, EVER.

[@diskochimp]

This really is something... x

[@djh29971]

'Fried' has always been in my top ten albums, but it's an album you can only ever get away with recording once. Had the next album been like this it would have tainted 'Fried' as it is not what you could call original. Never would get released now, so thank the 1980's!!!

[@elsamarie4963]

Oh how I love Copey's early solo stuff

[@joseluisgonzalezlopez8807]

Grande,como los teardrop explodes

[@SkimmerLover]

Gawd i could do with a day out like again.

[@MrShempenman]

are you from tamworth? i used to play up that mound in the 80's - remember them building the m42 - cos on that stretch where you see the yellow trucks, my mate and i went smashing windows once. around 1984! strange to think such a psychedelic great was in our midst. - sorry - just amazed to see this vid.

[@faunoram]

un genio loco

[@JakobRitter]

Can anyone provide the lyrics for this song? I can't find them anywhere on the internet. Thank you! :)

[@micmacmoc]

this is goddamm gorgeous and no mistake heh lets get neekid and listen to mrcope AGAIN! who knows...its the new revelations?

[@oogie11]

@makeminea99 Yeaah, I saw that Late show clip and, yeah, he said that they forgot to put bass on it...it still sounds good without bass :)

[@oogie11]

Beautiful, if slightly haunting video...where was the video filmed?

[@paultorbert6929]

why didnt the other 67, 934 click like ??????????????????? i dont understand..... were they crying and couldnt manage ?

[@theface79]

"Head", you mean? Brilliant indeed, and the one who nicked it is no doubt a happier person now. "Look! They´re coming to visit US!"

[@Kelly14UK]

I'll take those two songs to the grave with me. The ending of Search Party reminds me of watching a sunset sitting under a palm tree on some beach in heaven. Something like that hahaha

[@alfredoferrucci5219]

Sempre bello

[@Noodles37UK]

@makeminea99 I am so glad they forgot bass because this has to be my favorite track ever. Sounds like a sunset over the sea. No aggression. Just thought and reflection: ) I got no place to go.

[@Kelly14UK]

GREATEST SONG OF ALL TIME

[@Kelly14UK]

neoconvers ** words I am unsure of in asterisks** Hope this is correct : ) The wind it plays upon your hair A vision of the glorious sea The wind that follows down from there Incarcerates the sea The waking hours are the loneliest ones For the sinister boys like me Travelling east, straight **line** through the past I'm happy in morality Oh no don't cast me out of here ( repeat) Oh no don't cast me out I said No I got no place to go The King and Queen of my estates My Real Estates are real The King and Queen have offered me The estate of **Robert Peel** Is it talent you need Like the talent you see Like the talent clear for me And the sign that says ** In ** the carpet **made** Like a carpet I rolled away Oh no don't cast me out of here ( repeat) Oh no don't cast me out I said No I got no place to go The wind it plays upon your hair So ever so gloriously So be content With the apples spent On the William Tell **on/ of** me As the faces they bleed Watch them dull and recede Won't you help to keep my spirit clear Stay a week and a day And never go away Be forever in my presence dear Chorus

[@Kelly14UK]

neoconvers Did my best. This song is unique. Always makes me feel better about life : )

[@tinaramirez809]

Kelly14UK .p

[@Kelly14UK]

+neoconvers 27 years on since '88 it's still my favourite : )

[@teodelfuego]

+Kelly14UK I hear " the wind that plays..." "Robert Peele" is correct. I hear "keep the carpet nailed...like the carpet I rolled away." Reminds me of a scene from Head On where he's on his hands and knees in some hotel ripping up the carpet in the hallway

[@tonymack66]

LOVE. BALANCE.............!

[@oogie11]

@copeyattamsworth Oh, in Wales, oh, I see, thank you. I assumed that it was filmed in Wiltshire. Umm, but yeah, Wales, that's lovely.

[@diskochimp]

Wow, never seen this before...

[@pch2230]

Big Ravishing Beauties influence.

[@neilus]

hoorah, i always wanted a way to experience LSD without the risk of serious mental illness, this vid comes pretty close...nice post, cheers

Gem

[@Kelly14UK]

@lonefools3 Greatest song of all time.

[@Noodles37UK]

@sebastianflash64 Yup. Search Party twins this.

[@PeregrineTrousers]

Fried again!

[@blackandtanful]

８０年代、異色のﾎﾟｯﾌﾟUK･ｱｰﾃｨｽﾄ～ｼﾞｭﾘｱﾝ･ｺｰﾌﾟ～ｱﾙﾊﾞﾑ"FRIEND"より､詩的美を醸し出した優秀曲"ﾗﾌｨﾝｸﾞ･ﾎﾞｰｲ"

[@tonymack66]

The intro's more A7 to D to me. Anyone else figured out the chords for the rest of da song ?

[@stevefm]

+Tony Mack Yes it's an open A7, then slide everything up to the 5th fret then up to the 7th where you bend your 3rd finger. Chorus is open D, then same up 4 frets, then Dm up 2 frets then D up 1 fret.

[@tonymack66]

Thanks for that, man.

[@stevefm]

Tony Mack No probs.

[@stevefm]

Tony Mack Hey do you live near Tamworth then? Ever been to the hill in the video? I was seriously thinking about sweding this video but it's a bit of a trek from southampton.

[@tonymack66]

No. I live in the north east. I've been to Tamworth, but not to the "mound." Cope said recently that the M42 runs by it now. So, I think the mound is still there. Just !!!!

[@Kelly14UK]

I am mad, man .

[@Noodles37UK]

Why can't I upload Search Party?

[@lonefools3]

Laughing Boy

[@MrMusicbyMartin]

Oboe Kate!

[@sebastianflash64]

if you get a ticket please take me with you. when my times up ide like to go out to safe surfer, or any sinatra track ....

[@PeregrineTrousers]

Well you can't say he never shelled out. When we were terrapins he tortoise. No amphibian! All time Mr C

[@drahcir10001]

Kate St John.

[@seussnelson]

Namdam am I.

[@fascistbullygirl13]

Apparently 2 people need an attitude adjustment .....

[@chadmoonstone7486]

Mushroom time

[@golluba]

MGMT

[@mUbase]

They all look like they're tripping.

[@truemansparks]

They are they all took acid to do this film it's in Julians book Repossessed

[@mUbase]

Ha! Marvellous. :) I Am you are we are CRAZY!

[@eduardobracamontealvarez1959]

a ian macculloch copy

[@teodelfuego]

Good, lord, you know very little about music, Echo, or Cope. Troll

[@angelariley908]

Wow!? Completely different ,have you ever listened to Echo and the Bunnymen?