Japrocksampler: How the Post-War Japanese Blew Their Minds on Rock 'n' Roll
by Julian Cope
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Author: Julian CopeEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2009-01-01
ISBN: 0747593035
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Bloomsbury UK
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Book Review: The Krautrock Sequel
Summary: 5 Stars
Being a huge fan of the olde Drude and knowing precisely zero about the subject at hand, I took a punt on this and received my copy this morning. So I haven't actually read it yet, but...
It's a gorgeous little hardback book with a great cover design and a set of full colour plates in the centre depicting many of the album sleeves mentioned in the book. The few pages I've read while avoiding work today have been the usual Cope laugh-out-loud funny proclamations (fans of the Head On / Repossessed autobiographies will be familiar with this) and a clearly passionate, inexhaustible, encyclopaedic knowledge of his subject. And, despite being published by mainstream Bloomsbury (Krautrocksampler was self-published by Head Heritage) it might even be worth a few quid one day like the first editions of Krautrock are. Not that we buy these things because we're investors...
Krautrocksampler made me listen again to some of the further-out bands of the time (I was already a fan of Faust, Can, Neu! etc) and I'm looking forward to discovering what the Japs were up to at this time, and then buying a few CDs.
I wish I could say that the Copester's music output was still as essential as it used to be (although Citizen Cain'd was almost-not-quite a return to some kind of form). I can certainly say that his books definitely ARE essential. Buy this, buy Krautrocksampler (if you can), and buy Head On / Repossessed too. And buy the Antiquarian books. And buy the first seven solo albums (but not My Nation Underground because it's poo). OK, I'll shut up now.
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