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| | Rolling Stone : Julian Cope: Peggy Suicide : Music Reviews |
 | | As the singer and leader of the great late-Seventies Liverpool band the Teardrop Explodes, he consummated a superior, twisted marriage of Sixties freak-pop kicks and punk dynamics that has been a big influence on new British chart pups like Inspiral Carpets and the Charlatans UK. |
 | | The closing track, "Las Vegas Basement," a quietly uplifting song about a loser's dream come true, however brief, is indeed a first take; in his liner notes, Cope points out the two spots where he flubbed the lyrics and even includes the corrections. |
 | | Cope crawls through the ruin wrought by, among other things, pollution, AIDS, the ruling Tory party, acid rain and acid damage, skewering villains as he goes along. |
| rollingstone.com /artists/juliancope/albums/album/100318/rid/5942473 (812 words) |
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