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Perhaps the biggest disadvantage to the 29G residents is the separation for the rest of their class. Those who belittle the inconvenience of 29G point to Quad residents who cope with their distance from the Yard, or portray the Garden Street residents as whiners who are merely trying to milk advantageous housing from their current displacement...
Attempting to get topical, Cope sinks into a mire of sentimentality and bombast. From Peggy' liner notes: "This classical mythical image of 'enlightenment' ironically mirrored the supposed death of the world through the Greenhouse Effect. It was a beautiful and absurd double-edged sword. This enormous Mother Earth was standing at the very edge of the highest cliff of Infinity--and was about to leap off...I had to make this record about the crazy situation...
Yeah, whatever. The only listenable track included on the compilation is "Beautiful Love." "Safesurfer," an eight-minute song about condoms, is breathtakingly masturbatory. One hopes that Cope's December release, Jehovah Kill, will get back to the sort of thing he does well...
...most pleasant surprise on Floored Genius is "Out of My Mind on Dope and Speed," an underproduced gem from the nearly unfindable Skellington (1990) that sounds something like the Velvet Underground with the Opportunes singing backup. It's almost enough to give you hope for a Julian Cope comeback--too bad the last three songs here are drawn from 1991's truly execrable Peggy Suicide...
Nobody's going to like all of Floored Genius--Julian Cope has just been too many different musicians for that. But that's why they invented programmable CD players. For the most part, the album successfully saves this batty prodigy from his own judgment. The world may have missed out on Julian Cope; Floored Genius means you don't have...