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The Great Rock Discography4/10

Dark Orgasm is the twenty-first solo album by Julian Cope, released in 2005. It contains eight songs of guitar-heavy hard rock split into two short CDs. Alexis Petridis of The Guardian described the album as "a roughly recorded Stooges-meets-prog concept album about atheism and feminism". It was dedicated to "Freedom and Equality for Women".

Track listing

All songs and poems written by Julian Cope

Disc one

  1. "Zoroaster" – 4:05
  2. "White Bitch Comes Good" – 3:46
  3. "She's Got a Ring on Her Finger (& Another Through Her Nose)" – 4:01
  4. "Mr. Invasion" – 3:19
  5. "Nothing to Lose Except My Mind" – 3:47
  6. "I've Found a New Way to Love Her" – 3:59
  7. "I Don't Wanna Grow Back" – 4:10

Disc two

  1. "The Death & Resurrection Show" – 20:58
  2. (untitled) – 0:35

Poetry (printed in booklet)

  1. "Who Makes the Festival Under the Hill?"
  2. "Creedist Blues"
  3. "No Second Opinion"

Note

  • Track 2 on disc two is the first 35 seconds of "The Death & Resurrection Show".

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.

Musicians

  • Julian Cope — vocals, guitar, bass, mellotron, arrangement
  • Anthony "Doggen" Foster (credited as Døgntank) — lead guitar, bass guitar, arrangement
  • Ian "Mister E." Bissett – drums, arrangement

Technical

  • Julian Cope – producer, directed by, mixing engineer
  • Terry Dobbin — recorded by
  • Adam "Randy Apostle" Whittaker – recorded by, mixing engineer, mastering engineer
  • Benji Bartlett – photography
  • Christopher Patrick "Holy" McGrail — design

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