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Skellington

Released April 1990 on Zippo Records

01. Doomed
02. Beaver
03. Me & Jimmy Jones
04. Robert Mitchum
05. Out Of My Mind On Dope & Speed
06. Don't Crash Here
07. Everything Playing At Once
08. Little Donkey
09. Great White Wonder
10. Incredibly Ugly Girl
11. No How, No Why, No Way, No Where, No When
12. Commin' Soon

So many rumours about this album, what is the truth? Existed as a bootleg tape for a while before it was released, the tape being labelled as everything from Fried 2 to the Saint Julian Demos. Other rumours: it was recorded in a day, it was recorded for a bet, it was recorded in 1984, 86 and 1990. The truth? According to Cope, Skellington was recorded in a day and a half in April 1989 in South London. There you have it, straight from the horse's mouth. Anyway, who really cares, Skellington is Cope at his rawest; hilarious, spontaneous, sometimes crap, sometimes undeniably superb, and always creative. Beg, borrow, steal, lie or cheat, whatever you do, get hold of a copy, and as it says on the spine: "Play this record as loud as Hell!".

This album is now part of The Skellington Chronicles.

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