A music-obsessed, retired San Francisco lawyer, and author of the rock & roll memoir Jittery White Guy Music (available on Amazon)... picking a random album or song in his collection every day or so and sharing a few thoughts.
After leaving early post-punk/new wave band Teardrop Explodes--one of those acts I find interesting but have never enjoyed nearly as much as I'm told I should--frontman Julian Cope kicked off a long-running solo career with the 1984 LP World Shut Your Mouth. Confusingly, the album included no song with that title. He remediated this with a 1986 single (found on 1987's Saint Julian), a catchy pop song that deservedly got a decent amount of airplay, albeit without creating a whole lot of lasting buzz for Cope (at least in the US).
And, ok, it's another victim of 80s production values, but the hooks shine through, the classic dynamic of melodic verses launching into an anthemic booming chorus carrying the day. Cope has since then walked a confounding path, with works ranging from sheer genius to utterly bonkers, but this one still feels like an unjustly forgotten classic.
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