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Autogeddon is an album by Julian Cope released in 1994 via The Echo Label. According to the album's sleeve notes, written by Cope, it was inspired by Heathcote Williams' epic poem of the same name and an little incident concerning my pregnant wife (and myself) and £375,000 of yellow Ferrari in St. Martin's Lane, London, England. [3]
Reversing the trend of lengthy Cope releases, Autogeddon is only 46 minutes long but just as powerful and varied as Cope's other early-'90s releases. Concluding the trilogy started by Peggy Suicide and Jehovahkill, Autogeddon, as the title gives away, targets cars, specifically as a metaphor for environmental destruction. Combined with the continuing focus on heathen religious practices and ancient monuments (the first part of Paranormal in the West Country was, in fact, recorded in the West Kennet Longbarrow in Wiltshire), the album is almost a summation of Cope's current interests as well as standing on its own. Cosby and Skinner return, along chellip; Lra" Read more
And so it happened that shortly after the publication of the book, Crash, in 1973 l— two years after the Cokliss film y— James Graham Ballard rolled his Ford Zephyr on a divided motorway after a blow out forced the vehicle into oncoming traffic. The car landed upside down with petrol leaking everywhere and Ballard was trapped: the roof had jammed down and the doors wouldns’t budge. Panicked and frozen, with the apocalyptic scent of fuel filling his nostrils, the shouts of #‘Petrol! Petrol!9’ from onlookers filling his ears, and the realisation that the car could explode any second swamping his mind, he managed to reach deep within himself, eventually pulling body and mind together to somehow force down a window and escape before he was engulfed in the heat-death of full-tilt autogeddon.
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