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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #DriveTime
Julian Cope:
🎵 Beautiful Lovehttps://open.spotify.com/track/65LCtEKQf5QbyYDdlrQplk
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#FortnightFridayMusic
Feb 20 2026
This week we’re going #UndergroundJulian Cope, "My Nation Underground” (1988)
After the breakup of his band The Teardrop Explodes in 1982, Julian Cope embarked on a prolific solo career, making sharp, intelligent, but catchy pop music. Here we have his fourth full-length solo release, the one that finally caught my attention, having lost track of him while following his still-active kindred Liverpudlians, Echo & The Bunnymen.
The track on My Nation Underground that got radio play was “Charlotte Anne” with a slow, almost martial beat, and featuring what might be a penny whistle - not the usual stuff of a radio hit. The album’s opening track, a cover of “5 O’Clock World,” a song made famous by The Vogues in the 60s, didn’t go far commercially as a single despite being given a crisp modern sound.
The title track featured here wields horn section blasts, densely layered vocals, pounding drums, appearances by harmonica and strings, yet still maintains a feeling of space in its expansiveness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVS_RPl4kug
#JulianCope #TheTeardropExplodes #TeardropExplodes #EchoAndTheBunnymen #Liverpool #TheVogues
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#MusicMonday Time for some of the awesome Julian Cope.
Yes... having an 80's music day.
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G-Nitro’s Daily Music Wrap-Up – 12/08/25
I check out a Julian Cope album.
Favorite Videos include Atarashii Gakko live, a DISCODELICOS vinyl set by El Cocodrilo, and more!
https://g-nitro.com/g-nitros-daily-music-wrap-up-12-08-25
#Music #1001Albums #JulianCope #AtarashiiGakko #Discodelicos #ElCocodrilo
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"World shut your mouth" - Julian Cope
How *is* he standing on the microphone stand? Answers on a postcard to me, [The Mystery Year]
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I've long wondered what the point of Julian Cope's Robert Mitchum song is... is it meant to be funny? or what? and why does he sing a verse in French? But he is spot on about Ryan's Daughter.
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Saturday: Realise after going on a Julian Cope music afternoon... that you have the vinyl album, but not the CD.
Sunday: Go looking for a download of the album you own in a digital format that isn't going to require some form of payment for a temp license.
Sunday: Can't find anything
Sunday: Head over to ebay to look for the CD
Sunday: Get frustrated at the greedy chancers trying to sell used CD's for £30 plus
Sunday: Luck upon the only decent seller who has it listed starting at £1.75
Sunday: Bid on it
Monday: Win the auction for £1.75
Monday: Pay the £5.65 price because postage is double the cost of the actual CD.
Friday: Receive the CD
Friday: Try to remember how to rip the CD as it's been a couple of years since you last did it.
Friday: Enjoy the album that now resides on the mediaserver in your office.... that also desperately need a good clean as it's thick with DIY dust.
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I realised that whilst I was listening to some Julian Cope this afternoon... I never had a rip of My Nation Underground.
So I had to go looking through my collection and found not only the original vinyl album from 88, but the Saint Julian album from around 86.
I also went looking online for a... erm... alternative copy. But cannot find anything complete and available.
So now I'm looking on auction sites to bid on a CD that I can rip to my mediaserver.
I can actually remember buying My Nation Underground from a little record shop on the corner of a street near where I worked, during my lunchtime. I went home, recorded it to cassette to listen to on my walkman on the journey to work the following day.
I've two big shelves about 1.2m long, filled with vinyl.
I need to get my lounge sorted so I can buy a new turntable and listen to some of them again.
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#JulianCope
#IfYouLoveMeAtAll
#PeggySuicideIt starts out sweet... descends into a crescendo and cacophony.
It's glorious.
"Hey, I had a love as hard as stone
Keep your nerve if you loved me at all
There lies my head, it′s blown
Better still if you loved me at all
Don't have a faith just to call my own
Defend your race, defend it all if you loved me at all
If you loved me at all
If you loved me at allPretty, pretty, be my love
Listen to me if you loved me at all
All these thoughts come racing in
If you loved me at all
I can′t allow my heart to be burning
I couldn't stop my head from busting
If you loved me at all
If you loved me at all
If you loved me at allPretty, pretty, be my eyes
See through me if you loved me at all
The boat of love has been capsized
In sight of land but we're cold & drifting
& if I seem to be yawning
The restless sea must be my yearning
If you loved me at all
If you loved me at all
If you loved me at all
If you loved me at allWalk in your town & I knew you was changed
& if you loved me at all
You′d keep your hounds away, away
& hear my cries to be loving
Heed my cries to be hearing
If you loved me at all
If you loved me at all
If you loved me at allNot a soul...
Down, down, down, soul...
In the sight of you...
Phenomonal doubts that scar...
Listen to the void...
Listen to the voidYou don′t love me at all
You don't love me at all
You don′t love me at all
You don't love me at all
You don′t love me at all!(She doesn't love me at all!)
If you loved me at all
If you loved me at all
If you loved me at all
If you loved me at allYou don′t love me love me love me
Love me love me love me!" -
#SafeSurfer
#JulianCope
#PeggySuicideIf there's a list of 1001 songs you must hear... this is on it, not sure where... but it's on the list.
"I saw my old man exploding out of a tunnel
I knew what came next
Recognized that cool sea that brought the downfall of the distant gaze
Distant gaze welcoming a son of Clovius Hoofus
Just another sheep boy
Duck call
Swan song
Idiot son of Donkey Kong
& I say:You don't have to be afraid love
'Cause I'm a safesurfer, darling." -
Having a music afternoon as I toil away in the bedroom.
The dust is so bad that after just 30 mins of cleaning and moving stuff around, my nose is streaming once more.
So, time for a coffee and music break.
I put an 80's playlist on shuffle... over 500 tracks and this one popped up.
I loved Julian Cope's music (inc the teardrop explodes) of the 80's and early 90's.... But I kinda stopped following him in the mid 90's.
So hadn't heard this in years... and now I can hear the Saint Julian and Peggy Suicide albums calling for me again.
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Julian Cope - World Shut Your Mouth (1986)
#45vinyl #juliancope #worldshutyourmouth #indierock #rock #pop #1986 #1980s #80smusic #boxset #7inch #gxml
Wordpress - https://genxmusiclover.wordpress.com/2025/04/17/julian-cope-world-shut-your-mouth/
Blogspot - https://genxmusiclover.blogspot.com/2025/04/julian-cope-world-shut-your-mouth.html -
Ur-bliss. Mighty album. . . . . #vesuvio #juliancope #stephenomalley #holymcgrail #metal #drone #onethreeone #gnostic #hooligan #rocksection #headheritage
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Half the time
As I sit in disarray
I am thinking of a dream I never hadThe Teardrop Explodes - Wilder (1981)
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Tonights cooking tunes courtesy of Julian Cope - Interpreter, released 1996. Still love this album!
#TonightsCookingTunes #JulianCope #music #NowPlaying
https://open.spotify.com/album/454H4LlxmK3Rz6O59ots7e?si=JOlfIBQnR0Ca9ElrbKLGfw
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🔊 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #MidnightInAPerfectWorld
Julian Cope:
🎵 The Painted Youths of Cothemuir Wood…🎶 #Show #playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3iCpWlEzeZbjejMyGtl2t6🎶 #KEXP #playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg -
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the Teardrop Explodes live in NYC 1981 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z73N2nK98jM #music #postpunk #1980s #juliancope
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#NowPlaying
There are a few folks on FB who post billboard charts from the 80s. The top modern rock tracks from this week in 1989 were pretty great so I made a playlist. I'll be skipping Little Miss S. by Edie Brickell because I still don't like it, but the rest? Dang...
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7EZG5rFlQ9Cs6sT8EeScYW?si=ed1737865b6a4815 -
In Ancient Times... for this weeks blog post we take a look at standing stones and ancient sites in cover art, featuring a #topnine of some of the best examples.
https://www.logofiasco.com/in-ancient-times/ 🦉🎶
#coverart #ghostbox #trunkrecords #hauntology #electronicmusic #ambient #ritual #keepwalkingweird #acidfolk #hauntology #folk #XTC #juliancope #folklore #rockmusic #psychedelia #standingstones #megalithic #albion #stonecircle #haunted #landscape #antiquarian #archaeology #ancientbritain
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Wishing a megalithic birthday to Avebury resident, musician, antiquarian and writer #JulianCope, born this day in 1957.
Listen to Sunspots: https://youtu.be/SQpOtdZdnPQ?si=OxJEn2Ff_7RCgL5N
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#AlternateFridayMusic
October 13 2023
The prompt is UndergroundJulian Cope, "My Nation Underground" 1988
In the burgeoning #PostPunk music scene in late #70s #Liverpool, nascent songsmiths #JulianCope and #IanMcCulloch penned “Books” (aka “Read It in Books”), then went on to found #TeardropExplodes and #EchoAndTheBunnymen respectively, each group recording and releasing their version of that song.
The Bunnymen would prove to have better legs, producing 5 albums of original material with their initial lineup. After two albums, Teardrop disbanded and Cope began his restless ongoing solo career.
My Nation Underground, Cope’s fourth solo album, has a distinctly #80s sheen, in a satisfying, bracing way. The track "Charlotte Ann" crackled out of the speakers from the widening radio palette of the time like a march, and the title track "My Nation Underground," a funky call to arms.
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https://lateboomersden.blog/2023/10/11/how-an-angry-god-can-seem-like-a-loving-one/
My mindset when I was still a Christian, grappling with the problem of evil.
#Culture, #Thoughts
#atheism, #religion, #gods, #theology, #collectiveunconscious, #DivinePunishment, #EdwardKaSpel, #God, #LegendaryPinkDots, #JulianCope -
"And fighting men, aboard a raft
A sailing ship has run aground
And confidence is valued in these days"#NowPlaying - The Teardrop Explodes - Wilder (1981)
#JulianCope #TheTeardropExplodes
https://youtu.be/6R_UH5a7cmU?si=o1_WuQGvjd-RcKU2 -
https://lateboomersden.blog/2023/08/04/acceptance-last-stage-of-grief-over-christianity/
Just had a little bit of insight into why I was such an angry guy when I became an atheist - and why I think a lot of Christians are angry these days: grief.
#Culture, #Religion #Acceptance, #Anger, #atheism, #Christianity, #Dawkins, #Grief, #Identity, #JohnVervaeke, #JulianCope, #Memes -
This seems to be a picture of the Teardrop Explodes buying some apples in Marks and Spencers. #teardropexplodes #juliancope
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#HappyNewYear! I only arrived here on Mastodon in Nov, part of the great #twittermigration. In that short time, I have connected with so many decent, interesting, bright & lovely people. Thx! 🙏
My husb & I met nearly 20yrs ago thru an interest in #Neolithic #AncientMonuments & #JulianCope's #TheModernAntiquarian, so for #StandingStoneSunday I'd like to share a #painting I made of the avenue at #Callanish.
(If you #FollowMe, I'll #followback, even if it's not #FollowBackFriday!)
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Started reading #GeorgeCarlin Brain Droppings and added the complete #BleakExpectations radio series to #aduible
#Music so far: #TheBeatles, #TheWho, #VelvetUnderground. #Stooges, #MC5, #VanHalen, #ThinLizzy, #TheUndertones, #RoryGallagher
Coming up: #PaulWeller, #JoeWalsh, #JulianCope, #Manics, #WonderStuff, #Metallica, #Megadeth, #Amaranthe, #DeLaSoul, #ArrestedDevelopment, etc
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Started reading #GeorgeCarlin Brain Droppings and added the complete #BleakExpectations radio series to #aduible
#Music so far: #TheBeatles, #TheWho, #VelvetUnderground. #Stooges, #MC5, #VanHalen, #ThinLizzy, #TheUndertones, #RoryGallagher
Coming up: #PaulWeller, #JoeWalsh, #JulianCope, #Manics, #WonderStuff, #Metallica, #Megadeth, #Amaranthe, #DeLaSoul, #ArrestedDevelopment, etc
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Started reading #GeorgeCarlin Brain Droppings and added the complete #BleakExpectations radio series to #aduible
#Music so far: #TheBeatles, #TheWho, #VelvetUnderground. #Stooges, #MC5, #VanHalen, #ThinLizzy, #TheUndertones, #RoryGallagher
Coming up: #PaulWeller, #JoeWalsh, #JulianCope, #Manics, #WonderStuff, #Metallica, #Megadeth, #Amaranthe, #DeLaSoul, #ArrestedDevelopment, etc
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Started reading #GeorgeCarlin Brain Droppings and added the complete #BleakExpectations radio series to #aduible
#Music so far: #TheBeatles, #TheWho, #VelvetUnderground. #Stooges, #MC5, #VanHalen, #ThinLizzy, #TheUndertones, #RoryGallagher
Coming up: #PaulWeller, #JoeWalsh, #JulianCope, #Manics, #WonderStuff, #Metallica, #Megadeth, #Amaranthe, #DeLaSoul, #ArrestedDevelopment, etc
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Started reading #GeorgeCarlin Brain Droppings and added the complete #BleakExpectations radio series to #aduible
#Music so far: #TheBeatles, #TheWho, #VelvetUnderground. #Stooges, #MC5, #VanHalen, #ThinLizzy, #TheUndertones, #RoryGallagher
Coming up: #PaulWeller, #JoeWalsh, #JulianCope, #Manics, #WonderStuff, #Metallica, #Megadeth, #Amaranthe, #DeLaSoul, #ArrestedDevelopment, etc
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Reposted from Head Heritage:
"According to the latest issue of Uncut, The Culture Bunker 1978-82 will be released in March. A box set of all their singles and b-sides plus four additional discs of demos,outtakes and live tracks"
Wow.
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Throwing this out there AGAIN (lost everything in a collapsed instance. Painful)
#DoctorWho #StarWars #PetShopBoys #DepecheMode #Kraftwerk #DivineComedy #TheClash #BigAudioDynamite #JohnGrant #Radiohead #Aha #TheBeatles #StudioGhibli #Blur #Gorillaz #Japan #NewOrder #Blancmange #Momus #Guillemots #TheSmiths #TheStranglers #JulianCope #DavidBowie #Leftfield #Orbital #Underworld #Doves #Portishead #FriendlyFires #ScrittiPolitti #ItsImmaterial #ArtOfNoise #TedLasso #Ghosts #Marvel #DaftPunk
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Just going to throw this out there...
#DoctorWho #StarWars #PetShopBoys #ElectronicMusic #DepecheMode #Kraftwerk #DivineComedy #TheClash #BigAudioDynamite #JohnGrant #Radiohead #Aha #TheBeatles #StudioGhibli #Blur #Gorillaz #Japan #NewOrder #Blancmange #Momus #Guillemots #TheSmiths #TheStranglers #TheThe #JulianCope #DavidBowie #Leftfield #Orbital #Underworld #Doves #Portishead #FriendlyFires #Minutemen #ScrittiPolitti #ItsImmaterial #ArtOfNoise #TedLasso #Ghosts #Marvel #DaftPunk
