The Culture Bunker
These archives are from The Culture Bunker, which was a mailing list I ran from 1993-1995. Each "issue" consisted of a couple days' posts which I emailed manually to the subscribers (who number peaked at around 100). Every couple months I'd put the latest issues in an archive. We stored the archives at Patrick Gaumond's site: Soul Desert (down). Shortly after American Recordings started their own Cope mailing list, I discontinued The Culture Bunker, mostly for technological reasons. A couple years later I started Rail On, which continues where The Culture Bunker left off.
To improve the signal-to-noise ratio, I've deleted most of the email headers, old links, old contact info, and most of the "banners" that accompanied the mailings. I will probably do some more clean-up in the semi-near future (e.g., sigs, quotes, multiple versions of the discography).
If you prefer the old format or want to read the archives off-line, you can download bunker-20010530.zip.
| Culture Bunker Archives (from the old forum) | ||
|---|---|---|
| # | Start Date | Discussion Highlights |
| 01 | 1993-02-26 | Introduction |
| 02 | 1993-03-05 | Lyrics, Rite, album availability |
| 03 | 1993-03-23 | Results of first favorite album/song poll, more Rite, "A Rune With a View" interview |
| 04 | 1993-04-08 | Various liner notes, Select's "Spiritual Cowboy" interview |
| 05 | 1993-06-24 | Skellington Chronicles, CDs vs tapes vs vinyl, Teardrops/Cope discography, Mercury Records bio |
| 06 | 1993-07-15 | Some lyrics from Fried, more Skellington Chronicles, Radio 5 interview, concert reviews |
| 07 | 1993-10-10 | Still more Skellington Chronicles, different song versions, cope videos |
| 08 | 1993-11-04 | Guitar tabs for Fried songs, results of second favorite album/song poll, Cope popularity, reviewing reviews |
| 09 | 1993-11-17 | Radio sessions, Floored Genius II, Roky Erickson, recommended bands |
| 10 | 1993-12-13 | More Roky Erickson, Cope mania, more Floored Genius II |
| 11 | 1994-02-12 | More Rite, "Petulance", some Jehovahkill lyric/chords, Everybody wants to Shag... |
| 12 | 1994-04-12 | Pre-Autogeddon chatter, miscellaneous album and concert discussion |
| 13 | 1994-06-21 | Autogeddon (including complete liner notes!), Julian's postcards, concert reviews, Head On, Kilimanjaro versions |
| 14 | 1994-07-12 | More Autogeddon, more Head On, concert reviews, bootlegs, discography additions |
| 15 | 1994-09-27 | Julian Cope/Teardrop Explodes covers tape, more Autogeddon, more Kilimanjaro versions |
| 16 | 1994-10-31 | Revised discography (including bootlegs), more postcards, more on the covers tape, Queen Elizabeth, "Road Tripping" interview, bootlegs, Paranormal EP, Big Takeover |
| 17 | 1995-02-10 | Krautrocksampler, more on covers tape, more Queen Elizabeth, album availability, entry of and merging with the American Recordings mailing list, entry of The Soul Desert, collapse of The Culture Bunker [ended 1995-04-06] |