Survey #2 (1998)

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A. Periods

1. What Julian "period" is your favorite? (rank 'em in order) [question submitted by Mike Runion]

Period	Albums	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th
(a) Teardrop Explodes	Piano, Kili, Wilder, Shag	0	1	3	2	4	1
(b) The Mercury Years	WSYM, Fried	2	1	2	4	1	1
(c) The Video Pop-Star Years	St. Julian, MNU	0	1	1	1	1	7
(d) The Trilogy Years	Peggy, Jehovahkill, Autogeddon	7	2	1	1	0	0
(e) Mid-1990s	20 Mothers, Interpreter	2	2	2	0	5	0
(f) The DIY Days	Skellingtons, Droolian, Rites, QEs	0	4	2	3	0	2

2/3. During which period did you first get into Julian, and when have you seen him live?

Period	Got Into Him	Saw Him Live
(a) Teardrop Explodes	3	0
(b) The Mercury Years	0	0
(c) The Video Pop-Star Years	6	3
(d) The Trilogy Years	3	5
(e) The Mid-1990s	0	4
(f) The DIY Days	0	n/a

B. Albums

4/5. Rank all the Cope/Teardrop albums you've heard from most to least favorite; also, which three albums would you recommend to people new to Cope?

Album	1st	Top 1/4	2nd 1/4	3rd 1/4	Last 1/4	Recommend
(a) Piano	0	0	1	4	3	0
(b) Kilimanjaro	0	4	3	2	2	2
(c) Wilder	0	2	4	1	3	1
(d) Shag	0	0	5	0	5	0
(e) WSYM	0	4	3	4	1	3
(f) Fried	2	5	4	2	0	1
(g) St. Julian	0	1	5	2	3	2
(h) Followers	0	0	3	4	3	2
(i) MNU	0	1	0	5	5	0
(j) Skellington	0	7	3	0	1	3
(k) Droolian	0	0	3	2	5	0
(l) Peggy Suicide	5	10	1	0	0	10
(m) Floored Genius	0	1	2	3	2	0
(n) Jehovahkill	2	9	2	0	0	5
(o) Rite	0	0	2	6	2	0
(p) Skellington 2	0	1	5	2	2	1
(q) Floored Genius 2	0	1	3	6	0	1
(r) Autogeddon	0	4	4	2	1	1
(s) Queen Elizabeth	0	0	0	1	9	0
(t) Twenty Mothers	2	6	2	3	0	4
(u) Interpreter	1	4	3	5	0	1
(v) Rite 2	0	1	2	3	1	0
(w) Queen Elizabeth 2	0	1	0	3	4	0

C. Songs

6. What are your top 3 favorite Cope/Teardrop songs (album or non-album)?

Fear Loves This Place (4)
Upwards at 45 Degrees (3)
Autogeddon Blues (2)
Las Vegas Basement (2)
Safesurfer (2)
Sleeping Gas (2) [live] (1)
Almost Alive
Bandy's 1st Jump
Bouncing Babies
China Doll
Crack in the Clouds
The Culture Bunker
Double Vegetation
Dust
East Easy Rider
Highway to the Sun
Jellypop Perky Jean
Me Singing
The Mystery Trend
Pussyface
Reynard the Fox
Road of Dreams
Robert Mitchum
Soldier Blue
The Subtle Energies Commission
Sunspots
The Tower
  					

7. What are your 3 least favorite Cope/Teardrop songs?

".... Atonement of Wasp".
Avebury, the arranged marriage of Heaven and Earth.
Charlotte Anne
Cut My Friend Down
Eat the Poor
Hanging Out...
I Come From Another Planet Baby
I wandered lonely as a Cloud
If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You.
Just like Pooh Bear
Let's Play Vet
The Loveboat
Pulsar
Pussy Face
S.P.A.C.R.O.C.K. with me
Traison (French version of Treason)
Wessexy
World Shut Your Mouth
the Krautrock song on Skellington, stuff from Droolian or
	side 2 of My Nation Underground
any 2 off MNU that aren't 5 O'clock World or Easter Everywhere
Any of the throwaway wibbly B-side filler stuff from Peggy onwards.
Most of Queen Elizabeth 1
  					

8. What are your top 3 favorite Cope/Teardrop non-album songs?

I Have Always Been Here Before (3)
Mik Mak Mok (3)
Non-Alignment Pact (3)
Any Country Lane (2)
Reynard in Tokyo (2)
Suffocate (2) [string version] (1)
20a velocity st.
Almost Alive
Conspiracist Blues (unreleased)
Disaster
Eat the Poor
Gogmagog
Land of Fear
Little Donkey
Port of Saints
Propheteering
Starry Eyes
Strange House In The Snow
Torch
Traison (French version of Treason)
Transporting
Umpteenth Unnatural Blues
Use Me
  					

D. Miscellaneous

9. What are your top 3 favorite Cope/Teardrop EPs or singles?

Fear Loves This Place (7)
Planetary Sit-In (4)
China Doll (3)
Sunspots (3)
You Disappear From View (3)
East Easy Rider (2)
World Shut Your Mouth EP (2)
Safesurfer 7" (2)
Ambulence
Head
I Come From Another Planet Baby
Sleeping Gas
Tiny Children
Trampolene Remix 12" [Warne Out!]
Try, Try, Try
  					

10. How is Julian as an author? [Mike Runion]

(a) superb	5
(b) good	6
(c) marginal	0
(d) bad	0
(e) haven't read any	1

11. In your opinion, what other artists (3 max) occupy Julian's musical corner of the universe? (sorta recommendations for us all to try) [Mike Runion]

1. Robyn Hitchcock
2. Bevis Frond, Chameleons, Felt
3. Patti Smith, Longpigs, Elvis Presley (not exactly JC but everyone should get into him)
4. Violent Femmes
5. International Harvester, Can/Holger Czukay, Jah Wobble
6. Cosmic Jokers - very much like QEII excellent stuff!
7. Roy Harper - some of his stuff has a similar feel to copey on his own and their live solo events are very similar - relaxed and chatty.
8. Kendra Smith (psyched out and back to nature as well), The Flaming Lips, The Legendary Pink Dots
9. Jules is on a star of his own.
10. early Guided by Voices, Third Eye Foundation, David Bowie
11. Sublime, Marcy Playground, Johnny Cash
12. no one. billy bragg (perhaps). bob wiseman (maybe).
13. Jazz Butcher, Woodentops, Chameleons

12. Name your highest recommendations (up to 3) for each of the following categories. You should be thinking in terms of "must-sees":
(a) bands other than Cope/Teardrop

1. Robyn Hitchcock, REM, Michelle Shocked
2. Cure, Spiritualized, Neil Young
3. Patti Smith, Longpigs, Elvis Presley
4. Breeders, Billy MacKenzie, early Momus
5. Can, Kate Bush, The Fall
6. 1)Underworld 2)Faust 3)Fluke
7. Acetone, Legendary Pink Dots, Mazzy Star
8. Rolling Stones
9. My Bloody Valentine / Sonic Youth / Flying Saucer Attack
10. Sublime, Marcy Playground, Johnny Cash, Michelle Shocked, Edwin Collins
11. spiritualized (on a good night) / stereolab / jane siberry / dead can dance
12. Catherine Wheel, Jazz Butcher, Chameleons

(b) authors

1. Vladimir Nabokov, Alan Lightman, Kurt Vonnegut
2. Robert Anton Wilson, Philip K. Dick, Franz Kafka
3. don't read much
4. Martin Millar, Iain Banks
5. Philip K Dick, William Horwood
6. 1) TC Lethbridge 2) Douglas Rushkoff 3) Graham Hancock
7. Harlan Ellison, Philip K. Dick, Lucius Shepherd
8. bret easton ellis
9. Philip K Dick / JG Ballard / Noam Chomsky
10. Robertson Davies, Graham Greene, Doystoyevsky
11. robert pirsig / alice munro
12. Tolkien, Niven, Douglas Hofstadter

(c) movies

1. 2001, Clerks, Titanic
2. A Clockwork Orange, Eraserhead, Last Year At Marienbad
3. Bad Taste
4. The Servant, The Draughtsman's Contract
5. Solaris, Koyaanisqatsi
6. 1) Dogs in Space 2) Star Wars Trilogy 3) Backbeat
7. A Woman Under The Influence, Bladerunner, Down By Law
8. Pulp Fiction, Quadraphinia, Easy Rider
9. Brazil / I Love You Alice B Toklas / Manhattan
10. Braveheart, Contact, The Apartment
11. baraka
12. Star Wars, Blade Runner, Jaws

(d) TV shows

1. ER, Seinfeld, C-SPAN Booknotes
2. X Files, The Prisoner, The Avengers
3. The Simpsons, Sean's Show (for having features Jellypop Perky Jean, Elegant Chaos and I Have Always Been Hee Before)
4. Nightingales (now defunct late-night BBC2 comedy)
5. I suggest not watching it !
6. 1) Fast Show 2)TFI Friday 3)Brass Eye
7. Homicide, X-Files, South Park
8. whatevers on (brain pablum)
9. Seinfeld / Simpsons / any nature documentary
10. X-Files, The Simpsons, Cracker (Original UK version with Robbie Coltrane)
11. --
12. Simpsons, South Park, Nature documentaries

(e) vacation spots

1. Coral Castle, Homestead, FL; Lake Lore, NC; Athens, GA
2. Paris, London, Amsterdam
3. Regensburg in Germany
4. Catalunya
5. Iceland, England, Australia
6. Sorry........vacation????? Haven't had one of those in a long time!
7. St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands; San Francisco, CA; Granby, CO
8. Santa Fe, New Mexico
9. San Francisco / Prague / any tiny island off of the Greek coast
10. Canadian Rockies, Oregon Coast
11. northwestern ontario
12. Alaska, Yukon, Key West

(f) foods

1. banana bread, NY-style pizza, chimichanga
2. Tuna & Cheese sandwich, Mahi Mahi, Filet Mignon
3. baked beans
4. Sag Aloo, prawn toast, onion ring snacks
5. Thai curry, fresh fruit, lentil soup
6. Hmmmmmmm
7. Hmm, any of the good old Chicago-style pizzerias in this town, as well as, an night of Korean kal bee and kim chee and then I guess, hmm...a nice, fresh burrito.
8. Shrimp (any style)
9. Pad Thai / fried tofu / potato gnochi with pesto
10. anything curried, grilled chickhen pesto fetuccini at Milestone's Resteraunt, Robertsons Golden Shread Marmalade
11. chana masala with garlic pickle
12. anything spicy and low-fat!!!

(g) drinks

1. grapefruit juice, Coke, Newcastle Brown Ale
2. Guiness, Bass, Vodka
3. beer
4. Carling Premier lager, posh champagne, vodka mule
5. Malvern spring water straight out of the ground, old port, anything with cloves and ginger
6. Bushmills Irish Whiskey
7. Any beer from the Kalamazoo Brewing Co., especially the Cherry Stout and Solsun Ale (now pitifully called Oberon)
8. Cuervo Gold Tequilla (straight)
9. Thai Iced Tea / Chai Tea / anything else with lots of caffeine
10. Marston's Pedigree, Pete's Wicked Ale, Mooreland's Old Speckelled Hen
11. good qulaity ontario ice wine
12. Sangria, corona light, guinness

13. Write down some of your favorite jokes/comments:

1. Q: How is the Starship Enterprise like a piece of toilet paper? A: They both circle Uranus in search of Klingons.
2. I got stung by a bee yesterday. 20 quid for a jar of honey.
3. John Major
4. Q: What's brown and sticky? A: ...a stick!
5. Dress code: very Harley oriented (my vice in life......my Harley).
6. I swear my neck is sore from all the activity on the page. I would like to have seen one other question on the survey: Would we think Julian as cool if he were enormously popular? I speak specifically to the participants on this site.
7. Keep the faith............whatever it may be....
8. Q: Whats big, red and eats rocks? A: A big red rock eater. (my favorite joke since I was 5)
9. You know the world is going to pot when funiture polish has real lemon in it and lemonade has artificial lemon flavoring.
10. The moron was going bear hunting. On the way to forest, he saw a sign that said 'BEAR LEFT'; so the moron went home.
11. The Spice Girls, Madonna, Pope John Paul II, Canadian Government.