which is the best Julian Cope album?

I had the reissue on shuffle and the 20 min poet is priest was going on and on and on and the whole time i was “THIS IS THE KRAUT U WAS SEARCHING FOR AND U MISSED IT”

Funny thing is, much as I love Peggy Suicide & Jehovahkill etc and value JC in his Krautrock-endorsing, Paleolithic-investigating, left-field drood-dom, my pop sensibilities also allow some love for My Nation Underground. I understand why he disowns it (or seems to) but it's not a bad collection of songs, played and produced in what is, I concede, a style removed from his then-prevailing sonic trajectory.
If you think of it as an album by a different artist then it can be abstracted from the Cope discography and enjoyed.

One of my favorite pop approximations of Neu! and Can.

welp as a dude who had “to the shores of lake placid” zoo sampler in 85, and mainly knew him thru teardrop and wsym era, but then ignored him in the 90s except for peggy suicide, this is an expansion i shoulda been there for. whatevs, this album is so me from 2007+. But at the time it dropped i was doing other bullshit musically, and maybe wasn’t ready.