of Knight song "Someone Like Me". Cope also co-wrote two songs with Skinner, "Easter Everywhere" and "I’m Not Losing Sleep". Lyrical subject matter included false gurus (the single "Charlotte Anne", punning on "charlatan"), domestic violence, and an apocalyptic re-imagining of the worldview of the serial killer Dennis Nilsen. My Nation Underground produced only one Top 40 single, "Charlotte Anne", which also met with modest American success by reaching the top of the Modern Rock Tracks. Subsequent singles "5 O'Clock World" and the orchestral pop ballad "China Doll" both charted considerably lower, disappointing Island Records and further discouraging Cope, who had not enjoyed making the record and did not believe that it represented him properly as an artist. Cope has repeatedly referred to it as his least-favourite among his albums, commenting that it was "just me figuring I ought to do another album and not feeling sure of what I wanted to do. That was a bad time. A bad album… "Charlotte Anne" is a good song, but one good song is not enough. Perhaps it was a coherent album, but it was nothing like what I had inside me. I couldn't put it out, I just could not get it out. If (anyone) think(s) it's even halfway decent then I'm pleased 'cause I was trying, blasting my mind apart." Track listing Chart positions Personnel Julian Cope - lead & backing vocals, keyboards, guitar (including "wailing guitar" on "5 O'Clock World"); (also performs pseudonymously as "Double DeHarrison" playing organ plus the Minimoog synthesizer wah-bass line on "The Great White Hoax") Donald Ross Skinner - electric guitar, Hohner Clavinet, piano, Minimoog synthesizer bass, drums (including right-channel drums on "5 O'Clock World"), harmonica, tenor saxophone on "I'm Not Losing Sleep", backing vocals Mark "Rooster" Cosby - percussion, bongos on "Easter Everywhere" Ron Fair - vibraphone, piano, organ (including "5 O'Clock World"), string & brass arrangements & conducting, tuned percussion on "I'm Not Losing Sleep", James Eller - bass guitar (on some tracks) Danny Thompson - double bass on "China Doll" David Palmer (credited as "Friendship Dave Palmer") - drums Richard Frost (credited as "Keith-Richard Frost ") - "raw and alive" (possibly a reference to Frost's role as live keyboard player in Cope's band) Carol Kenyon, Tessa Nile (credited as "Tess of the Nile"), Paul Lee, Derek Green, Gladstone Cleaver, Michael Christ, Bobby Carr, Camilla DeHarrison - backing vocals Technical Hugh Padgham - mixing