The Teardop ExplodesFrom: The Past, Liverpool, United KingdomThe Teardrop Explodes were the original scouseadelic band. without Julian Cope and his band the Coral and The Zutons simply wouldn't have existed. The wierd popmesiter's second...
The Teardop ExplodesFrom: The Past, Liverpool, United KingdomThe Teardrop Explodes were the original scouseadelic band. without Julian Cope and his band the Coral and The Zutons simply wouldn't have existed. The wierd popmesiter's second, and somewhat underrated, album Wilder has been reissued with a veritable smorgasboard of extra tracks. Wilder is a classic mix of the Teardrop Explodes alt pop and Barrettesque psychedelia full to the brim with Julian Cope's mad genius in full on psych pop mode. From pop classics like Passionate Friend with it's huge hook to low key borderline ambient tracks like the exquisitely plaintive Tiny Children it's an 80s classic. For some unknown, unfathomable reason it didn't get the credit it deserved at the time of it's release but it sounds as good in 2013 as it did when it was first released over 30 years ago. The brilliance of the band can be seen in the album's second disc, lovingly compiled and sequenced by Julian Vope himself; a collection of b-sides, BBC sessions and cover versions that open a window onto the wierd and wonderful world of the band. From the challenging, amazing Christ vs Warhol via the odd Rachel Built A Steamboat (Deacon Blue's Dignity reimagined by a drug addled genius living in a turtle shell) to a deliciously deranged nine minute long live version of the band's first single Sleeping Gas from 1981. It'll even please Teardrop Explodes completist with the addition of BBC Session recordings of most of the albums better tracks and a version of Screaming Secrets which was never released by the band. It eventually saw the light of day on Cope's Saint Julian album, but here it is in all it's Teardrop Explodes glory. If everybody did want to shag the Teardrop Explodes Wilder is the aphrodisiac. Go TryThere are not many better covers of a Teardrop Explodes song than this one...Go VisitThe Teardrop Explodes - WikipediaJulian Cope - Website