11:02pm Kilimanjaro by The Teardrop Explodes from Kilimanjaro
#KJAC #TheColoradoSound #TheTeardropExplodes
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11:47pm Passionate Friend by The Teardrop Explodes from Wilder
#KJAC #TheColoradoSound #TheTeardropExplodes
#TheTeardropExplodes vom heutigen #PunkCovers Kalenderblatt verband die Energie des Post-Punk mit der Farbigkeit des Psychedelic Rock und der Eingängigkeit von New Wave. Wer Bands wie Echo & The Bunnymen oder XTC mag, wird vermutlich auch Gefallen an ihrem Sound finden, meint ChatGPT. Mir gefallen beide genannten Bands nach einem schnellen Quervergleich eher etwas besser als The Teardrop Explodes. Wobei ich diese „easy listening“ Richtung generell nicht so übermäßig mag… 🤷🏼
Post Punk Classics. No 51 in an occasional series:
The Teardrop Explodes - Treason (It's Just A Story)
From roses to poppies for Jukebox Friday Night's theme of "Plants" –
The Teardrop Explodes, "Poppies in the Field" (1980)
"The poppies are in the field
But don't ask me what that means …"
~ and so they recorded the guitars backwards.
Half the time
As I sit in disarray
I am thinking of a dream I never had
The Teardrop Explodes - Wilder (1981)
Playing with this sinking feeling a bit on Jukebox Friday Night –
The Teardrop Explodes, "Ha Ha I'm Drowning" (1980; live John Peel Plus, 1979)
But it is an upbeat love song!
"Well ask me once again
And ask me for the third time
Oh and ask me how I feel
I say I'm drowning in your love
You know I'm drowning in your love …"
For Friday 15 Nov 2024 the Jukebox Friday Night theme is "Bend Break Burn".
Things getting bent out of shape, breaking down, or burning up and so on, and how we deal with it.
Looks like a cyclic theme … Bend!
The Teardrop Explodes, "Bent Out of Shape" (1981)
"All my life I've been bent outta shape
Course it comes as no surprise
These are dreams that I never had
See the lines around my eyes …"
I'm Not The Loving Kind THE TEARDROP EXPLODES Richard Skinner 18th May 1981 - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2J59k0Lz24 #theteardropexplodes #YouTube
“SoulStylistJukeBox” / “The Teardrop Explodes ''Suffocate'' (BBC Session)” (1 user) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uclt7nyVJ68 #theteardropexplodes #YouTube
Song of the Day - No 453
THE TEARDROP EXPLODES - REWARD
"Reward" was a breakout single for The Teardrop Explodes, released in 1981. It reached number 6 in the UK charts and was originally featured on the US release of their debut album, Kilimanjaro. The song's mix of driving rhythms, catchy melodies, and a trumpet solo made it a standout hit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmkcKjGyJv8
#SOTD #SongOfTheDay #music #TheTeardropExplodes #postpunk #newwave #psychedelicpop
#GreatAlbums1980s - #TheTeardropExplodes – Kilimanjaro (1980). Like fellow Liverpudlians Echo & the Bunnymen, Teardrop coalesced around a preening frontman, Julian Cope, and a style combining post-punk with 60s outliers like the Doors and the Seeds. Peak moments – "Treason," "Books," and "Reward" (on the reissue only) – felt cathartic and grandiose, with Cope emoting like technopop Iggy over wall-of-sound arrangements anticipating "the Big Music" of later years.
Wishing a megalithic birthday to Avebury resident, musician, antiquarian and writer #JulianCope, born this day in 1957.
Listen to Sunspots: https://youtu.be/SQpOtdZdnPQ?si=OxJEn2Ff_7RCgL5N
"And fighting men, aboard a raft
A sailing ship has run aground
And confidence is valued in these days"
#NowPlaying - The Teardrop Explodes - Wilder (1981)
#JulianCope #TheTeardropExplodes
https://youtu.be/6R_UH5a7cmU?si=o1_WuQGvjd-RcKU2
The Brain DJ came at me this morning with two lines balanced on a melody, "they can't have it / you can't have it".
Congrats if you've identified the song and artist already, because it took me a lot longer!
The Teardrop Explodes, "Reward" (1981; John Peel sessions on BBC, 1980)
Of course, mums are absolutely the best medicine for scraped knees and banged noses –
The Teardrop Explodes, "The Great Dominions" (1981)
Out walking and listening to #TheTeardropExplodes Wilder - realising it has marked itself into my soul with a deep groove - just that one album - but still resonating so much
Reposted from Head Heritage:
"According to the latest issue of Uncut, The Culture Bunker 1978-82 will be released in March. A box set of all their singles and b-sides plus four additional discs of demos,outtakes and live tracks"
Wow.
#nowplaying The Teardrop Explodes - Reward (1981). One of the great singles. There is so much going when you listen to it. The song reached No.6 in the U.K. #onmyturntable #myvinylcollection #theteardropexplodes
reward . . #theteardropexplodes forgotten how fast this is . . speed & effervescent youthdom . . and how magnificent . . only gill and balfe on the credits . .
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