Julian Cope & The Teardrop Explodes - Cold War Psychedelia [CD]

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: HH39CD
Barcode: 5029385862343
Release Date: 03 Sep 2021
Genre: Indie

Exhilarating! Dynamic! 1982 music from the Death Throes of Liverpool’s maddest band. 42 minutes of it, and nearly all previously unreleased. Instrumentals, mostly, plus fragile earworms from a very distant time. Also check out side 2’s tumbling musical collage taken from the same 1982 recording sessions – this time, however, they are overladen with Cope’s earliest autobiographical attempts. Yes, herein are contained 1989’s Head-On reflections: spoken word delivered over a mysterious and distinctively Teardrop Explodes Post-Punk sound. Clad in appropriately intriguing packaging? U-Betcha! ‘Doesn’t feature Reward-type hits anywhere herein’!!

Track listing- Side 1: 1982 Demos for The Teardrop Explodes: 1 That’s Where I’m Coming From 2 Ned Kelly Dawn 3 Straight Rain 4 Krankenhaus: Joker’s Birthday Duck Hunt. Side 2: 1989 Music Prepared for Head-On: 1 Grow Your Hair 2 Charles XII Of Sweden 3 You Think It’s Love 82 4 Unsafe At Any Speed 5 The Emotional Jungle 6 Tiny Children 7 Dave Balfe, What’s Got Into You 8 You Disappear From View