Julian Cope’s modern lullaby from The Teardrop Explodes’ second album Wilder released in 1982. Miraculously for a song like this it reached the edge of The UK Top 40 but early forays into pretend Pop stardom might have been responsible. As I am in the process of moving that’s it for tonight but enjoy this […]
In the tense up and down world of The Teardrop Explodes, between line-up changes, direction arguments, drugs and bouts of ego mania, the band made two worthy albums, Kilimanjaro (1980) and Wilder (1981). Credited with re-invigorating Psychedelia in the early eighties they always sounded more Beat group to me than as Psychedelic as people say. The […]
The soft and sensitive Julian Cope dressed up as a scary uncle in well worn Neu T -shirt, playing The Great Dominions from the ace Teardrop Explodes album, Wilder released in 1981. Armed here only with an ornate 12 string acoustic and that unique something in his voice that makes him special. Don’t make me […]