Just catching up with emails listening to the Teardrop Explodes' classic album Kilimanjaro courtesy of You Tube.
Being a hippy as a teenager it was heavy rock and prog that floated my patchouli-scented boat but I did enjoy a lot of new wave a great deal. Guitars, thumping bass, melody and breezy or haunting tunes. Nice!
The Teardrops were one of those sounds I just fell into and Kilimanjaro was the album that did it. It reminds me of smokey party kitchens, clumsy fumblings on the bean bags with late Seventies girls, pogo dancing and quirky indie gyrations and coloured swirling lights in mates' dark front rooms with the music centres turned way up.
Do you like the Teardrops? Courtesy of You Tube. If you don't listen to anything then check out The Poppies are in The Field.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2upMkmSmJ8
Girls in their late 70's?? Blimey Woodsy I cast my net far and wide when I was single but never that old!! -Mark J Southcoast Base
ReplyDeletethey wuz patchouli-scented maidens of aquarius I wuz after MJ!
DeleteHa ha Mark - you've found him out! Grab a Granny! ha ha seriously though, I always enjoyed Julian Copes music, but he is also the founder of the Modern Antiquarian website and movement. Cope's book by the same name is a gazeteer of prehistoric sites in the UK and the follow-up, the megalithic European covers most of Europe. The MA was a go to forum for me, prior to the creation of the blog, which led to me being involved with the a team of astrophysicists, builders and other lunatics in theorising how Stonehenge had been built. The Walking with Dinosaurs team built a full scale replica of Stonehenge compleated, for a tv series - famously referred to as 'Foamhenge' as it was built from expanded foam. This was filmed by Channel 5 and National Graphic for a number of documentaries around the 2007 equinox. My backside featured on TV for all of 2 minutes as I wrestled with a forty ton lump of concrete and a length of wood, demonstrating the technique of shifting the megaliths.
ReplyDeleteAfter buying ‘When I Dream’ as a single, The Teardrop Explodes quickly became one of my favourite bands and their two albums proper – Kilimanjaro and Wilder – still stand up today as pop classics... for me, at least. Together with Echo & the Bunnymen, they instilled in me a fascination for the post-punk Liverpool scene and led me to discover many more excellent bands of the period. Main man Julian Cope went on to release a string of great albums after the Teardrops split. I guess it’s common knowledge now where the band got their name..?
ReplyDeleteNope. I don't know why Teardrop Explodes!
DeleteThey got the name from a caption in the Marvel comic Daredevil #77 (June 1971)
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That's totally brilliant! Thanks anonymous!
DeleteThe Teardrops, the Bunnymen, Wah! (Pete Wylie), O.M.D., Icicle Works... the second wave Liddypool bands made some great music in the '80s.
ReplyDeleteYep, there was some interesting stuff from the 'Pool Charlie. One of my fave songs was There She Blows by the Las's.
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