Kilimanjaro

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Despite Dave Balfe being traditionally cast as Cope’s main creative sparring partner, the influence of the mystic Alan Gill really stands out as a vital influence in retrospect. It’s instructive to listen to the Cargo sessions and what became the final version of Kilimanjaro. Or contrast the YMCA gig from 1980 and the 1979 gigs. Would we be talking of The Teardrop Explodes’ music in the same way without him, especially when we consider his “gift” of their most famous song, ‘Reward’? I think not. The album divides into several distinct styles. 'Bent Out Of Shape' is a great opening, built around a majestic bass groove and swaggering horns atop the enigmatic Cope lyrics that are a trademark of this album. Much of the album shares this style - the bizarre and brilliant 'Seven Views Of Jerusalem', 'The Culture Bunker' and 'Like Leila Khaled Said'. In the booklet Balfe reveals the influence of Talking Heads / David Byrne and Brian Eno on his arrangements and his choice of a Prophet 5 synthesiser, and this sheds light on some of the interesting rhythms, particularly on 'Seven Views'. In April, the band had another Top 20 hit with the re-released "Treason" (featuring the earlier Kilimanjaro line-up of the band) which reached No. 18 in the UK Singles Chart. Another single, "When I Dream", received airplay on progressive radio in the U.S., introducing the band to new fans. In June 1981, the band embarked on another American tour. The tour proved to be a chaotic affair: neither Agius nor Hammer fitted into the group socially and Cope was retreating further into an LSD-fuelled isolation, retaining only Dwyer as trusted companion. The tour finally came adrift on the East Coast in a mess of bad business arrangements and infighting. It's also frustrating when you aspire your band to be Arthur Lee's Love but you somehow hit the mark nearer The Hollies. As Donovan put it on 'Season Of The Witch': 'So many people to be'.

Paul Simpson – organ on "Sleeping Gas" (single version), "Camera Camera" and "Kirby Workers Dream Fades" a b ["Julian Cope, the hit who became a myth"] – feature on Julian Cope by Andrew Perry in The Daily Telegraph, 1 July 2010 He just couldn't cope, says Steve Sutherland as he counts out the 'aha's and listens to the recent 180g reissue of the Liverpool band's post-punk debut LPThis debut, recorded in 1979, featured one of the leading Liverpool neo-psychedelia bands (the other being Echo & The Bunnymen). And the song "Read It In Books" appears on both debut albums. When I Dream' is glorious, not the least because, just like Gene Vincent's 'Be Bop A Lula' and Little Richard's 'A Wop Bop A Loo Bop A Wop Bam Boom', it proves that at its peak, pop ascends above and beyond language to an emotional telepathy all of its own. In case you haven't guessed, the chorus goes: 'Ba ba ba ba ba ba bada ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba bada ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba bada ba ba wow-o-oh!'. Staunton, Terry (July 2013). "The Teardrop Explodes – Wilder". Record Collector. No.416 . Retrieved 18 December 2020. At the end of 1981 (and with Ronnie François now added on bass guitar) the band took up a lengthy residence at the Pyramid Club in Liverpool, where they set up "Club Zoo", playing twice a day as a five-piece. The band then undertook an extensive tour of Europe, the US and Australia, hiring trumpeter Ted Emmett (ex- 64 Spoons) for the live band. a b c d e Ian Pye talks to Teardrop Explodes’ Julian Cope, Melody Maker, 18 October 1980 (reproduced interview)

Ged Quinn– keyboards on "Brave Boys Keep Their Promises", Ha Ha I'm Drowning", "Went Crazy" and "Chance" That's 26 'ha's and 31 'aha's. Go ahead, count 'em… 26 'ha's and 31 'aha's. That's precisely the number Julian Cope uses in his splendidly unsettling memoir Head-On to describe the making of Kilimanjaro, The Teardrop Explodes' debut LP. Don't get me wrong. This may sound like some damned failure but actually it's wonderful. I love Kilimanjaro the way I love Syd Barrett's stuff: because no matter how hopelessly wrong it is, it kind of can't help getting it right. The choruses are big and bright and unforgettable despite everything done to sabotage them. The vocals are so off they're on. They might have thought they were doing it for the 'ids' but it turned out they were doing it for the 'kids' despite themselves.Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha…' Butchers Tale – Air Studios Rough Mixes – Wilder Sessions, credited on the original Wilder inners but not included. Cover from the Zombies Odyssey and Oracale Widely acclaimed (a retrospective NME review referred to the disc and its successor Wilder as “two of the defining albums of their age) Kilimanjaro included re-recorded versions of the band’s initial trio of singles, plus the album’s trailer single, ‘When I Dream’. The band’s next single – and signature hit – ‘Reward’, however, was a UK Top 10 smash early in 1981 and after it was added to a reissued Kilimanjaro with a different sleeve, the album peaked at No. 24 in the UK and later went silver. The new 180gm vinyl edition has been cut at Abbey Road and features the Kilimanjaro cover which was used when ‘Reward’ was added to the album. The Teardrop Explodes released their first single, "Sleeping Gas", in February 1979. [5] Simpson's stage presence was now such that he rivalled Cope as the band's onstage focus, and by mutual agreement the two decided that the group wasn't big enough for both of them. Simpson left the band in the spring: he went on to form The Wild Swans and then link up with Ian Broudie to form Care. His initial replacement was Ged Quinn, who played on the Teardrops' subsequent British tour. However, co-manager David Balfe had also been lobbying for full Teardrops membership: by July 1979, he had succeeded in ousting Quinn and taking his place as keyboard player. [5] [6] (Quinn then rejoined Simpson in The Wild Swans.)

Two paragraphs later, he writes: 'Aha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha.' That's 26 'ha's and just 18 'aha's. We'd let them all lie, but in the universe we're about to enter, this stuff is important. It might, in fact, have meaning (or, of course, it might not). Children of Nuggets : Original Artyfacts from the Second Psychedelic Era 1976-1995 CD 3-CD 4 V.A (1) The band was never built to last... It was like building a house on scaffolding, on top of a tank moving at three miles an hour. The higher you build it, the further removed you are from the reality that it’s actually moving and going to fall." The Teardrop Explodes were an English post-punk/ neo-psychedelic band formed in Liverpool in 1978. Best known for their Top Ten UK single " Reward", the group originated as a key band in the emerging Liverpool post-punk scene of the late 1970s. The group also launched the career of group frontman Julian Cope as well as that of keyboard player and co-manager David Balfe (later a record producer, A&R man and founder of Food Records). Other members included early Smiths producer Troy Tate.

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The Teardrop Explodes enjoyed a brief, but mercurial period of mainstream success during 1981, with a re-recorded ‘Treason’ going Top 20 and their next single, ‘Passionate Friend’ also scoring Top 30 success and again bringing Cope and company to Top Of The Pops.