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    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...
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  • This is the discography of English post-punk band the Teardrop Explodes. "Reward" was later included on the 1981 re-release of Kilimanjaro. "You Disappear...
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  • Kilimanjaro is the debut album by the neo-psychedelic Liverpool band The Teardrop Explodes, released on 10 October 1980. It contains versions of the band's early...
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    Julian Cope (category The Teardrop Explodes members)
    He was the singer and songwriter in Liverpool post-punk band the Teardrop Explodes and has followed a solo career since 1983 in addition to working on...
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  • David Balfe (category The Teardrop Explodes members)
    record company executive, most notable for playing keyboards with the Teardrop Explodes, founding the Zoo and Food independent record labels, signing Blur...
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  • Japan folded. Zoo Records went on to release early work from The Teardrop Explodes and Echo & the Bunnymen. The label also released the first single...
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  • Wilder (album) (category The Teardrop Explodes albums)
    neo-psychedelic Liverpool band the Teardrop Explodes, and the final completed album released by the group. In 2000 former Teardrop Explodes leader Julian Cope gave...
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  • Wants to Shag... The Teardrop Explodes was the third and final studio album by neo-psychedelic Liverpool band The Teardrop Explodes. When the band reconvened...
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  • Paul Simpson (musician) (category The Teardrop Explodes members)
    transformed into the Cope-led Teardrop Explodes, while McCulloch went on to form Echo & the Bunnymen. He left the Teardrops in 1979 to form his own band...
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    McCulloch left the band, A Shallow Madness changed their name to the Teardrop Explodes, and McCulloch joined with guitarist Will Sergeant and bass player...
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  • Treason (It's Just a Story) (category The Teardrop Explodes songs)
    "Treason (It's Just a Story)" is a song recorded by Liverpool group The Teardrop Explodes. The track was originally released as a single in early 1980 and then...
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  • Reward (song) (category The Teardrop Explodes songs)
    "Reward" is a song by English band the Teardrop Explodes. It was released as a single in early 1981 and was the band's biggest hit, peaking at No. 6 in...
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    colors, and 3,500 lipsticks. The song Like Leila Khaled Said from The Teardrop Explodes' 1981 album Wilder is a love song to Khaled. Songwriter Julian Cope...
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  • individual success of all three founding members: Julian Cope formed the Teardrop Explodes and has enjoyed a long and successful solo career as an author, photographer...
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  • Troy Tate (category The Teardrop Explodes members)
    and record producer who was a member of several bands including the Teardrop Explodes and Fashion as well as working as a solo artist, for which he is best...
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  • same Merseyside scene which would produce Echo & the Bunnymen, the Teardrop Explodes, OMD and Dalek I Love You. Big In Japan started off playing gigs around...
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  • band The Teardrop Explodes. Two of the tracks, "Metranil Vavin" and "Pussyface", had in fact been originally intended for The Teardrop Explodes (and different...
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  • SubArachnoid Space Super Furry Animals Suuns Tame Impala Temples Teardrop Explodes Tripping Daisy Unknown Mortal Orchestra The Verve Vinyl Williams Warpaint...
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  • Alan Gill (category The Teardrop Explodes members)
    band Dalek I Love You and the post-punk/neo-psychedelic band the Teardrop Explodes. Living in Thingwall, Wirral, he formed alongside Keith Hartley, Karl...
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  • post-punk". Some of the scene's bands, including the Soft Boys, the Teardrop Explodes, Wah!, and Echo & the Bunnymen, became major figures of neo-psychedelia...
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    how earnings would be divided. Travis brought in Troy Tate of the Teardrop Explodes, and under his supervision the band recorded their first album, at...
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  • left the group (to start Zoo Records in Liverpool and manage The Teardrop Explodes & Echo And The Bunnymen, having met his business partner Bill Drummond...
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  • (Máire Ní Bhraonáin) the voice of Clannad, Crybaby, Stackridge, the Teardrop Explodes and Sam Brookes. His album Eirenic Life was released on Helium Records...
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  • 1988 album by The Rippingtons Kilimanjaro (The Teardrop Explodes album), an album by The Teardrop Explodes "Kilimanjaro", song by The Del Vikings 1962 "Kilimanjaro"...
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  • Liverpool, England, formed in 1980 shortly after Paul Simpson left The Teardrop Explodes. The band's personnel has been subject to regular turnover, with vocalist...
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  • Beauties with Virginia Astley and Nicky Holland. The trio joined The Teardrop Explodes in Liverpool during the winter of 1981 for a series of dates at small...
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  • Why-Fi artist, Troy Tate, for a supporting band position with The Teardrop Explodes. In the 1990s, finding that her musical style was popular in Japan...
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    Society in 2010. While in Dublin, Love met musician Julian Cope of the Teardrop Explodes at one of the band's concerts. Cope took a liking to Love and offered...
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  • the Fall, the Pop Group, the Mekons, Echo and the Bunnymen and the Teardrop Explodes, tended to move away from dark sonic landscapes. Arguably the most...
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  • Shames: 1960s pop group Dalek I Love You: 1970s synthpop precursor to Teardrop Explodes, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark & Big in Japan Dead or Alive: 1980s...
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