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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David Balfe (category The Teardrop Explodes members)
playing keyboards with the Teardrop Explodes, founding the Zoo and Food independent record labels, signing Blur and for being the subject of their first...
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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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Zoo Records (redirect from Lori & The Chameleons)
catalogue number Zoo Two, while To the Shores of Lake Placid had Zoo Four. Zoo One was scheduled to be the Teardrop Explodes album Kilimanjaro (later released...
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Wilder (album) (category The Teardrop Explodes albums)
Wilder is the second album by neo-psychedelic Liverpool band the Teardrop Explodes, and the final completed album released by the group. In 2000 former...
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Julian Cope (category The Teardrop Explodes members)
English musician and author. He was the singer and songwriter in Liverpool post-punk band the Teardrop Explodes and has followed a solo career since...
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Crucial Three (category Scouse culture of the early 1980s)
formed The Teardrop Explodes and has enjoyed a long and successful solo career as an author, photographer and singer, Ian McCulloch formed the very successful...
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November 1978, Echo & the Bunnymen made their debut at Liverpool's Eric's Club, appearing as the opening act for the Teardrop Explodes. The band played one...
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Paul Simpson (musician) (category The Teardrop Explodes members)
others under the name 'A Shallow Madness'. This later transformed into the Cope-led Teardrop Explodes, while McCulloch went on to form Echo & the Bunnymen...
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Alan Gill (category The Teardrop Explodes members)
songwriter, who formed part of the synthpop band Dalek I Love You and the post-punk/neo-psychedelic band the Teardrop Explodes. Living in Thingwall, Wirral...
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his childhood home of Tamworth), following the breakup of Cope's former band The Teardrop Explodes. Two of the tracks, "Metranil Vavin" and "Pussyface"...
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The Wild Swans are a post-punk band from Liverpool, England, formed in 1980 shortly after Paul Simpson left The Teardrop Explodes. The band's personnel...
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Reward (song) (category The Teardrop Explodes songs)
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 the UK and No. 11 in...
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Big in Japan (band) (category Scouse culture of the early 1980s)
from the same Merseyside scene which would produce Echo & the Bunnymen, the Teardrop Explodes, OMD and Dalek I Love You. Big in Japan started off playing...
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Manoeuvres in the Dark. Later in 1978, Balfe left the group (to start Zoo Records in Liverpool and manage The Teardrop Explodes & Echo And The Bunnymen, having...
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Treason (It's Just a Story) (category The Teardrop Explodes songs)
The Teardrop Explodes. The track was originally released as a single in early 1980 and then included on the group's debut album Kilimanjaro later the...
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Leila Khaled (category Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine members)
Shomali using 14 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...
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(album), a 1981 album by The Teardrop Explodes Wilder (Dungeons & Dragons), a character class in Dungeons & Dragons Wilder (The Wheel of Time), a collective...
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Troy Tate (category The Teardrop Explodes members)
several bands including the Teardrop Explodes and Fashion as well as working as a solo artist, for which he is best known for the single "Love Is ..." Born...
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Kate St John (category The Dream Academy members)
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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Politti, the Psychedelic Furs, the Monochrome Set, Au Pairs, Magazine, Chelsea, Stiff Little Fingers and the Teardrop Explodes. During their short existence...
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appearances from Bill Nelson, Preston Heyman, Dave Balfe (The Teardrop Explodes) and Merrick (Adam and the Ants). Due to differences with their label, Phonogram...
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Virginia Astley (category Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama)
the support tour with The Teardrop Explodes. Astley wrote most of the band's songs, some of which appeared on her first solo project with Why-Fi. The...
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English post-punk". Some of the indie music scene's bands, including the Soft Boys, the Teardrop Explodes, Wah!, and Echo & the Bunnymen, became major figures...
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Kilimanjaro (The Rippingtons album), a 1988 album by The Rippingtons Kilimanjaro (The Teardrop Explodes album), an album by The Teardrop Explodes "Kilimanjaro"...
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Chris Hughes (musician) (category Adam and the Ants members)
Bhraonáin), Moya Brennan (Máire Ní Bhraonáin) the voice of Clannad, Crybaby, Stackridge, the Teardrop Explodes and Sam Brookes. His album Eirenic Life was...
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Travis brought in Troy Tate of the Teardrop Explodes, and under his supervision the band recorded their first album, at the Elephant Studios in Wapping,...
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(former guitarist of the Teardrop Explodes) as producer for sessions at Elephant studios in Wapping, London. During the following month the group recorded fourteen...
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