Cold War Psychedelia

Exhilarating! Dynamic! 1982 music from the Death Throes of Liverpool’s maddest band. 42 minutes of it, and nearly all previously unreleased. Instrumentals, mostly, plus fragile earworms from a very distant time. Also check out Side 2’s tumbling musical collage taken from the same 1982 recording sessions – this time, however, they are overladen with Cope’s earliest autobiographical attempts. Yes, herein are contained 1989’s Head-On reflections: spoken word delivered over a mysterious and distinctively Teardrop Explodes Post-Punk sound. Clad in appropriately intriguing packaging? U-Betcha!

SIDE ONE 1982 Demos for The Teardrop Explodes

1. That’s Where I’m Coming From
2. Ned Kelly Dawn
3. Straight Rain
4. Krankenhaus: Joker’s Birthday Duck Hunt

SIDE TWO 1989 Music Prepared for Head-On

1. Grow Your Hair
2. Charles XII Of Sweden
3. You Think It’s Love 82
4. Unsafe At Any Speed
5. The Emotional Jungle
6. Tiny Children
7. Dave Balfe, What’s Got Into You?
8. You Disappear From View