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The title was originally intended for the band's debut, but attaching it to the long-unreleased third and final Teardrops album, an expansion of the four-track You Disappear From View EP, is as good a use as any. Cope trashed these sessions shortly after they were completed, but admitted years later that it wasn't all that bad. While this is a Balfe album more than anything else (he's credited with all the arrangements) with Cope on vocals, the rapidly collapsing band, augmented by a variety of other players, still manages to get in some good work. Cope certainly sounds like he's not entirely there at points -- particularly on the lengthy opening number "Ouch Monkeys," where his voice is mixed in the background while Balfe's lounge-styled lead keyboards play against spectral choir sounds and echoed drums. Much of the percussion is a combination of Dwyer's suddenly arena-scaled pounding and rhythm box pulses, which, combined with the lack of guitars on all but two songs oftens transforms the Teardrops into something approaching New Romantic synth rock! "You Disappear From View" sounds like a reject from Spandau Ballet's early days. Often cuts sound like demos for fuller arrangements, which turned out to be the case for two of the songs, "Metranil Vavin" and "Sex (Pussyface)," which Cope recut on his solo debut World Shut Your Mouth. When Cope is fully engaged in the material, like on the charging "Count to Ten and Run For Cover," or the gently mysterious flow of "Soft Enough For You," it's a gentle revelation. A ringer concludes things -- "Strange House in the Snow," an off-kilter, wiggy 1980-era cut with Gill on guitar.
© Ned Raggett /TiVo
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Chris Sheldon, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - CLIVE LANGER, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Ross Cullum, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Julian Cope, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Hugh Jones, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - David Balfe, Organ, Piano, Synthesizer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Ron François, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Christopher Merrick Hughes, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - The Teardrop Explodes, MainArtist - Gary Dwyer, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1990 Mercury Records Limited
Chris Sheldon, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - CLIVE LANGER, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Ross Cullum, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Julian Cope, Bass Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Hugh Jones, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - David Balfe, Organ, Piano, Synthesizer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Christopher Merrick Hughes, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - The Teardrop Explodes, MainArtist - Gary Dwyer, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1990 Mercury Records Limited
Chris Sheldon, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - CLIVE LANGER, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Ross Cullum, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Julian Cope, Bass Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Hugh Jones, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - David Balfe, Organ, Piano, Synthesizer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Christopher Merrick Hughes, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - The Teardrop Explodes, MainArtist - Gary Dwyer, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1990 Mercury Records Limited
Chris Sheldon, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - CLIVE LANGER, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Ross Cullum, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Julian Cope, Bass Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Hugh Jones, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - David Balfe, Organ, Piano, Synthesizer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Christopher Merrick Hughes, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - The Teardrop Explodes, MainArtist - Luke Tunney, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Gary Dwyer, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Ted Emmet, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1990 Mercury Records Limited
Chris Sheldon, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - CLIVE LANGER, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Ross Cullum, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Julian Cope, Bass Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Hugh Jones, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - David Balfe, Organ, Piano, Synthesizer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Christopher Merrick Hughes, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Carl Anthony Dwyer, ComposerLyricist - Gary Andrew Dwyer, ComposerLyricist - The Teardrop Explodes, MainArtist - Gary Dwyer, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1990 Mercury Records Limited
Chris Sheldon, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - CLIVE LANGER, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Ross Cullum, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Julian Cope, Bass Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Hugh Jones, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - David Balfe, Organ, Piano, Synthesizer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Christopher Merrick Hughes, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - The Teardrop Explodes, MainArtist - Gary Dwyer, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1990 Mercury Records Limited
Chris Sheldon, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - CLIVE LANGER, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Ross Cullum, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Julian Cope, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Hugh Jones, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - David Balfe, Organ, Piano, Synthesizer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Ron François, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Christopher Merrick Hughes, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - The Teardrop Explodes, MainArtist - Luke Tunney, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Gary Dwyer, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Troy Tate, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Ted Emmet, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1983 Mercury Records Limited
Chris Sheldon, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - CLIVE LANGER, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Ross Cullum, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Julian Cope, Bass Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Hugh Jones, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - David Balfe, Organ, Piano, Synthesizer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Christopher Merrick Hughes, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - The Teardrop Explodes, MainArtist - Luke Tunney, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Gary Dwyer, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Ted Emmet, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1990 Mercury Records Limited
Chris Sheldon, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - CLIVE LANGER, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Ross Cullum, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Julian Cope, Bass Guitar, Piano, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Hugh Jones, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - David Balfe, Organ, Synthesizer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Christopher Merrick Hughes, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - The Teardrop Explodes, MainArtist - Gary Dwyer, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1990 Mercury Records Limited
Chris Sheldon, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - CLIVE LANGER, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Ross Cullum, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Julian Cope, Piano, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Hugh Jones, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - David Balfe, Organ, Synthesizer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Ron François, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Christopher Merrick Hughes, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - The Teardrop Explodes, MainArtist - Luke Tunney, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Gary Dwyer, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Ted Emmet, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1990 Mercury Records Limited
Chris Sheldon, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - CLIVE LANGER, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Ross Cullum, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Julian Cope, Bass Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Hugh Jones, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - David Balfe, Organ, Piano, Synthesizer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Christopher Merrick Hughes, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - The Teardrop Explodes, MainArtist - Gary Dwyer, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1990 Mercury Records Limited
Chris Sheldon, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - CLIVE LANGER, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Ross Cullum, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Julian Cope, Bass Guitar, Piano, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Hugh Jones, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - David Balfe, Organ, Synthesizer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Christopher Merrick Hughes, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - The Teardrop Explodes, MainArtist - Alan Gill, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Gary Dwyer, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1981 Mercury Records Limited
Albumbeschreibung
The title was originally intended for the band's debut, but attaching it to the long-unreleased third and final Teardrops album, an expansion of the four-track You Disappear From View EP, is as good a use as any. Cope trashed these sessions shortly after they were completed, but admitted years later that it wasn't all that bad. While this is a Balfe album more than anything else (he's credited with all the arrangements) with Cope on vocals, the rapidly collapsing band, augmented by a variety of other players, still manages to get in some good work. Cope certainly sounds like he's not entirely there at points -- particularly on the lengthy opening number "Ouch Monkeys," where his voice is mixed in the background while Balfe's lounge-styled lead keyboards play against spectral choir sounds and echoed drums. Much of the percussion is a combination of Dwyer's suddenly arena-scaled pounding and rhythm box pulses, which, combined with the lack of guitars on all but two songs oftens transforms the Teardrops into something approaching New Romantic synth rock! "You Disappear From View" sounds like a reject from Spandau Ballet's early days. Often cuts sound like demos for fuller arrangements, which turned out to be the case for two of the songs, "Metranil Vavin" and "Sex (Pussyface)," which Cope recut on his solo debut World Shut Your Mouth. When Cope is fully engaged in the material, like on the charging "Count to Ten and Run For Cover," or the gently mysterious flow of "Soft Enough For You," it's a gentle revelation. A ringer concludes things -- "Strange House in the Snow," an off-kilter, wiggy 1980-era cut with Gill on guitar.
© Ned Raggett /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:44:26
- Main artists: THE TEARDROP EXPLODES
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 1990 Mercury Records Limited ℗ 1990 Mercury Records Limited
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