I've also bought the CD set. Nicely designed with an excellent accompanying book. I've listened to the first two CDs so far and the sound quality is very good. I was a fan of the band back in the day. Us scousers were so lucky in the late seventies and early eighties with so many great local bands popping up. It's a shame the band couldn't keep it together a bit longer.
Yeah, as a fellow scouser, I know we don’t always adopt our cultural sons and daughters the way we adopted Julian. I definitely don’t think of this as ‘the sound of Stafford’!
I bought the vinyl set, I’m very pleased with the quality of the content and the presentation. I bought a few box sets over the last few years, they haven’t all been as well-made. The Joni Mitchell Asylum Years box, for example, is too small for the records it holds, and it’s ruined the spine of one of the disks. Zappa’s 200 Motels CD box set included a hotel key ring apparently intended to wreck the content within. The book content is included on the sleeves of the 7 vinyl disks, great to read along as you play each disk. I’d forgotten that Copie was calling himself ‘Kevin Stapleton’ for a while, and a track by his group, Whopper, is included. I didn’t mind the low quality of some of the recordings - they were clear enough, and well worth hearing. I live in Liverpool, so I like to imagine as I play the music, that I’m summoning the ghosts of this city’s culture from 40-odd years ago! It certainly feels cooler than most of the four-to-the-floor house music wafting up from these old terraces. I met Julian Cope in 81, he was promoting the concert he was giving that night, which I also went to. My mate got a promo copy of “World Shut Your Mouth” LP, singed, but there was nothing left for me, and I was too shy then to say anything other than ‘hello’. He was quiet and funny, but that night at the gig, he ended up getting a little carried away and attacking the hologram machine with his mic stand. As John Peel says at the end of one of Julian’s sessions, “there’s some rum thoughts going on in that young man’s head”. I’m glad he found his path eventually, but these are not the recording of a stable, clearly-oriented guy. . .
I'm surprised that there even is anything unreleased material from universal that exist after the massive warehouse fire in 2007. One of the theories why another artist like Kim wilde doesn't have these types of rereleases is because her material was one of the victims of the stuff that was destroyed in 2007. This is a big surprise to me at least.
Presumably all the Teardrop Explodes recordings were done in the UK or Europe though, so unlikely many of their masters would have been in a US warehouse. And obviously the stuff in Julian Cope’s attic won’t have been affected.
The design and typography is amazing, looks beautiful.
Bought this straight away, a great CD box set, yes the book is immense. The music is essential.
Great interview with members of the Teardrop Explodes in SHINDIG
I've also bought the CD set. Nicely designed with an excellent accompanying book. I've listened to the first two CDs so far and the sound quality is very good. I was a fan of the band back in the day. Us scousers were so lucky in the late seventies and early eighties with so many great local bands popping up. It's a shame the band couldn't keep it together a bit longer.
Yeah, as a fellow scouser, I know we don’t always adopt our cultural sons and daughters the way we adopted Julian. I definitely don’t think of this as ‘the sound of Stafford’!
I bought the vinyl set, I’m very pleased with the quality of the content and the presentation. I bought a few box sets over the last few years, they haven’t all been as well-made. The Joni Mitchell Asylum Years box, for example, is too small for the records it holds, and it’s ruined the spine of one of the disks. Zappa’s 200 Motels CD box set included a hotel key ring apparently intended to wreck the content within.
The book content is included on the sleeves of the 7 vinyl disks, great to read along as you play each disk. I’d forgotten that Copie was calling himself ‘Kevin Stapleton’ for a while, and a track by his group, Whopper, is included. I didn’t mind the low quality of some of the recordings - they were clear enough, and well worth hearing.
I live in Liverpool, so I like to imagine as I play the music, that I’m summoning the ghosts of this city’s culture from 40-odd years ago! It certainly feels cooler than most of the four-to-the-floor house music wafting up from these old terraces. I met Julian Cope in 81, he was promoting the concert he was giving that night, which I also went to. My mate got a promo copy of “World Shut Your Mouth” LP, singed, but there was nothing left for me, and I was too shy then to say anything other than ‘hello’. He was quiet and funny, but that night at the gig, he ended up getting a little carried away and attacking the hologram machine with his mic stand. As John Peel says at the end of one of Julian’s sessions, “there’s some rum thoughts going on in that young man’s head”. I’m glad he found his path eventually, but these are not the recording of a stable, clearly-oriented guy. . .
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I'm surprised that there even is anything unreleased material from universal that exist after the massive warehouse fire in 2007. One of the theories why another artist like Kim wilde doesn't have these types of rereleases is because her material was one of the victims of the stuff that was destroyed in 2007. This is a big surprise to me at least.
Presumably all the Teardrop Explodes recordings were done in the UK or Europe though, so unlikely many of their masters would have been in a US warehouse. And obviously the stuff in Julian Cope’s attic won’t have been affected.
@@Extreme_Rice is it possible that uk recordings could’ve been moved to the US after universal acquired MCA in the 90s?
@maksgaminghd2870 I have no inside knowledge but I doubt they'd make the effort.