THE TEARDROP EXPLODES will see their 1981 album ‘Wilder’ released in an expanded 2-CD edition on June 24th. The release will feature the original album, while a second disc – compiled and sequenced by JULIAN COPE – containing all the related singles, b-sides and BBC radio sessions. Cope also provides a track by track while original keyboard player DAVE BALFE provides ‘a particularly honest and revealing’ account of the album recording process…
CD1 – Bent Out Of Shape / Colours Fly Away / Seven Views Of Jerusalem / Pure Joy / Falling Down Around Me / The Culture Bunker / Passionate Friend / Tiny Children / Like Leila Khaled Said / …And The Fighting Takes Over / The Great Dominions
CD2 – Christ Versus Warhol (B-side ‘Passionate Friend’) / Rachael Built A Steamboat (B-side ‘Tiny Children’) / Suffocate (B-side ‘You Disappear From View’) / Window Shopping For A New Crown Of Thorns (B-side ‘Colours Fly Away’) / Ouch Monkeys (B-side ‘You Disappear From View’) / East Of The Equator (B-side ‘Colours Fly Away’) / Sleeping Gas (Live from Club ZOO, December 1981) (B-side ‘Tiny Children’) / The In-Psychlopedia (B-side ‘You Disappear From View’) / You Disappear From View / Soft Enough For You (B-side ‘You Disappear From View’) / Pure Joy Wins Out Again (BBC Session, Peel Plus, 1981) / Like Leila Khaled Said (BBC Session, Peel Plus, 1981) / I’m Not The Loving Kind (BBC Session, Richard Skinner, August 1981) / The Culture Bunker (BBC Session, Peel Plus, 1981) / …And The Fighting Takes Over (BBC Session, Richard Skinner, August 1981) / Better Scream / Make That Move (BBC Session, Richard Skinner, August 1981 / Bent Out Of Shape (BBC Session, Richard Skinner, August 1981) / Screaming Secrets (BBC Session, Richard Skinner, August 1981)