Me and my old mates from the punk scene used to go to Strathies on Glasgow's South side and after a few fat ones would listen to their great juke box and this was always near the top on our playlist .Good song .
Im 42 and used to love watching TOTP when I was young, but lets be honest, wasnt it a pile of dog shit with all that miming and pretending to play the instruments. Weird how we all knew that, but we still watched it!
@georgeman2468 Yeah, but it did have some good spots. Like the singer of Pogues trying to sing fairytale of new york while pissed and falling over the drum.
@georgeman2468 At the time, though, it was our only source of music. There was the charts on a Sunday, but I got tired of trying to pause the tape before the DJ spoke at the end of the song.
I remember Courtney Love hanging around in Liverpool with Julian Cope, in fact in Erics before it shut. She looked good, but was quite intimidating to a young lad
@johnnycheck99 putting out political protest albums- hosting bbc tv specials called the modern antiquarian- writing books on rare music- still productive and half deranged- some of his recent work is hit or miss but jehovahkill is his best solo album from 1991 ........
Just in the middle of Julian Copes book - he says he was absolutely off his face when he did Top of the pops and performed reward. Its a good book about the liverpool punk scene and he really knows his Music.
me old man had a boozer in this year an i was always bangin this tune out on the jukebox on a sunday morn when he was cleanin the pipes out,while playin table top asteroids n drinkin flat coke.!
@kp19611 second row behind the drummer in a mauve dress - stepping from side to side!! My sisters are behind me one in a white jumper and the other one next to her!! It's great watching these old totp shows we have found ourselves in quite a few as we were frequent visitors to totp. There were about 6 of us all applying for tickets on a regular basis so we got to go quite a lot. Great fun!!
Great antidote to the New Romantic panzer movement of 1981 and much more stylish than the overdressed tartan clad Spandau Ballet. or frilly shirted Duran Duran.
the bbc got a bit worried when this was a hit. They pulled in the reigns( sic) after this and the Jam and UB40, for example. 1981 was a great year for music, building on the new wave. Which went pop in 1982. Pop as in Fucked. UB40 went saccharine in 1983, Weller went soft, The Bunnymen tried but failed, Mr Cope, the most wonderful oaf, cast himself adrift. Thank God that the skeletons of Joy Division reassembled, and that Johnny Marr wound up with the nagging old poet!
@garthrallysport . I'd rather hope that Julian was trying to encourage the aerial bombardment of the stage hoping that the twat Mercury or his permed friends slipped on the spilt Hofmeister (a favourive tipple of Queen fans at the time) and broke a limb or two....
in 82 this arsehole got on stage in leeds while supporting queen and then announced that they were going to sing reward and we should be gratefull to hear it, needless to say they never got to finish their set as we gave them an ariel bombardment of cans , bottles and anything else that could be launched...other than them it was a great concert also supported by heart and joan jett
In every decade there are the bands who are great but don't get the exposure or recognition that their immediate fans think they should get. I mean this is such a good performance (or a lip sync) and you'd think this song could have cracked the U.S. charts and been exposed via MTV.
Funny one thing that does my head in about Liverpool is when eveyone goes on about the beatles. They never mention all the great groups out in the first half of the 80s . it was a fantastic music scene.
Isn't the chap going mad on the trumpet Norman Hurricane Smith? Was he not sent to The Cavern to make a live recording of the Beatles in 1963? The session would not have worked. George Martin used open mics and sound bounced off the walls of Abbey Road studio.
Oh how dearly I love this song - a memory with so many others of artists plying their trade and exposing that evil freak bitch and capitalist Margaret Thatcher the milk snatcher.
I was a young child as my dad screeched at her on the telly - then TOTP came on after the news and the likes of Elvis Costello ,The Specials,and a plethora of other artists told us the real truth.
Oh how dearly I love this song - a memory with so many others of artists plying their trade and exposing that evil freak bitch and capitalist Margaret Thatcher the milk snatcher.
I was a young child as my dad screeched at her on the telly - then TOTP came on after the news and the likes of Elvis Costello ,The Specials,and a plethora of other artists told us the real truth.
Oh how dearly I love this song - a memory with so many others of artists plying their trade and exposing that evil freak bitch and capitalist Margaret Thatcher the milk snatcher.
I was a young child as my dad screeched at her on the telly - then TOTP came on after the news and the likes of Elvis Costello ,The Specials,and a plethora of other artists told us the real truth.
I pity the kids of today and the crap they listen to!!! The 70s, 80s and 90s had so many different kinds of music. We were spoilt for choice. This is just one example of a great era for music, sadly now long gone and replaced with todays mainstream boredom!!!
This was Julian at his best - before he took to wearing overly large pixie hats with long, untidy,Worzel Gummidge-esque hair. I love Julian's music to bits and his whole persona. He's a national treasure.
@MsMantous i took it as whereas cows have horns in the front and a twat in the back, this band has a twat (cope) in the front and horns (brass) in the back. yes, it's funny, unless you're a humorless teardrop/cope fanboy/girl.
Yep, Julian moved away from Deri (where I grew up) at a very early age. He actually called in at my house in New Road one time, when I wrote to Zoo Records after loving the Sleeping Gas E.P. He signed their first 5 singles that I had .... and I still have them :) If times get hard, there's always eBay :)
Is that Troy Tate playing the horn? I met him in a pub circa 1985 - he ws managing another band supporting the Lotus Eaters - wonder what he is up to now
@sandprof. Troy Tate was on the second albim Wilder, so I don't think he was on this song. I also met him a few times in the bar I managed in Smithfield/London round about the same time, wonder if we're talking about the same bar.
Nice one TRS. I met him in the George pub before a Lotus Eaters gig at Borough Road circa April 1985. He was the manager for the LE but I did not know who he was TE-wise. My mate was in a band Crucilble Feints and was a bit more in the scene than I
that's awesome. it's weird finding out years later a song is saying something completely different, like smells like TEAM spirit. "with the light out, it's contagious." okay then.
a bloke who works with me reckons julians nan had the best blue rinse hair hes ever seen and yes he has relations in deri near bargoed the bloke never seen julian in deri though he only seen his car paked outside his nans lol
Brilliant! Mr Skinner is still welded by the hip to Mr Cope indeed!....but not in the long dead Teardrop Explodes...but in Copes Currant band and his "dark half" Brain Donor. What was he like at school? [so's I can wind him up when I see him next.......Not really, Joke!]
Ask him about the time a very large piece of wood hit him between the eyes!! (made him look a lot better Ha Ha!) Only joking. And has he still got that large mop of curly hair that had more than a slight resemblance to a birds nest like he did back then!!
He still has some black hair......that block of wood MAY of effected him; he now wears a lot of strange white face paint and eyeliner! [on stage anyway; don't know if he does at home mind!]
Actually scrap that last comment!.....its Doggen in Brain Doner NOT D.R.S! [Thats drugs for you!].....D.R.S does not wear makeup! [call those lawyers off now!].....However D.R.S DOES have SOME hair left!.Ta.H.H.
I love this video...have watched it on vhs for many many years. Has anyone else noticed how at 1.21 when the verse starts the audience suddenly switch to dancing in perfect sync with the music and JC gives a very knowing look? In his book Julian Cope says he was on acid when this was filmed; and it's as if the whole studio is affected by it. Magical.
@citymadmartin good for you, I got mugged for my Nikon D70 DSLR my phohe and cash and then I was beatean badly for my wristwatch by two miscreants in London, i don't want to go to the UK again. ever!
@MsMantous even most of the uk stay way from london , cess pitt it is , tho anyone from abroad think only london exists , its a dirty shit hole of a place
@DrChalkwithering. I hope you mean a weakness of character relating to the muggers; who approached me from behind, first thing I knew was a sharp pain in my right kidney just below the ribs. They wanted my camera slung over my shoulder and visable, a Nikon DSLR in a Nikon bag with Nikon written on it and Nikon witten on the strap in yellow. I was easy meat for these two in a side street no one around - horrible.
Always wanted to know his Liverpool connections when he makes mention of Tamworth ( W Midlands?) on Saint Julian. Too lazy to use Wikipedia when i'm addicted to YT.....
possible, but three sounds better than two and with all that chrome on my KH your X7 wouldnt get noticed. By the way my GFR 125 would leave your X7 for dead.
your right, they did sound nice...especially when the centre pot seized. As for this 125 blowing it away, the X7 was the first production 250 to top 100mph and at the age of 17 it was the fastest bike in the world to me and anyway my dads bigger than your dad.
had an X5 and that was crap , blew up 3 kh`s deaded lots of rds , you wonder where they all went ? that was me , my moms bigger than your mom so there
I bet he doesn't! He's done some amazing things since then. He wrote an amazing book on megalithic sites and he has a fantastic web site with pictures of stone age monuments. He's moved on. Still growing. Still learning. Good bloke, great jacket!
wouldn't be nice for someone to upload the Kilimanjaro LP? I've been searching my records and couldn't find it to do the upload. The poppies are in the field lads :))))
Could anyone, ANYONE, please upload the appeareance of the Teardrop's on Granada TV?
The Camera, Camera one in 1979...please, please, please, I beg of you...that performance is legendary and I think everyone who is a fan of Cope's band would appreciate immensely! Please?
The week this came out it was HUGE in the Rum Runner B ham LOVE IT
trevors1961 5 days ago
and we are breaking into the vault at EdgeHampton with the guv and Drake yet again...
Tilly199418 2 weeks ago
I'm just glad I was around when this was music.Todays music is shite!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pearlwig 3 weeks ago
@Pearlwig dead right mate
MrM894 2 weeks ago
Brass is the one thing production had in the '80s. So good to see them playing it live on TV - lol!
Shtove 4 weeks ago
Me and my old mates from the punk scene used to go to Strathies on Glasgow's South side and after a few fat ones would listen to their great juke box and this was always near the top on our playlist .Good song .
poulsontheprick 1 month ago 3
Where has all the energy and fun gone in pop music nowadays?
maccagrabme 1 month ago
@maccagrabme up noses and out of arses i think.
JBLAZE999 1 month ago
Im 42 and used to love watching TOTP when I was young, but lets be honest, wasnt it a pile of dog shit with all that miming and pretending to play the instruments. Weird how we all knew that, but we still watched it!
georgeman2468 1 month ago 4
@georgeman2468 Yes but it's all good fun.
lazarus554 1 month ago
@georgeman2468 Yeah, but it did have some good spots. Like the singer of Pogues trying to sing fairytale of new york while pissed and falling over the drum.
Time71Team 1 month ago
@georgeman2468 At the time, though, it was our only source of music. There was the charts on a Sunday, but I got tired of trying to pause the tape before the DJ spoke at the end of the song.
eldospinks 1 week ago
great song cant believe it only got to no 6
ufewl 1 month ago
80,s british music thank god for my teen years in this era
essexpete1 1 month ago 2
British music is the best in the world
cisco9x 2 months ago 5
He's better than Paul Weller IMO. If you like this check out Flock of Seagulls
cisco9x 2 months ago
great british music...i don't know but his vocie he reminds of Paul weller
ColdOasisU2 2 months ago 3
I wish they shut about the Smiffs dont even like them Teardrops, Furs, Comsats, Sound etc. cool!
MrBlacklorre 2 months ago
I remember Courtney Love hanging around in Liverpool with Julian Cope, in fact in Erics before it shut. She looked good, but was quite intimidating to a young lad
Toffeeboyish 2 months ago
great song- cope has a unique voice and is a true original!
salvadory 3 months ago
@salvadory What is Cope doing these days?
johnnycheck99 3 months ago
@johnnycheck99 putting out political protest albums- hosting bbc tv specials called the modern antiquarian- writing books on rare music- still productive and half deranged- some of his recent work is hit or miss but jehovahkill is his best solo album from 1991 ........
salvadory 3 months ago
@salvadory ...it makes you wonder how he found time to shag Courtney Love!! Great band!
coltsuperocean10 2 months ago
one of the 80s classics,i was there ,best times
delbott 3 months ago 8
@delbott Me too, it was amazing, still is IMHO!
VinnyMonster1 2 months ago
Just in the middle of Julian Copes book - he says he was absolutely off his face when he did Top of the pops and performed reward. Its a good book about the liverpool punk scene and he really knows his Music.
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ernesthemingfish 4 months ago
me old man had a boozer in this year an i was always bangin this tune out on the jukebox on a sunday morn when he was cleanin the pipes out,while playin table top asteroids n drinkin flat coke.!
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@dodgysparks gor blimey guvnor, really ? that's well good !
BaddaBigBoom 2 months ago
@dodgysparks Class comment!
eldospinks 1 week ago
Bless ma cotton sock I'm in gernoos
PeregrineTrousers 5 months ago
I'm 20 years old again! Just love that eighties dancing, with the emphasis on the arms - wonderful!
wendyxmarie 5 months ago
...and dig it we do brother!!!!
swift12y 6 months ago
omg! I can see myself on this recording !!!
kp19611 7 months ago
@kp19611 second row behind the drummer in a mauve dress - stepping from side to side!! My sisters are behind me one in a white jumper and the other one next to her!! It's great watching these old totp shows we have found ourselves in quite a few as we were frequent visitors to totp. There were about 6 of us all applying for tickets on a regular basis so we got to go quite a lot. Great fun!!
kp19611 6 months ago
@kp19611 How cool (in a 80's way) do you look?
MrMardyPaul 4 months ago
I loved this.... and my sister sold it! Even now I am 44 - she cannot hates it when I mention this! Proper tune.
Anyone remember a song called, I can't get Bouncung Babies by the Teardrop Explodes? Just came into my head!
Cheers for this tune!!!
19davo66 7 months ago
Definitely one of the best songs from the '80's !
TheHumbuckerboy 7 months ago
Great antidote to the New Romantic panzer movement of 1981 and much more stylish than the overdressed tartan clad Spandau Ballet. or frilly shirted Duran Duran.
flaxonx3 7 months ago
better than joy dickvision
BackInAGiffy 7 months ago
Awesome,underrated 80's track,superb.
ashabeiberman 9 months ago 2
Can someone send me the album Kilimanjaro by these guys to me? I can't find it anywhere on the internet.
FleshHungryFiend 9 months ago
get slsk son
pashedmotatos 5 months ago
This is the TOTP appearance he did on acid
Eightball69 9 months ago
the bbc got a bit worried when this was a hit. They pulled in the reigns( sic) after this and the Jam and UB40, for example. 1981 was a great year for music, building on the new wave. Which went pop in 1982. Pop as in Fucked. UB40 went saccharine in 1983, Weller went soft, The Bunnymen tried but failed, Mr Cope, the most wonderful oaf, cast himself adrift. Thank God that the skeletons of Joy Division reassembled, and that Johnny Marr wound up with the nagging old poet!
kirkwallboy 10 months ago
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CeltoSaxonKnight 11 months ago
He must have been hot in that jacket under the studio lights.
Feisty1967 1 year ago
I disliked New Music almost as much as i disdained disco but there were a few catchy ones I do admit...this not being one of them!
RebelSpiritof77 1 year ago
Trying to play my bass along....... to this. Classic.
garthrallysport 1 year ago
@garthrallysport . I'd rather hope that Julian was trying to encourage the aerial bombardment of the stage hoping that the twat Mercury or his permed friends slipped on the spilt Hofmeister (a favourive tipple of Queen fans at the time) and broke a limb or two....
mrrollyification 11 months ago
in 82 this arsehole got on stage in leeds while supporting queen and then announced that they were going to sing reward and we should be gratefull to hear it, needless to say they never got to finish their set as we gave them an ariel bombardment of cans , bottles and anything else that could be launched...other than them it was a great concert also supported by heart and joan jett
notoeouch 1 year ago
sounds like old U2 with trumpets. Were they contemporary? or is this band older?
birdonawi 1 year ago
In every decade there are the bands who are great but don't get the exposure or recognition that their immediate fans think they should get. I mean this is such a good performance (or a lip sync) and you'd think this song could have cracked the U.S. charts and been exposed via MTV.
MattHatter 1 year ago
They must have listened to Echo Beach a LOT
irishguy200007 1 year ago
Good song
DCFC79 1 year ago
Extra points for me for knowing Jeff Hammer...
getupandcry 1 year ago
Funny one thing that does my head in about Liverpool is when eveyone goes on about the beatles. They never mention all the great groups out in the first half of the 80s . it was a fantastic music scene.
ffluc 1 year ago
love this song!
BruisedArcade09 1 year ago
keep political away
fgstf 1 year ago
Isn't the chap going mad on the trumpet Norman Hurricane Smith? Was he not sent to The Cavern to make a live recording of the Beatles in 1963? The session would not have worked. George Martin used open mics and sound bounced off the walls of Abbey Road studio.
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Oh how dearly I love this song - a memory with so many others of artists plying their trade and exposing that evil freak bitch and capitalist Margaret Thatcher the milk snatcher.
I was a young child as my dad screeched at her on the telly - then TOTP came on after the news and the likes of Elvis Costello ,The Specials,and a plethora of other artists told us the real truth.
speakeasyo11 1 year ago
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Oh how dearly I love this song - a memory with so many others of artists plying their trade and exposing that evil freak bitch and capitalist Margaret Thatcher the milk snatcher.
I was a young child as my dad screeched at her on the telly - then TOTP came on after the news and the likes of Elvis Costello ,The Specials,and a plethora of other artists told us the real truth.
speakeasyo11 1 year ago
Oh how dearly I love this song - a memory with so many others of artists plying their trade and exposing that evil freak bitch and capitalist Margaret Thatcher the milk snatcher.
I was a young child as my dad screeched at her on the telly - then TOTP came on after the news and the likes of Elvis Costello ,The Specials,and a plethora of other artists told us the real truth.
speakeasyo11 1 year ago
awful haircut . isnt it ?
jhnbalance 1 year ago
my cousin married the drummer - Gary Dwyer - had a kid to him (Ben - now nearly 21 ) and then divorced him...that's my claim to fame! x
noellewalsh7 1 year ago
Wankers!!
Snotra 1 year ago
aw, it misses the very end off!
MissKateUK 1 year ago
@MissKateUK Duh-duh-duh-duh
Better?☺
yeoviljunction 1 year ago
Julian Cope! YES!!!!!
rxd1979 1 year ago
is smiling stupidly!
67graham 1 year ago
I pity the kids of today and the crap they listen to!!! The 70s, 80s and 90s had so many different kinds of music. We were spoilt for choice. This is just one example of a great era for music, sadly now long gone and replaced with todays mainstream boredom!!!
TheEnglishBull 1 year ago 2
Totally agree the music of today is not like it used to be. I am so pleased i was born in the 60's and grew up with brilliant music.
DoctorFeelGood657 1 year ago
there is some good stuff out there today, but i agree, it is fewer and further between
rootsraf 1 year ago
TUNE!
crewe4eva 1 year ago
is Julian Cope a crypto-fascist under the guise of a member of the proletariat
JJmacd 2 years ago 2
....I certainly hope so.
thelatepetercook 2 years ago 16
More like an ego-fascist I'm afraid....Ha Ha ...
copeyattamsworth 2 years ago
now THAT is a post
kosmischesynth 2 years ago
@JJmacd why a crypto-fascist?
turboloiz 1 year ago
@turboloiz
coz he doesnt like minorities
JJmacd 1 year ago
@JJmacd most definately son !
copeyattamsworth 1 year ago
This was Julian at his best - before he took to wearing overly large pixie hats with long, untidy,Worzel Gummidge-esque hair. I love Julian's music to bits and his whole persona. He's a national treasure.
IntellectualAmy 2 years ago
lol, they all mimed on TOTPS, but in the day, was a must see!!!!!!!
MOSESCAT69 2 years ago
old joke from back in the day:
Q: what's the difference between teardrop explodes and a cow?
A. A cow has horns at the front and a twat at the the back!
privatetartanarmy 2 years ago 58
Ha! That IS funny!
thelatepetercook 2 years ago
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@privatetartanarmy ha ha ha
DIRECTORLORD 1 year ago
@privatetartanarmy but cows dont have horns, only bulls
superemposed 1 year ago 2
@superemposed Still don't understand what you're trying to say......... sorry
MsMantous 7 months ago
@privatetartanarmy what does your joke mean? is it funny? please expain it to all here
MsMantous 1 year ago
@MsMantous i took it as whereas cows have horns in the front and a twat in the back, this band has a twat (cope) in the front and horns (brass) in the back. yes, it's funny, unless you're a humorless teardrop/cope fanboy/girl.
kwakky 1 year ago
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@privatetartanarmy what does your joke mean? is it funny? please explain it to all here
MsMantous 1 year ago
@privatetartanarmy Ive heard the same joke but with the James Last Orchestra
pusspussbangbang0555 8 months ago
@privatetartanarmy
a cow doesn't actually have horns, that would be a bull.
Yours
Pedantic from Surrey
JJmacd 8 months ago
@JJmacd um actually, JJ, some breeds of cow do have horns ;) but that's a "by the way"
flyingfrenchfifer 7 months ago
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williamblakeism 5 months ago
great miming!
shaymultimedia 2 years ago
wash my cotton socks im in the news!
holysmoke45 2 years ago 3
I think you mean bless my cotton socks
JJmacd 2 years ago 2
it was a JOKE
kosmischesynth 2 years ago
yeah - and probably prepared the KLF, n´est-ce pas????????
MrSKINFLICK 1 year ago
Yep, Julian moved away from Deri (where I grew up) at a very early age. He actually called in at my house in New Road one time, when I wrote to Zoo Records after loving the Sleeping Gas E.P. He signed their first 5 singles that I had .... and I still have them :) If times get hard, there's always eBay :)
2spooky4 2 years ago 2
@2spooky4
I lived in Bargoed Hall in Cardiff Rd in Bargoed for 31yrs up until 1999 and my mum new the Copes from Deri extreamly well.
llandudnoboy 2 years ago
Is that Troy Tate playing the horn? I met him in a pub circa 1985 - he ws managing another band supporting the Lotus Eaters - wonder what he is up to now
sandprof 2 years ago
@sandprof. Troy Tate was on the second albim Wilder, so I don't think he was on this song. I also met him a few times in the bar I managed in Smithfield/London round about the same time, wonder if we're talking about the same bar.
threerockstreet 2 years ago
Nice one TRS. I met him in the George pub before a Lotus Eaters gig at Borough Road circa April 1985. He was the manager for the LE but I did not know who he was TE-wise. My mate was in a band Crucilble Feints and was a bit more in the scene than I
sandprof 2 years ago
They deserve their rewards! I love this song.
flash1182 2 years ago
epic, - as a kid i thought it said 'why to wan said my reward ' lol
cujo9 2 years ago
that's awesome. it's weird finding out years later a song is saying something completely different, like smells like TEAM spirit. "with the light out, it's contagious." okay then.
sumbuddyx 2 years ago
love this song. i know one of these guys
getupandcry 2 years ago
no its WHAT HAS 4 LEGS & A C*NT ON ITS BACK
A police horse
3RDBLOODYTRY 2 years ago
Its Ok now, just checked he was from Deri South Wales.
speedamod 2 years ago
a bloke who works with me reckons julians nan had the best blue rinse hair hes ever seen and yes he has relations in deri near bargoed the bloke never seen julian in deri though he only seen his car paked outside his nans lol
ggriffiths1000 2 years ago 2
Blue rinses, purple rinses they were the top Nan's hair styles in Bargoed and Phillipstown fantastic.
speedamod 2 years ago
I think Julian's forefathers are Welsh anyone know?
speedamod 2 years ago
on his mum's side, yes, his dad's from tamworth, where he grew up
kosmischesynth 2 years ago
@kosmischesynth I know a few lads that new his family in Deri .
Thanks
speedamod 2 years ago
Great but cuts off too early-editing is always shit on youtube
thenowuk 2 years ago
First heard this on Ashes to Ashes. Love it so much! =D
dntstopmenow 2 years ago
same here
randomsamblobpop 2 years ago
can see where the courteeners get there ideas from .......brilliant
mizzybeeb 2 years ago
Julian Cope used to live like down the road from me.
Good ole' Tamworth lad :)
TaperJeanGirl1991 2 years ago
reminds me of oingo boingo sorta
pbandja10 2 years ago
Also- [and I apologise to those that have heard this joke before!]........... Whats the difference between The Teardrop Explodes and a Cow?????
Hellishhorse 2 years ago
spill
jardanel 2 years ago
A cow has the HORNS at the front-and a TWAT at the back [don't blame me-blame J.Cope; its his favourite Teardrop Explodes related joke!].
Hellishhorse 2 years ago
Search for Teardrop Explodes on GrooveSafari (dot) com
GrooveSafari 2 years ago
My mate from school Donald Skinner probably still plays guitar for them.
gus77golar 2 years ago
Brilliant! Mr Skinner is still welded by the hip to Mr Cope indeed!....but not in the long dead Teardrop Explodes...but in Copes Currant band and his "dark half" Brain Donor. What was he like at school? [so's I can wind him up when I see him next.......Not really, Joke!]
Hellishhorse 2 years ago
Ask him about the time a very large piece of wood hit him between the eyes!! (made him look a lot better Ha Ha!) Only joking. And has he still got that large mop of curly hair that had more than a slight resemblance to a birds nest like he did back then!!
gus77golar 2 years ago
He still has some black hair......that block of wood MAY of effected him; he now wears a lot of strange white face paint and eyeliner! [on stage anyway; don't know if he does at home mind!]
Hellishhorse 2 years ago
Actually scrap that last comment!.....its Doggen in Brain Doner NOT D.R.S! [Thats drugs for you!].....D.R.S does not wear makeup! [call those lawyers off now!].....However D.R.S DOES have SOME hair left!.Ta.H.H.
Hellishhorse 2 years ago
Teardrop explodes-- Tamworth born and bred!!!
gus77golar 2 years ago
They're a Liverpool band lad,Cope is Welsh born.
PD1968 2 years ago
White lies sound so similar
Bliinkss 2 years ago
a whole lot of northern soul thrown in there
Rangersfan57 2 years ago
brilliant five starred subbed favourited!
FiveMileDriver 2 years ago 2
taa mr stacey :L this songs pretty good (Y) x
AnchorsSwallows60691 2 years ago
Great tune :)
scottwebb 2 years ago 2
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I get rewards, I'm a dog. I'll do anything for them. they're not very good and my mind is elsewhere, it's just not REAL.
They're all laughing at us :-(
josiejo80 3 years ago
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murchymob78 3 years ago
I love this video...have watched it on vhs for many many years. Has anyone else noticed how at 1.21 when the verse starts the audience suddenly switch to dancing in perfect sync with the music and JC gives a very knowing look? In his book Julian Cope says he was on acid when this was filmed; and it's as if the whole studio is affected by it. Magical.
Gypsylass 3 years ago 2
In 1982 I was once beaten up all because I would not hand over my Teardrop Explodes badge to a 16 year old bully. He still did not get it.
citymadmartin 3 years ago 31
@citymadmartin good for you, I got mugged for my Nikon D70 DSLR my phohe and cash and then I was beatean badly for my wristwatch by two miscreants in London, i don't want to go to the UK again. ever!
MsMantous 1 year ago
@MsMantous even most of the uk stay way from london , cess pitt it is , tho anyone from abroad think only london exists , its a dirty shit hole of a place
bpoolbry 1 year ago
@MsMantous Being mugged shows weakness of character.
DrChalkwithering 1 year ago
@DrChalkwithering. I hope you mean a weakness of character relating to the muggers; who approached me from behind, first thing I knew was a sharp pain in my right kidney just below the ribs. They wanted my camera slung over my shoulder and visable, a Nikon DSLR in a Nikon bag with Nikon written on it and Nikon witten on the strap in yellow. I was easy meat for these two in a side street no one around - horrible.
MsMantous 1 year ago
@citymadmartin NO but you got twatted over a badge????
armandin2048 1 year ago
@citymadmartin that's pretty funny ... i can only imagine the scene
dogsofwar007 1 year ago
cool as f!$k, the eighties the best
daddygaffney 3 years ago
love the 80's ....
Ginatheroma 3 years ago
did everyone always lip sync on t.o.t.p.?
just wondered.
better than NO t.o.t.p.
;)
BirdyDear 3 years ago
No. The Clash refused to mime on TOTP - so they only ever got their videos played on it!
CombatRocks 3 years ago
i served the lead singer in the pub today. hes really nice and down to earth :)
DarthMarenghi 3 years ago 3
am i right to think that these are from Liverpool?
britishpride09 3 years ago
the band are
singer aint
whizwoop 3 years ago
Not from Liverpool but was on the Liverpool music scene for a while.
matelot95 2 years ago
Always wanted to know his Liverpool connections when he makes mention of Tamworth ( W Midlands?) on Saint Julian. Too lazy to use Wikipedia when i'm addicted to YT.....
catblanket14uk 2 years ago
"Bless my cotton socks I'm in the news,
the king sits on his throne unamused"
(o;
TOTPs late February 1981
hairycub69 3 years ago
lmao x7's n kh's... i got an lc350 and it's still in my garage... wahoooooooooooo...
d3liriumtr3m3ns 3 years ago
I actually remember watching this at the time
dfebra 3 years ago
i would have shit on tv to get that fekn jacket!!!!!!!!!!!
coatbridgebhoy1798 3 years ago
Royal flush
sabrinasjourney 3 years ago
it doesn't get much better than this
jugswede 3 years ago
Amazing memories........
jzx32 3 years ago
Julian cope too much dope
Ryder shaun he edits soft porn
Peter Hooton used to have a suit on
Bez and Rowetta hands up her sweater!!!!
islingtonlad 3 years ago
Went to the same school as Julian Cope at the same time ROCK ON JULIAN nice to have seen a local lad doing ok
chloesnanny 3 years ago
thought he went to woodhouse school in tamworth
goodie6623 3 years ago
cant wait to hear the corals version soon :)
thenashman888 3 years ago
Great song...remindes me of my KH 250
superemposed 3 years ago
Doesnt remind me of my X7, which by the way would have had your KH
midge1964 3 years ago
possible, but three sounds better than two and with all that chrome on my KH your X7 wouldnt get noticed. By the way my GFR 125 would leave your X7 for dead.
superemposed 3 years ago
your right, they did sound nice...especially when the centre pot seized. As for this 125 blowing it away, the X7 was the first production 250 to top 100mph and at the age of 17 it was the fastest bike in the world to me and anyway my dads bigger than your dad.
midge1964 3 years ago
had an X5 and that was crap , blew up 3 kh`s deaded lots of rds , you wonder where they all went ? that was me , my moms bigger than your mom so there
izzzzythedog 3 years ago
I bet Julian wishes he could go back to that night now. What a time!
BraddaGlen 3 years ago
I bet he doesn't! He's done some amazing things since then. He wrote an amazing book on megalithic sites and he has a fantastic web site with pictures of stone age monuments. He's moved on. Still growing. Still learning. Good bloke, great jacket!
AnthonyW65 3 years ago
was this where they were tripping?
DJAsh65 3 years ago
wouldn't be nice for someone to upload the Kilimanjaro LP? I've been searching my records and couldn't find it to do the upload. The poppies are in the field lads :))))
akis723 3 years ago
FUCKING TUNE !!!!!!!!
Ginaza 3 years ago 2
Could anyone, ANYONE, please upload the appeareance of the Teardrop's on Granada TV?
The Camera, Camera one in 1979...please, please, please, I beg of you...that performance is legendary and I think everyone who is a fan of Cope's band would appreciate immensely! Please?
samuraiinCfede 3 years ago
i got it
dopplerefect 3 years ago