![]() ![]() Regardless, the music – and you get an awful lot of their oeuvre here bar Peel Sessions and some of 2004’s Zoology – is thrilling. Whether Cope was playfully casting the first stone with his recent remarks is guesswork on my part, but it fits the waspish narrative we’ve become accustomed to over the years. The group’s publicist Mick Houghton also goes in to bat for this inspiring and shapeshifting group with a sensitive essay in a richly illustrated booklet. Cope also talks of the fractious demise of his group, The Teardrop Explodes, who he calls “very good at best.” Yet here we are, with a massive six CD retrospective of the Teardrops, replete with lots of rarities, unreleased demos and live material about to be released. “While I’d long been loud about how much I hated pop stardom, the wider truth is I was no good at it,” wrote Julian Cope in his introduction to 2022’s CD-booklet commemorating his 1984 solo album, World Shut Your Mouth. ![]()
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