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Everybody Wants to Shag... The Teardrop Explodes

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Released
  
April 1990

Everybody Wants To Shag ... The Teardrop Explodes (1990)
  
Piano

Release date
  
April 1990

Label
  
Fontana Records

Length
  
44:43

Artist
  
The Teardrop Explodes

Producer
  
Hugh Jones

Genre
  
Alternative rock

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Recorded
  
Spring/Summer 1982 and Nov 1980

Similar
  
The Teardrop Explodes albums, Alternative rock albums

Everybody Wants To Shag ... The Teardrop Explodes was the third album by neo-psychedelic Liverpool band The Teardrop Explodes. When the band reconvened to record their third album, they were reduced to the trio of Cope, Dwyer and a reinstated Balfe.

Contents

Tensions were high – Cope wanted to write ballads and quirky pop songs, while Balfe was more interested in recording synth-based dance music. Cope eventually dissolved the band in the middle of the sessions. The material was later released in 1990. Cope re-recorded "Metranil Vavin" and "Pussyface" for his solo album World Shut Your Mouth.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Julian Cope and David Balfe; except where indicated

  1. "Ouch Monkeys"
  2. "Serious Danger"
  3. "Metranil Vavin" (Cope)
  4. "Count To Ten And Run For Cover"
  5. "In-Psychlopaedia" (Cope, Gary Dwyer, Balfe)
  6. "Soft Enough For You"
  7. "You Disappear From View" (Cope)
  8. "The Challenger"
  9. "Not My Only Friend" (Cope)
  10. "Sex (Pussyface)" (Cope)
  11. "Terrorist" (Balfe)
  12. "Strange House In The Snow" (1981 B-side of "Reward")

Personnel

  • Julian Cope - vocals, bass, violin on "Strange House In The Snow", piano on "Sex", "Not My Only Friend"
  • David Balfe - organ, piano, synthesizer
  • Gary Dwyer - drums, drum machine
  • Troy Tate - guitar on "You Disappear From View"
  • Alan Gill - guitar on "Strange House In The Snow"
  • Ron François - bass guitar on "Ouch Monkeys", "Sex", "You Disappear From View"
  • Luke Tunney - trumpet on "You Disappear From View", "Count To Ten And Run For Cover"
  • Ted Emmet - trumpet on "You Disappear From View", "Count To Ten And Run For Cover"
  • Hugh Jones - engineer
  • Pointblanc Design - artwork

    • Songs

    1Ouch Monkeys5:31
    2Serious Danger3:33
    3Metranil Vavin3:09

    References

    Everybody Wants to Shag... The Teardrop Explodes Wikipedia
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