The Teardrop Explodes - Wilder (Remastered Expanded Edition) (2013)

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Artist: The Teardrop Explodes
Title: Wilder (Remastered Expanded Edition)
Year Of Release: 1981/2013
Label: UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)
Genre: Post-Punk, Neo-Psychedelic
Quality: 320 kbps | FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 01:53:57
Total Size: 263 mb | 699 mb
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

CD1

01. The Teardrop Explodes - Bent Out Of Shape
02. The Teardrop Explodes - Colours Fly Away
03. The Teardrop Explodes - Seven Views Of Jerusalem
04. The Teardrop Explodes - Pure Joy
05. The Teardrop Explodes - Falling Down Around Me
06. The Teardrop Explodes - The Culture Bunker
07. The Teardrop Explodes - Passionate Friend
08. The Teardrop Explodes - Tiny Children
09. The Teardrop Explodes - Like Leila Khaled Said
10. The Teardrop Explodes - .....And The Fighting Takes Over
11. The Teardrop Explodes - The Great Dominions

CD2

01. The Teardrop Explodes - Christ Versus Warhol
02. The Teardrop Explodes - Rachael Built A Steamboat
03. The Teardrop Explodes - Suffocate (New Version)
04. The Teardrop Explodes - Window Shopping For A New Crown Of Thorns
05. The Teardrop Explodes - Ouch Monkeys
06. The Teardrop Explodes - East Of The Equator (Instrumental)
07. The Teardrop Explodes - Sleeping Gas (Live At Club Zoo_1981)
08. The Teardrop Explodes - In-Psychlopedia
09. The Teardrop Explodes - You Disappear From View
10. The Teardrop Explodes - Soft Enough For You
11. The Teardrop Explodes - Pure Joy Wins Out Again (BBC Session Peel Plus _ 1981)
12. The Teardrop Explodes - Like Leila Khaled Said (BBC Session Peel Plus _ 1981)
13. The Teardrop Explodes - I'm Not The Loving Kind (BBC Radio Richard Skinner Session _ Saturday, May 16, 1981)
14. The Teardrop Explodes - The Culture Bunker (BBC Session Peel Plus _ 1981)
15. The Teardrop Explodes - ....And The Fighting Takes Over (Richard Skinner Session _ Monday, August 17, 1981)
16. The Teardrop Explodes - Better Scream_ Make That Move (Richard Skinner Session _ Monday, August 17, 1981)
17. The Teardrop Explodes - Bent Out Of Shape (BBC Radio Richard Skinner Session _ Monday, August 17, 1981)
18. The Teardrop Explodes - Screaming Secrets (Richard Skinner Session _ Monday, August 17, 1981)

Despite the flux they were going through, the Teardrops somehow got it together to record the heavily-hyped Wilder, which unlike its predecessor did nothing in terms of sales or smash singles, outside of the semi-successful shimmering keyboard/crunch of "Passionate Friend." This isn't for lack of talent on the band's part, and the trademark kicky arrangements and horns appear throughout. However, unlike the joyous outpourings of Kilimanjaro, Wilder sounds distanced. Cope doesn't come across as the lead singer so much as he does someone singing with the music, ironic given that he wrote everything on this album. As a subtler pleasure, though, Wilder offers up some good stuff, with more cryptic compositions and performances throughout, while Clive Langer takes over full production after only doing a few on the first album. Strangely, some performances sound like where Sting eventually took the Police on Synchronicity, musically if not vocally, like the layered attempts at tribal drumming on "Seven Views of Jerusalem." More measured, sometimes stiff songs like "Falling Down Around Me" make the overall mood more fragmented, while some of Balfe's keyboards sound like they're only there just because. When it connects, though, Wilder rocks just fine. The concluding track, "The Great Dominions," is one of Cope's all-time best, with a sweeping, epic sense of scope and sound. The angular funk of "The Culture Bunker" has both some fine guitar and a sharp lyric or two on Cope's part the Crucial Three he refers to was his bedroom-only act with Ian McCulloch and Pete Wylie. Other high points include the moody synth shadings on "Tiny Children," where Balfe's work comes through best of all, and Dwyer's generally sharp drumming throughout, keeping the beat well.

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