The Teardrop Explodes - Culture Bunker

Anchor

Great story HJ and great pic. No complaints here. I love TDE. 👍

Jon

Blimey, I never knew you had a neighbour who gave you records, good ones too. Mine used to sometimes give me a lift to work in his council van, Charlie Pride cassette playing loudly while he regaled me with tales of his time in the military and I consumed lung fulls of second hand smoke.
I love both of those albums though I wasn't as big on Wilder when it first came out. It's a great tune but, again, not one I'd play in isolation. It sounds pretentious to say it but Wilder really works as a complete album. Start to finish, all the songs complimenting one another in prefect order. Tiny Children was a bold decision as a single. Great Dominions one of the best album closers I can recall.

hendersonjones

Jon
Do you not remember the copper that G***f always reminded me about , “ you lived next door to a copper dont you” he’s even mentioned it at Gavs remberance get togethers after all these years

Jon

hendersonjones I don't. And there's a name I'd not heard in a long time.

Placid

hendersonjones Culture Bunker grabbed me straight away it just seemed instantly scouse all those bah bah bahs .
We had new neighbours move next to my mum and dads house in a young couple early twenties, she was from Leeds he was from Liverpool he looked different apart from being a copper , flick moustache jeans adidas trainers , and for a young lad whose life evolved everthing two tone he was so different , my start in at being a casual consisted of a weekend shopping in Leeds M&S crew neck , bright coloured cords and hush puppie suedes , this didn’t go unnoticed by my new scouse neighbour , who had seen me one saturday in my new found clothes and culture at Elland Rd whilst he was on duty , then one evening he knocked on my parents door and asked for me , “what’s he done now” was the usual cry , but on this occasion he said i have something for him
, i went to the door and he gave gifted to me the two teardrop explodes albums and crocodiles by the bunnymen , i said thankyou and had no idea why at the time he gave them to me , he replied i saw you at the football last saturday with your mates while at work thought you like these , and left saying something along lines of behave yourself , played them to death and other than my parents love of the beatles it was my first introduction to Liverpool music scene which i’ve loved ever since , so here we are the Culture Bunker by The Teardrop Explodes it takes me back to the early eighties where it all began for me

10/10 for the back story alone. Nice one

cordshoes

hendersonjones they still do have a high banger coefficient.
But one that flicked sounds interesting.

Young_Marxist_at_Tescos

hendersonjones Prefer Tiny Children, Sleeping Gas, When I Dream etc,. Still, tip top though. A definite ✅

Placid

I think Teardrops and Cope are shite btw.

Harvest

Placid I'm with you, goes right over my swede.

90Piesanhour

Good story, much better than the track. It was listenable, but sounds a bit dated to me. I was never a great fan of Mr Cope, other than Reward and Treason, and this didn’t move me to delve further. Thanks for posting, though.

Mega_Armageddon_Chickens

I like both albums but at the time Kilimanjaro was my favourite.
It took about 5 years before Wilder replaced it.
That said I was never a massive fan of this track.Tiny Children and the Great Dominions were the ones I liked best.
I haven't seen him play for years but one of sisters said he spends more time rambling on these days.

Anchor

Mega_Armageddon_Chickens Last time I saw him. In 2019. The rambling had been much curtailed.

otis

Could have been worse HJ, think of Leonard H living next door to mad H.

Ace choice 👌

Foxy_Dread

A solid 6/10

Doesn't grab me like their earliest stuff but it's not bad.

Under-the-ground

Love that story. What a sound lad. What happened to him. Did you stay friends?

hendersonjones

Under-the-ground
He was just a neighbour for a couple of years , always kept my distance with him being plod and me being 16 , don’t even remember his name , i shall ask my old man see what he remembers

Travis_Bickle

Could be a good thread about neighbours we've all had.
And whether you can be cool and a copper.
Probably better than one about this song. One of those where I just don't see his appeal. Very little talent and too many mushrooms for me. But I like heavy metal. And it's good to read how excited people got about music growing up, irrespective of what that music was.

fulmine

I always remember playing The Great Dominions to this girl when I was 14, trying to explain to her what an amazing lyric it was, an epic song, hugely romantic, etc. I put the song on, we start snogging and she falls about laughing. “Is he singing mummy I’ve been farting again?”