The Teardrop Explodes

Group / 1978 - 1982 / United Kingdom

neo-psychedelia new wave post-punk

Biography

The Teardrop Explodes were an English post-punk/neo-psychedelic band formed in Liverpool in 1978. Best known for their Top Ten UK single "Reward", the group originated as a key band in the emerging Liverpool post-punk scene of the late 1970s.

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Analysed songs (2)

Poppies

The Teardrop Explodes

"Poppies" is a fragmented, image-driven song about emotional inarticulacy inside a relationship that's visibly shifting. Rather…

inarticulacy emotional stasis symbolic evasion

When I Dream

The Teardrop Explodes

A brisk, bright pop-psych song about romantic fixation, where longing tips into something more obsessive and unstable. The lyric…

obsessive longing distance and return emotional instability