Teardrop Explodes - Demos & Outtakes

First album photo shoot, Brian Griffin photo

'The Curate's Egg'
Demos & Studio Outtakes 

various recording dates & sources

c. 1978 - 1982

sound quality range: VG- to VG

Due to the condition of the source tapes, there's some distortion, hiss, etc. But I tidied them up a bit using light noise reduction, channel re-balancing, and modest eq'ing. 
Not pristine by any means, but listenable.

01 Count to Ten (demo)

02 The Challenger (demo)

03 Not My Only Friend (demo)

04 Serious Danger (demo - instrm.)

05 Pussyface (demo - instrm.)

06 The Great Dominions (demo)

07 The Culture Bunker (demo)

08 Flipped Out On LSD (demo - shorter, instrum.)

09 Flipped Out On LSD (demo - long version)

10 The Butcher's Tale (outtake - shorter - instrum.)

11 The Butcher's Tale (outtake - long version - instrum.)  

12 Blaze Star (outtake - brief instrum.)

13 Tiny Children (outtake)

14 Suffocate (outtake)

15 Log Cabin (outtake)
  

TT: 60 mins.

ROB SEZ: Above are selected tracks from the “Screaming Secrets” vinyl boot + “Demos & Curios” set. To the best of my knowledge, none has ever been officially released. Some sound like demos, others sound like studio outtakes from album sessions. I have reason to believe the last 3 or 4 tracks are from early recording sessions for the projected (but later aborted) third Teardrop Explodes album. 

A “curate's egg”:

noun - something that has both good and bad parts
Derived from a cartoon in Punch (November, 1895) in which a meek curate, who has been served a bad egg while breakfasting with his bishop, replies, “Oh no, my Lord, I assure you that parts of it are excellent!”

ROB SEZ (AGAIN): for my money, the better parts of this egg are found starting with track 6, in which David Balfe's over-done keyboard parts are balanced out by Cope's voice and other instruments. Have fun being your own curate / curator...

MP3@320

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