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Hunter T Wolfe
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Re: Teardrop Explodes on Toppermost
Sep 03, 2015, 09:55
Thanks everyone I'm finding this really interesting. With hindsight of course Julian's development from the earliest Teardops records through his solo career seems pretty natural, and the shift from synth pop to acoustic art-rock less dramatic than that made by Talk Talk or David Sylvian.

Other things that occur to me: how pop stars really didn't openly take psychedelic drugs in the eighties- maybe Marc Almond would be an exception but even alternative bands had a very clean-cut image then, before the e-gobbling Mondays and Stone Roses came along. And how back then there was no definite division between being a commercial pop act and an alternative underground one- if you wanted to survive you had to sell records and have hits, whether LPs or singles. Julian fluctuated between pop pragmatism and following his weirder muse constantly until he was able to go down the cottage industry route that the 21st Century made possible (as well as largely destroying the possibility of anyone being able to make a decent living from making music anyway).
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