Kilimanjaro is the 1980 debut album by the neo-psychedelic Liverpool

Liverpool

Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...

 band The Teardrop Explodes

The Teardrop Explodes

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, the group also launched the career of group frontman...

. It contains versions of the band's early singles - "Sleeping Gas", "Bouncing Babies", "Treason" & "When I Dream" - as well as their biggest hit, "Reward". The album also includes the song "Books" - originally a song by Julian Cope

Julian Cope

Julian Cope is a British rock musician, author, antiquary, musicologist, poet and cultural commentator...

's previous band, The Crucial Three

Crucial Three

The Crucial Three were a short-lived band that existed for approximately six weeks in early 1977. They nevertheless achieved notoriety on account of the individual success of all three founding members: Julian Cope formed The Teardrop Explodes and has enjoyed a long and successful solo career as...

, it was also recorded by Echo & the Bunnymen

Echo & the Bunnymen

Echo & the Bunnymen are an English post-punk band, formed in Liverpool in 1978. The original line-up consisted of vocalist Ian McCulloch, guitarist Will Sergeant and bass player Les Pattinson, supplemented by a drum machine. By 1980, Pete de Freitas had joined as the band's drummer, and their debut...

 (as "Read it in Books", released on the b-side of their debut single, and featured on some versions of Crocodiles

Crocodiles (album)

Crocodiles is the debut album by the British post-punk band Echo & the Bunnymen. It was released on 18 July 1980 in the United Kingdom and on 17 December 1980 in the United States. The album reached number 17 on the UK Albums Chart...

). In 2000 Q magazine placed Kilimanjaro at number 95 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever.

The original working title for Kilimanjaro was Everyone Wants To Shag The Teardrop Explodes (this was later used for the CD release of demos for the band's never-finished third album). When originally released, the album featured a shadowy photograph of the band on the sleeve, but this was later changed to a cover showing Mount Kilimanjaro

Mount Kilimanjaro

Kilimanjaro, with its three volcanic cones, Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira, is a dormant volcano in Kilimanjaro National Park, Tanzania and the highest mountain in Africa at above sea level .-Geology:...

, the mountain after which the record was named. When the album was subsequently released on CD the cover artwork reverted to the original.

In 2000 Cope gave his blessings to re-release Kilimanjaro with a selection of bonus tracks(mainly single b-sides), original artwork, a remastered sound, and full lyrics and essays. A deluxe 3-disc edition followed in 2010, including original singles, b-sides and radio session recordings.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Julian Cope, Gary Dwyer and Michael Finkler; except where indicated

Original 1980 Track-Listing

1. "Ha-Ha I'm Drowning"
2. "Sleeping Gas" (Cope, Dwyer, Finkler, Paul Simpson)
3. "Treason"
4. "Second Head"
5. "Poppies In The Field"
6. "Went Crazy" (Cope, Finkler)
7. "Brave Boys Keep Their Promises"
8. "Bouncing Babies"
9. "Books" (Cope, Ian McCulloch
   Ian McCulloch (singer)
   Ian Stephen McCulloch is an English singer, born in Liverpool, and is best known as the frontman for the rock group Echo & the Bunnymen.-Career:...
   
   )
10. "The Thief of Baghdad"
11. "When I Dream"

The original release did not include "Reward", which was added to later pressings after it became a hit single early in 1981. The reverse of the LP album sleeve had a different running order to that of the record itself.

The album was reissued with a new sleeve (the "Zebra" or "Mountain" sleeve), with "Reward" added as an extra track following "Second Head" in the running order. This reissue of the album was also remixed - most noticeably on "Went Crazy" and a longer version of "When I Dream".

Album CD re-issue on SkyClad (LUCKY 7CD)

This release featured the "Zebra" sleeve and has the following track listing.

1. "Ha-Ha I'm Drowning"
2. "Treason"
3. "Suffocate"
4. "Reward"
5. "When I Dream"
6. "Went Crazy"
7. "Brave Boys Keep Their Promises"
8. "Sleeping Gas"
9. "Books"
10. "The Thief of Baghdad"
11. "Poppies In The Field"

"Books" and "When I Dream" are produced by Mike Howlett.
"Treason", "Suffocate" and "Reward" are produced by Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley.
Total Playing time: 37:51.

2000 Re-Issue Track Listing

1. "Ha-Ha I'm Drowning"
2. "Sleeping Gas"
3. "Treason"
4. "Second Head"
5. "Poppies In The Field"
6. "Went Crazy"
7. "Brave Boys Keep Their Promises"
8. "Bouncing Babies"
9. "Books"
10. "The Thief of Baghdad"
11. "When I Dream"
12. "Reward"
13. "Kilimanjaro"
14. "Strange House In The Snow"
15. "Use Me"
16. "Traison (C'est Juste Une Histoire)"
17. "Sleeping Gas" (Live)

2010 Reissue

In 2010 the album was re-released as a 3-disc deluxe edition with the "zebra" cover artwork and the following track listing:

Disc 1 - (Kilimanjaro)

1. "Ha Ha I'm Drowning"
2. "Sleeping Gas"
3. "Treason"
4. "Second Head"
5. "Poppies"
6. "Went Crazy"
7. "Brave Boys Keep Their Promises"
8. "Bouncing Babies"
9. "Books"
10. "Thief of Baghdad"
11. "When I Dream" (longer version)

Disc 2 - (Bates Motel)

1. "Reward"
2. "Sleeping Gas" (single version)
3. "Camera Camera (Goddamn Camera)"
4. "Kirby Workers Dream Fades"
5. "Bouncing Babies" (single version)
6. "All I am is Loving You"
7. "Treason" (Zoo
   Zoo Records
   Zoo Records was a British independent record label formed by Bill Drummond and David Balfe in 1978. Zoo was launched in order to release the work of the perennially struggling Liverpool band, Big in Japan...
   
    single version)
8. "Read It in Books"
9. "Kilimanjaro"
10. "Strange House In The Snow"
11. "Use Me"
12. "Traison (C'est Juste Une Histoire)"
13. "Sleeping Gas" (live version)
    • (Tracks 1 & 10 from "Reward" single; tracks 2 to 4 from original "Sleeping Gas" single; tracks 5 & 6 from original "Bouncing Babies" single; tracks 7 & 8 from original "Treason" single"; track 9 was the B-side to "When I Dream" single; tracks 11 & 12 from "Treason" single reissue)

Disc 3 - (BBC Sessions)

1. "Brave Boys Keep Their Promises" (Peel
   John Peel
   John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE , known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004...
   
    Session, October 15 1979)
2. "Ha Ha I'm Drowning" (Peel Session, October 15 1979)
3. "Went Crazy" (Peel Session, October 15 1979)
4. "Chance" (Peel Session, October 15 1979)
5. "Thief of Baghdad" (Peel Session, April 24 1980)
6. "When I Dream" (Peel Session, April 24 1980)
7. "Poppies In The Field" (Peel Session, April 24 1980)
8. "Reward" (Mike Read
   Mike Read
   Michael David Kenneth Read is an English radio disc jockey, writer, journalist and television presenter.-Early life:...
   
    Session, October 27 1980)
9. "Suffocate" (Mike Read Session, October 27 1980)
10. "For Years" (Mike Read Session, October 27 1980)
11. "The Great Dominions" (Mike Read Session, October 27 1980)
    • (Tracks 1 to 4 recorded October 2, 1979; tracks 5 to 7 recorded April 16 1980; tracks 8 to 11 recorded October 16 1980)

The contents of disc 1 and most of disc 2 were previously released on other issues of Kilimanjaro: the remainder of disc 2 is taken from the compilation "Piano". Disc 3 is mostly taken from "The Peel Sessions" release, "Suffocate" is a bonus track on the 2000 release of the band's second album Wilder

Wilder (album)

Wilder is the second album by neo-psychedelic Liverpool band The Teardrop Explodes, and the final completed album released by the group....

 and the other tracks were previously unissued. However, not all tracks from the parent releases are found on this release.

Julian Cope, despite authorizing the release of the deluxe edition, later wrote on his website that he felt that the release had a low sound quality and forced fans to buy a vast majority of tracks which they already had while only offering a few newly released rare ones.

(original album release)

• Julian Cope
  Julian Cope
  Julian Cope is a British rock musician, author, antiquary, musicologist, poet and cultural commentator...
  
   - vocals, bass guitar
• David Balfe
  David Balfe
  David Balfe is most notable for playing keyboards with The Teardrop Explodes, founding the Zoo and Food record labels, signing Blur and for being the subject of their number one hit - "Country House".-Biography:...
  
   - piano, organ, synthesizer
• Gary Dwyer - drums
• Michael Finkler - guitar on "Ha Ha I'm Drowning", "Sleeping Gas", "Treason", "Went Crazy" & "Thief of Baghdad"
• Alan Gill
  Alan Gill
  Alan Gill is a vocalist, guitarist and songwriter, who formed part of the synthpop band Dalek I Love You and the Neo-psychedelic band The Teardrop Explodes.-Early career:...
  
   - guitar on "Second Head", "Reward" (second edition of album only), "Poppies Are In the Field", "Brave Boys", "Bouncing Babies", "Books" & "When I Dream"

with

• Hurricane Smith, Ray Martinez - trumpets on "Ha-Ha I'm Drowning", "Sleeping Gas" & "Went Crazy"
• Hugh Jones - engineer
• Brian Griffin - photography

(2010 deluxe edition release)

Disc 1 - (Kilimanjaro)

(same credits as for original album release, but remove "Reward" from tracklisting)

Disc 2 - (Bates Motel)

• Julian Cope - vocals, bass guitar, violin on "Strange House in the Snow"
• Gary Dwyer - drums
• Paul Simpson - organ on "Sleeping Gas" (single version), "Camera Camera" & "Kirby Workers Dream Fades"
• Michael Finkler - guitar on "Sleeping Gas" (single version), "Camera Camera", "Kirby Workers Dream Fades", "Bouncing Babies" (single version), "All I Am is Loving You', "Treason" (Zoo single version), "Read It in Books", "Use Me" & "Traison (C'est Juste Une Histoire)"
• David Balfe - keyboards on "Reward", "Treason" (Zoo single version), "Read It in Books", "Kilimanjaro", "Reward", "Strange House in the Snow", "Use Me", "Traison (C'est Juste Une Histoire" & "Sleeping Gas" (live version)
• Alan Gill - guitar on "Reward", "Kilimanjaro" & "Strange House in the Snow"
• Troy Tate - guitar on "Sleeping Gas" (live version) (uncredited)
• Ronnie Francois - bass guitar on "Sleeping Gas" (live version) (uncredited)

Disc 3 - (BBC Sessions)

• Julian Cope - vocals, bass guitar
• Gary Dwyer - drums
• Michael Finkler - guitar on "Brave Boys Keep Their Promises", Ha Ha I'm Drowning", "Went Crazy", "Chance", "The Thief of Baghdad", "When I Dream" & "Poppies in the Field"
• Ged Quinn - keyboards on "Brave Boys Keep Their Promises", Ha Ha I'm Drowning", "Went Crazy" & "Chance"
• David Balfe - keyboards on "The Thief of Baghdad", "When I Dream" & "Poppies in the Field"
• "The Emotional Jungle" - guitar on "Reward", "Suffocate", "For Years" & "The Great Dominions"
• "The Evil Wasp" - keyboards on "Reward", "Suffocate", "For Years" & "The Great Dominions"
• "The Legendary" Eric Batchelor - trumpet