Tiny Children

Dear James,

I asked Ian to recommend me a song by The Teardrop Explodes or Echo and The Bunnymen and he gave me this. Ian was in Liverpool more or less at the same time as Bill Drummond so I defer to his higher knowledge, in the absence of a greater wisdom.

Ian says: Heaven up here by E&TB was one of the two best albums of the 1980s in my opinion (the other being Remain in Light by TH). TTE only cut two or three albums but, although Kilimanjaro was the seminal one, Wilder, the second, contained even better and more varied songs. 'Tiny Children' (lyrics here) is faux naif expressionism. (Julian Cope, was a Brummie in a Scouser's backyard if I remember right.) The solo albums that followed TTE were few but brilliant.

Best album of the 80s? Ian has clearly never heard Queen's Hot Space. Surely you've delved into these bands in all your music-delving years? I always dismissed them as the rubbish that was made in the 80s, but then I used to like Echobelly, so, you know.