The Teardrop Explodes being A.one of the best band names ever, B. the outfit that gave the world the one and only Julian Cope  who, by all accounts, has equal parts madness and genius erupting from his psychedelic soul, which put him rather out of synch with much of what was going down in the early 80s. But being a properly mad genius he didn’t care. And thus, we get the eerie and timeless strangeness of 1981’s Ouch Monkeys! (a title we’re still trying to figure out).