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. Along with other contemporary Liverpudlian groups, The Teardrop Explodes played a role in returning psychedelic elements to mainstream British rock and pop. They initially played a modernised version of lightly psychedelic, late 1960s-influenced beat-group guitar-pop sound, sometimes described as "bubblegum trance",... [more on Wikipedia]