Vinyl LP pressing. Kilimanjaro is the debut album by the neo-psychedelic Liverpool band The Teardrop Explodes, released on 10 October 1980. It contains versions of the band's early singles - Sleeping Gas, Bouncing Babies, Treason and When I Dream - as well as their biggest hit, Reward. The album also includes the song Books - originally a song by Julian Cope's previous band, The Crucial Three, it was also recorded by Echo & the Bunnymen (as Read it in Books). Reissued with the cover showing Mount Kilimanjaro, the mountain after which the record was named.