Full title - And Don't The Kids Just Love It. UK reissue of the British new wave act's 1980 album is a loving ode to sixties-era pop & pop culture, referencing movies ('Look Back In Anger') & Kinks-like class commentary ('Geoffrey Ingram'). Slipcase.
Vinyl LP pressing of this 1982 release from the British Indie legends. Comprised of early singles, demos, outtakes and unreleased tracks recorded between 1979 and 1982, They Could Have Been Bigger Than the Beatles was Television Personalities' third full-length. The unannotated retrospective is a surprisingly cohesive collection of singular and classic tunes, from the haunting single "Three Wishes" ("If I had three wishes I'd wish for three more") and the brilliant "David Hockney's Diaries" (a different and much better version from the one on Mummy Your Not Watching Me) to the perennial Punk classic "14th Floor" and the enthusiastically sloppy versions of The Creation's "Painter Man" and "Making Time," to the gentle freakbeat of "The Boy in the Paisley Shirt" and "Psychedelic Holiday." It's a perfect autumn soundtrack, and autumn is the whole year.
A packed 24-track set, 1995's Yes Darling, But is it Art? performs an invaluable service by collecting the Television Personalities' early singles and b-sides, rarities and obscurities. Slipcase. 2003.
My Dark Places Music Artist : Television Personalities Music Label : Domino Release Date : 2006-03-21 Artistopia's Price :$15.06
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This is their first album in eleven years. It's as sad as it is uplifting, as gentle as it is noisy. Ever since releasing their first DIY-single in 1977, "14th Floor", and the classic follow-up "Part Time Punks" later the same year, The TVPs have always been about Dan Treacy's songwriting; his honest words and unique voice. In the '90s Dan lost the plot. Drugs took over his life. Two summers ago, he turned up while serving a prison sentence on a boat on the shore of Southwest England. Regrets, he's had more than most. They're here for everyone to see in every line of of his songs.
Repressing. Originally released in 1995 this was their first album for three years and their first album of new TVPs material on Overground Records, who had previously issued two live albums, and reissued nine of their singles. Featuring 11 tracks, the album was recorded by Liam Watson at Toe Rag Studios and was a marked change of direction from the highly polished Closer To God. This was the last TVPs album of original material. Albums since have been either compilations or consisted of cover versions, and as such I Was A Mod Before You Was A Mod remains a remarkable testament to an extraordinary talent. Overground.
2002 remastered reissue of 1981 album originally issued on Whaam!. Their second full-length release is darker, more psychedelic & less twee than 'And Don't the Kids Just Love It' (1980). Highlights include, 'Magnificent Dreams', a remake of the single 'Painting By Numbers', originally released under the name the Gifted Children & 'David Hockney's Diaries'. Slipcase.
Painted Word Music Artist : Television Personalities Music Label : 1972 Release Date : 2011-10-25 Artistopia's Price :$25.21
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Vinyl LP repressing of this 1984 album from the British Indie legends. The Painted Word is a near-perfect collection of jangly, riffing guitars, organ chords, freaky tambourines and Velvet Underground-like drumming. Every song on this dark, hauntingly beautiful masterpiece is a gem in the rough. It's easy to hear similarities to Swell Maps, The Only Ones and The Modern Lovers in the group's unique style that draws from both DIY punk and Post-Punk Psychedelia. Is Dan Treacy one of England's last great songwriters? With even more Britishness than Ray Davies, this wounded romantic's lyrics are both detached and resonant. The Painted Word is a stark, heartfelt album made by a vulnerable and damaged genius backed by an amateurish band offering loads of brilliantly adapted pop-art weirdness.
2010 release from the cult British band led by singer, songwriter and mainman Dan Treacy. TVPs have always meant something more in other countries than their native UK. The music has been remixed by many; Swedish New Yorker enigma Mabel recorded a fantastic version of 'All The Young Children On Crack'. MGMT are collaborating with Dan soon and they have a song on their new album 'Song for Dan Treacy'. Dan has been asked over and over to write songs for other bands and is working on tracks for The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, The Crystal Stilts and more. TVPs rocked many festivals including Benicassim and All Tomorrows Parties (invited by MBV) , where The Horrors, Sonic Boom, Kramer, J. Mascis and more all waited in TVPs backstage dressing room before and after the show to pay their respects. Needless to say, they are legends. Rocket Girl.
Are We Nearly There Yet? Music Artist : Television Personalities Music Label : Overground Records Release Date : 2007-02-26 Artistopia's Price :$24.21
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2007 release by Dan Treacy AKA the only constant member of Television Personalities. These studio tracks were recorded in 2005, shortly after his release from prison! 13 tracks including cover versions of The Killers "Mr. Brightside" and Bruce Springsteen's "If I Should Fall Behind". Overground.