Only Dan Treacy could make effective pop music out of a tune with a title like "My Very First Nervous Breakdown." Makes you wonder if there would have been a Blur without...
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The TVPs' most musically accessible album to date, Closer to God is also their most gloomy (although it's a ray of sunshine when compared to its follow-up, I Was a Mod...
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Darker than the other Television Personalities albums, this is none the less as intriguing as attending "Salvador Dali's Garden Party" (to borrow the title of one of the...
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Given that the crisp Privilege is the Television Personalities' first studio LP in four years, Dan Treacy has every right to be in a less-than-sunny mood -- songs like "All...
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The perfect introductory package, this is a compilation of 24 singles ranging from "I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives" to "Where's Bill Grundy Now?" and "How I Learned To...
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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, but it's an...
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The first full album by Television Personalities, recorded after a four-year series of often brilliant D.I.Y. singles recorded under a variety of names, including the...
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Television Personalities split up in 1982, after five years as D.I.Y. pioneers. It turned out to be a temporary development (although Ed Ball, Dan Treacy's artistic foil,...
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Virtually a Dan Treacy solo record, I Was a Mod Before You Was a Mod strips away all remaining vestiges of the buoyancy long associated with the Television Personalities,...
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Don't Cry Baby It's Only a Movie (1998) is the final Television Personalities album, and it sounds even more disturbing in retrospect than it did when it was recorded: by...
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