TV personalities LP mummy your not watching PSYCH PUNK
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Original UK pressing on the WHAAM label from 1981. The sleeve is in excellent(+) condition and the record is near mint!
So what happens when you’re inspired by punk but don’t necessarily like what it’s become? Well if you’re Dan Treacy you put together a ragtag band and mix the best bits of Syd Barrett’s Floyd, the Kinks, and stir it all together with a dash of DIY punk attitude. This was the band that epitomized the true spirit of DIY. Spurned on by DIY innovators the Desperate Bicycles. They recorded the thrilling single 14th floor b/w Oxford Street. They didn’t have enough money to get the single pressed, but they sent one of the test pressings of the single to John Peel who played the song repeatedly on his show.
Their early singles laid the groundwork from which indiepop as we know it sprang up from. The songs they created had a kind of joy and sense of release you won’t be able to find in any modern artists. Songs like Smashing Time, Part Time Punks, 14th Floor and Arthur the Gardner to name just a few where all one of a kind gems. You can tell The Television Personalities really meant it! Rarely does a band light such a fire under me, but for me the The Television Personalities are just one of those special bands you keep coming back to.
They had just the right mixture of joyful shambling noise and classic pop. There is also the famous story about when David Gilmour asked them to open a few shows for him. Then on one of the first nights they played their amazing song I know where Syd Barrett lives, then suddenly they actually announced to the crowd the reclusive Barrett’s home address in Cambridge. Needless to say they weren’t asked back the next night. This story truly encapsulated what the TV Personalities were all about, a beautiful combination of recklessness and pop genius.
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