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Television Personalities - Some Kind Of Happening: Singles 1978-1989 (2019)

Posted By: delpotro
Date: 23 Apr 2019 21:52:21
Television Personalities - Some Kind Of Happening: Singles 1978-1989 (2019)

Television Personalities - Some Kind Of Happening: Singles 1978-1989 (2019)
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Indie Rock, Post-Punk | Label: Fire Records

A comprehensive remastered collection of all of the Television Personalities’ ground-breaking single releases from the Peel-approved 14th Floor through to the effervescent Salvador Dali’s Garden Party EP. Includes the super rare Creation flexi, the TVPs as The Gifted Children, and the even rarer Caff 45 where the band tackle Stock, Aitken And Waterman. Purists will also find two shelved 45s for the Dreamworld label plus their take on Syd Barrett’s Apples And Oranges from the Beyond The Wildwood tribute album. Features the seminal Where’s Bill Grundy Now and the self-effacing Part Time Punks alongside a host of pop culture-bating gems. A celebration of the songwriting of Dan Treacy.

AllMusic Review by Tim Sendra:
There have been a few compilations of the Television Personalities' singles and EPs, but it wasn't until the pair of sets put out by Fire Records in 2019 that they were presented in chronological order with the requisite rarities. Both Some Kind of Trip: Singles 1990-1994 and this collection, Some Kind of Happening: Singles 1978-1989, provide a service that's on par with the vital utilities like gas and water. Like those essentials, the songs and very particular world view of Dan Treacy are an absolutely necessary part of everyday life for fans of indie pop. Especially indie pop that is unsparing, spiky, endlessly melodic, and weird as a duck, because the TVPs are all those things and more.

This set traces the non-LP history of the band from their punky beginnings of hand-folded sleeves and John Peel endorsements to crashing mod revival and ultra-twee neo-psychedelia – right up to the point where the band (and Treacy) seemed like maybe they had burned out for good. It collects their late-'70s singles for Rough Trade that made their name as shambling, witty, and sharp commenters on the scene. Songs like "Part Time Punks" and "Where's Bill Grundy Now" skewered the U.K. scene and deconstructed punk while creating their own little space where anything could happen. From there the band started incorporating '60s sounds into their approach. The lo-fi freakbeat "Smashing Time" is a brilliant early example of Treacy taking a familiar sound and turning it into something gloriously personal and strange, as is "King and Country," which cheekily borrows the guitar solo from "8 Miles High." They also delved deeply into oddball psychedelia on "I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives"; wrote smashing mod tunes like "And Don't the Kids Just Love It"; and as the decade progressed, they added some noisy muscle to their sound. 1986's "How I Learnt to Love the Bomb" has a creeping power and guitars that fill the room instead of scraping at the edges, and the lovely arrangement and aching melody of "Now You're Just Being Ridiculous" shows that Treacy's skill as a craftsman was only growing even as his personal life and the band were on the verge of collapse.

Adding to the officially released singles that make up the bulk of the collection, some nice rarities were added like the crash pop double shot of "Painting by Numbers" and "Lichtenstein Girl," recorded under the name the Gifted Children in 1981; a 1982 flexi disc released by Creation where the band does a credible cover of "Biff Bang Pow"; two singles that were slated to be released on Treacy's Dreamworld label in the mid-'80s but were shelved (not for quality issues!); and a rare single released on the Caff label in 1989. The singles plus the rarities make for a thrilling collection of music that works as a stand-alone confirmation of Dan Treacy's unrelenting genius or, when paired with the brilliant albums the band released at the same time, fits the pieces of the TVP puzzle together quite nicely.
Tracklist:
1. 14th Floor
2. Oxfort St, W1
3. Part Time Punks
4. Where’s Bill Grundy Now
5. Happy Families
6. Posing At The Roundhouse
7. The Prettiest Girl In The World
8. If That’s What Love Is
9. Miracles Take Longer
10. Apples and Oranges
11. Smashing Time
12. King and Country
13. I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives
14. Arthur The Gardner
15. The Gifted Children – Painting By Numbers
16. The Gifted Children – Lichenstein Girl
17. Three Wishes
18. Geoffrey Ingram
19. And Don’t The Kids Just Love It!
20. Biff, Bang, Pow!
21. A Picture of Dorian Gray (Live)
22. A Sense of Belonging
23. Paradise Estate
24. How I Learnt To Love The Bomb
25. Then God Snaps His Fingers
26. Now You’re Just Being Ridiculous
27. She’s Only The Grocer’s Daughter
28. A Girl Called Charity
29. Salvador Dali’s Garden Party
30. The Room At The Top Of The Stairs
31. This Time There’s No Happy Ending
32. Part One: Fulfilling The Contractual Obligations
33. I Still Believe In Magic
34. Respectable
35. Privilege
36. Me And My Desire
37. My Imaginary Friend
38. I Remember Bridget Riley

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