Television Personalities - Three Wishes (1982)

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Whaam! Records is closely related to Creation Records that would launch in 1983 (and ultimately destroy indie music and bring about the dominance of the big 3 major record labels.) Ironically Whaam! had a mod slant a precursor to retro music (check out The Times track below) which has pretty much dominated all popular music released from the mid 1990s onwards, seeing new ideas dwindling with our expectations of progress (the idea our health, work, wealth, and living standards would be an improvement on that of our parents)

1982 innocent times, maybe. Whaam! Records was overseen by founding members of Television Personalities, Daniel Treacy and Alan McGee's mate Ed Ball

Television Personalities - Three Wishes

The Pastels - Heavens Above the debut single for The Pastels. It was played on the John Peel Show on the 13th October 1982. The Pastels were an important band in the development of the independent music scene. Their track Breaking Lines is included on the landmark C86 cassette

The Times - I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape from the album Pop Goes Art. If I remember right Pop Goes Art was the name of a documentary made in the mid 60s, I went to art school and I'm sure we were made to watch it. Anyway, Ed Ball left the Television Personalities and formed The Times. For context mod was very fashionable in 1982, it was the year The Jam split, they were at the height of their success achieving 2 (of the 4) number 1 singles that year in the UK

TVP Privilege 1989 Fire Records

The Television Personalities are an English post-punk band formed in 1977 by London singer-songwriter Dan Treacy.[2]Their varied, volatile and long career encompasses post punk, neo-psychedelia and indie pop; the only constant being Treacy's songwriting. Present and former members include Chelsea childhood mates 'Slaughter Joe' Joe Foster, one time best friend Ed Ball (early line-up, later briefly)[3] and Jowe Head (ex-Swell Maps), with Jeffrey Bloom from 1983-94. The threesome of Dan, Jowe and Jeff formed the longest unchanged line-up and as a result is considered by many to be the definitive line-up, performing hundreds of gigs around the world and recording many of the band's most popular songs like How I Learned to Love the Bomb, Salvador Dali's Garden Party and Strangely Beautiful. Despite this, the Television Personalities are best known for their early single "Part Time Punks", a favourite of John Peel's.

Despite their relatively minor commercial success (their third album was sardonically titled They Could Have Been Bigger than the Beatles), the Television Personalities are highly regarded by critics and have been widely influential, especially on the C86 generation, on many of the bands signed to Creation Records in the 1990s, and on American artists such as Pavement[4] and MGMT. Treacy's unconventional but dryly witty and culture infused lyrics, have led to his reputation as a seminal and iconic figure within the independent music scene.[5]

Disculpe mi falta de atención virgen de la profunda angustia-mayormente-impostada pero tenemos cita con twiggy, syd barrett, patrick macnee, Ed ball & Mr Treacy 🙏