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A Record Can Change Your Life

D. Stewart | Glasgow, Scotland United Kingdom | 02/16/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Dan Treacy of the Television Personalities' unique musical vision filled with twisted humour, innocence, truth, beautiful melodies and a contradictions changed my life. Jonathan Richman made me want to be musician but hearing the TVPs made me take action. This was my punk rock, my self empowering revolution. It wasn't just me and my own band, BMX Bandits, their music and being had a massive affect on many of my Scottish peers including The Pastels, Teenage Fanclub, The Vaselines, Soup Dragons have admitted their debt to them. Alan McGee admits his Creation records, who brought the world My Bloody Valentine, Jesus & Mary Chain and Oasis, was him trying to emulate his hero Dan's small but individual label Whaaam! Kurt from Nirvana personally sought them out to support them at a London show, where they confused the audience of mostly young grungeophilles. What was the magic? Well you can find the answer here. It was the first album they released and the first I got by them. It's beautifully simple amateur pop art cover is the perfect package for what's inside; pop rewrites of Dan's favourite movies, television, books and personal experiences growing up, his world. On this album less is definetly more and it's rough edges sound even more vital to me now than back then. Geoffrey Ingram and Silly Girl are up there as all time mod classics with the best of Townsend or Davis; I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives has become part of Syd's legend and A Picture of Dorian Gray is so GREAT and so BEAUTIFUL. Don't the kids love it...they should."

Still Languishing In Obscurity....

Paul H. | USA | 11/13/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This was lo-fi before lo-fi was cool. This was sloppy pop that pre-dated all the bands that would rip-off Beat Happening. This is punk rock at its most minimalistic and fun. This is a record that's alternately bouncy and beautiful, silly and meaningful. This album includes gems like "World Of Pauline Lewis," "This Angry Silence," "Diary Of A Young Man," and "Look Back In Anger." This record has a song about Syd Barret, so how can you go wrong? That you should own this record goes without saying."