Compiled by bandleader Daniel Treacy, this 22-track retrospective of British new wave heroes the Television Personalities serves as the perfect entry point for casual listeners and is a nearly definitive greatest-hits collection for longtime fans. Focusing on the group's output from 1978 to 1989, Part Time Punks: The Very Best of Television Personalities includes classics like "Painting by Numbers," "Someone to Share My Life With," and "Salvador Dali's Garden Party, " as well as the in...   [ read more ]

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The second full length from Television Personalities, released in 1981, is more psychedelic than the first, but still with plenty of dry and acerbic wit. Featuring the classic title track and and acid rock-drone of "David Hockney's Diaries," a style and sound that Daniel Treacy would explore further on subsequent records. Eccentric post-punk and pop from one the UK's most original bands.

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Call it talent? Call it prophecy? However you cut it, over the last thirty years Daniel Treacy has undeniably weaved a thread of influence so far below the spring of artistry, he threaded bedrock. Under the guise of the Television Personalities Daniel Treacy's songwriting has resonated throughout the works of self described idolizers: Nirvana, Pavement, The Jesus and Mary Chain, and on...and on...and on. Possessing unachievable paradox-al qualities, both lyrically and in delivery, it seemed only appropriat...   [ read more ]

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