Track Listing 1. 14th Floor 2. Oxford Street W1 3. Part Time Punks 4. Where's Bill Grundy Now 5. Happy Families 6. Posing At The Roundhouse 7. Smashing Time 8. King And Country 9. I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives (original version) 10. Arthur The Gardener 11. Prettiest Girl In The World 12. That's What Love Is 13. Three Wishes 14. And Don't The Kids Just Love It 15. Sense Of Belonging 16. How I Learned To Love The Bomb 17. Girl Called Charity 18. She's Only The Grocer's Daughter 19. Now You're Just Being Ridiculous 20. God Snaps His Fingers 21. Dream Inspires 22. Favourite Films 23. Me And My Desire 24. Miracles Take Longer
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Cargo; F-Minor |
Album Notes YES DARLING, BUT IS IT ART? contains Television Personalities' singles, B-sides and rare recordings from 1978 to the present.Subtitled "Early Singles and Rarities," this 24-track collection is far from complete, and is somewhat confusingly assembled in non-chronological fashion. On the other hand, this perfectly captures the shambolic essence of the Television Personalities, a group who have released more compilations and side projects than they have actual albums. Led by the charmingly adenoidal Daniel Treacy, whose disregard for the niceties of production and arrangement doesn't hide his deceptively brilliant lyrical and melodic abilities, the Television Personalities have been around since the late '70s, when they released such classic indie singles as the biting "Part Time Punks" (under the pseudonym The O-Levels), and "Where's Bill Grundy Now?" Later tracks such as the acoustic "I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives" and "The Prettiest Girl in the World," were hugely influential on the '80s UK indiepop scene, and more recent material like "A Girl Called Charity" and "Miracles Take Longer" reabsorb influences from those bands.
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