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“Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out”: The Television Personalities Radio Sessions (1980-1993)

Television Personalities

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Catchy hooks and schoolboy wit are in abundant supply.” – Pitchfork

The Television Personalities’ splendid DIY skills and loveable ramshackle persona led them on many a subversive trip both on record and playing live. But it was the radio that first introduced them to the world in a whirlwind of repeated spins. John Peel let outsiders everywhere tune in to their altered world. And, at the height of punk they parodied the new revolution, their single ‘Part Time Punks’ becoming a Peel staple, and the clamour to hear more eventually resulting in a session in 1980.

Through the 80s, Daniel Treacy had matured into a gifted storyteller turned pop culture narrator who placed the modern world in his own hazy shade of focus. His songs were loveable, immediately identifiable and pin prick sharp; they were tidily observational, and often magically acute. This was a gifted raconteur, an inspiration and an essential alternative to the hiss and flutter of “normal” radio, a medium that by the late 80s had just about abandoned them.

‘Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out’ captures this pilgrim’s progress to pop nirvana, a psychedelic wonderland shaded by dark and brooding memories, all played out through a crackling transistor radio secreted under the pillow so that these sketches of society remain perfectly personal, a direct line into Dan’s psyche.

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2LP Tracks

  1. Look Back In Anger (John Peel Session 20.08.80)
  2. Picture Of Dorian Gray (John Peel Session 20.08.80)
  3. Le Grande Illusion (John Peel Session 20.08.80)
  4. Silly Girl (John Peel Session 20.08.80)
  5. Paradise Is For The Blessed (Andy Kershaw BBC Session 27.02.86)
  6. My Conscience Tells Me No (Andy Kershaw BBC Session 27.02.86)
  7. Salvador Dali’s Garden Party (Andy Kershaw BBC Session 27.02.86)
  8. I Still Believe In Magic (Andy Kershaw BBC Session 27.02.86)
  9. Goodnight Mister Spaceman (WMBR Session 02.04.92)
  10. How does It Feel To Be Loved (WMBR Session 02.04.92)
  11. I Get Frightened Too (WMBR Session 02.04.92)
  12. Time Goes Slowly When You're Drowning (WMBR Session 02.04.92)
  13. Gypsy Woman (WMBR Session 02.04.92)
  14. She's A Virgin And A Whore (WMBR Session 02.04.92)
  15. Why Can't I Touch It (WMBR Session 02.04.92)
  16. All My Dreams Are Dead (WMBR Session 02.04.92)
  17. Wandering Minds (WMBR Session 02.04.92)
  18. Three Wishes (WMBR Session 02.04.92)

 

Download Only Bonus Tracks:

  1. Everything She Touches Turns to Gold (Download Only - The WFMU Session 27.07.93)
  2. No-One's Little Girl (Download Only - The WFMU Session 27.07.93)
  3. My Very First Nervous Nervous Breakdown (Download Only - The WFMU Session 27.07.93)
  4. Honey I Sure Miss You (Download Only - The WFMU Session 27.07.93)
  5. February (Download Only - The WFMU Session 27.07.93)
  6. The Silly Things Lovers Do (Download Only - The WFMU Session 27.07.93)

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