TIMES Pop Goes Art UK LP DIY Post Punk Powerpop Psych
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** RECORD COLLECTOR **
THE TIMES
Pop Goes Art!
Original UK LP released on Whaam! Records in 1982. Superb hand-made sleeve.
The first release on Whaam! records (a label headed by the Television Personalities' Dan Treacy), Pop Goes Art! is basically a Television Personalities album with Treacy and his longtime cohort Ed Ball trading roles: Ball is the singer and songwriter, and Treacy just plays guitar and bass. The hand-made cover (the original LP cover was a simple white jacket with a design silk-screened on the front and a small piece of paper glued on the back listing the song titles) and no-budget production can't hide the wit and inventiveness of Ball's take on Carnaby Street-era pop. Besides two immediate classics, "Miss London" and the brilliant "I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape" (a song Ball would record several more times in the '80s), the album includes the B-side of Times' first single, "Biff! Bang! Pow!" -- not the song by Ball's freakbeat heroes the Creation, but an homage to that band using the same title -- and the eight-minute psychedelic closer "This Is Tomorrow," featuring the sort of droning plane-crash guitar that would figure into the next couple of Television Personalities records. Pop Goes Art! is a completely ingenuous record with no agenda, other than the re-creation of one of Ball's favourite musical eras.
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Led by singer/songwriter Edward Ball (original co-conspirator in the Television Personalities and numerous related endeavours under such names as O Level, Teenage Filmstars, etc.), these psychedelic poseurs set out to recapture the lightweight pop sounds of swinging England (circa 1967). If you don't mind that the Times are totally derivative and enjoy the style they lift, the group's early records are a seamlessly integrated genre heist, superb examples of successful nostalgia.
The low-budget Pop Goes Art! includes the marvellously kitsch "I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape" (a song the group has repeatedly re-recorded) as well as appropriately devised creations like "Biff! Bang! Pow!" and the title track.
Tracks Are :-
Side One
Picture Gallery
Biff! Bang! Pow!
It's Time
If Now Is The Answer
A New Arrangement
Looking At The World Through Dark Shades
I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape
Side Two
Pop Goes Art! (Melody In Mono)
Miss London
The Sun Never Sets
Easy As Pie
This Is TOMORROW.........
Released on 'Whaam! Records' in 1982
Catalogue No. LP01
Disc is in EX++ condition
Sleeve is in EX++ condition
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