TELEVISION PERSONALITIES - Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out: The Television Personalities Radio Sessions (1980-1993) (Vinyl)
Television Personalities
2LP
FIRE RECORDS
Date of release: Jan 17 2025
This new collection brings together classic radio sessions from Television Personalities, the masters of DIY post-punk and indie pop. Featuring two 80s BBC sessions that aired on John Peel and Andy Kershaw, along with a super rare 1992 WMBR set, this double LP features covers of Buzzcocks, The Raincoats and Daniel Johnston with previously unreleased songs and a bonus download WFMU session from 1993. "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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Vinyl release of Television Personalities - Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out: The Television Personalities Radio Sessions (1980-1993) (Vinyl). Released through FIRE RECORDS and available on 2LP.
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Cat No: FIRELP769
Barcode: 809236176912
Packaging: 2LP
SKU | 5584071 |
Barcode # | 809236176912 |
Artist | Television Personalities |
Artist/Author | TELEVISION PERSONALITIES |
Shipping weight | 0.7950kg |
Format | 2LP |
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