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- Date Released: September 16, 2008
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Style: Pop
- Label: ARTPOP / IODA
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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 amateurish cover (the original LP cover was a simple white jacket with a design silkscreened 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 favorite musical eras. [Artpop!'s 2008 edition included six bonus tracks.]
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Picture Gallery |
3:36 |
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| 02. | |
Biff Band Pow! |
2:51 |
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| 03. | |
It's Time! |
2:43 |
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| 04. | |
If Now Is The Answer |
3:47 |
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| 05. | |
A New Arrangement |
3:09 |
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| 06. | |
Looking At The World Through Dark Shades |
3:35 |
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| 07. | |
I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape |
2:56 |
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| 08. | |
Pop Goes Art! |
2:41 |
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| 09. | |
Miss London |
3:59 |
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| 10. | |
The Sun Never Sets |
3:59 |
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| 11. | |
Easy As Pie |
4:26 |
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| 12. | |
This Is Tomorrow |
8:03 |
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| 13. |
"I Haven't Seen Him... In Anybody Else" Speech: Edward Ball December 1999 (Previously Unreleased) |
0:15 |
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| 14. | |
Have You Seen The Beautiful People? (Previously Unreleased) |
3:02 |
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| 15. | |
Picture Gallery (TFS 'McGoohan" Sessions) (Previously Unreleased) |
3:21 |
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| 16. | |
The Sun Never Sets (as above) (Previously Unreleased) |
4:02 |
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| 17. | |
Easy As Pie (and again) (Previously Unreleased) |
3:57 |
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| 18. | |
This Is Tomorrow (Alternative Ending) (Previously Unreleased) |
4:58 |
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18 Total Tracks, 65:20 Total Length
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Credits
- Edward Ball - Synthesizer // Edward Ball - Bass // Edward Ball - Guitar // Edward Ball - Vocals // Edward Ball - Producer // Edward Ball - Engineer // Edward Ball - Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part // Edward Ball - Author // Edward Ball - Sleeve Notes // John East - Bass // John East - Vocals // John East - Vocals (Background) // Eddie Phillips - Author // Joseph James Foster - Performer // Alan Wilson - Mastering // Gerard Bennett - Photography
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