Name: They Coud Have Been Bigger Than The Beatles
Brand: Fire Records
SKU: 146333931
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They Coud Have Been Bigger Than The Beatles

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Album: They Coud Have Been Bigger Than The Beatles
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Three Wishes	More Info...	0:05
2)	David Hockney's Diary	More Info...	0:02
3)	In a Perfumed Garden	More Info...	0:03
4)	Flowers for Abigail	More Info...	0:03
5)	King and Country	More Info...	0:06
6)	The Boy in the Paisley Shirt	More Info...	0:04
7)	Games for Boys	More Info...	0:02
8)	Painter Man	More Info...	0:02
9)	Psychedelic Holiday	More Info...	0:03
10)	14th Floor	More Info...	0:02
11)	Sooty's Disco Party	More Info...	0:02
12)	Makin' Time	More Info...	0:03
13)	When Emily Cries	More Info...	0:04
14)	The Glittering Prizes	More Info...	0:03
15)	Anxiety Block	More Info...	0:03
16)	Mysterious Ways	More Info...	0:05

Album: They Coud Have Been Bigger Than The Beatles
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Three Wishes	More Info...	0:05
2)	David Hockney's Diary	More Info...	0:02
3)	In a Perfumed Garden	More Info...	0:03
4)	Flowers for Abigail	More Info...	0:03
5)	King and Country	More Info...	0:06
6)	The Boy in the Paisley Shirt	More Info...	0:04
7)	Games for Boys	More Info...	0:02
8)	Painter Man	More Info...	0:02
9)	Psychedelic Holiday	More Info...	0:03
10)	14th Floor	More Info...	0:02
11)	Sooty's Disco Party	More Info...	0:02
12)	Makin' Time	More Info...	0:03
13)	When Emily Cries	More Info...	0:04
14)	The Glittering Prizes	More Info...	0:03
15)	Anxiety Block	More Info...	0:03
16)	Mysterious Ways	More Info...	0:05

Performer Notes

Full title: They Could Have Been Bigger Than The Beatles.
Television Personalities: Daniel Treacy, Mark Sheppard, Edward Ball, Bernie The Bass.
Recorded at Starforce Studios, Battersea, London, England between 1979 and 1982.
Audio Remasterers: Barry Woodward; Phil Vinall.
Recording information: Starforce Studios, Batter Sea, London, SW11 (1979-1982).
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 first burst on to a moribund U.K. punk rock scene in the late 1970s, 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?"
This early-'80s collection of demos, outtakes, and other rarities is a delightfully anarchic mess of punk rock, budget psychedelia, and even the odd cover version, in this case the Creation's 1960s classic "Painter Man." The druggy "Psychedelic Holiday" is a pre-echo of the later Madchester scene's hazy experimentation, while "When Emily Cries" is a manifestation of the band's Syd Barrett obsession, complete with disaffected pop-art vocals and brain-scrambling guitar. The throwaway genius of this album is comparable to more hallowed eccentric works like Skip Spence's OAR or Barrett's THE MADCAP LAUGHS, though the Personalities' good-natured, na?ve goofiness avoids both those albums' darker intimations of madness.