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My Dark Places

~ Television Personalities
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Product details

  • Audio CD (27 Feb 2006)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Domino
  • ASIN: B000E8NQWM
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 68,925 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Special Chair
2. All The Young Children On Crack
3. Sick Again
4. Ex Girlfriend Club
5. Dream The Sweetest Dreams
6. Velvet Underground
7. My Dark Places
8. I'm Not Your Typical Boy
9. You Kept Me Waiting Too Long
10. They'll Have To Catch Us First
11. She Can Stop Traffic
12. Tell Me About Your Day
13. Then A Big Boy Came And Knocked It All Down
14. I Hope You're Happy Now
15. No More I Hate You's
16. There's No Beautiful Way To Say Goodbye

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Amazon.co.uk Review
TVP are one of those bands that seem to suddenly come out of nowhere, and that everyone has heard of except you. According to the press release they were Kurt Cobain’s favourite band, they inspired Creation Records, and they supported Pink Floyd off the back of a single called "We Know Where Syd Barrett Lives". Media hyperbole notwithstanding, TVP--led by Dan Treacy--were influential in their time and this return to the fray after an eleven year absence really is a cause for excitement. Lead single "All The Young People On Smack" is a sign that Treacy--who has suffered nervous breakdowns and imprisonment over the years--has thankfully not learned the art of musical compromise. It’s a great tune, built from his raw Cockney vocal style and a basic, loping electro beat. Several other cuts on the album stand out in the same way, notably the catchy "How Did The Velvet Underground Get That Sound" and "She Can Stop A Taxi", but throughout the album’s duration there are too many half-baked fillers for this to be an overwhelming comeback.--Paul Sullivan

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Dan Treacy, the main singer and songwriter for the Television Personalities, has had a life as colorful as his band's style. Beginning in the 1970s, the TV Personalities set out on a musical journey that would encompass punk, new wave, twee, and shambling music, among other pop subsets. Along the way Treacy dropped out to devote himself to other things (drugs and prison among them), but he and the band returned in 2006 with MY DARK PLACES, the first TVPs release in eight years.
Treacy's songwriting can be alternately harrowing ("Ex-Girlfriends Club"), lovely ("Dream the Sweetest Dreams"), and novelty-oriented ("They'll Have to Catch Us First"). Yetit's always distinctively his own, and the TVPs sound, withits mixture of lo-fi indie, DIY, and art-pop, is as compelling and effervescent as ever.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Breathtaking return, 23 Feb 2006
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Where do you start to review an album like this? For anyone who already knows and loves the Television Personalities be reassured this stakes a claim to be their best ever album. It's all you could have wanted and more. So just buy it.

If you've never heard of the Television Personalities you could do much worse than start here. Clearly we are not talking James Blunt here. This is confessional songrwriting in the raw. In they've ridden the various waves of DIY, psychedelic revival, Shambling C86 and outlasted them all. Maybe before they've shown their influences on their sleeves - Velvets, Byrds and so on but not of that seems relevant anymmore. If you need a modern reference then maybe we are talking Babyshambles plus plus. But it's so much more than that. Bear with it. Listen to it again. Let it into your life. Chersish it. You won't regret it.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Bewilderingly Inept, 30 Mar 2008
By J. Roberts "Jinny" (Maryland) - See all my reviews
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After hearing 'Where's Bill Grundy Now' by this band, I bought this album expecting more of the same off-beat, slightly amusing style. But, Television Personalities love of the eclectic has put even me off. I am a person who can listen to and enjoy some of the most experimental Indie or alternative music around. But this is truly shambolic.

For starters, the musicianship is non-existent in places, to the point where I think TV Personalities were actually trying to be inept. The vocals are utterly unbearable and someone badly needs to tell the person responsible never to pick up a microphone again.

Sadly, these simple facts overshadow what are actually some quite funny song titles and lyrics. The unfortunate thing about TV Personalities is that their love of the inventive only works well with their lyrics. When it's applied to their music and vocals, it makes me want to run for cover. I like 'alternative', but this is a bit much, even for an open-minded soul like me.
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