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And Don't The Kids Just Love It

Television Personalities Format: Audio CD
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Originally founded in 1984 by Clive Solomon and the late journalist Jonny Waller the label trailblazed through the late 80s and 90s before burning brightly and burning out, right before the indie revival.

The turn of the millennium has seen Fire rise, phoenix like, under the direction of James Nicholls. Modern day Fire Records combines the cosmic pop of Jane Weaver, Virginia Wing, Islet and Pictish Trail with the haunting ambience of Death And Vanilla, the aural tapestries of Faten Kanaan, the other worldly spirituality of Josephine Foster , the freak-folk mysticality of Brigid Mae Power, the choral ambience of Lucy Gooch and the uncategorizable and universally acclaimed Vanishing Twin.

Track Listings

1 This Angry Silence
2 The Glittering Prizes
3 World of Pauline Lewis
4 A Family Affair
5 Silly Girl
6 Diary of a Young Man
7 Geoffrey Ingram
8 I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives
9 Jackanory Stories
10 Parties in Chelsea
11 La Grande Illusion
12 A Picture of Dorian Gray
13 The Crying Room
14 Look Back in Anger

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Ahead of its time, ‘And Don’t The Kids Just Love It’ was Television Personalities’ influential debut album released in 1981 and features ‘I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives’. The legendary lo-fi release sees them produce British inspired 60s pop and post-punk that captured the period and ‘sounds remarkably prescient’. (Pitchfork’s Best 100 albums of the 1980s).

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  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.28 x 5.08 x 0.31 inches; 1.48 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Fire Records
  • Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2017
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ June 1, 2017
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Fire Records
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B071FQXWRD
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 70 ratings

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4.6 out of 5 stars
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DeadMoon87
5.0 out of 5 stars A timeless album, a great buy
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2020
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It’s a fantastic album, and the audio quality is solid. Sometimes vinyl reissues muck up the mix, but that isn’t the case here. I’ve wanted this for years, and it’s always either prohibitively expensive or sold out, so I was really excited to finally get my hands on it!
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tadpoles
5.0 out of 5 stars A Gem!
Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2009
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If you are at all interested in idiosyncratic British Pop Punk of any period then this is a gem awaiting your pleasure. Simply one of my favourite albums and my music passions go way back to loving "You Really Got Me" when it first came out. Daniel Treacy should be up there with Ray Davies as a songwriting treasure and it is a shame he does not have greater recognition. Simply sublime.
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susan whitaker
4.0 out of 5 stars gave as a give
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2014
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I gave as a gift to my son. He never complained so I assume he did like it - he asked for it.
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mcmlxxxiv
5.0 out of 5 stars sensitive punks
Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2018
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this is a classic debut post-punk (sneery pop) album. "diary of a young man" makes me cry.
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CommandD
5.0 out of 5 stars Great album
Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2017
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Love it!
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EclecticParrot
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the most important and influential indie records
Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2017
Weaned on The Who and Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd, inspired by the 70s punk movement and comforted by nostalgia for Carnaby Street flower power and 60s pop culture, Television Personalities burst onto the scene in Britain with a debut album as endearing and influential to a host of movements that persist to this day (twee, c-86, psych-pop, low-fi) as the Velvet Underground’s banana-clad record was for the prior generation and, clearly with hindsight, is one of the more important indie records of the latter half of the 20th century.

With thickly-accented Chelsea vocals surrounded by echoey, thin, shoebox production values and sporting a B&W cover with Twiggy and Patrick McNee from the Avengers, “…And Don’t The Kids Just Love It” (1981) managed to be at once charming and subversive, reactionary and revolutionary, deadly serious and tongue-in-cheek, amateurish and prescient, retro and trailblazing, tasteful and campy.

Backed by a tactile ‘stringy’ bass sound barely in tune with the guitars and scrappy, punk-inspired drums, vocalist/founder Dan Treacy winds his way through one of the most charming collage of ramshackle odes ever assembled, peppered with borrowed licks from The Who and Phil Spector as filtered through The Clash, tackled with a desperately nonchalant seriousness of purpose.

While it’s easy to dismiss the approach as unintentionally slapdash, in truth TVP get the most from their scant toolbox, skillfully controlling dynamics with sudden moments of silence or instrumentation dropping in and out of the mix, with the results nearly always as moving as they are infectious.

Thus, though “This Angry Silence” begins with the desperate lines “I hear my father shouting at my mother in the room next door, he's always threatening to pack his bags” the pummeling entrance of the drums at the start of each verse gives an air of defiance that leads directly to the self-pep talk of “The Glittering Prizes”: “Pretty soon I’m gonna change -- you won’t’ recognize me.” What separates this above similar sentiments from punk acts is the charmingly retro wrapper and adenoidal vocals that make the narrator’s boast just as likely to draw a smirk as an encouraging nod.

This desire to obscure reality is ostensibly tackled more directly, at least lyrically, with “The World of Pauline Lewis” where “everything is fantasy,” as this matter-of-fact tale of suicide is partially offset by jaunty Sixties guitar pop clichés in the backing track.

Next, with a guitar line vaguely reminiscent of “Heart Full of Soul” slowed down tenfold, “A Family Affair” begins with offhand remarks concerning death and unwanted pregnancy, leading to the rather blunt admission “But why should I care? It's just a family affair” though, again, the impact is far from the nihilism the words might suggest, given the approach includes soaring, falsetto o-o-o-o’s in the background and a simple Fifties-inspired bass line.

The pattern continues with a tale of a “Silly Girl” who ran away, initially admonished by the narrator for worrying her parents before admitting a more personal impact: “I'm sitting alone in a quiet room, trying to write a letter to you -- it's only me who understands.” While the lyric barks forth over a backing track nearly frantic in character, lurking far away in the background are oddly churlish vocal embellishments (“silly girl” and “ooooooh”), rather mocking in tone. What we have is the very deceptive simplicity, the organized chaos that encourages approaching this disc from so many angles at once.

Taking this idea further, the appeal of ‘modern-retro’ art in all forms (music, movies, photographs) is precisely the complex interplay of emotions engendered – a yearning for times (and youth) now gone while acknowledging progress on many fronts has stalled, tinged by wistful escapism sadly muted by the suspicion that any past lessons brought to bear may well be ineffectual, the need to look backward (and inward) an indictment of the current malaise. As such, it’s not surprising that only early TVP records were wholly successful at tempering the multifaceted realities of the Eighties with a whimsical, humorous enthusiasm that ultimately avoided the maudlin.

In this regard, the airy “I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives” is replete with chirping birds, while “Geoffrey Ingram,” an update of The Kinks’ “David Watts,” playfully unfolds a standard tale of childhood admiration for a guy smiled upon by luck, who “always gets home as it starts to rain.” And the absolutely wonderful “Jackanory Stories” (named for a BBC children’s show designed to encourage reading) spins forward with a built-in kinetic energy and perhaps the record’s most memorable lyric:

"Read a book at bedtime to help you off to sleep
I've found I get the same effect from fixing on reality
And just like life there's a good beginning but there is no middle
So you may as well skip to the end, it's the same old story"

The tune is framed at the outset and the extended coda with sing-songy, nonsense backing vocals that not only recall and celebrate but update the childhood memory from a now-adult perspective.

Some may feel the centerpiece of the record is “A Picture of Dorian Gray”:

"We'll sit by the river drinking lemon tea
And there's a thousand midget Russians in midget submarines
You can come and stay, you can bring your friends"

Of course, Wilde’s tale of aestheticism has anything but a happy ending, and the peppy, soaring melody adopted by TVP for this track belies the soul-selling required to preserve youth and beauty (“lots of pretty pictures, all of them of me.”). Again, Treacy’s nostalgia is decidedly unromantic, despite the musical charms he employs.
 
Ultimately, "...And Don’t The Kids Just Love It" is definitely not ‘charming’ in the sense of a Herman’s Hermits 45 -- shaded with equal parts defiance and helplessness, wide-eyed nostalgia and regret, dredging up the past only to bury it further underground, it remains a perennially underrated staple of the 80s British underground, ironically becoming more essential with each passing year.
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Wally@TBM
5.0 out of 5 stars THIS IS THE ONE ALBUM WHICH CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE
Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2013
I must wholeheartedly agree with all the 5 star reviews of this album and with Robert Keith (of the Baskervilles fame) that this should be your favourite album of all time. There has never been another album like it and every song is brilliant and at the time it was released it changed the world and continues to have an influence over 30 years later. It changed my world (just query Television Personalities tribute) and many others and has inspired thousands. OK so it's not The Beatles, but a whole lot better :)
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Chefbrian77
4.0 out of 5 stars This is a band that I heard about rather recently...
Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2013
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They definitely exceeded all of my expectations and I will soon be acquiring more music by this band whence they release more vinyl records
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Mok
5.0 out of 5 stars Obra maestra
Reviewed in Spain on April 7, 2021
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Una joya y una referencia. Dan Treacey es un grandísimo artista. Envío y recepción perfecta por parte del vendedor.
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Baboon
5.0 out of 5 stars Forse non tutti li conoscono ma dovrebbero
Reviewed in Italy on December 5, 2017
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La prima volta che ho ascoltato questo disco mi ha immediatamente rapito. Suoni ruvidi ma leggeri, melodie evidenti ma non banali, qualità decisamente low-fi, un po' punk, un po' pop. Irresistibile. Le stampe originali dell' '81 costano molti euro quindi questa versione è un buon compromesso.
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Mr Nasti
5.0 out of 5 stars Ma Télévision Fonctionne
Reviewed in France on August 26, 2017
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Television Personalities, groupe méconnu qui aurait pu avoir un destin tout différent sans les frasques du chanteur. En écoutant 36 ans plus tard, leur tout premier album (1981) et il a bien vieilli. Ce n'est pas de la pop ce n'est pas du rock un soupçon de Joy Division, des Monchrome Set (du début). Un sens de la mélodie, une production minimaliste et ne ressemblant à rien. Je conseille fortement cet album.
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king_of_cookie
4.0 out of 5 stars and don't kids just love it
Reviewed in Japan on January 12, 2004
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Television Pesonalitiesの１stアルバム。１９８０年の作品のリイシュー盤です。ポップなパンクといった感じです。４トラックでのレコーディングなのでざらついた音質ですが、それがまたGOODな感じ。メンバー自身、JAM、KINKS、BUZZCOCKSを意識したと公言しているので、その近辺のミュージシャンが好きな人には是非。６０’s　meets Pankといったところか。メンバーチェンジの多い同バンドですが、後のthe TIMESの中心人物EDWARD BALL在籍時のベスト布陣です。
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guillem
4.0 out of 5 stars Estupendo
Reviewed in Spain on August 28, 2020
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