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My Picture Gallery: The Artpop! Recordings

The Times

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During the first half of the '80s, there were few artists as prolific as the Times' Edward Ball. He cranked out singles and albums like a one-man mod machine, dishing out witty, sardonic songs with hooks as sharp as winklepickers on a seemingly constant basis. That part of the time he was also a member of the Television Personalities makes one wonder where he got his energy from. Cherry Red's six-disc collection My Picture Gallery: The Artpop! Recordings gathers up all the songs recorded by the Times between 1980 and 1986. The set is made up of the group's six albums and numerous singles, all released on Ball's own Artpop! and the label he shared with Dan Treacy of the TVPs, Whaam! Presented in chronological order, it kicks off with the band's 1985 album Go! With the Times since it was recorded in 1980. A jumpy set of mod revival tracks highlighted by a ripping cover of Jimmy Cliff's "You Can Get It" and the mod-psych gem "Red with Purple Flashes," it could have been one of the cornerstone releases of the mod revival scene if released on time. By 1985, it must have seemed like a weird time capsule. Their actual debut, 1982's Pop Goes Art!, is built around the mod sound, but shows them casting a wider net that brings in Kinks-y pop, new wave, and twangy spy music. The band's next two albums were built around a central character named Frank Summit; through him Ball examines the modern state of England and finds it wanting. The first of the batch, 1983's This Is London, follows the same basic template as earlier releases, but 1984's Hello Europe embraced modern recording techniques like sampled and drm machines, ending up to be a left-field sophisticated pop surprise. From there Ball turned his attention to creating a soundtrack to the script Joe Orton wrote for the Beatles called Up Against It. Ball's music is suitably Beatlesque, but with tin-can production instead of the Fab Four's usual lush Abbey Round sound. The sixth Times album, 1986's Enjoy, combines the mod revival sound with slick modern production techniques and comes across as their most accessible album. It's still weird, though, and still as much fun as their early records. Surrounding the albums are a wealth of alternate takes, different mixes, singles, B-sides, and stray tracks, some of them super poppy, some of them indulging Ball's artier proclivities. The group's signature song "I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape" turns up a few times, first as a taut mod rocker with snappy vocal harmonies, then as a more new wave-leaning version with keyboards, then finally as a KLF-sounding remix from 1988, and the progression mirrors that of the band. Ball went on to make all sorts of music after this period, some with the Times, some with other groups. All of it was filtered through his wicked sense of humor and inability to make the same record twice. That was certainly the case during the period My Picture Gallery covers, and it makes for a fascinating, sometimes bewildering listen. Any Edward Ball or Times fan willing to take the plunge into this giant collection of their music will be nicely rewarded for their efforts.

© Tim Sendra /TiVo

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1
You Can Get It
The Times
00:03:04

Jimmy Cliff, Composer - The Times, MainArtist

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1985 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

2
I'm With You
The Times
00:02:38

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1985 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

3
Your Generation
The Times
00:03:38

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1985 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

4
Pinstripes
The Times
00:02:32

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1985 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

5
Dressing Up For The Cameras
The Times
00:04:25

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1985 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

6
Red With Purple Flashes (1985 Mix)
The Times
00:03:12

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1985 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

7
The Joke's On Zandra
The Times
00:02:33

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1985 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

8
Nowhere To Run
The Times
00:02:13

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1985 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

9
No Hard Feelings
The Times
00:02:31

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1985 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

10
My Andy Warhol Poster
Max Steiner
00:03:59

Edward Ball, Composer - Max Steiner, MainArtist

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1985 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

11
Man From Uncle
The Times
00:05:17

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1985 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

12
Reflections In An Imperfect Mirror
The Times
00:02:51

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1985 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

13
Red With Purple Flashes (Single Version)
The Times
00:03:21

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1981 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

14
Biff! Bang! Pow! (Single Version)
The Times
00:02:52

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1981 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

15
My Andy Warhol Poster (JJ Foster Mix)
The Times
00:03:59

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist - JJ Foster, Remixer

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 2007 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

16
Pinstripes (JJ Foster Mix)
The Times
00:02:34

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist - JJ Foster, Remixer

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 2007 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

17
The Joke's On Zandra (JJ Foster Mix)
The Times
00:02:40

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist - JJ Foster, Remixer

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 2007 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

18
Nowhere To Run (JJ Foster Mix)
The Times
00:02:16

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist - JJ Foster, Remixer

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 2007 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

19
No Hard Feelings (JJ Foster Mix)
The Times
00:02:36

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist - JJ Foster, Remixer

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 2007 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

20
You Can Get It (JJ Foster Mix)
The Times
00:03:01

Jimmy Cliff, Composer - The Times, MainArtist - JJ Foster, Remixer

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 2007 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

21
Theme From Man From Uncle (JJ Foster Mix)
The Times
00:05:18

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist - JJ Foster, Remixer

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 2007 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

22
Reflections In An Imperfect Mirror (JJ Foster Mix)
The Times
00:02:51

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist - JJ Foster, Remixer

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 2007 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

23
My Andy Warhol Poster (McGoohan Sessions)
The Times
00:03:42

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 2007 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

24
Joe, Dan And Me... Before The Creation Context Speech: Edward Ball December 1999
The Times
00:00:16

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 2007 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

DISC 2

1
Picture Gallery
The Times
00:03:38

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1982 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

2
Biff Band Pow!
The Times
00:02:51

The Times, Composer, MainArtist

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 2018 Cherry Red Records Ltd Artpop!

3
It's Time!
The Times
00:02:45

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1982 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

4
If Now Is The Answer
The Times
00:03:49

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1982 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

5
A New Arrangement
The Times
00:03:10

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1982 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

6
Looking At The World Through Dark Shades
The Times
00:03:36

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1982 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

7
I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape
Teenage Filmstars
00:02:57

Edward Ball, Composer, Writer - Jackie Edwards, Composer - Teenage Filmstars, MainArtist - Morgan Sheppard, Contributor

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1982 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

8
Pop Goes Art! (Medley In Mono)
The Times
00:02:43

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1982 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

9
Miss London
The Times
00:04:00

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1982 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

10
The Sun Never Sets
The Times
00:04:00

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1982 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

11
Easy As Pie
The Times
00:04:27

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1982 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

12
This Is Tomorrow
The Times
00:08:05

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1982 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

13
Have You Seen The Beautiful People
The Times
00:03:06

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 2008 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

14
This Is Tomorrow (Alternative Ending)
The Times
00:05:02

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 2008 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

15
Picture Gallery (McGoohan Sessions)
The Times
00:03:24

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 2008 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

16
The Sun Never Sets (McGoohan Sessions)
The Times
00:04:05

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 2008 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

17
Easy As Pie (McGoohan Sessions)
The Times
00:04:01

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 2008 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

18
Theme From "Dangerman" (McGoohan Sessions)
The Times
00:01:45

Edwin Astley, Composer - The Times, MainArtist

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1982 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

19
I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape (Single Version)
The Times
00:03:08

Edward Ball, Composer, Writer - Jackie Edwards, Composer - The Times, MainArtist - Morgan Sheppard, Contributor

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1986 Cherry Red Records Cherry Red Records

20
Theme From "Dangerman" (Alternative Session Take)
The Times
00:01:48

Edwin Astley, Composer - The Times, MainArtist

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 2006 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

21
Goodbye Piccadilly (October 1981 Version)
The Times
00:03:19

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 2006 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

22
I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape (A Splash Of Colour Version)
The Times
00:02:58

Edward Ball, Composer, Writer - Jackie Edwards, Composer - The Times, MainArtist - Morgan Sheppard, Contributor

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1981 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

23
I Haven't Seen Him...In Anybody Else Speech: Edward Ball December 1999
The Times
00:00:16

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 2007 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

DISC 3

1
This Is London
The Times
00:03:31

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1983 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

2
Goodbye Piccadilly
The Times
00:03:35

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1983 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

3
Whatever Happened To Thamesbeat?
The Times
00:03:06

Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist

© 2021 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1983 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd

Album review

During the first half of the '80s, there were few artists as prolific as the Times' Edward Ball. He cranked out singles and albums like a one-man mod machine, dishing out witty, sardonic songs with hooks as sharp as winklepickers on a seemingly constant basis. That part of the time he was also a member of the Television Personalities makes one wonder where he got his energy from. Cherry Red's six-disc collection My Picture Gallery: The Artpop! Recordings gathers up all the songs recorded by the Times between 1980 and 1986. The set is made up of the group's six albums and numerous singles, all released on Ball's own Artpop! and the label he shared with Dan Treacy of the TVPs, Whaam! Presented in chronological order, it kicks off with the band's 1985 album Go! With the Times since it was recorded in 1980. A jumpy set of mod revival tracks highlighted by a ripping cover of Jimmy Cliff's "You Can Get It" and the mod-psych gem "Red with Purple Flashes," it could have been one of the cornerstone releases of the mod revival scene if released on time. By 1985, it must have seemed like a weird time capsule. Their actual debut, 1982's Pop Goes Art!, is built around the mod sound, but shows them casting a wider net that brings in Kinks-y pop, new wave, and twangy spy music. The band's next two albums were built around a central character named Frank Summit; through him Ball examines the modern state of England and finds it wanting. The first of the batch, 1983's This Is London, follows the same basic template as earlier releases, but 1984's Hello Europe embraced modern recording techniques like sampled and drm machines, ending up to be a left-field sophisticated pop surprise. From there Ball turned his attention to creating a soundtrack to the script Joe Orton wrote for the Beatles called Up Against It. Ball's music is suitably Beatlesque, but with tin-can production instead of the Fab Four's usual lush Abbey Round sound. The sixth Times album, 1986's Enjoy, combines the mod revival sound with slick modern production techniques and comes across as their most accessible album. It's still weird, though, and still as much fun as their early records. Surrounding the albums are a wealth of alternate takes, different mixes, singles, B-sides, and stray tracks, some of them super poppy, some of them indulging Ball's artier proclivities. The group's signature song "I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape" turns up a few times, first as a taut mod rocker with snappy vocal harmonies, then as a more new wave-leaning version with keyboards, then finally as a KLF-sounding remix from 1988, and the progression mirrors that of the band. Ball went on to make all sorts of music after this period, some with the Times, some with other groups. All of it was filtered through his wicked sense of humor and inability to make the same record twice. That was certainly the case during the period My Picture Gallery covers, and it makes for a fascinating, sometimes bewildering listen. Any Edward Ball or Times fan willing to take the plunge into this giant collection of their music will be nicely rewarded for their efforts.

© Tim Sendra /TiVo

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