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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.
© Stewart Mason /TiVo
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Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist
© 2008 Artpop! ℗ 1982 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd
The Times, Composer, MainArtist
© 2008 Artpop! ℗ 2018 Cherry Red Records Ltd Artpop!
Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist
© 2008 Artpop! ℗ 1982 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd
Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist
© 2008 Artpop! ℗ 1982 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd
Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist
© 2008 Artpop! ℗ 1982 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd
Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist
© 2008 Artpop! ℗ 1982 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd
The Times, MainArtist
© 2008 Artpop! ℗ 1982 Artpop!
Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist
© 2008 Artpop! ℗ 1982 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd
Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist
© 2008 Artpop! ℗ 1982 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd
Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist
© 2008 Artpop! ℗ 1982 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd
Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist
© 2008 Artpop! ℗ 1982 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd
Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist
© 2008 Artpop! ℗ 1982 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd
Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist
© 2008 Artpop! ℗ 2007 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd
Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist
© 2008 Artpop! ℗ 2008 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd
Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist
© 2008 Artpop! ℗ 2008 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd
Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist
© 2008 Artpop! ℗ 2008 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd
Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist
© 2008 Artpop! ℗ 2008 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd
Edward Ball, Composer - The Times, MainArtist
© 2008 Artpop! ℗ 2008 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd
Album review
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.
© Stewart Mason /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 18 track(s)
- Total length: 01:05:20
- Main artists: The Times
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Cherry Red Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2008 Artpop! ℗ 1982 Artpop!
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