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Television Personalities- Privilege (CD)

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Fire Re-issue, this has not been available for many years on CD. 1989: It’s nine years since John Lennon died, and five years since The Television Personalities have had an album released. The world is battered by Phil Collins, out-styled by Duran Duran and terrified of New Kids On The Block. Did we really fight the punk rock wars for this? Meanwhile, Fire Records sign the latest incarnation of the TVPs and let them loose in a proper studio. In the intervening years The Smiths and Orange Juice have carried the indie torch and, by the process of osmosis their cheery pomp has filtered into Privilege. Superficially the band seems vaguely upbeat it’s just a front. Dan Treacy still isn’t happy. He’s doesn’t understand clubland, he’s too young to regret but not too old to forget. He’s a man with a Bic biro in a new age of the Game Boy and he’s all the better for it. If his muse is overcome by the versatility of Swatch watches and Back To The Future II, he d

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