Don't Kids Just Love It

Television Personalities | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 24, 1995)
• Original Release Date: 1980
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Razor & Tie
• ASIN: B000002Z9Q
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #237,016 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Record Can Change Your Life, February 15, 2003

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D. Stewart "duglas" (Glasgow, Scotland United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: And Don't the Kids Just Love It (Audio CD)

Dan Treacy of the Television Personalities' unique musical vision filled with twisted humour, innocence, truth, beautiful melodies and a contradictions changed my life. Jonathan Richman made me want to be musician but hearing the TVPs made me take action. This was my punk rock, my self empowering revolution. It wasn't just me and my own band, BMX Bandits, their music and being had a massive affect on many of my Scottish peers including The Pastels, Teenage Fanclub, The Vaselines, Soup Dragons have admitted their debt to them. Alan McGee admits his Creation records, who brought the world My Bloody Valentine, Jesus & Mary Chain and Oasis, was him trying to emulate his hero Dan's small but individual label Whaaam! Kurt from Nirvana personally sought them out to support them at a London show, where they confused the audience of mostly young grungeophilles. What was the magic? Well you can find the answer here. It was the first album they released and the first I got by them. It's beautifully simple amateur pop art cover is the perfect package for what's inside; pop rewrites of Dan's favourite movies, television, books and personal experiences growing up, his world. On this album less is definetly more and it's rough edges sound even more vital to me now than back then. Geoffrey Ingram and Silly Girl are up there as all time mod classics with the best of Townsend or Davis; I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives has become part of Syd's legend and A Picture of Dorian Gray is so GREAT and so BEAUTIFUL. Don't the kids love it...they should.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars seminal album of truly underestimated genius, May 27, 1999

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This review is from: Don't Kids Just Love It (Audio CD)

Surely one of my favorite 5 albums ever, Dan Treacy was just a tot of 18 or 19 when this brilliant album was scratched out. These pop gems make Ray Davies sound like Phil Collins and have influenced many lesser popular acts. Own this, stay young and free and mod-ern.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quite Possibly My Favorite Album Ever, June 24, 2002

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Robert Keith "Baskervilles" (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: And Don't the Kids Just Love It (Audio CD)

This album is absolutely great in every way. The songs are incredibly charming. It's one of those records you discover and it's an epiphany. "And Don't The Kids Just Love It" has inspired me as an artist. I love it in every way. If you love 60s AM pop and super catchy new wave music, you won't be disappointed. You'll play this record over and over and wish it never ended. Genius!