Memory Is Better Than Nothing

Television Personalities | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 1, 2010)
• Original Release Date: 2010
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rocket Girl/Darla Records
• ASIN: B003BF8UOY
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #400,649 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

2010 release from the cult British band led by singer, songwriter and mainman Dan Treacy. TVPs have always meant something more in other countries than their native UK. The music has been remixed by many; Swedish New Yorker enigma Mabel recorded a fantastic version of 'All The Young Children On Crack'. MGMT are collaborating with Dan soon and they have a song on their new album 'Song for Dan Treacy'. Dan has been asked over and over to write songs for other bands and is working on tracks for The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, The Crystal Stilts and more. TVPs rocked many festivals including Benicassim and All Tomorrows Parties (invited by MBV) , where The Horrors, Sonic Boom, Kramer, J. Mascis and more all waited in TVPs backstage dressing room before and after the show to pay their respects. Needless to say, they are legends. Rocket Girl.

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars quirky, intelligent, culturally perspicacious British pop/rock, April 5, 2011

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Charlie Quaker "The Quaker Goes Deaf" (Normal, IL.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Memory Is Better Than Nothing (Audio CD)

Something like the 15th album from this peculiarly British legendary cult mid-fi pop band with a

uniquely twisted perspective on both life and musical structure. They're a radical assortment of

working class English oddballs who have found a subtle way to permeate the invisible wall we all

put up, using their perceptive strangeness. It's quirky, intelligent, culturally perspicacious music

that's impossible to resist--and who would want to, anyway? Similarities to the Capstan Shafts,

Syd Barrett, Velvet Underground, Patrick Fitzgerald, The Pastels, Cleaners From Venus, Milky

Wimpshake, The Fall.