WINTER HILL RECORDINGS UK
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Distr. : UK -
US - Forcxed Exposure
Style : reissue / punk /
WHR 005 ALTERNATIVE TV/GOOD MISSIONAIRESD : SCARS ON SUNDAY CD 08.2019
01. Alternative TV Nasty Little Lonely
02. Alternative TV Release the Natives
03. Alternative TV : The Radio Story/Lost In Room Poem
/Fellow Sufferer
04. Alternative TV The Force Is Blind
05. Alternative TV The Good Missionary
06. The Good Missionaries Bottom of the World
07. The Good Missionaries The Good Missionary Goes for a Walk
08. The Good Missionaries The Morning They Took Me Away
Mark Perry has overseen the reissue of 1979's Scars On Sunday, which was originally
released as a limited run cassette and is now highly collectible. Comprising material
from around the same period as the excellent Vibing Up the Senile Man album period,
the ideas behind the music were very much informed by Mark's experience of touring
with Here & Now. Perhaps serving as a statement on punk, or the many hordes by this
time now completely straitjacketed by it, it could be contended it was conceptually
far more "punk" anyway. Beyond this, the music here illustrates precisely how Mark
led Alternative TV into wide open terrain sometimes far removed from rock music in
ts more generally accepted forms. As both proof of where music could be taken once
unshackled from all notions of predictability and, indeed, just how far it could go
into those realms usually reserved for the avant-garde, this was about as non
conformist as music could get at the time. Originally recorded live at the Greenwich
Theatre and The Lyceum these sets aimed for the jugular as they confounded, enticed,
and ultimately gave the audiences far more than they'd anticipated. Between the music
of this period, the earlier more direct attacks and the subsequent sidesteps into
clever songwriting or more electronically-driven pieces, Alternative TV have always
embraced the idea of going to wherever they intuitively feel like in the given moment.
Since this early period, the group has gone through lengthy periods of hibernation
and surges of activity that together might not have served them so well in a careerist
sense, but at least maintained their roles as artists possessed of integrity. A rare
virtue in music.
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WHR 006 ALTERNATIVE TV PRIMITIVE EMOTIONS CD 11.2019
01. Alternative Tv This Little Girl
02. Alternative Tv Art School Project
03. Alternative Tv Negative, Primitive
04. Alternative Tv Rebel Proof Glass
05. Alternative Tv The System
06. Alternative Tv Verlust
07. Alternative Tv Like A Tomb
08. Alternative Tv Her Dark Places
09. Alternative Tv Radiator
10. Alternative Tv Walls
11. Alternative Tv Hollow Stream
12. Alternative Tv Chinese Burn
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