ALTERNATIVE TV - The Image Has Cracked - 1st Press 1978 KBD Sniffin' Glue
  $   37

 


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Dec 5, 2015 Sold Date
Nov 28, 2015 Start Date
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Vinyl is in Near-Mint Condition. Cover is in Excellent Condition. 1st UK press. If you don't have "Viva La Rock N Roll", "Splitting In Two" or "Action Time Vision" in your collection, you need this.

 NOTES:Starting with a nuttily bombastic synth intro (courtesy of Squeeze's Jools Holland!) which sounds just like the music punk was supposed to be destroying might seem an unusual move for a band founded by the guy who chronicled the original London explosion. But it's that very contrariness in Mark Perry which made the original Alternative TV such a thrilling prospect, and which makes The Image Has Cracked an unfairly neglected classic from the late-'70s upheaval. Seizing on the promise of punk as being a new means of expression rather than a new set of musical rules to be adhered to, Perry, along with a solid-enough band, whip up a series of incendiary pieces that explore as much as they thrash, caught somewhere between the Fall's divine ramalama and three-chord snarls. "Alternatives" captures the tense spirit of the band's work perfectly, a live recording where over a gentle groove Perry invites audience members to come up and "use the soapbox," only to have a bunch of chancers and screamers talk a lot about nothing much at all, until Perry spits vitriol at a pair of people in a punch-up and complains about "diluted sh*t." As an expression of going down defiant while punk became a new fashion, it's fierce and brilliant. A good half of the album comes from the same concert, including the harrowing final track, "Splitting in Two," as perfect a capturing of nails-dug-in-flesh paranoia and indecision as anything in music history, revived as a live favorite years later by the Chameleons. The studio cuts include a solid run-through of Zappa's "Why Don't You Do Me Right?" and the closest ATV ever came to an anthemic single, "Action Time Vision."

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RECORD GRADING:  1) Sealed/New   2) Near-Mint  3) Excellent  4) Very Good Plus  5) Very Good  ( I do not sell records below the Very Good Grade)


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