Alternative TV? These guys are FREAKS, man. No, but really, this London-based post-punk assembly released three records in 1978, of them their first record, the half live/half studio The Image Has Cracked, a survey of sorts of British post-punk injected with the results of a strange fascination with dub music. Punk dub. Pub. Dunk. Something, whatever, it's cool.
The Image Has Cracked is an incredibly consistent and constituted release, even with the brief departures into dub-inspired mayhem, and "The Force is Blind". The constraints of Alternative TV's equipment invests into them a particular sound that may not be intentional, but is indeed inevitable, and ex-bank clerk Mark Perry's voice is precisely what makes Alternative TV Alternative TV and not something else. You may know Perry as one of the founding members of Psychic TV, in collaboration with Genesis P Orridge, s/he who could be unarguably accredited with the formation of modern industrial music. That said, the image has definitely cracked.
Track Listing:
1. Alternatives
2. Action Time Vision
3. Why Don't You Do Me Right
4. Good Times
5. Still Life
6. Viva La Rock 'n' Roll
7. Nasty Little Lonely
8. Red
9. Splitting In Two
10. Love Lies Limp
11. Life
12. How Much Longer
13. You Bastard
14. Another Coke
15. Life After Life
16. Life After Dub
17. Force Is Blind
18. Lost In A Room
19. How Much Longer (2)
20. You Bastard (2)
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