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very good band. _The Painted Word_ is great, as are some of the early songs too. plunder their catalog, it's pretty rewarding.

the only one i own is "and don't the kids just love it". I think that what it's called anyway. its a very good album.

Yep, that's a good album.. I heard the new one was kind aspotty and off

Uh, yeah. And Don't the Kids Still Love It is full of solid twee pop. Outside of that I'm not familiar with the band's output; I didn't even realize they had released a new album. Or were still making music for that matter.

the guy was in jail for like 11 eleven years on the charges of theft. I think he was breaking into houses. THere's one song by them, how i learned to love the bomb... that song is fuckin sweet.

There was a long period, I think, when there were rumours that nobody knew where he was, that he might be homeless or even that nobody knew if he was alive... i even seem to remember that some small band wrote a song called "I know where Dan Treacy lives" echoing TVP's "I know where Syd Barrett lives" (or maybe I'm just imagining this, or maybe it was even my idea to write such a song)...

i love the first four albums... it's striking how Dan Treacy started writing funny / optimistic / ironic songs and a few years later he was writing sad, serious, pessimistic song - which could still be funny at times... and how his voice changed...

there is a great compilation called "yes, darling, but is it art?" which includes their lovely early singles like "Posing at the Roundhouse", "Part Time Punks", "Where is Bill Grundy now?"...

i haven't heard heard the new album...

Their latest album disappointed me a lot.
It's got all of what Dan Treacy thought people expected from him, but it lacks what was to be found in his previous work : spontaneity.
He drops names here and there just the way he did but this time it ain't witty.
To be fair, he hadn't played for quite a while, had even sold his guitar for heroin.

I got into his music via "Yes, Darling" and started tracking his releases - which was hard. I even went to London to chase some records. Then Fire Records (a label he now despises) reissued his work.

I'd recommend "Yes, Darling", "They Could Have Been Bigger than the Beatles", "The Painted Word" (Paradise Estate & Back To Vietnam are really dark) and "Closer to God".

German label Little Teddy Recordings released another compilation of the stuff he did after Jowe Head's departure, called "Fashion Conscious". I liked it a lot.

It had covers from the Kinks, Joe Meek, Daniel Johnston, the Raincoats, Syd Barrett, Jacques Brel.

He wrote really moving lyrics.
http://www.popfloor.com/tvps/home.html

Try this band, I was glad to see a thread about them.