The Image Has Cracked

by Alternative TV

The Image Has Cracked cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: May 1978
  • Label: Deptford Fun City
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Community rating: 3.73/5 from 7 ratings

Artists on this release: Chris Gray

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Formed by Mark Perry, creator of the influential punk zine Sniffin' Glue, Alternative TV utilized their debut to aggressively subvert the very punk movement Perry helped document. The album freely mixes raw, chaotic live recordings with lengthy studio experiments heavily indebted to German krautrock.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, satirical, DIY, lo-fi, confrontational, experimental, political, minimal, guitars, dissonant

Tracklist

  1. Alternatives (8:12)
  2. Action Time Vision (2:34)
  3. Why Don't You Do Me Right? (3:11)
  4. Good Times (1:41)
  5. Still-Life (6:53)
  6. Viva La Rock N' Roll (4:19)
  7. Nasty Little Lonely (5:56)
  8. Red
  9. Splitting In 2 (6:16)

Credits

  • Jill Furmanovsky - cover
  • Tony Stubbs - illustration [soapbox]
  • Steve Angel - lacquer cut by
  • Chris Bennett - performer, written-by
  • Dennis Burns - performer, written-by
  • Mark Perry - performer, written-by
  • Kim Turner - rhythm guitar [special assistance], piano
  • Jools Holland - synthesizer [moog], piano
  • Alternative TV - Primary Artist
  • Alex Fergusson - Written-By
  • Frank Zappa - Written-By
  • Tyrone Thomas - Written-By

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