| Album Notes: "Edward Ball. A force of nature unto himself." ~ Andrew Goodwin, Professor of Media Studies at the University of San Francisco
Three albums by the Teenage Filmstars, the bastard sons of Creation Records. Is this another Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde schizoid project?
Picture the scene. Creation Records 1993. Edward Ball, a mild-mannered Creation Company man by day, psychedelic, acid-pop shaman running amok in the recording studio by night. This is unmapped territory where only My Bloody Valentine dared to tread. The Filmstars dare to go even further; music that widens the horizon, broadens the perception and alters the way we listen to sound. But never forgetting the tune!
Edward Ball's cause was to subjugate the genre, confronting its followers with even darker, more foreboding soundscapes coupled with simple blessed melodies. The Teenage Filmstars may be the only artist since MBV to fulfil that criteria. In later years, as Ball developed his solo persona (Mill Hill Self Hate Club, Love Is Blue, etc) he returned once more to vent this suppressed spleen with Buy Our Record Support Our Sickness (1997).
As we've come to expect with ARTPOP! releases the label maintains its high standard, reissuing the three complete albums covering a period of six years. This 37-track 2 CD-disc Special Edition also features 5 bonus tracks. The 24 page booklet contains a 4,000-word discourse on the making and philosophy behind the trilogy complemented with full production notes and photographs.
Track List: Disc 1: Rocket Charms (1993) 1. Pressure 2. Tension 3. Frantic 4. Bad Thoughts 5. Lapse 6. Alone 7. Lost 8. Broken 9. Dark 10. Nothing Bonus Tracks: 11. Time for a Change (Previously Unreleased) 12. Deviant Angels (Previously Unreleased) 13. Forceshields (Previously Unreleased) 14. A Hero*in Music (from Buy Our Record Support Our SIckness) 15. Islamic Disco (from Buy Our Record Support Our Sickness)
Disc 2: Buy Our Record Support Our Sickness (1997) 1. Physical Graffiti 2. English Martyrs 3. Guruprophecy 4. Feeding the Bluejays 5. Designa Socialist 6. Carnaby Smooth 7. A Clockwork Banana 8. H.U.M. 9. You Mystify Me 10. Jeepers Creepers
Bring Back the Cartel (1999) 11. Richard Scott was Ok 12. Whatever Happened to Richard Boon 13. Debbie Sazer Don't Erase Her 14. We're in a Meeting 15. Ballad of Claude Bessy 16. Did Geoff Travis Really Look Like Art Garfunkel? 17. Don't Blink It's Mike Hinc! 18. Scott Piering Wears an Earring 19. The Unpublishable Pete Walmsley 20. How Pink was PInko Fowler 21. We're Useless But We Mean It 22. Sorry, But We Seem to Have Misplaced 50,000 of Your Records.
The Rocket Charms Buy Our Record Support Our Sickness / Bring Back The Cartel 2xCD by the Teenage Filmstars is factory-sealed new. It has never been played and has always been kept in its original packaging.The CDis not a promoorcutout.There areno marks or punches of any kind.All our CDs and vinyl arenew! If you have any questions or want to see additional photos, just email us. | 
