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THE LATE ’70s. Eddie Ball and his school chums record a dozen or so DIY punk pop classic 7” singles. His compositions We Love Malcolm [McLaren] (1978), Cloud Over Liverpool (1979) and I Helped Patrick McGoohan (1980) are amongst the highlights of his band’s O Level and Teenage Filmstars output. (www.myspace.com/olevel).
THE EARY ‘80s. Ed Ball Co-launches Whaam! Records with the Times debut single Red With Purple Flashes and album Pop Goes Art! to counteract the “Crucial” adult-orientated boredom that was emanating out of Rough Trade. Whaam! is a brash, bright, beautiful missile and explosion, igniting the hearts of like-minded souls around the world. (www.myspace.com/thetimeslondon).
THE MID ‘80s. Eduardo’s Times make a series of albums starting with This Is London in a lean no-fucking-about style reinforcing the opinion that songs about despair and anger needn‘t be a series of vague non sequitur lyrics over a drone backing track in the key of E. (www.myspace.com/thetimesupagainstit).
LATE ‘80S / EARLY ‘90s. With the invaluable patronage of Alan McGee’s Creation Records Teddy Ball perceives and interprets the Revolution In The Air caused by Acid E culture and records a series of albums destined to flummox, influence, confound, delight, infuriate weekly pen-pushers and fellow artists alike. Times albums galore (E For Edward, Pure etc) are released in parallel with Love Corporation singles in excelsis (Palatial, Give Me Some Love). These records only seem saner when considered in context with Ball’s Teenage Filmstars monsterpieces Star and Rocket Charms. (www.myspace.com/creationtimes www.myspace.com/teenagefilmstars www.myspace.com/lovecorporation).
THE MID 90s. After a short stint in a chart-topping combo Edward Ball is ready to show his pals how he thinks it ought to be done. National radio stations see fit to allow Ball’s pain-scarred chronicles of love and loss full access to the airwaves. Upon it’s release 20,000 purchasers and True Sensitives attend to the eternal vigil that is Catholic Guilt . . . Amen.
ANGIE DISPRIN ‘Punkake’ fanzine, Norrkoping.
T H E WHAAM! / ARTPOP ! YEARS (1980 to 1986)
THE TIMES - GO! WITH THE TIMES (Rec NOV 1980. Rel 1985)
THE TIMES - POP GOES ART! (JAN 1982)
THE TIMES - THIS IS LONDON (MAY 1983)
THE TIMES - I HELPED PATRICK MCGOOHAN ESCAPE mini LP (NOV 1983)
THE TIMES - HELLO EUROPE (SEPT 1984)
THE TIMES - BLUE PERIOD mini LP (MARCH 1985)
THE TIMES - UP AGAINST IT (JAN 1986)
THE TIMES - ENJOY (DEC 1986)
T H E C R E A T I O N Y E A R S (1988 to 1999)
NOVEMBER 1988
THE TIMES - BEAT TORTURE
[Me, Alan McGee & Dick Green plus Jowe Head. With; Heaven Sent Me Angel, Scarlet & Sapphire, How To Start your Own Country, etc.]
OCTOBER 1989
THE TIMES - E FOR EDWARD
[Me, Me & Me. Featuring; Manchester, Snow and No Love On Haight Street, etc.]
DECEMBER 1989
L'ORANGE MECHANIK - POEMS
[The 'Sound Poem' album.]
FEBRUARY 1990
LOVE CORPORATION - TONES
['The Acid House' album. With; Fleshtones, Monumental and the original Palatial, etc.]
AUGUST 1990
THE TIMES - ET DIEU CREA LA FEMME
[The 'Indie-Dance Cross-over, Cross-Collateral, Cross-Dresser' album. Featuring; Aurore Boreale, Confiance, Extase, etc.]
FEBRUARY 1991
LOVE CORPORATION - LOVERS
['The 2nd Acid House' album'. With; Love, Crystal and the original Give Me Some Love, etc.]
MARCH 1991
THE TIMES - PURE
[The Psychedelic Acid Mod album. Featuring; Chelsea Green To Brighton Beach, A Girl Called Mersey and the original Lundi Bleu, etc.]
JULY 1991
THE TIMES - PINK BALL BROWN BALL ED BALL
[The 'Meaty Beaty Big & Bouncy' album. A Times Creation-period best of.]
FEBRUARY 1992
TEENAGE FILMSTARS - STAR
[The 'MBV On 1% Of The Budget' album. With; Kiss Me, Loving, Kaleidoscope, etc.]
APRIL 1992
THE TIMES - AT THE ASTRADOME
[The 'It Doesn't Actually Say "Live"' Postmodernist Experimental Album. Featuring smashing reworkings of; Big Painting, Cloud Over Liverpool and Manchester, etc.]
MARCH 1993
TEENAGE FILMSTARS - ROCKET CHARMS
[The 'Rodney Bingenheimer Phone Call To Ed "Your LP's been Mastered Backwards''' album. With; Pressure, Tension and Frantic, etc.]
APRIL 1993
THE TIMES - ALTERNATIVE COMMERCIAL CROSSOVER
The 'Let's Have It Large' Album. [Me, Nick Heyward, Tippa Irie and The Bejesus Celidh Band. Featuring; All I Want Is You To Care, Finnegans Break, Ballad Of Georgie Best and Sorry I've Written A Melody, etc.]
OCTOBER 1993
CONSPIRACY OF NOISE - CHICKS WITH DICKS AND BIKER FLICKS
[The 'Death Metal' album. Me and Phil Vane, vocalist out of Extreme Noise Terror.]
NOVEMBER 1994
LOVE CORPORATION - INTELLIGENTSIA
[The 'Last Dance' album. Me and Denise Johnson. Featuring; Translucent, Don't fight It Flaunt It and Cathedrals Of Glitter original mix, etc.]
FEBRUARY 1995
ED BALL - WELCOME TO THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF ED BALL
[The 'Rolled Gold/Story Of The Who/Beatles 67-70' album. '78 to '93 double LP best of.]
JULY 1995
ED BALL - IF A MAN EVER LOVED A WOMAN
[Blood On The Running Tracks Part 1. With; It's Kinda Lonely Where I Am, She's Just Hi-Maintenance, Baby, and the title track, etc]
MARCH 1997
THE TIMES - SAD BUT TRUE
[The 'Great Lost Times Album' from 1987]
(MAY 1997)
EDWARD BALL - CATHOLIC GUILT
[Blood On The Running Tracks Part 2. Featuring; The Mill Hill Self Hate Club, Love Is Blue, Controversial Girlfriend, etc.]
(JUNE 1997)
LOVE COPORATION - DANCE STANCE
[The 'Now That's What I Call Dance Music' album.]
JANUARY 1998
TEENAGE FILMSTARS - BUY OUR RECORD SUPPORT OUR SICKNESS
[The 'Total Mind Fuck' album. Featuring; Physical Graffiti, English Martyrs and You Mystify Me, etc. ]
MAY 1998
THE JOHN MCGEE ORCHESTRA - SLINKY
[The 'Easy Listening Album'. Featuring slinky versions of; Mill Hill Self Hate Club, Trailblaze and It's Kinda Lonely Where I Am, etc.]
SEPTEMBER 1998
THE CHEMICAL PILOT - JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE MIND
[The 'McGee&Ball Big Beat Album'. On Creation sub-label Eruption.]
1999
THE PLAYBOY REVOLUTIONARY - THE MATRIX
[The 'Foster&Ball Big Beat Album'. On Creation sub-label Eruption.]
DECEMBER 1999
EDWARD BALL - WHY DO I NEED A GUN I'M CHELSEA
[The Solo 'Bees Wax' album.]
TEENAGE FILMSTARS - BRING BACK THE CARTEL
[The 'Bitch's Brew Meets Drum'n'Bass' album.]
THE TIMES - PIRATE PLAYLIST 66
[The 'I Haven't forgotten My Roots' album.]
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