Yes Darling, but is it Art?

Lors d'un précédent article de la série Crossed Covers, je publiais quatre pochettes d'albums, montrant des enfants adoptant des expressions ou poses d'ordinaire réservées aux adultes (oui, je sais, c'est spécifique).
C'était ici.

Pas moyen de retrouver depuis quel peut bien être cet album montrant un angelot, dessiné sur fond rose, accoudé à une table, un tatouage sur le biceps, en train de fumer ou boire, je ne sais plus. Quelqu'un pour m'aider?

Mais j'avais également oublié une autre pochette, que j'aime pourtant beaucoup: Celle du single de Television Personalities: "I was a mod before you was a mod" :

Impossible dès lors, de ne pas publier celles-ci :

Television Personalities - I was a mod before you was a mod (Overground, 1999)
- I Know Where Syd Barrett Live (Rough Trade, 1981)
- Yes Darling, but is it Art? (Fire records, 1995)

A sense of belonging

Once there was confidence but now there is fear
Once there was laughter but now only tears
Once there were reasons for our optimism
But now we're all drowning in a sea of cynicism

But I hope and I pray in my own naive way
That one day we can reach some sort of understanding
Try a little more sharing
Try a little more giving
Might find a sense of belonging
Might find a sense of belonging

And I know you think I'm young and naive
Because I go on CND marches, well that's my decision
I think that you're the one who's naive
If you believe all the things you see on television
It's all propaganda and like a fool you accept it
And like a fool you ignore it
Why don't you try and stop it
To try and find a sense of belonging

I know you watch "World In Action" and "Panorama"
And to you it's just another soap opera drama, it can't happen here
Have a nice cup of tea and we'll all stay calm
And we'll come to no harm in our nice warm underground shelters
There'll be helter skelter
There'll be babies dying, you'll hear their mothers crying
I've seen the devil smiling, I've seen the devil smiling
Try to find a sense of belonging
A sense of belonging

And you laugh and make jokes about what you will do
When the button is pressed and we hear the four minute warning
And if you think it's funny now wait 'till the bomb goes off
You'll all be in fucking hysterics
You'll see babies dying, you'll hear mothers crying
I'm only asking for one thing
Just want a sense of belonging

No more weapons and no more wars
No more violence
What's it all for anyway?

the Television Personalities - Sense of Belonging
the Painted World (Fire records, 1990)
www.myspace.com/tvpersonalities

Don't you think sometimes it's just as bad for me?

Dan Treacy, de Television Personalities, est un de ces songwriters dont on s'inquiète à tout instant de la santé morale et physique. Qu'il soit en tournée (qu'il finit de toute façon par annuler) ou qu'il disparaisse longuement entre deux albums.
Ses textes (souvent à la 1ère ou 2ème personne) et sa musique laissent transparaître une certaine vulnérabilité.
On y reviendra, d'autant que ce groupe reste méconnu.

I'm a danger to myself
And I won't deny it's true
And in the stillness of the night
I feel so troubled through and through
And I know I have to change
But it's easier said than done
And after all nobody said that life had to be fun

But if I close my mind
To the world outside
But I can't close my mind
To the pain inside
But if I close my mind
I can close my eyes
To all the pain I feel

But I'm a stranger to myself
And to the ones that I hold dear
And I feel so helpless every time I fall
And I know you find it hard
Trying to get inside my head
Don't you think sometimes
It's just as bad for me
'Cause I'm a stranger to myself and I always will be
I'm a danger to myself
I'm a stranger to myself

the Television Personalities - Stranger to myself
I was a mod before you was a mod (Overground, 1995)
www.myspace.com/tvpersonalities