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Privilege
Privilege
Studio album by Television Personalities
Released	February 1990
Genre	Punk rock, new wave
Length	46:40
Label	Fire
Producer	Phil Vinall, Television Personalities
Television Personalities chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
Chicago Tribune	^[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[4]
Spin Alternative Record Guide	7/10^[5]

Privilege is an album by English rock band Television Personalities.^[6]^[7] It was released in 1990 through Fire Records.^[4]^[8] The album was recorded as a trio, with former Swell Maps member Jowe Head and drummer Jeffrey Bloom accompanying Dan Treacy.^[9]

Critical reception

Jason Ankeny of AllMusic gave the album a positive review, describing it as "one of the group's most personal and dark records."^[2] Chicago Tribune critic David Levinsky wrote that "the LP suffers from overly lush production, supplying one too many monolithic synth chords." Levinsky also stated: "We get a record suffering from the shotgun approach: a couple of exceptional singles and a lot of also-rans."^[3] In contrast, Ira Robbins of Trouser Press stated: "Privilege dresses Treacy's characteristically direct songs with just the right amount of keyboards, and his voice is as boyishly engaging as ever."^[9] The Spin Alternative Record Guide called the album "overproduced," but wrote that "Treacy can still make his pop obsessions gleam like vintage Campbell's soup cans."^[5]

Track listing

All songs written by Dan Treacy, except where noted.

"Paradise Is For The Blessed" – 3:49
"A Good And Faithful Servant" – 3:38
"Conscience Tells Me No" – 3:29
"My Hedonistic Tendencies" – 4:05
"All My Dreams Are Dead" – 3:00
"Salvador Dali's Garden Party" – 3:32
"The Man Who Paints The Rainbows" – 2:44
"What If It's Raining?" – 3:37
"Sad Mona Lisa" – 2:40
"The Engine Driver Song" – 2:55
"Sometimes I Think You Know Me Better Than I Know Myself" – 1:51
"Privilege" – 3:43
"The Room At The Top Of The Stairs" (Randall Hylton, Treacy) – 3:35
"This Time There's No Happy Ending" – 2:20
"Part One: Fulfilling The Contractual Obligations" – 1:47

Personnel

Television Personalities

Jowe Head – bass
Jefferey Bloom – drums
Dan Treacy – guitar, keyboards, vocals
Jowe Head – strings, trumpet

Technical

Matthew Fisher – engineering
Wilson Sharp – engineering
Television Personalities – production
Phil Vinall – production

References

^ "Television Personalities – Privilege". FIRE RECORDS. 19 February 2018.
^ ^a ^b Ankeny, Jason. "Television Personalities - Privilege". AllMusic. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
^ ^a ^b Levinsky, David (29 March 1990). "Television Personalities - Privilege". The Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
^ ^a ^b Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 8. MUZE. p. 83.
^ ^a ^b Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. 1995. pp. 399–400.
^ "Television Personalities | Biography & History". AllMusic.
^ The Rough Guide to Rock (2nd ed.). Rough Guides Ltd. 1999. p. 994.
^ "Spins". SPIN. SPIN Media LLC. 2 June 1990 – via Google Books.
^ ^a ^b Robbins, Ira. "Television Personalities". Trouser Press. Retrieved 5 January 2015.