Browse by Artist: TEENAGE FILMSTARS

Artist:	TEENAGE FILMSTARS
Title:	Star
Label:	ARTPOP! (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	ARTPOP 013CD

"November 1991. Creation Records release Loveless by My Bloody Valentine. Three months later, Creation Records release Star by Teenage Filmstars. Rumoured to have been recorded by an aggregation of various Teenage Fanclubbers and Bloody Valentiners, this mysterious album had journalists and pop stars from Britain and America fascinated by its sound. Wherever My Bloody Valentine have roared throughout the universe, the Teenage Filmstars echo has followed, but not blindly. Where the MBV sound is the well-controlled experiment from the lab, the Teenage Filmstars set their rocket to unknown planets -- what is Star? An alchemist's philosophy stone thrown surreptitiously into space? It was in fact, the work of one Edward Ball, in between label duties for Creation Records and recording for the label. 'The Master Of Brinkmanship,' as one taste maker of the time described him. This reissue features four previously unreleased extra tracks, including an early version of Edward Ball's hit single Love Is Blue(!). The 16-page booklet contains a dissertation of Creation period Edward Ball '88 to '91 by Edward Ball 2008, with full production notes and anecdotes about the label. Lavishly illustrated throughout."

Artist:	TEENAGE FILMSTARS
Title:	Star
Label:	CHERRY RED PHONOGRAPH (UK)
Format:	LP
Price:	$31.00
Catalog #:	CRP 103LP

"Released in 1992 on Creation Records (home to My Bloody Valentine, Primal Scream, the Jesus and Mary Chain, and famously Oasis), this is the brainchild of Ed Ball (Television Personalities, Boo Radleys, the Times, etc.). Released almost contemporaneous to My Bloody Valentine's Loveless, Star was similar in feel and effect, but with an even more disturbed ferris wheel of sounds. Celebrated by the music press at the time as a triumph, it picked up where Loveless left off, taking it out into some deranged galaxy where linear time and space cease to exist."

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