Artist Alternative TV Label Deptford Fun City Records | Release date 1978 | |
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Released May 1978; 7 February 1978 Studio Surrey Sound Studios, Surrey
live at the 100 Club, London, England Producer Alternative TV
Chris Gray The Image Has Cracked
(1978) Vibing Up the Senile Man (Part One)
(1979) Genres Punk rock, Post-punk, Art punk Punk rock albums Fulham Fallout, Crossing the Red Sea with, Another Kind of Blues, Another Music in a Different, Inflammable Material | ||
Alternative tv the image has cracked full lp
The Image Has Cracked is the debut studio album by English rock band Alternative TV. It was released in May 1978 by record label Deptford Fun City.
Contents
Recording and content
The album's studio tracks were recorded at Surrey Sound Studios in Surrey, and the album's live tracks were recorded live at the 100 Club in London on 7 February 1978.
Jools Holland plays synthesizer and piano on two tracks on the album.
Reception
Trouser Press wrote: "Although the abstract stuff doesn't hold up so well, it's still an amazing document of a time and place." In his retrospective review, Ned Raggett of AllMusic called the album "an unfairly neglected classic from the late-'70s upheaval. Seizing on the promise of punk as being a new means of expression rather than a new set of musical rules to be adhered to, Perry, along with a solid-enough band, whip up a series of incendiary pieces that explore as much as they thrash [...] As an expression of going down defiant while punk became a new fashion, it's fierce and brilliant."
Personnel
Songs
1Alternatives9:43
2Action Time Vision2:33
3Why Don’t You Do Me Right?3:12