The Times

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There are at least three (musical) bands / artists called The Times, including two British 'mod' groups: one from the original mod movement of the 1960s, the other one from the 'mod revival' of around 1980. Scrobbles for The Times may also include audio recordings, podcasts and satirical sketches issued by the British news organization that publishes the British daily newspapeer, The Times. The three music groups called The Times are... 1. The Times were a British rock band of the 1980s and 1990s with Ed Ball as its prominent figure. Ball, obsessed with 1960s Britpop, formed the band while he still was a member of the Television Personalities and recorded the first The Times album in 1980. It went unreleased until 1985 and the second album, Pop Goes Art, was released in 1982. The Times released a steady stream of albums and EPs on Ball's own Artpop! label after he left the Television Personalities: This is London (1983), I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape (1983), Hello Europe (1984), Blue Period (1985), Boys About Town (1985), Up Against It (1986) and Enjoy The Times (1986). The Times broke up around the end of 1986 and Ball joined Joe Foster as an executive at Creation Records. It wasn't long, however, before Ball restarted The Times; this time the name was cover for a solo career with a less Carnaby Street-obsessed outlook and more of an interest in current trends. 1988's Beat Torture was standard late-'80s U.K. guitar jangle à la Creation's house band, Biff Bang Pow!,

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The Bugle - Audio Newspaper For A Visual World

This Is London

Pop Goes Art

TheGame Podcast

I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape

Enjoy / Up Against It

E for Edward / Pure / Et Dieu Crea La Femme

Pink Ball, Brown Ball, Ed Ball

Pop Goes Art!

Go! With The Times

Soda Pop Rok 'N' Roll

Children of Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the Second Psychedelic Era 1976-1996

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