Label: Cherry Red

Reissued 2021

Subtitled The Artpop! Recordings, this new 6CD set features the albums Ed Ball’s band The Times recorded between 1981 to 1986 for the Pastell, Whaam! and Artpop! labels prior to signing to Creation. Each disc comes with bonus tracks and the boxset’s booklet has a sleeve note written by Lois Wilson.

Track listing:

Go! With The Times

1. You Can Get It  
2. I’m With You  
3. Your Generation  
4. Pinstripes
5. Dressing Up For The Cameras
6. Red With Purple Flashes
7. The Jokes On Zandra
8. Nowhere To Run  
9. No Hard Feelings  
10. My Andy Warhol Poster   
11. Man From Uncle
12. Reflections In An Imperfect Mirror
13. Red With Purple Flashes (7", WHAAM 2)*
14. Biff! Bang! Pow! (7", WHAAM 2)*

JJ Foster Mixes 1994 ([Simulated] Stereo)

1. My Andy Warhol Poster
2. Pinstripes
3. The Joke’s On Zandra
4. Nowhere To Run
5. No Hard Feelings
6. You Can Get It
7. Theme From Man From Uncle
8. Reflections In An Imperfect Mirror
9. My Andy Warhol Poster (Teenage Filmstars “McGoohan” Sessions)*
10. Spoken word: “Joe, Dan And Me… Before The Creation Contxt”*

Pop Goes Art!

1. Picture Gallery
2. Biff! Bang! Pow! 
3. It’s Time!
4. If Now Is The Answer
5. A New Arrangement  
6. Looking At The World Through Dark Shades  
7. I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape
8. Pop Goes Art! (Melody In Mono)
9. Miss London
10. The Sun Never Sets  
11. Easy As Pie  
12. This Is TOMORROW….
13. Have You Seen The Beautiful People*
14. This Is Tomorrow (Alternative Ending)*
15. Picture Gallery (Teenage Filmstars "McGoohan" Sessions)*
16. The Sun Never Sets (Teenage Filmstars "McGoohan" Sessions)*
17. Easy As Pie (Teenage Filmstars "McGoohan" Sessions)*
18. Theme From “Dangerman" (7", POP 49)*
19. I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape (7", POP 49)*
20. Theme From Dangerman (Alternative Session Take)*
21. Goodbye Piccadilly (October 1981 Version)*
22. I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape (A Splash Of Colour Version)*
23. Spoken Word: “I Haven’t Seen Him… In Anybody Else” Speech: Edward Ball December 1999*

This Is London

1. This Is London  
2. Goodbye Piccadilly    
3. Whatever Happened To Thamesbeat
4. If Only  
5. Big Painting  
6. Goodnight Children Everywhere
7. The Party  
8. Stranger Than Fiction
9. (There’s A) Cloud Over Liverpool  
10. Will Success Spoil Frank Summit?
11. The Chimes Of Big Ben  
12. This Green And Pleasant Land
13. Here Come The Holidays (7", POP 50)*
14. Three Cheers For The Sun (7", POP 50)*
15. All Systems Are Go! (I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape 12" EP, No.1)*
16. Up Against It (Long Version) (I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape 12" EP, No.1)*
17. Big Painting (Alternative Session Take)*
18. Whatever Happened To Thamesbeat? (Alternative Session Take)*
19. This Is London (Alternative Session Take)*
20. All Systems Are Go! (Alternative Session Take)*

Hello Europe

1. Radiate  
2. Blue Fire
3. Victory Drums
4. Everything Turns To Black And White
5. Boys Brigade
6. Where The Blue Begins  
7. Public Reaction Killed This Cat  
8. Faith
9. Things We’ve Learnt 10 Kulturshock
10. Kulturshock  
    
11. Power Is Forever (7", POP 46)*
12. Stop In The Name Of Love (Blue Period 12" Ep, No.2)*
13. Tears On A Rainy Sunday (Blue Period 12" Ep, No.2)*
14. I’ll See You In My In My Dreams (Blue Period 12" Ep, No.2)*
15. Power Is Forever (Alternative Session Take)*
16. Biff Bang Pow (Live In Germany 1985)*
17. Red With Purple Flashes (Live In Germany 1985)*

 Up Against It (Joe Orton's Screenplay For The Beatles)

1. Up Against It  
2. Last Tango For One
3. Boys About Town
4. Garden In The Moonlight (Love Theme For McTurk And Rowena)
5. WPC Boon
6. Most Modern Woman In The World
7. Jacks Revolution
8. Ladies Of The Cause
9. Mutiny In The British Empire
10. Escape!  
11. She’s A Professional  
12. It’s Cabaret Time!
13. The War
14. The Wedding Song
15. David Jones (Is On His Way) (Boys About Town 12" EP, POP 43DOZ)*
16. Victim (Boys About Town 12" EP, POP 43DOZ)*
17. Song For Joe Orton (Boys About Town 12" EP, POP 43DOZ)*
18. London Boys (7", PHZ-1)*
19. Dada Europe (I’m So Cut Up About You) (Unicorn One, PHZA-3)*
20. Oranges And Lemons*
21. Dial L For Love*

Enjoy

1. Britannia Sleeps Tonight
2. Something Like The Truth
3. (Where To Go) When The Sun Goes Down
4. Times TV
5. Think Big!
6. Housewives Law
7. The Third Wave  
8. The American Way
9. Winning Hearts And Minds
10. Cousin Frank Goes To Hollywood
11. Enjoy  
12. Dream Now (Young America)  
13. Times Radio    
14. When The Talking Had To Stop
15. Trailer From Enjoy (Times T.V. 12" EP, BLAZE 16T)*
16. The Polite Force (Times T.V. 12" EP, BLAZE 16T)*
    
17. El Aragua (Times T.V. 12" EP, BLAZE 16T)*
    
18. Pick It Up (Times T.V. 12" EP, BLAZE 16T)*
    
19. Times Television Sting (Times T.V. 12" EP, BLAZE 16T)*
    
20. If Only (Live At The 100 Club 1987)*
    
21. (There’s A) Cloud Over Liverpool (Live At The 100 Club 1987)*
    
22. I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape (Thanks For The Trip Dad)*
    

Bonus Track*