Alternative TV  

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Alternative TV (sometimes known as ATV) are an English band formed in London in 1977.

Discography

Studio albums

• The Image Has Cracked (1978)
• Vibing Up the Senile Man (Part One) (1979)
• Strange Kicks (1981)
• Peep Show (1987)
• Dragon Love (1990)
• My Life as a Child Star (1994)
• Punk Life (1998)
• Apollo (1999)
• Revolution (2001)
• Opposing Forces (2015)

Split albums

• Scars on Sunday (1980) (with The Good Missionaries)
• An Ye as Well (1980) (with The Good Missionaries)

Extended plays

• Love/Sex EP (1986)
• The Sol EP (1990)
• Dark Places (2018)

Live albums

• What You See Is What You Are (1978) (with Here and Now)
• Live at the Rat Club '77 (1979)
• Live 1978 (1993)
• The Radio Sessions (1995)
• The Industrial Sessions 1977 (1996)
• 25 Years of ATV - Live at CBGB (2002) - reissued as Love Lies Limp (2002)
• Viva la Rock 'n' Roll (2004)
• Black and White: Live (2009)

Compilation albums

• Action Time Vision (1980)
• Splitting in 2 – Selected Viewing (1989)
• The Image Has Cracked – The Alternative TV Collection (1994)
• Vibing Up the Senile Man – The Second Alternative TV Collection (1996)
• Action Time Vision - the Very Best of Mark Perry and ATV (1977-1999) (1999)
• Action Time Vision - The ATV Anthology (2003)
• In Control (2006)
• Viva La Rock 'n' Roll (2015) 4-CD box set containing the complete recordings originally on Deptford Fun City.Contains the albums "The Image has cracked","Vibing up the Senile Man","Fire From Heaven" and "Snappy Tunes" with bonus tracks,singles,E.P. tracks and the ATV part of the split album "What you see is what you are".Released on Cherry Red.

Singles

• "Love Lies Limp" (1977)
• "How Much Longer" (1977)
• "Life After Life" (1977)
• "Action Time Vision" (1978)
• "Life"/"Love Lies Limp" (1978)
• "The Force Is Blind" (1979)
• "The Ancient Rebels" (1981)
• "Communicate" (1981)
• "Welcome to the End of Fun" (1986)
• "My Baby's Laughing (Empty Summer Dream)" (1987)
• "Best Wishes" (1994)
• "Purpose In My Life" (1993)
• "Unlikely Star" (1999)
• "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue" (2004)
• "This Little Girl"/"Art School Project" (2016)
• "Negative, Primitive" (2017)
• "Walls"/"Hollow Stream" (2019)