My Dark Places (album)

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My Dark Places
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Studio album by
Released27 February 2006
RecordedSoupstudio, London
Length53:15
Label Domino WIGCD166
Producer Simon Trought
Television Personalities chronology
Don't Cry Baby, It's Only a Movie
(1998)
My Dark Places
(2006)
Are We Nearly There Yet?
(2007)

My Dark Places is an album by the Television Personalities, released in 2006. [1]

Contents

Professional ratings
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Metacritic (72/100) [2]
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Track listing

All tracks composed by Daniel Treacy

  1. "Special Chair" – 3:03
  2. "All the Young Children on Crack" – 3:13
  3. "Sick Again" – 2:15
  4. "Ex-Girlfriend Club" – 4:18
  5. "Dream the Sweetest Dreams" – 2:48
  6. "Velvet Underground" – 3:21
  7. "My Dark Places" – 3:00
  8. "I'm Not Your Typical Boy" – 3:51
  9. "You Kept Me Waiting Too Long" – 4:27
  10. "They'll Have to Catch Us First" – 2:14
  11. "She Can' Stop Traffic" – 3:43
  12. "Tell Me About Your Day" – 3:00
  13. "Then a Big Boy Came and Knocked It All Down" – 4:57
  14. "I Hope You're Happy Now" – 2:31
  15. "No More I Hate You's" – 2:47
  16. "There's No Beautiful Way to Say Goodbye" – 3:47

Personnel

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References

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  2. "My Dark Places". metacritic.com. Retrieved 2014-09-22.
  3. https://www.allmusic.com/album/my-dark-places-mw0000351266
  4. Abebe, Nitsuh (16 March 2006). "Television Personalities - My Dark Places". Pitchfork Media . Archived from the original on 1 July 2018. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
  5. "Television Personalities - My Dark Places". Rolling Stone . 14 April 2006. Archived from the original on 7 August 2007. Retrieved 24 November 2018.