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Transmission by The Tea Party
Transmission is an album by The Tea Party, released in 1997. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 9 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Temptation”, on 7 lists with a best position of #44.
Transmission, the fourth album from Canada's Tea Party, came out on EMI in 1997, and it finds Jeff Martin, Stuart Chatwood and Jeff Burrows plugging their brooding, Eastern-tinged rock straight into the machine. The exotic instruments are still there, but now they share space with samples, sequencers and loops, hard rock with a serrated industrial edge that had at least one critic reaching for a Nine Inch Nails comparison, with Chatwood working bass and keyboards.
The lyrics roam into strange, bookish corners: the afterlife on "Psychopomp", the dystopias of Aldous Huxley, George Orwell and Yevgeny Zamyatin on "Army Ants", Giovanni Piranesi's Imaginary Prisons on "Alarum". Riding the momentum of The Edges of Twilight, it earned a Juno nomination in 1998, and an edited "Temptation" even turned up in the PlayStation game Road Rash 3D.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Transmission on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Temptation | 7 | #44 | – | 1997–2010 | |
| 2 | Release | 1 | #158 | – | 1999 | |
| 3 | Babylon | 1 | #853 | – | 1999 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.