Album · Tones on Tail
Pop by Tones on Tail
Pop is an album by Tones on Tail, released in 1984. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 4 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Performance”, on 2 lists with a best position of #1184.
Pop, the one and only studio album by Tones on Tail, came out on Beggars Banquet on 6 April 1984, and the title reads like a sly joke from a band rooted in the gothic shadows of Bauhaus. The group began as a side project for Daniel Ash and grew to take in fellow Bauhaus member Kevin Haskins and the band's roadie, Glenn Campling.
What they made is stranger and springier than the parent band: one critic neatly tagged the sound doom-and-dance-pop, and the record lives right on that seam, gloomy atmosphere on one side and rhythms that want you moving on the other. "Performance" and "Real Life" are the tracks that made the countdowns. It stayed a one-off; Ash and Haskins went on to form Love and Rockets with David J.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Pop on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Performance | 2 | #1184 | – | 2002–2003 | |
| 2 | Real Life | 2 | #1484 | – | 2002–2003 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.