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Marquee Moon
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AMG Review of Marquee Moon
Stephen Thomas Erlewine
All Music GuideMarquee Moon is a revolutionary album, but it's a subtle, understated revolution. Without question, it is a guitar rock album -- it's astonishing to hear the interplay between Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd -- but it is a guitar rock album unlike any other. Where their predecessors in the New York punk scene, most notably the Velvet Underground, had fused lues structures with avant-garde flourishes, Television completely strip away any sense of swing or groove, even when they are playing standard three-chord changes. Marquee Moon is comprised entirely of tense garage rockers that spiral into heady intellectual territory, which is achieved through the group's long, interweaving instrumental sections, not through Verlaine's words. That alone made Marquee Moon a trailblazing album -- it's impossible to imagine post-punk soundscapes without it. Of course, it wouldn't have had such an impact if Verlaine hadn't written an excellent set of songs that conveyed a fractured urban mythology unlike any of his contemporaries. From the nervy opener, "See No Evil," to the majestic title track, there is simply not a bad song on the entire record. And what has kept Marquee Moon fresh over the years is how Television flesh out Verlaine's poetry into sweeping sonic epics.
Great New (To Me) Song
Tom Verlaine
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It's great that NPR archives their stuff for guys like me who always seem to miss the really good interviews that turn up on the radio.http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5552242
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Ain't it Cool?
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So, I'm still having iPod/widget troubles . . . sure it'll get all worked out. Actually listened to some tracks on my PC, for some reason, they're miraculously not skipping today!Anywho, for all of you out there on the Mog-o-sphere, espescially the Television fans (the band, not the device), I thought I'd show you all thise wonderful clip from their 1993 tour of the song "Marquee Moon:" . . . a...
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I can already feel the winter settling in...
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As I sit in my Brooklyn apartment staring out the window into the greyness counting the minutes until I can have my next cigarette and cursing myself for not being able to find my zippo, I notice how my musical tastes change with the weather. No more than a few weeks ago I was listening to the upbeat sounds of the summer, rocking my personal classics like ATDI and Deftones and looking into new...
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legendary punk record
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By 1976, I was deeply into reading New York Rocker, Creem, Rock Scene and any ‘zine that published info and photos of this punk rock thing.Patti Smith had already released her album “Horses,” a work that stands up today still, as groundbreaking and genre-defining; it fills in the gaps between rock n roll, poetry, art, punk and the underground. Back then, you couldn’t say “Patti Smith
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Television kaput.
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Sad news on several fronts from the camp that brought you Marquee Moon and some three decades of on-and-off rock excellence. Television guitarist Richard Lloyd-- having already announced his intentions to leave the band-- has been hospitalized for nearly a month now with pneumonia.As of a June 1 posting on Lloyd's website, the man had been in an intensive care unit at an unspecified hospital fo...
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Marquee Moon
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By Television. An old classic, this song gets under my skin. I had to post the complete track, it's too killer for samples.My wonderful wife turned me on to this band, along with Tom Verlane and a bunch of other cool shit. This track is a standout for me, however.
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One for the Mogs who trust me
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Late celebration for my mogday.The revolution was Television (thanks to onlyjokingman)
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So, I'm still having iPod/widget troubles . . . sure it'll get all worked out. Actually listened to some tracks on my PC, for some reason, they're miraculously not skipping today!Anywho, for all of you out there on the Mog-o-sphere, espescially the Television fans (the band, not the device), I thought I'd show you all thise wonderful clip from their 1993 tour of the song "Marquee Moon:" . . . a...
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It's great that NPR archives their stuff for guys like me who always seem to miss the really good interviews that turn up on the radio.http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5552242
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Great New (To Me) Song
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