Yippeeee!!!! Thanks to the almighty Mog Staff, especially Adam Siegel, who schooled me on the fact that not all music files are created equally Mogable. I learned that regular Windows Media Player(WMP) music files are not the same as mp3s. What can I say, I'm still learning! So I discovered that my WMP can convert my music immediately into mp3 files when ripping onto my puter.What a revelation....
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I just can't tell you how much I love this band! Tom Verlaine's voice is just so fascinating to me, it kinda reminds me of Bowie's voice in quality w/it's quavering, tremelous timbre & depth. Of course, the guitar work is amazing as well as the songwriting too. It all adds up to some great listening. Here's another great song from their eponymously titled cd & is the first cut off the album.
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I had heard about the group Television for years before I actually heard anything by them. They were always referred to as influential & legendary in any music press references that I read in music reviews of new groups. It was quite some time before I finally broke down & bought their eponymously titled cd "Television"('92). Boy what a revelation!I fell in love w/the amazing guitar work on thi...
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Maybe. So here is my other fav song on Television's self titled cd. Just love the surf guitar on this & the lyrics are just so funny: "Let's get some cawfee, let's get some cawfee . . . that cops from, that cops from- Mars!" That Tom Verlaine, what a zany screwball, heh! Listen & learn from a master.
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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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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 guitarist Richard Lloyd missed what was deemed to be his final appearance with the band this past weekend in New York City. Instead Lloyd has been in the hospital fighting a life-threatening case of pneumonia. His Web site reports: “…Richard is currently unwell. He has been in the hospital Intensive Care for 8 days with pneumonia as a primary medical problem. This has responded to t
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Television, formed in New York City in 1973, is an American rock music band. Although Television never achieved mainstream commercial success, they are widely understood as one of the key founders of punk rock.Television was a part of the early New York punk rock scene, contemporaries of bands like the Patti Smith Group and the Ramones. In contrast to the Ramones's focus on minimalist amateuris...
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Notice I didn't say best, as Zimmy has inspired no end of great covers. Television's version of this old warhorse is a little more obscure than some of the others, and it beautifully showcases the guitarwork of Mr. Tom Verlaine.
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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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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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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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Some bands produce albums that are so universally praised, so utterly associated with the band's identity, that follow-ups are cast aside as useless also-rans, destined for the great cut-out bin in the sky and fawned over only by the band's most ardent supporters. Examples of such juggernaut albums are Liz Phair's "Exile In Guyville," Jonathan Richman's first Modern Lovers album, and the first...
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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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