'77 Television LP "Marquee Moon" Tom Verlaine Orig NM
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Up For Auction: Super American Punk / New York Punk / Punk/New Wave / Proto-Punk / Punk LP ~ In Spectacular Condition!!!
1977 Elektra Records, 12 inch, 33 1/3 RPM Stereo LP, Cat. #7E 1098, First Pressing ("Butterfly" Label). Featuring: Television. Titled: "Marquee Moon".
Song Titles Include: 1. See No Evil [Verlaine] 3:58 // 2. Venus [Verlaine] 3:54 // 3. Friction [Verlaine] 4:45 // 4. Marquee Moon [Verlaine] 10:47 // 5. Elevation [Verlaine] 5:10 // 6. Guiding Light [Verlaine] 5:37 // 7. Prove It [Verlaine] 5:05 // 8. Torn Curtain [Verlaine] 7:01.
If you're not familiar with this Artist or this release, here's some additional information:
"Television were one of the most creative bands to emerge from New York's punk scene of the mid-'70s, creating an influential new guitar vocabulary. While guitarists Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd liked to jam, they didn't follow the accepted rock structures for improvisation — they removed the blues while retaining the raw energy of garage rock, adding complex, lyrical solo lines that recalled both jazz and rock. With its angular rhythms and fluid leads, Television's music always went in unconventional directions, laying the groundwork for many of the guitar-based post-punk pop groups of the late '70s and '80s.
Marquee 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 blues 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".
The Vinyl is Near Mint (9-9.5 of 10) in condition. With Original Inner Sleeve. The cover is very nice. The issues to report: some very minor edge and shelf wear. Nothing serious on this great LP!!
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