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TELEVISION

RICHARD LLOYD, TOM VERLAINE, RICHARD HELL, BILLY FICCA

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

tracklist

Side A: GLORY - DAYS - FOXHOLE - CAREFUL

Side B: CARRIED AWAY - THE FIRE - AIN'T THAT NOTHIN' - THE DREAMS DREAM

MADE IN ENGLAND    ORIGINAL  PRESSING

RED VINYL

SINGLE COVER + RED INNER SLEEVE + INSERT

NOTES: First pressing relased with red vinyl, butterfly design on labels and earliest matrices.

Includes a 2-sided insert with printed lyrics/credits and red inner sleeve . Insert states that "Carried Away" is the first song on side two, when it is the last song on side one.

Later issued with the standard black vinyl edition and same catalogue code.

Barcode: none

Label Code: none

LABEL: ELEKTRA - 'BUTTERFLY' LABEL - BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover: (spine) K52072   (rear) K52046 (6E-133)

Catalog on labels: K 52072  K 52072 A* / K 52072  K 52072 B*

 Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): K52072 A1 ALLEN

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): K52072 B1 ALLEN

On labels: rim text reads "All rights.........Warner Communications Company Ⓦ"

Made in UK         ℗ & © 1978

Warner Bros. Music Ltd. (.....)

Produced by Tom Verlaine with John Jansen

On Insert: Lyrics & Credits

On Back Cover: Tracklist

© 1978 An Elektra Asylum Recording Distributed by WEA Records. W A Warner Communications Company

Sleeve printed and made in England by Gothic Print Finishers Ltd. London SE9 2EQ.

RECORD EX but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)

Television's groundbreaking first album, Marquee Moon, was as close to a perfect debut as any band made in the 1970s, and in many respects it would have been all but impossible for the band to top it. One senses that Television knew this, because Adventure seems designed to avoid the comparisons by focusing on a different side of the band's personality. Where Marquee Moon was direct and straightforward in its approach, with the subtleties clearly in the performance and not in the production, Adventure is a decidedly softer and less aggressive disc, and while John Jansen's production isn't intrusive, it does round off the edges of the band's sound in a way Andy Johns' work on the first album did not. But the two qualities that really made Marquee Moon so special were Tom Verlaine's songs and the way his guitar work meshed with that of Richard Lloyd, whose style was less showy but whose gifts were just as impressive, and if you have to listen a bit harder to Adventure, it doesn't take long to realize that both of those virtues are more than apparent here, and while one might wish the sound had a bit more bite on "Foxhole" or "Ain't That Nothin'," the quieter, more layered sound is just what the doctor ordered for "Glory" and "The Dream's Dream." Sure, Marquee Moon is a better album, but Adventure has one of the greatest guitar bands of all time playing superbly on a set of truly fine songs, and albums like this come along far too infrequently for anyone to ignore music this pleasurable simply on the grounds of relative evaluation; it's not quite a masterpiece, but it's a brilliant record by any yardstick...(AllMusic)