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Marquee Moon: Clear Vinyl LP

Marquee Moon: Clear Vinyl LP

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One of the greatest albums of the American punk rock revolution, that isnt even a punk rock album. Straight out the dungeons of CBGBs, Television sculpted a new guitar sound that paved the way for alternative rock, post-punk, new wave, noise and indie (and nu-metal and art rock and grunge and so much more).

Tom Verlaine (vocals, guitar), Billy Ficca (Drums), Fred Smith (bass) and Richard Lloyd (Guitar) shunned the power chords of their contemporaries for intricate, entangled, back and forth guitar melodies, jazzy drumming and romantic language.

The album starts withSee No Evil, their most urgent song on the album. A punk flavoured red herring before the dream lyrics ofVenusand the jazz-blues guitars onFriction. Side A ends with the unavoidable opus, Marquee Moon, a 10 minute odyssey of urban paranoia which includes 2 guitar solos (thats longer thanFree Birdby Lynyrd Skynyrd). On Side B,Guiding Lighthas all the building blocks of an alt-rock ballad, andProve Itis their art-rock manual.

Televisions jaded yet impassioned attitude, high-brow yet lo-fi approach, warm yet jagged sound has gone on to influence so many that it would be a fools errand to try to distill them into one line. Instead, stop and listen to the primary post-punk album. An album that prophesied the death of punk before it had even started (Marquee Mooncame out 9 months beforeNever Mind The Bollocks).

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