ESSENTIAL CLASSIC. VINYL FORMAT. Reissue of the first Television album, featuring Tom Verlaine, originally issued on Elektra in 1977. To call it punk rock is like describing Dostoevsky as a short-story writer. It's hard to conceive of a world without "Marquee Moon" being part of it...a revolutionary album! Features: exact reproduction on 180 gram vinyl, original artwork including lyrics and memorabilia, detailed liner notes by Michael Layne Heath, and all-analog mastering from the original master tapes.

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Reissue! Television's 1977 debut album, Marquee Moon, immediately earned critical raves and inspired a number of musicians and bands. Tom Verlaine's vocals and fret work, Richard Lloyd's angular guitar playing, and Billy Ficca and Fred Smith's halting, unexpected drum and bass work all combined to reassert a guitar-based music during a time when soft-rock and disco ruled the airwaves. The band also ventured -- very successfully -- into extended sonic explorations, despite punk's call for shorter, faster s...   [ read more ]

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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...   [ read more ]

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