Verlaine // Television
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They sound like a tribute band. You can hear Waiting for the Man in this one and the one I posted sounds like Heroin sped up.
Benny Bunter
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Anyone ever listened to any of Verlaine's solo albums? IIRC Woebot did a breakdown of them on one of his blogs but I never got round to checking them out.
linebaugh
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that purple button up...
I was listening to this instrumental one the other night, but I've never properly checked out his solo stuff.
Leo posted a fun solo thing of his in Choon of the Day last night.
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Benny Bunter
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Just found this in his 100 lost rock albums book, hope he won't mind me posting it
Benny Bunter
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I do feel like Richard Lloyd should get much more credit for the greatness of Marquee moon. This is a good read if you're geeky about how albums are made, like me
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Friction: The Making Of Television’s Marquee Moon
In 2012, I sat down with Television’s Richard Lloyd to discuss the making of the band’s seminal debut album, Marquee Moon, which was released in February 1977. The original feature, told entirely i…
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jenks
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I’ve got a really good live album from a London show in 82. In the sleeve notes he said he wanted to put it out to show he didn’t need to rely on Lloyd to make that distinctive sound. Felt a bit churlish to say. But it has got some fantastic tracks in it and is a reminder his solo stuff straight after Television was on it.
Benny Bunter
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I'll have to investigate more, only ever listened to MM, and Adventure once I think and thought that was rubbish.
They'd been playing/developing the songs live off that 1st album for years before they recorded it, that's a big factor too in how it turned out so good.
They'd been playing/developing the songs live off that 1st album for years before they recorded it, that's a big factor too in how it turned out so good.
It definitely sounds like 1987, but I'm enjoying it.
Benny Bunter
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'I put on Television's 'Little Johnny Jewel' and couldn't believe that they had the nerve to record it.. It made the New York Dolls sound like Yes - the bass had no bass, the guitars had no power at all and the singing was awful. In fact the whole record was awful. And epic. And completely brilliant and we never stopped playing it.' Julian Cope, Head On
Benny Bunter
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Sounds so much like (a more inept) Can that. Probably should have have waited another year before recording it, would have been truly amazing if they'd got it up to Marquee Moon levels of tightness
Benny Bunter
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The other record that's a big precursor of Television/Verlaine is The Byrd's 8 miles high, going for a Coltrane thing with the guitar solos, failing gloriously.
