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jake_lex
2023-01-29 12:00:07 AM  
Television - Marquee Moon
Youtube jlbunmCbTBA


One of the few songs longer than 10 minutes long that you want to just keep going.
 
Spartapuss
2023-01-29 12:01:08 AM  
Carried Away (Remastered)
Youtube zgq9faYD1Kg
 
Get Rich or Try Dyin'
2023-01-29 12:02:34 AM  
Little Johnny Jewel
Youtube Nx6w7XJ6Nxo
 
jake_lex
2023-01-29 12:03:48 AM  

Spartapuss: [Youtube-video https://www.youtube.com/embed/zgq9faYD1Kg]


Marquee Moon is such a masterpiece that Adventure gets tragically overlooked, but it's just amazing too.
 
10Speed
2023-01-29 12:24:18 AM  

jake_lex: [Youtube-video https://www.youtube.com/embed/jlbunmCbTBA]

One of the few songs longer than 10 minutes long that you want to just keep going.


That entire album is perfection from start to finish. Anyone who thinks guitar heroics are the sole province of metal and hard rock needs to listen to this freaking majesty.
 
GlamrLama
2023-01-29 12:25:35 AM  
Not many debut albums can match up against Marquee Moon. With today's pop music focused heavily on a singles mentality we are unlikely to anything like it for a great while. Thanks for the great music Tom.
 
10Speed
2023-01-29 12:25:37 AM  
I'm glad I took my one and only chance to see them live, at All Tomorrow's Parties in 2002. Great show.
 
Trainspotr
2023-01-29 12:32:08 AM  
Luna - 23 Minutes in Brussels
Youtube VDkY3NCGxK8
 
melfunction
2023-01-29 12:54:31 AM  
Tom Verlaine's solo records were some of the best of the eighties.
 
Get Rich or Try Dyin'
2023-01-29 1:08:14 AM  

GlamrLama: Not many debut albums can match up against Marquee Moon. With today's pop music focused heavily on a singles mentality we are unlikely to anything like it for a great while. Thanks for the great music Tom.


Pop music has always been about the single. They even have a physical release format of the single for vinyl, tape and disk. b/w (backed with) and b-side is a thing for a reason.
 
Skids
2023-01-29 1:09:07 AM  
As a kid, I remember my friends and I being mezmorized by the first album. I remained a fan since.
 
DaAlien
2023-01-29 1:14:40 AM  
There aren't too many bands that can cover Television songs, but...

Wilco - Marquee Moon (Television)
Youtube z920by5Cd-Q
 
10Speed
2023-01-29 1:34:07 AM  

DaAlien: There aren't too many bands that can cover Television songs, but...

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When you have Nels Cline on guitar, all things are possible.
 
patcarew [BareFark]
2023-01-29 3:14:29 AM  
okAY, going to try to keep this short:

Marquee Moon. Hell yeah.

Adventure. Our band did "Ain't That Nothing", what a great song.

Tom Verlaine first eponymous album. Great. One song "Breaking In My Heart", the only song I know that was a collaboration with Ricky Wilson from the B52s. Freaking beautiful man.

But if you have a minute, check out the album "Dreamtime". Two songs, "A Future In Noise", and "Down On the Farm". You're welcome.
 
Conservative Evangelical Millennial Cyclist
2023-01-29 4:16:14 AM  
Looks more like a bowl cut.
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Hunter Biden's Oversized Yogurt Slinger
2023-01-29 6:25:32 AM  

DaAlien: There aren't too many bands that can cover Television songs, but...

[YouTube video: Wilco - Marquee Moon (Television)]


Thete really aren't enough actual Television songs that you had to vomit Jeff Hairbag Tweedy into the thread?

Seriously. Wilco is garbage. That's disgusting. What's wrong with you?
 
Imaginativescreenname [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 6:33:04 AM  
This was a sad thing to wake up to. I remember buying a compilation of pink bands. Had ramones, blonde, suicide, dead boys. Was my introduction to most of those and other groups and was quite an eye opener for 16 year old me. Bit the two tracks I played the most were "Venus" and "See No Evil."  There was something mesmerizing about that gorgeous guitar interplay and unusual David Byrne-like voice. I wanted and needed more, eventually tracked down a copy of Marquee Moon and it didn't blow my mind at first. It's not that kind of album for me , was more of a creeper. Took some distance from it for the full realization that it's truly a sublime masterpiece to kick in.

This might be an odd choice for the ones who know this album, but every song is so farking good.

Elevation
Youtube VAdRgg9K-Jw
 
Imaginativescreenname [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 6:39:18 AM  
For those interested, the compilation I mentioned. Great primer.

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FlashHarry [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 6:59:28 AM  
Marquee Moon changed my life when I heard it as a freshman in college. Verlaine, along with Richard Thompson, probably most influenced me as a guitarist.

And the end of the guitar solo on the title track, Marquee Moon, where the piano burst through, is one of the greatest pieces of music I've ever heard - up there with Eric Dolphy's flute entrance in Oliver Nelson's "Stolen Moments."
 
drewogatory
2023-01-29 9:12:21 AM  

Imaginativescreenname: For those interested, the compilation I mentioned. Great primer.

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There's a bunch of those. 9 discs total I think? Rhino released them separately and in a set.
 
Billy Liar
2023-01-29 10:02:40 AM  

Imaginativescreenname: For those interested, the compilation I mentioned. Great primer.

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From when you could pick up just about anything on Sire Records, only knowing a little about the band, and pretty much be assured that it was going to be at least a decent album.
 
deadsanta
2023-01-29 10:04:02 AM  

Hunter Biden's Oversized Yogurt Slinger: DaAlien: There aren't too many bands that can cover Television songs, but...

[YouTube video: Wilco - Marquee Moon (Television)]

Thete really aren't enough actual Television songs that you had to vomit Jeff Hairbag Tweedy into the thread?

Seriously. Wilco is garbage. That's disgusting. What's wrong with you?


Dude, seriously, Verlaine admired Wilco enough to team up with their guitarist for an album and Richard LLoyd was/is besties with Jeff Tweedy, so the band you love, loves the band you hate.  What are you gonna do?
 
bigbadideasinaction
2023-01-29 11:09:58 AM  
Aw man, I found Television in high school in the 90s and after my initial "wait, how is this punk?" befuddlement wore off I was hooked.

For me one of the things was his solos were amazing, but also remarkably simple and playable. Marquee Moon was probably the first album I really sat down and learned some of the main riffs and solos off of, because they're simple and beautiful.

RIP dude, you've created music that will be treasured for a long time as something unique.
 
vogonity
2023-01-29 11:42:23 AM  
"See No Evil" has been my ringtone for at least ten years.
 
DoctorCal
2023-01-29 12:23:53 PM  
Television - Venus
Youtube 4f3d5ZdE4vY
 
Madison_Smiled [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-29 12:26:21 PM  
He left behind a solid body of work, solo and with Television. I'm no guitar nerd, but when I listen to Verlaine, my heart tells me that this is a man who can play.

"Marquee Moon" is such a perfect song that it frustrates me that its length (10 minutes without a single wasted note) can make it a hard sell for a modern (read: "short") attention span. I once covered a shift for a young colleague who promised me he would return the favor. I told him the only thing I wanted in return was for him to listen to this song. The math spoke for itself: a 10-minute commitment beats the hell out of 6 hours, so he complied...and he thought the song was great.
 
Someone Else's Alt [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 12:26:57 PM  
The music scene in NYC in the late 70s-early/mid 80s was unparalleled in US history.

It was a great time to be in high school in NYC. By the late 80s almost everyone I knew was in a band and NYC had hundreds of venues for punk, metal, NY/HC (Bad Brains at CBGBs anyone?), hard rock, blues, jazz, you name it. There was never a night in the city you couldn't find a good local band playing and every weekend all over the city there were clubs and bars with good live acts.
 
Exile On Beale Street [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-29 12:28:27 PM  
Aw shiat. Agree with what everyone else said. Never got to see him, but I did get to see this. It was...interesting. 
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FlashHarry [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 12:29:00 PM  

FlashHarry: one of the greatest pieces of music


someone funnied this.

welcome to Fark, I guess...
 
DoctorCal
2023-01-29 12:30:09 PM  
Note the comment from Richard Lloyd.

Television Marquee Moon--Demo
Youtube YS27RAXhBWQ
 
DoctorCal
2023-01-29 12:33:19 PM  
Television - Foxhole (live)
Youtube BKgyjw478B8
 
DoctorCal
2023-01-29 12:52:35 PM  
Not TV, but if you're a fan, you might like this.

richard lloyd get off of my cloud movie
Youtube Ro0xpfo5cLY
 
DoctorCal
2023-01-29 12:54:04 PM  
https://www.uncut.co.uk/features/the-story-of-television-by-richard-lloyd-71368/
 
DoctorCal
2023-01-29 12:55:16 PM  
From last March

https://www.uncut.co.uk/features/interviews/musicians-collaborators-dissect-work-of-television-tom-verlaine-137344/
 
LewDux [OhFark]
2023-01-29 1:14:54 PM  

bigbadideasinaction: "wait, how is this punk?"



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dereksmalls
2023-01-29 2:14:20 PM  

LewDux: bigbadideasinaction: "wait, how is this punk?"


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LewDux [OhFark]
2023-01-29 3:16:47 PM  
Raw beef slapping noises
AKA pre-metalurgical industrial
 
Cornelius Dribble
2023-01-29 4:34:45 PM  
The Cadillac turned back into the graveyard.
 
Hunter Biden's Oversized Yogurt Slinger
2023-01-29 4:45:26 PM  
CSB. And it is cool. It means a lot to me. Listen...

I used to work at Strand bookstore, in the basement. The uncorrected poetry proofs were stored there and Tom Verlaine came in all the time. At least once a week. My friend Jack - dead these last 16 years in May - knew I was a huge fan. So he played a trick on me. He waited until Tom was behind me one day and I didn't know it. "Hey, aren't you a huge Television and Tom Verlaine fanatic?" So of course I gushed like a little girl.

Jack spun me around and I was immediately staring up into Tom's face. He smiled and just said "Wow, thanks, what's your name, man?" After that day he greeted me by name.

I left NYC. 5 years later I went back, walked by Strand and he was outside on the sidewalk looking at the discount racks. I caught his eye as I walked by and I heard "Hey (real name) what's going on? I haven't seen you in a long time." We talked for about 20 minutes. That was the last time I saw him.
 
FlashHarry [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 5:13:49 PM  
"I fell right into the arms of Venus de Milo."

LOL
 
buttercat
2023-01-29 6:13:35 PM  
It's a major drag that he's dead.

Great band and musician.

RIP.
 
dereksmalls
2023-01-29 7:42:57 PM  
Another corporate overlord who raised his children poorly and farked over all the gen xers and millenials.
So long, boomer.
 
Hunter Biden's Oversized Yogurt Slinger
2023-01-29 8:27:57 PM  

dereksmalls: Another corporate overlord who raised his children poorly and farked over all the gen xers and millenials.
So long, boomer.


Did you hit your head?
 
10Speed
2023-01-29 10:31:31 PM  

Hunter Biden's Oversized Yogurt Slinger: CSB. And it is cool. It means a lot to me. Listen...

I used to work at Strand bookstore, in the basement. The uncorrected poetry proofs were stored there and Tom Verlaine came in all the time. At least once a week. My friend Jack - dead these last 16 years in May - knew I was a huge fan. So he played a trick on me. He waited until Tom was behind me one day and I didn't know it. "Hey, aren't you a huge Television and Tom Verlaine fanatic?" So of course I gushed like a little girl.

Jack spun me around and I was immediately staring up into Tom's face. He smiled and just said "Wow, thanks, what's your name, man?" After that day he greeted me by name.

I left NYC. 5 years later I went back, walked by Strand and he was outside on the sidewalk looking at the discount racks. I caught his eye as I walked by and I heard "Hey (real name) what's going on? I haven't seen you in a long time." We talked for about 20 minutes. That was the last time I saw him.


THAT is a genuine CSB.
 
ODBHB
2023-01-29 10:55:17 PM  

Trainspotr: [Youtube-video https://www.youtube.com/embed/VDkY3NCGxK8]


I just saw Luna here in Seattle a week or so ago, and they played a cover of Marquee Moon...and nailed it.
 
FlashHarry [TotalFark]
2023-01-30 8:19:55 AM  

dereksmalls: Another corporate overlord who raised his children poorly and farked over all the gen xers and millenials.
So long, boomer.


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