{"product_id":"television-marquee-moon-new-lp","title":"Television - Marquee Moon - New LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: New LP Label: Elektra Cat. No. \u003cspan\u003e81227971588 \u003c\/span\u003eBarcode: \u003cspan\u003e81227971588\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReleased: 05\/\u003cspan\u003e07\/2019\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the greatest albums of the American punk rock revolution, that isn’t even a punk rock album. Straight out the dungeons of CBGB’s, 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).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album starts with \"\u003cem\u003eSee No Evil\u003c\/em\u003e,\" their most urgent song on the album. A punk flavored red herring before the dream lyrics of \"\u003cem\u003eVenus\u003c\/em\u003e\" and the jazz-blues guitars on \"\u003cem\u003eFriction\u003c\/em\u003e.\" Side A ends with the unavoidable opus, \"\u003cem\u003eMarquee Moon\u003c\/em\u003e,\" a 10-minute odyssey of urban paranoia which includes 2 guitar solos (that’s longer than \"\u003cem\u003eFree Bird\u003c\/em\u003e\" by Lynyrd Skynyrd).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn Side B, \"\u003cem\u003eGuiding Light\u003c\/em\u003e\" has all the building blocks of an alt-rock ballad, and \"\u003cem\u003eProve It\u003c\/em\u003e\" is their art-rock manual. Television’s 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 fool’s errand to try to distill them into one line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInstead, stop and listen to the primary post-punk album. An album that prophesied the death of punk before it had even started (\"\u003cem\u003eMarquee Moon\u003c\/em\u003e\" came out 9 months before\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNever Mind The Bollocks...\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elektra","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56472757633404,"sku":"81227971588","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0275\/9763\/5678\/files\/ded7c54e-156b-4d4f-89a9-4b6d2657e6ad_thumbnail_4096.webp?v=1773156811","url":"https:\/\/offthebeatentracks.co.uk\/products\/television-marquee-moon-new-lp","provider":"Off The Beaten Tracks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}