It has touched grunge,nu-metal, punk, art-punk, pop, Radioheadand a thousand other genres where white men play guitars. The album has been included in several "best-of" publications: The album usually sits inside the top 30 of Rate Your Music's user-generated list of the 5000 most highly-ranked albums of all time[24] and is number 25 on Acclaimed Music's list. See a translation Report copyright infringement; Answers When you "disagree" with an answer . [71] According to Sputnikmusic's Adam Downer, Television introduced an unprecedented style of rock and roll on Marquee Moon that inaugurated post-punk music, while The Guardian said it scaled "amazing new heights of sophistication and intensity" as a "gorgeous, ringing beacon of post-punk" despite being released several months before the Sex Pistols' Never Mind the Bollocks (1977). [20] Although it is not a concept album, many of the songs share geographical references to lower Manhattan. The short, hook-driven song features dual guitar playing by Verlaine and Lloyd, who performs the solo. [38], In May, Television embarked on a highly successful theatre tour of the UK with Blondie as their supporting act. [48] Sounds also named it the year's best album, while NME ranked it fifth on its year-end list. [40] He also claimed that the music is vigorous, sophisticated, and innovative at a time when rock is wholly conservative. [36] Peter Gammond of Hi-Fi News & Record Review gave it an "A+" and called it one of the most exciting releases in music, partly because it is highlighted by Verlaine's steely, Gábor Szabó-like guitar and authentic rock music. They're loving [ubiquitous] arms". Lloyd said they were "both really roughshod musicians on one hand and desperadoes on the other, with the will to become good". While holidaying in London after the album's completion, Verlaine saw that the band had been put on the magazine's front cover and called Elektra's press department, who encouraged Television to capitalize on their success there with a tour of the UK. The marquee moon is literally a marquee (probably a location where there was an opportunity to perform). They have lost none of their intensity, and if to “leave home” implies a certain broadening of experience, its main evidence on the new record is an occasional use of harmony and the boys’ discovery of carbona (“Carbona Not Glue”), a substitute for airplane glue in getting high. Among the most acclaimed music releases in history, it has consistently featured in professionally curated lists of top albums, including Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (2003), in which it ranked 128th. Sign up for our newsletter. [19], Most of the solos on Marquee Moon follow a pattern wherein Verlaine runs up a major scale but regresses slightly after each step. Although he had seen them perform, Davis was hesitant to sign them at first. By the mid-1970s, Television had become a leading act in the New York music scene. Company Information [1], In 2001, Uncut magazine wrote, "Television may have vowed to 'pull down the future', but no one knew they'd reinvent it. We want to hear from you! Lloyd said that they were "both really roughshod musicians on one hand and desperadoes on the other, with the will to become good". [62], On September 23, 2003, Marquee Moon was reissued by Rhino Entertainment with several bonus tracks, including the first CD appearance of Television's 1975 debut single "Little Johnny Jewel (Parts 1 & 2)". With two guitar solos. The moon is much more like that than it is like a tent. [38] Joan Downs of Time felt that the band's sound is distinguished more by the bold playing of Richard Lloyd, who has the potential to become a major figure in rock guitar. It's just ideas, you know, emotion. 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Leader Tom Verlaine wrote all … © Copyright 2020 Rolling Stone, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. When Mapplethorpe gave Television the contact prints, Lloyd took their favorite shot to a print shop in Times Square and asked for color photocopies for the band members to mull over. It was produced by the band's frontman Tom Verlaine and sound engineer Andy Johns.  |  [37] Its commercial success in the UK was partly fueled by Nick Kent's rave two-page review of the album for NME. "[73] Based on such listings, the aggregate website Acclaimed Music ranks Marquee Moon as the 24th most acclaimed album in history. A windows (pop-into) of information (full-content of Sensagent) triggered by double-clicking any word on your webpage. [79], Writing for Rolling Stone, Rob Sheffield called Marquee Moon "one of the all-time classic guitar albums" whose tremulous guitar twang was an inspiration behind bands such as R.E.M. [3] Eno had produced demos of the songs "Prove It", "Friction", "Venus", and "Marquee Moon" in December 1974, but Television frontman Tom Verlaine did not approve of Eno's sound: "He recorded us very cold and brittle, no resonance. [46] Joan Downs from Time felt the band's sound is distinguished more by the bold playing of Lloyd, who she said has the potential to become a major figure in rock guitar. The band quickly developed a rapport and a musical style that reflected their individual influences: Smith and guitarist Richard Lloyd had a rock and roll background, drummer Billy Ficca was a jazzenthusiast, and Verlaine's tastes varied from the rock band 13th Floor Elevators to jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler. [21] The refrain to "Venus" mentions falling into "the arms of Venus de Milo" (the armless statue), which Verlaine explained as "a term for a state of feeling.