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Originally Posted by lucifer_sam
While I'm still here, can someone explain this sacred cow to me:
I cannot understand for the life of me why this gets lumped in with other seminal punk albums, it's just a bunch of recycled Stones riffs with little to nothing to support it. And aside from the title song there isn't a memorable track in the bunch, it's just about as disappointing as Tom Verlaine's countenance is in the album cover. I don't get it at all. |
I love that album - don't know why. There is a saying that goes something like "your reputation precedes you" (not you specifically but "you" meaning like anyone out there) for me that's true about Marquee Moon, because I read some reveiws about it, and read about the band in guitar magazines, long before I bought the CD. Richard Lloyd is very interesting person/gutiar player. Television is sometimes called Punk sometimes, Proto-Punk, the latter is a retronym given to bands that were influential to Punk. He didn't consider Television as proto Punk, he simply thought of Television "street" music. I can understand why Television is labelled as Art Punk, because when I listen to it I approach it the same way as "art music" it something where you listen to developement of different musical ideas, within the song. An other example of what I would find intellectually interesting as music is Duster/Stratosphere, it's space-rock and not something you would play at a dance part for your friends. But it is an album that is worth a listen. I mean I don't know why I mention duster/stratosphere, but I was thinking hey that is another example of an album that doesn't jump out and grabs you with it's catchy-ness of a Pop tune, but is intellectually provocative when you soley concentrate on the guitars.
I wouldn't totally give up on Richard Lloyd, I mean like at the time he joined forces with Robert Quine and both of them had made a formidable contribution to Mathew Sweet's album, Girlfriend.
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Originally Posted by mord
Actually, I like you a lot, Nea. That's why I treat you like ****. It's the MB way.
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