Television – Marquee Moon - (Elektra ELK 52 046) 24/96 Vinyl Rip

Lumped in with the punk explosion of 77, Television were no three-chord heroes. What set them and their New York contemporaries apart was diversity and stronger links to the past. By the release of Marquee Moon Verlaine and Co. had been together for at least three years and owed as much to their love of Love, Moby Grape and Fairport Convention as to a desire to break the mould. What's more, they really could play. The rapture at finally being able to hear their 1975 debut single ''Little Johnny Jewel'' on CD is only matched by amazement at how weedy and technically faltering it sounds. By 1977 they could play this material in their sleep and were totally unafraid of being captured virtually live in the studio by Zeppelin's engineer, Andy Johns.
Marquee Moon thus burst, seemingly, out of nowhere: a fully-formed masterpiece of electric poetry. No other band at the time could have got away with a ten-minute title track (live, it stretched to nigh on half an hour!) had they not matched the dextrous instrumentation with Verlaine's sneeringly obtuse wordplay. His voice, always verging on the bleatingly awkward, is perfect in this setting. Listen to him spit out the line: 'I start to spin the tale. You complain of my DICtion…' ("Friction").




Track listing

Side One

1. See No Evil 3:53

2. Venus 3:51

3. Friction 4:44

4. Marquee Moon 9:58

Side Two

5. Elevation 5:07

6. Guiding Light 5:35

7. Prove It 5:02

8. Torn Curtain 6:56


Personnel

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards - Tom Verlaine

Guitar, Vocals - Richard Lloyd

Bass, Vocals - Fred Smith

Drums - Billy Ficca

Producer - Andy Johns , Tom Verlaine



This rip was done by petr_aprel. A big thanks to him!
I share it on better accessible site, as torrent seems to be down.




Technical Log:

Linn LP12

Ekos arm

Denon DL160 cartridge

Whest Phonostage

Tascam US 144 soundcard

Audacity

C/R 8