TELEVISION-ADVENTURE-ELEKTRA K.52072 1978-NMINT COPY
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. TELEVISION-ADVENTURE TYPE SINGLE LP-STEREO LABEL/PRESSING INFO
ELEKTRA
CATALOGUE NUMBER K 52072 YEAR OF RELEASE 1978 COUNTRY OF RELEASE U.K. SLEEVE TYPE SINGLE INSERTS/EXTRAS LYRIC INSERT GRADING/CONDITION DISC(s)MINT- ( LOVELY record with ALL of the look feel and sound of an unplayed record with NO EVIDENT playwear and TRACE handling marks.PLAYS BRILLIANTLY)
LABELSEXCELLENT++ ( NICE CLEAN LABELS with NO writing rips or tears repairs stickers or remains,NO SPINDLEMARKS and MINIMAL play/handling wear)
SLEEVEFront board.Inner gatefold NICE EX+ NICE CLEAN SLEEVE with NO writing rips tears repairs stickers or remains.Front board is clean and shiny with no rubbing storage or ringwear no creases. Rear board EX+ Rear board is much as the front nice and shiny with MINIMAL overall storage and handling wear. Flipbacks N/A N/A Spine EX+ Clean and uncrushed with clear lettering and VERY LIGHT wear Top & bottom edge EX+ Top and bottom edges have very light wear with a little light rubbing colourloss Opening EX+ MINIMAL wear and MINIMAL usage Corners EX+ Corners have LIGHT wear only INNER /EXTRAS
LYRIC INSERT : EXCELLENT+ (Nice and clean with no creases or folded corners and VERY LIGHT overall handling wear and ageing)
DETAILSTelevision's groundbreaking first album, Marquee Moon, was as close to a perfect debut as any band made in the 1970s, and in many respects it would have been all but impossible for the band to top it. One senses that Television knew this, because Adventure seems designed to avoid the comparisons by focusing on a different side of the band's personality.
Where Marquee Moon was direct and straightforward in its approach, with the subtleties clearly in the performance and not in the production, Adventure is a decidedly softer and less aggressive disc, and while John Jansen's production isn't intrusive, it does round off the edges of the band's sound in a way Andy Johns' work on the first album did not.
But the two qualities that really made Marquee Moon so special were Tom Verlaine's songs and the way his guitar work meshed with that of Richard Lloyd, whose style was less showy but whose gifts were just as impressive, and if you have to listen a bit harder to Adventure, it doesn't take long to realize that both of those virtues are more than apparent here, and while one might wish the sound had a bit more bite on "Foxhole" or "Ain't That Nothin'," the quieter, more layered sound is just what the doctor ordered for "Glory" and "The Dream's Dream."
Sure, Marquee Moon is a better album, but Adventure has one of the greatest guitar bands of all time playing superbly on a set of truly fine songs, and albums like this come along far too infrequently for anyone to ignore music this pleasurable simply on the grounds of relative evaluation; it's not quite a masterpiece, but it's a brilliant record by any yardstick.
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