Television Marquee Moon Elektra K52046 A1/B2 UK 1st + die cut inner 1977
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Television Marquee Moon Elektra K 52046 UK 1st press Vinyl, LP, housed in a die-cut inner sleeve and released in 1977.
The vinyl is in great shape and played through beautifully on my stereo - no hop or stick. It is housed in its original, die-cut inner sleeve, which has a little ring-wear but is otherwise in good condition - no rips or writing. The sleeve is in a similar condition with light ring-wear and evidence of a sticker having been removed from the front, but, again, no rips or writing. The spine is intact and legible. Matrix / Runout Side 1 : K-52046.A-1 AL Matrix / Runout Side 2 : K-52046.B-2 ALLEN
Marquee Moon is the debut studio album by American rock band Television, released on February 8, 1977, by Elektra Records. In the years leading up to the album, Television had become a prominent act in the New York music scene and generated interest from a number of record labels, eventually signing a record deal with Elektra. The group rehearsed extensively in preparation for Marquee Moon before recording it at A & R Recording in September 1976. It was produced by the band's frontman Tom Verlaine and sound engineer Andy Johns.
For Marquee Moon, Verlaine and fellow guitarist Richard Lloyd abandoned contemporary punk rock's power chords in favour of rock and jazz-inspired interplay, melodic lines, and counter-melodies. The resulting music is largely hook-driven with complex instrumental parts (particularly on longer tracks such as "Marquee Moon"), while evoking themes of adolescence, discovery, and transcendence through imagery in urban, pastoral, and nocturnal modes, including references to the geography of Lower Manhattan. Influenced by Bohemian and French poetry, Verlaine's lyrics also feature puns and double entendres intended to give the songs an impressionistic quality in describing his perception of an experience.
Released to widespread acclaim, Marquee Moon was hailed by critics as an original musical development in rock music. The critical recognition helped the album achieve unexpected commercial success in the United Kingdom, despite poor sales in the United States. Among the most acclaimed music releases in history, it consistently features in professionally curated lists of top albums, including various iterations of Rolling Stone magazine's "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time", on which it ranked 128th in the 2003 list and 107th in the 2020 list. Marquee Moon also proved to be a foundational record of alternative rock, as Television's innovative instrumentation on the album strongly influenced subsequent post-punk, new wave, and indie rock movements of the 1980s and rock guitar playing in general.
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