Re: (TV) Surely some mistake...?

["Dennis D" <dend@nyc.rr.com>]

I still don't believe they have sold millions of records. Don't they only
have one full length record and an EP out?


> They have sold millions, maybe nothing much in the US, but in europe they
> are/were pretty huge, the last UK tour sold out instantly and they were
> playing 2-3000 capacity venues and above and they played a lot of dates -
I
> know its a hit when I hear the neighbours playing the album
>
> when I said they were not factually incorrect I meant it humourously, the
> thing is you CAN put almost any band in that bracket - to me they sound
f#ck
> all like television (altho a lot of lazy music journalists do - "they
sound
> like television and the stooges" was the most popular thing to say - and
> they definately sound f#ck all like the stooges), I'd lump them in with
what
> was called 'the new wave of new wave' several years ago, a handy grouping
of
> bands inspired by an imitation of a shadow of punk rock (whatever that is)
> like 'these animal men' and 'smash' - to me thats how I'd describe them to
> someone I knew
>
> the thing is, these bands were genuinley exciting to watch and were
> lyrically a bit more inspired
>
> >From: "Dennis D" <dend@nyc.rr.com>
> >Reply-To: tv@obbard.com
> >To: <tv@obbard.com>
> >Subject: Re: (TV) Surely some mistake...?
> >Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 08:00:19 -0500
> >
> > > as far as sounds like em, we'll theyve both got the same instrumental
> >line
> > > up and fairly clean guitar sounds so its not factually incorrect
> > >
> >So any band that had or has a 2 guitar , bass , and drums lineup and
clean
> >guitar sound can be compared to Television. Does that include the
Beatles?
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