Re: Fwd: (TV) third album

[Jay <piazzasanmarco@yahoo.com>]

The third album just isn't that good, but because we
all love Television we choose to love it like a red
headed stepchild.

--- Rex Broome <rexbroome@gmail.com> wrote:
> Re: the third album:  The reason why it's never
> gotten a fair shake is
> that it's not very "rock".  It came out on the heels
> of the grunge
> explosion and half of the people who first heard of
> Television at that
> time heard of them as "punk progenitors", so they
> were expecting the
> Ramones or something.  Such folks probably would've
> been disappointed
> even by Marquee Moon, but certainly weren't going to
> cotton to the
> atmospheric and textural sounds of the third album.
> 
> Ironically, I think that with a sligthly updated
> production sound
> (probably no more than a remix) it would be quite
> well received in
> today's musical climate.  Of course, Marquee Moon
> would be everyone's
> Record of the Year, and sell like hotcakes if first
> released today,
> but ironically if it hadn't been released when it
> was, little of
> today's rock music would sound like it does anyway.
> 
> -Rex
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