Re: (TV) Marquee Moon review on CDNOW

["dudley" <dudley@thumped.com>]

i'm sure this has been covered before but as a newbie i'll ask anyway

how come the fade out was taken off marquee moon for the cd re-issue?


dudley

www.thedudleycorporation.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Kauffman" <jkauff@earthlink.net>
To: <tv@obbard.com>
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 1:57 PM
Subject: (TV) Marquee Moon review on CDNOW


> MM is the featured "classic review" on CDNOW today. The CD is "on sale"
for
> a whopping 50 cents off.
>
>
> Television's Indie Rock Landmark
> By Pat Berkery
> CDNOW Editorial Staff
>
> Television
> Marquee Moon
> (Elektra)
> The music industry was a different animal when Television was rewriting
the
> physics of guitar-based rock and roll on New York City's punk scene in
> 1977. By every sense of the modern definition, the music Television played
> was "indie rock," though the subculture of independent labels was
> practically non-existent. So the major labels -- who admittedly had no
idea
> what to do with a band that funneled punk fervor and a skewed, jazz-like
> virtuosity into carefully orchestrated vamps -- came-a-courtin' when they
> heard the underground buzz.
> Elektra signed Television and released its masterful debut, Marquee Moon,
> in early 1977. Despite a warm reception in the U.K., nothing happened
> stateside. Television never scored a hit, the album never charted, and it
> disbanded after the 1978 follow-up, Adventure. But in the ensuing years,
> Marquee Moon would establish itself as one of the landmark rock albums of
> all time, its lurching start-stop rhythms, guitar anti-heroics, and
> noir-ish vocal gasps etching the post-punk template such bands as Sonic
> Youth, R.E.M., and Pavement would cop from in varying degrees.
> Marquee Moon sounds arty by virtue of the fact that it didn't sound like
> any of the records out in 1977. Not arty in an overblown, progressive rock
> sense, nor in a grad-school "post-rock" way. It came from an entirely
> different place than the Queens, the Zeppelins, and the Rolling Stones of
> the day: Unless you were part of the same NYC scene that gave birth to
> Blondie, Patti Smith, and the Ramones, Television probably sounded like it
> was from another planet.
> The title track is a quasi-phenomenon unto itself. Ten minutes (very
linear
> in some spots) of squiggly guitar figures acting as hooks; leader Tom
> Verlaine's barely in-tune vocal wail; deconstructed guitar cacophony from
> Verlaine and Richard Lloyd; and a coda that reintroduces itself like a
long
> lost friend. If you were searching for a high water mark in art rock,
> "Marquee Moon" is the place.
> The sound was spare, leaving plenty of room for the bone-dry drums and
> guitar and vocal shrieks to move air on the rave-up opener "See No Evil"
> and the goose-stepping "Venus." Television even turned balladry inside
out,
> as the cascading "Torn Curtain" unfurls deliberately like a catharsis
years
> in the making, yet over in seven sinuous, teeth-clenching minutes. Nearly
a
> quarter-century on, it still sounds miles ahead of the curve.
>
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