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Re: (TV) NME Review



if the numbers reflect scores (out of 10), they are
ridiculous
--- Michael Cross <mike-tv@mjckeh.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> This week's NME also reviews the reissues:
> 
> Television were hailed as geniuses by NME on the
> 1977 release of their 
> debut album "Marquee Moon" (8), and this new version
> includes the 
> awesome single 'Little Johnny Jewel', whose
> garage-jazz craziness is 
> is a treat for beat diggers. The band's follow-up
> "Adventure" (7) is 
> more polished - 'Days' is truly beautiful - but a
> little less unique. 
> Julie Burchill kicked it to pieces in these very
> pages, effectively 
> ending the band's career. Nearly 30 years later,
> she's a middle-aged, 
> podgy columnist while these albums remain eternally
> youthful and angular 
> - which is as close to justice as life gets. 
> 
> - Rob Fitzpatrick, Reissues Roundup column (which
> also covers Dylan, Felt, 
> and "Pet Sounds" this week).
> 
> all the best,
> -- 
>  Michael J. Cross    Visit
> http://www.mjckeh.demon.co.uk for
>  BSFA Magazine Index, Hull SF Group, J Cipollina & M
> Kurihara Discographies
>          New, improved BSFA Index at
> http://www.santaroga.uklinux.net
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