For chrissakes, the very name was a euphemism for the act of fornicating.
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Thursday, 12 October 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Thursday, 12 October 2006 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Thursday, 12 October 2006 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 12 October 2006 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link
Go find a pumpkin patch.
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Thursday, 12 October 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Turangalila (Salvador), Thursday, 12 October 2006 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Thursday, 12 October 2006 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link
"Marquee Moon" too long? That's impossible. On The Blow-Up, even though the sound sucks, it's 14:45 and too short. On Live At The Old Waldorf, it sounds amazing, and at 15:45, I'm still wanting more. There's a live disc in Tom Verlaine's A Miller's Tale compilation that has incredible sound, with a 13:58 version. It's not nearly long enough. The song has reached over 17 minutes, but I don't know of any recordings of it. Plenty of rockers have been inspired by John Coltrane, from The Byrds to John McLaughlin & Carlos Santana's Love, Devotion, Surrender (1972), and nothing beats "Marquee Moon." The very first chords hit that rare sweet spot that never fail to send chills up the spine. It's eerie, a little melancholy, electrifying.
Television has inspired plenty of obsessive acolytes, including The Feelies, Felt, and more recently, Sonic Youth (hear "Rain On Tin"). Yet nothing quite matches Marquee Moon's peculiar dry guitar sound and telepathic, serpentine interplay. Overrated? Fucking hogwash. Just try to find an album that surpasses what Marquee Moon accomplished.
― Fastnbulbous (Fastnbulbous), Thursday, 12 October 2006 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 12 October 2006 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link
Very few bands have come close to capturing this sort of synergistic brilliance. Early Treepeople, perhaps. Hot Snakes? It's a fine art, and Lloyd and Verlaine were the absolute masters of this art.
-- Brooker Buckingham (brooker...), October 12th, 2006. (Brooker B)
OH YEAH ASSHOLE, YOUVE HEARD A TON OF MUSIC
― Maf54 (plsmith), Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Maf54 (plsmith), Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Maf54 (plsmith), Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― zeus (zeus), Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link
http://youtube.com/watch?v=WInKHEhRrvM
― mcd (mcd), Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link
Um, yeah, The Allman Brothers. Good example, but different. A looser mesh. I'd say Quicksilver Messenger Service and Grateful Dead, both of whom were influences on Verlaine, are better examples from that era.
Don't forget the Hampton Grease Band and the Beefheart with the Magic Band.
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Thursday, 12 October 2006 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link
Luna had some incredible dual guitar moments, but obv. derivative of VU, Television, Feelies.
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Thursday, 12 October 2006 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link
i came around, tho. totally love it. "friction" is an amazing song, all the individual pieces are great and they fit together so well, but there's still all this space between them. i hardly think of Tv even having "riffs."
― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 12 October 2006 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jim DeRogatis (jaymc), Thursday, 12 October 2006 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link
Same here, alongside the kinky, kind of freaky solo in "Baby's On Fire" and a Dead cover of "Good Lovin'" from a show in 1970. Long, raw, bestial pleasure, that one.
― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Thursday, 12 October 2006 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link
havent heard much early TP - im sure theyre good, i was just fucking around cause yr only examples of synergistic brilliance seem randomish
thin lizzy is another good example of sweet twin lead action
― Maf54 (plsmith), Thursday, 12 October 2006 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link
don't have a Please Kill Me handy, but I can relate an anecdote I heard from an extremely reliable source…the following may not be true, but the source, who was around NYC in the early mid 70s and knew everybody in the CB's/Max diaspora, swears it is…
A very young Lloyd approaches one James Marshall Hendrix on the street one day. Says Young Lloyd "man Hendrix, you're fucking great. You're the best guitarist who ever lived! You're my idol! Can…can…can I suck your cock??"
Hendrix's response was to knock Lloyd out with one punch to the kisser.
Not trying to spread rumors or nothin'…just sharin' a funnee…
― veronica moser (veronica moser), Thursday, 12 October 2006 18:50 (seventeen years ago) link
http://rateyourmusic.com/friendchart/user_is_djmartian
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 12 October 2006 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link
Funnily enough, I blind tested live a Lizzy track for two metal-intolerant friends and they confidently identified it as Television.
But, yeah, Marquee Moon? It's no 'live and dangerous'.
― Soukesian (Soukesian), Thursday, 12 October 2006 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― These Robust Cookies (Robust Cookies), Thursday, 12 October 2006 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Thursday, 12 October 2006 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link
personally i think they do it too fast.
― jed_ (jed), Friday, 13 October 2006 00:41 (seventeen years ago) link
Leatherface in their prime could do it
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 13 October 2006 02:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― H2-H4 (H2-H4), Friday, 13 October 2006 03:26 (seventeen years ago) link
this is probably just me, but the only canonical album i can think of that isn't overrated, even though it would almost have to be given the effusive praise, is pet sounds.
― Godfrzej Ljang (godfrzej), Friday, 13 October 2006 03:41 (seventeen years ago) link
I have to say I grew up with this on vinyl & I prefer the fade-out version of MM to the longer one.
― bham (bham), Friday, 13 October 2006 08:15 (seventeen years ago) link
It has to be admitted that "Torn Curtain" does sound a little bit like the Boomtown Rats.
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 13 October 2006 08:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 13 October 2006 08:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Friday, 13 October 2006 09:30 (seventeen years ago) link
apart from one who lasted as far as "What I want..." the cloth-ear.
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 13 October 2006 09:40 (seventeen years ago) link
Doesn't everyone?
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 13 October 2006 09:42 (seventeen years ago) link
according to 125 + people on my favorite rym user list, Marquee Moon is currently the 3rd top ranked album of alltimehttp://rateyourmusic.com/friendchart/user_is_djmartian
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 13 October 2006 10:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 13 October 2006 10:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 13 October 2006 10:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 13 October 2006 10:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 13 October 2006 10:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Friday, 13 October 2006 10:38 (seventeen years ago) link
I reckon that is has something to do with private [favourites] and public [friends] settings
most are set to private [favourites]
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 13 October 2006 10:50 (seventeen years ago) link
200 rym list
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 13 October 2006 10:58 (seventeen years ago) link