Guiding Light (track)
by Television
Guiding Light appears on the following album(s) by Television:
- Marquee Moon (track #6) (this album) (1977)
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This track is rated in the top 2% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 85.6/100, a mean average of 85.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 85.9/100. The standard deviation for this track is 10.8.
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I think it's easy to overlook the back half of this album because the front half of it is so good. But "Guiding Light" is a very nice, ballad-like tune that is far mellower than the aggressive songs like "See No Evil" or "Friction". Usually this isn't the first song I think of when I think of Marquee Moon, but the soaring guitar solo reminds me why I enjoy it so much.

Beautiful song. One of my favourites from the album
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