Album of the day (#4109): Marquee Moon by Television

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Today's album of the day

Marquee Moon by Television (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 1977.
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Overall rank: 47
Average rating: 86/100 (from 1730 votes).



Tracks:
1. See No Evil
2. Venus
3. Friction
4. Marquee Moon
5. Elevation
6. Guiding Light
7. Prove It
8. Torn Curtain

About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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A timeless rock record.

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1. See No Evil
2. Venus
4. Marquee Moon
8. Torn Curtain
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I DIG it!
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I might have to listen to this again as I can't remember the songs Think
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HoldenM wrote:
A timeless rock record.

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I dunno... every time I play it, it goes for about 46 minutes. I'll try using the stopwatch next time.

Anyway, I normally don't tell people things like this, but this is one of the four or five albums I used to play along with during the height of the "new wave era" (1978-1981, give or take) to help me teach myself how to play electric guitar. The others were Chairs Missing, Road to Ruin, The Very Dab, and (I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit this) Boy.

Marquee Moon had the coolest and most intricate guitar parts of all of them (though I won't say "by far," if only to avoid offending anyone). I think they also used the fewest guitar pedals of all the bands involved, which I remember being quite impressed by at the time. Later on I got into shoegaze and dreampop bands, so having and using lots of pedals became practically the whole point. But I'm still glad that I at least tried to learn some of that technique when I did, if only to get a better understanding of the instrument in general.
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So good.
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This record was a bit of watershed moment for me. I was surprised by how much I liked it and how effortless a listen it was upon first play.

These are some great songs with inventive arrangements and it’s easily one of my favorite albums of the era.
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