Adventure (studio album) by Television
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Adventure is ranked 2nd best out of 6 albums by Television on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Television is Marquee Moon which is ranked number 45 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 20,691.
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Adventure track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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55/100  | 06/07/2025 15:18 | Invader666 | | 67/100 |
75/100 | 03/31/2025 12:02 | Pluto11 | | 72/100 |
70/100 | 03/15/2025 19:02 |  Kalos | | 77/100 |
75/100 | 03/03/2025 07:11 |  slatsheit | | 81/100 |
5/100 | 02/16/2025 06:58 | Proto | | 35/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.8/100, a mean average of 76.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.5.
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This is, by far, my favourite Television album; but I am still listening.
My Album of the Year for 1978. Not as raw as Marquee Moon, but just as inspired.
Always overshadowed by the majestic Marquee Moon, but in my opinion just as good.
I agree with greatestlantern, the rating for this album is completely and utterly absurd considering that Marquee Moon is ranked 50th on the all-time list. Either Marquee Moon doesn't deserve to be that high or Adventure deserves to be a lot higher. But right now, I just can't understand how Adventure can be rated this low when it is so similar in terms of quality with Marquee Moon.
Maybe it's because it's too much similar to Marquee Moon? It's true that there seems to be a pattern here: 8 songs, a photo of the band on the cover and a lot of guitar solos in both albums. But come on, I don't buy it. On this website, if a band's first album is a masterpiece and the second is similar to the first, the second one also gets a great rating, even if it's a little lower (see The Strokes, Arctic Monkeys and many more examples).
Adventure is great, I even like it better than Marquee Moon, which is really great too. The guitar work is amazing on both albums, the songs are catchy and the level of musicianship is very high.
I think the real reason why this album is rated so low compared to Marquee Moon is because people haven't heard it. They listen to Marquee Moon because they have to and then they stop there because they are lead to believe by the rankings that it's the only good thing Television has done. Truth is, if you liked Marquee Moon, please don't stop there! Adventure is just as awesome, and even better in my opinion!
Days and The Fire would be my standout tracks.
This album's rating in here is absurd and deserve to be way too much higher. I agree marquee moon is better but definitely not that much, there is no reason for anyone not to love this album if they loved the first one. It has awesome tracks, it has great lyrics, it has beautiful solos, it has absolutely everything that the first one has.
apeiron 03/14/2015 23:35
Amazing album. "The fire" is one of the best songs ever written. Can't choose between this one and Marquee Moon.
Not close to being as good as Marquee Moon. I hated it at first but have grown to love it. Well worth a purchase.
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