Marquee Moon
Occupation
- Vocals / Guitar / Keyboard: Tom Verlaine
- Guitar / Vocals: Richard Lloyd
- E- bass / vocals: Fred Smith
- Drums: Billy Ficca
Marquee Moon is the debut album of the New York punk band Television.
The album was released on 8 February 1977 on the label Elektra Records. Marquee Moon is now considered a classic punk and one of the most influential rock albums ever. The Rolling Stone listed it in his published 2003 list of the 500 best albums of all time at number 128 Although the album garnered positive reviews in the first place, the album in the United States was a commercial failure. In the UK, however, Marquee Moon climbed in March to No. 28 of the national album charts. On the cover you can see a photo of the band, which was made by Robert Mapplethorpe.
Elektra 1977 coupled three singles from the album. The title song Marquee Moon appeared with a mono version of the play as a B- side and peaked in the UK Top 40 Rank 30 in April. In July made it Prove It with Venus on the B - side even 25 ranked Furthermore, a single with Venus was released as A-side, which contained Friction on the other side. In the States, none of the three singles had significant success.
Marquee Moon was first released in 1990 by Elektra on CD, and appeared on 23 September 2003 in a version with five bonus tracks.
Title list
A-side
B-side
CD version with bonus tracks
The 2003 released CD version was remastered by Dan Hersch at DIGIREP Tape Research & mastering.
When Little Johnny Jewel is Television's debut single, which was released on Ork Records on 18 August 1975. The nameless instrumental piece is an unfinished recording of the song O Mi Amore, played 1976-1977 from the band often at concerts. It was during the recording of Television's second album Adventure.
Reception
The British magazine New Musical Express devoted two pages to the album, the music critic Nick Kent with the words " They are a band in a million; the songs are among the greatest ever. The album is called Marquee Moon " ( " They are one band in a million, . The songs are some of the greatest ever The album is Marquee Moon " decided.
Similarly enthusiastic ruled Hermann Haring, then editor at the Music Express, the crowned album of the month work: "Few boards have so excite me in the past seven or eight years and fascinated as the debut album by the young New York band Television. "
The album has an entry in Robert Dimerys 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, for the Jim Harrington peer reviewed ". The result was a guitar album that sounded like no other "