★★★★★
Rarely does a legendary band break up, reunite fourteen years later, and proceed to make an album nearly as strong as their previous work but, in 1992, New York legends Television did just that, with their eponymous thrid album. The trick, Tom Verlaine, Richard Lloyd, & Co...
- www.forcedexposure.com
2012-04-30
★★★★★
Sound: I love this band. The label punk seams not to fit them to well though, it does apply to the scene they cam from though. They literaly built the stage a CBGB's. The sound is strikingly clear, almost like a bluenote jazz record. The guitars are clean, yet powerful and articulately ballanced. Not to many studio effects, just some double tracking on some of the solos to beef them up...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
2007 release. "Double disc! 1978 live performance from Tom Verlaine's personal collection. Originally released on cassette in 1982. Over 85 minutes and digitally remastered. Extended versions of 'Little Johnny Jewel' & 'Marquee Moon.' Green & blue vinyl LPs." Gatefold sleeve.
- www.forcedexposure.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
At the fag end of 1973 a bunch of country, folk, bluegrass and blues fans (hence CBGB's) opened a scuzzy venue in New York's Bowery district. It flopped. Fortunately the area also boasted its share of low-rent, fledgling 'punks' - musos weened on the Velvets and Stooges - and CBGB's was forced to offer these outcasts a stage...
- uk.launch.yahoo.com
2010-07-31
★★★★★
Television were the best band to come out of the '70s NYC punk scene, but none of the members were punks. Richard Hell, the original bassist, was kicked out because he couldn't play his instrument well enough, and he wasn't willing to practice -- imagine if the Ramones took that stance. But one listen to Television's 1977 masterpiece Marquee Moon confirms that the Ramones were the exception rather than rule...
- www.nudeasthenews.com
2009-07-28
★★★★★
I was too young, or not hip enough (let's say I was too young) to have my life changed by Marquee Moon. Instead, I came to Television via the '80s bands they influenced, enlightened by The Rain Parade's version of Ain't That Nothin' and (gulp, here goes) Lloyd Cole & The Commotions covering Glory...
- www.mojo4music.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
2007 release. "Double disc! 1978 live performance from Tom Verlaine's personal collection. Over 85 minutes and digitally remastered. Extended versions of 'Little Johnny Jewel' & 'Marquee Moon.' Green & blue vinyl LPs." Gatefold sleeve.
- www.forcedexposure.com
2009-07-17
★★★★★
I prefer the more rocking, songful old Television, but it's a tribute to Tom Verlaine's conceptual restlessness and force of personality that in a world where alternative guitar means making noise or mixing and matching from the used bins, these four veterans have regrouped with a distinct new sonic identity...
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
No text for this review; see http://robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-cg90/grades-90s.php.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
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