Marquee Moon (album)

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Marquee Moon
Television studio album
Cover

Publication
(s)

February 8, 1977

admission

September 1976

Label (s) Elektra Records

Format (s)

LP , CD , MC

Genre (s)

Art-punk , post-punk , art-rock

Title (number)

8th

running time

45:49

occupation

production

Andy Johns, Tom Verlaine

Studio (s)

A&R Studios, New York City

chronology
- Marquee Moon Adventure
(1978)

Marquee Moon is the debut album of the New York punk band Television and was released on February 8, 1977 on the Elektra Records label. Marquee Moon is now considered a classic of early post-punk and one of the most influential rock albums of all. Although the album received consistently positive reviews, the album remained a commercial failure in the United States . In Great Britain, however, Marquee Moon climbed to number 28 in the national album charts in March . On the cover you can see a photo of the band, which was taken by Robert Mapplethorpe .

prehistory

Marquee Moon is the first of three albums by the rock band Television, which began in 1972 under the name The Neon Boys and then consisted of Tom Verlaine, Richard Hell , Billy Ficca and Richard Lloyd. In 1973 they renamed themselves and from March 1974 played their first concerts in the now legendary New York club CBGB . The successful performances aroused the interest of Island Records and it came to a collaboration with Brian Eno , who produced several demo recordings for Television in December 1974. Four of the six songs are Prove It , Give Me A Friction , Venus and Marquee Moon , which were re-recorded for the debut album in 1976. Creative differences led to the split with Eno, however the results of the recording sessions came into circulation as a bootleg called Television With Bryan Eno . Because of his drug problems bassist Richard Hell had to leave Television in March 1975, he was replaced by Fred Smith. Terry Ork, mentor of the band, founded the Ork Records label in 1975 to release the first single , the A- and B-side split song Little Johnny Jewel . The remarkable sales figures for the 7 ″ single prompted the record company Elektra Records to sign television.

Singles

In 1977 Elektra released three singles from the album. The title track Marquee Moon was released with a mono version of the piece as B-side and reached # 30 in the UK Top 40 in April. In July, Prove It even made it to number 25 with Venus on the B-side. A single was also released with Venus on the A-side, which contained friction on the other side . In the United States of America none of the three singles had any notable success.

publication

Marquee Moon was released on February 8, 1977 on LP and compact cassette . It was first released on compact disc in November 1987 . On September 23, 2003, Elektra and Rhino Records released the album remastered and with five bonus tracks on CD. Since 2015, Marquee Moon has also been available for download in high-resolution audio format (192 kHz / 24-bit) . On October 2, 2018, Marquee Moon and the five bonus tracks were released as a double album for the first time on LP.

Track list

With the exception of the one indicated, all songs were written by Tom Verlaine .

page 1
  1. See No Evil - 3:53
  2. Venus - 3:51
  3. Friction - 4:44
  4. Marquee Moon - 10:40
Page 2
  1. Elevation - 5:07
  2. Guiding Light ( Richard Lloyd , Tom Verlaine) - 5:35
  3. Prove It - 5:02
  4. Torn Curtain - 6:56
Bonus tracks
  1. Little Johnny Jewel (Parts 1 & 2) - 7:09
  2. See No Evil (Alternate Version) - 4:40
  3. Friction (Alternative Version) - 4:52
  4. Marquee Moon (Alternative Version) - 10:54
  5. [Untitled] (instrumental) - 3:22

The CD version released in 2003 was remastered by Dan Hersch at Digirep Tape Research & Mastering . When Little Johnny Jewel is Televisions debut single, which was released by Ork Records on August 18, 1975th The nameless instrumental piece is an unfinished recording of the song O Mi Amore , which the band often played at concerts between 1976 and 1977. It was created while recording TV's second album Adventure .

reception

source rating
Allmusic
Rolling Stone
Pitchfork Media
Laut.de
Music Express

The British trade magazine New Musical Express dedicated two pages to the album, which music critic Nick Kent concluded with the words: “You 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 ").

Hermann Haring, at the time editor-in-chief at Musikexpress , was just as enthusiastic about the album of the month: "Few records in the past seven or eight years have excited and fascinated me as much as the debut album by the young New York band Television."

The music magazine Rolling Stone leads Marquee Moon at number 130 of the 500 best albums of all time and ranked 40 of the 100 best debut albums. The ten-minute theme song was voted number 41 of the 100 best guitar songs in 2008 and number 381 of the 500 best songs of all time in 2010.

Marquee Moon was included in the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die . Reviewer Jim Harrington writes: "The result was a guitar album that sounded like no other."

In the New Musical Express's selection of the 500 best albums of all time , Marquee Moon reached number 29.

In 1995, Mojo magazine voted the album at number 17 of the 100 best albums of all time.

In the compilation of the Guardian's 100 best albums , Marquee Moon was voted 33rd.

In the list of 200 best albums of Uncut occupied Marquee Moon Place 10th

Tyler Wilcox rates Marquee Moon 2017 on Pitchfork as follows: “But 40 years later, Marquee Moon remains a unique achievement that goes beyond the concept of punk and still sounds fresh. It's a classic from start to finish. ”(“ But 40 years later, Marquee Moon remains a singular achievement that transcends the “punk” label and still sounds fresh. It's a classic from start to finish. ”).

Pitchfork Media ranks the album at number 3 of the 100 best albums of the 1970s and the title song of the same name at number 8 of the 200 best songs of the decade.

The Musikexpress chose the song Marquee Moon 2018 at number 42 of the 100 best songs of all time.

Douglas “Doug” McCombs from the band Tortoise acknowledges the effect of the album: “At first, Marquee Moon seemed to me like any of these other punk albums: strange and different from anything that was on the radio. But after listening to it a lot , I realized that there was something about it that also set it apart from the other punk albums (with the exception of X's Los Angeles LP , which feels similar to me): television conveyed a feeling of nervous melancholy and introspection that made their music incredibly special. [...] These songs are full of brilliant ideas, and it still feels great to hear Marquee Moon today . "

Trivia

In 1984 the Berlin gothic rock band Marquee Moon named itself after the album. It broke up in 1997.

In 2003 the guitar-oriented band Marquee Moon named themselves on the Spanish island of Tenerife after the album. It broke up in 2007.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Buckley, Peter (ed.): Rock Rough Guide, 2nd edition, Verlag JB Metzler Stuttgart / Weimar 2004, p. 814.
  2. ↑ Television With Bryan Eno on Rate Your Music
  3. ↑ Schmidt-Joos, Siegfried u. Kampmann, Wolf (Ed.): Rock-Lexikon 2, 2nd edition, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag Hamburg 2009, p. 1790.
  4. ↑ a b liner notes by Alan Licht on the remastered edition of 2003
  5. ↑ Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine on AllMusic.com (accessed October 7, 2016)
  6. ↑ Review by Franz Schöler on RollingStone.de (accessed October 7, 2016)
  7. ↑ Review by Chris Dahlen on Pitchfork.com (accessed October 7, 2016)
  8. ↑ Review by Hannes Wesselkämper on Laut.de (accessed October 7, 2016)
  9. ↑ a b Review by Hermann Haring, in: Musikexpress 04/1977, Edition 256, p. 48. ISSN  1618-5129
  10. ↑ 500 Greatest Albums of All Time on rollingstone.com (accessed September 8, 2018)
  11. ↑ 100 Best Debut Albums of All Time on rollingstone.com (accessed September 8, 2018)
  12. ↑ Rolling Stone - 100 Greatest Guitar Songs Of All Time (2008). Retrieved on January 8, 2017 (English, right side of the picture, scroll down).
  13. ↑ Rolling Stone - 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time (2010). Retrieved January 9, 2017 .
  14. ^ Robert Dimery: 1001 albums. Music To Hear Before Life Is Over 5. updated. New edition, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-283-01112-3 , p. 388
  15. ↑ The 500 Greatest Albums of all Time on NME.com, accessed October 7, 2016
  16. ↑ 100 Greatest Albums of All Time by Mojo (1995) on besteveralbums.com (accessed October 7, 2016)
  17. ↑ The Guardian: 100 Best Albums Ever on discogs.com (accessed October 7, 2016)
  18. ↑ Uncut: 200 Greatest Albums Of All Time on rateyourmusic.com, from: Uncut 02/2016 (accessed on September 8, 2018)
  19. ^ Pitchfork.com
  20. ↑ Top 100 Albums of the 1970s on pitchfork.com, accessed September 27, 2017
  21. ↑ The 200 Best Songs of the 1970s on pitchfork.com (accessed September 10, 2018)
  22. ↑ The 100 best songs of all time on musikexpress.de (accessed on September 10, 2018)
  23. ↑ Doug McCombs: Visions 250, 1/2014, p. 97
  24. ↑ Marquee Moon, Spanish band, on Soundcloud.com