Television - Marquee Moon (w/ guest Jim Testa)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2016

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Bill and Brian welcome journalist/Jersey music expert Jim Testa () to talk about Television's Marquee Moon (1977, Elektra). Emerging out of the CBGB "punk" scene, Television struggled to find mainstream success with their quirky rock and only put out two albums before calling it quits (a third followed in the 90s after they reformed). Despite this, the band has gone on to be critically well regarded and highly influential. Jim Testa, who has been writing about music since before the release of this album, tells us about the early days at CBGB and discovering this music as it was released. Bill, Brian, and Jim discuss the Ramones, what the heck post-punk is, how Television is completely unique, what Robert Christgau had to say about the album, the quality of Tom Verlaine's voice, the strange rhythms in the songs, a little on what Brian thinks sounds "angular," what cinematic sounds like, Suicide (the band), and much more as we make our way through the album track by track!

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0:00.0	I'm
0:02.0	A&AWKIN
0:07.0	AND ASE
0:08.0	BAS
0:09.0	A
0:10.0	A
0:12.0	A Hello and welcome to the great albums podcast. I'm Bill.
0:36.4	And I'm Brian.
0:37.3	What are we just listening
0:38.0	to right there, Brian? Ooh, we're listening to a good one this week. Well, we listen to Good
0:42.4	ones every week. That was Marquis Moon by television off the 1977 album of the same name.
0:50.4	So if you never listen to the podcast, what we do here every week is take a different album of music and talk about what makes it great. We're a fan appreciation podcast where we do a deep dive on an album and kind of the big highlight is going to be our track by track review, but we also give you a little bit of info on the band. And we're also getting to talk about like why we love this artist and this
1:12.6	album in general but we're not going to do it alone no we're not not today now that that that
1:18.6	that hour and a half drive wasn't uh wasn't just for our own good here sitting to my left here
1:24.8	as he has welcomed us into his own apartment is Jim Testa. Hi Jim.
1:28.8	Hi guys, welcome to Weehawken. Oh, thank you for having us.
1:31.3	Lovely up here. This is actually the first time we've been, I think, in Weehawken proper.
1:35.3	Yes. Well, any time you've passed through the Lincoln Tunnel, you've been in Weehawken, so that's probably not true.
1:40.3	I think this is the first time we've actually gotten out of the car. Okay, okay, that I could see.
1:45.4	Yeah.
1:46.1	Not a lot to do here.
1:47.3	Oh, it's a lovely neighborhood, though.
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