Tom Peters: The guitar interplay blurred the line between rhythm and lead, and that’s usually as far as I get before someone else takes over the conversation. For years, I had never heard of Marquee Moon. I reached out to other Hard Times Television aficionados, and their thoughts are further testament to Marquee Moon’s legacy. Because, as I stated, it is essential listening. It’s all just another part of their brilliance as musicians, vividly on display in this album, which I have listened to in its entirety.īut I’m not the only one. Like, I think just these eight seconds of guitar are going to be playing in my head on an endless loop when I can’t sleep tonight. Just listen to those opening riffs of ‘See No Evil.’ They’re noodly but not pretentious, catchy but not simple, and man, they really just keep going with that riff, don’t they? I’m grinding my teeth a little bit. If you think about it, the amount of time it took me to finally get around to a celebration of this universally beloved album of guitar-driven songs that also feature a bass, some drums, and one or more people singing, is a testament to its raw power. Just like a great album, which Marquee Moon clearly is, an honest review takes time.

A year went by and I still hadn’t found the right words to describe just how incredibly ahead of its time Marquee Moon was, or even what genre it is, or who’s in the band. Some of these songs are crazy long and kind of repetitive, and that’s a big part of their genius, I guess. So in honor of the album’s 40th anniversary, which was last year, I revisited this influential cult masterpiece. That’s just a fact I was told by my editor. There is no more iconic post-punk album than proto-punk band Television’s 1977 art-punk epic, Marquee Moon.

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