Holy Sh*T! "Marquee Moon" Music on Anderson Cooper 360

[NashVegas]

Who woulda guessed or the producer is a Television fan?

[mitchum]

1. Was it the title cut...

or another song off the album?
I'm obsessed with it and have been listening to it once a day for over twenty years.

[NashVegas]

2. Yes

I sent an email in to ask who made the call, no response yet.

It was the part at the very beginning of the loooong solo.

[RandomKoolzip]

4. I wonder what Verlaine thinks about this....

I guess they chose the music because it's by "Television" and they are on "television...." I doubt that there's any deeper reason than that.

In a way, this kinda sucks. I'm a huge Television fan (anybody got bootlegs?) and don't like to hear music that sublime used for commercial reasons, or to make a corporate media outlet increase their "hip" quotient even as they cover up and spin the news....

[NashVegas]

5. I'm of Two Minds

Anytime you flip on a radio, the only reason the stations play any song is for commercial exploitation.

Tom & Richard and all never made a dime in BMI radio licence fees, I'm betting. At least they'll get something from this.

Added plus: this song wasn't produced with the intention of being a radio hit anyway, no one can accuse them of whoring for TV background music, unlike Moby.

I don't have any bootlegs, but I have the Blow-Up which suits me well enough.

[RandomKoolzip]

7. "Blow Up" was the first Television album I ever heard....

I was totally obsessed with it....the guitar solos were so incredible, I couldn't stop listening to it. I was actaully disappointed with the studio versions when I encountered them at last; everything was too slow and too slick. Now, of course, I love the whole catalog (well, maybe not that reunion CD from 92....)


Okay, maybe I'm being a grumpy gus; you're right, it's not as if Verlaine and Lloyd are observing this from their yachts....

[mitchum]

10. If there was any justice in the world...

Verlaine and Lloyd would have yachts.

[NashVegas]

16. OTOH

But then they'd sail around the world getting fat :)

[NashVegas]

12. Yeah You Are Grumpy

My intro to Television actually came from Siouxsie & the Banshees cover of "Little Johnny Jewel." Flash forward to 1992 and I totally dug that album, and went backwards from there.

[mitchum]

8. ...ahh, Tom's solo

[CrownPrinceBandar]

3. I heard some Talking Heads on there, as well.

PS: "Marquee Moon" is a great album. "Elevation" is my fav.

[NashVegas]

6. Interesting

I don't usually watch CNN, but left it on there earlier for some reason. I'm not watching it, it's watching me.

'Elevation's' great. I wondered if the U2 are in anyway tipping their hats to it on their tune of the same name. Edge always sounded like a Verlaine fan to me.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

9. Yeah...

I can hear it. I always liked Richard Lloyd's stuff with Matthew Sweet. He tears it up on the "Altered Beast" album.

[NashVegas]

13. Health and Happiness Show

Did you ever get to see him with them? That was fine stuff, live.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

14. Never heard of 'em...

But I'm sure its good. I'll commit the name to memory.

[NashVegas]

15. Remember the Bongos?

New Jersey band. One of their guys (James Mastro) went on to form H & H Show. Had alt.country leanings, but not so No Depression.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

17. Bzzt. No. Strike two.

I thought I knew alot about rock/alt music, I guess not. OK... adding "Bongos" to the list

[mitchum]

11. both the edge and Peter Buck ransacked the hell out of...

the second album Adventure

[nostamj]

18. damn... "Marquee Moon"

one of the most important albums of its time... how many nights did i sit under the headphones with that one???

after doing a Patti Smith retrospective recently, gotta pull THAT vinyl out next!