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With critically acclaimed albums like \"Adventure\" and \"Television\", the band has left a lasting impact on alternative rock and indie music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eToday, Television's influence can be heard in countless bands across various genres. Their legacy as innovators continues to inspire new generations of musicians who appreciate their raw energy and uncompromising creativity. 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Made after the band cut its teeth for four years amid New York’s thriving arts scene, the 1977 album blends the inimitable interplay of guitarists Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd; spontaneous and precise approaches; and winding arrangements that draw as much from classical, jazz, and psychedelia as the punk ethos to which the album is often linked. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAvailable as a 45RPM edition for the first time, Marquee Moon reaches a new sonic pinnacle on Mobile Fidelity’s UltraDisc One-Step 180g 2LP box set. Strictly limited to 3,000 numbered copies and pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing in California, this deluxe reissue of the effort Pitchfork named the third greatest of the entire 1970s plays with incredible detail, dynamics, and definition. 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This keepsake is for those who want to immerse themselves in everything involved with the Marquee Moon — from the now-iconic front cover depicting a Xeroxed colour print of a Robert Mapplethorpe photo of the quartet to the rear image showcasing what Verlaine described as a “weird spirally shape” that visually captures the inertia, vibe, and patterns of the songs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo distinctive are Television’s styles, arrangements, and chemistry that producer Andy Johns repeatedly had to ask Verlaine and company about their aesthetic. Recording in a small room at A \u0026amp; R Studios, a space selected due to its resemblance to what the band used to rehearse, Johns initially recoiled from the retro setup complete with an all-tube board. Johns also misread Television’s desire for a dry sound at odds with the big, meaty acoustic that carried the day. He spent a day working on the drum kit to engineer effects in line with those he’d achieved with Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones. Only to tear it apart once Television expressed a desire for a basic, reverb-free perspective. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou can hear that direct, focused, straight-line sound like never before here, and how it illustrates the clean contours, tones, and shapes of every note committed to tape. And how it relates to the relatively minimal overdubs (piano, vocals) the band laid down after barely a week of main sessions with Johns, whose fanciest implementation involved swinging a vintage microphone like a lasso over his head as Lloyd double-tracked the solo to “Elevation.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohns returned a few months later to mix. By that point, his take on Marquee Moon had shifted from arms-length curiosity to wholesale adoration. His change of heart is easy to understand. It would dovetail with the opinions of nearly everyone who spent time with the strange, beautiful, seemingly contradictory record shortly after it hit in early 1977. Few albums of that era — as well as any before or since — combine such high-wire technical prowess, back-to-basics architecture, jam-band improvisation, narrative mysticism, delicate finesse, hook-laden catchiness, and excess-free exploration. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnother principal reason Marquee Moon remains distinctive? Verlaine’s playing and lyrics, sure, but also his interests and background. Unlike archetypal guitar heroes, let alone first-wave punk practitioners, he first fell in love with classical music before gravitating to jazz and the saxophone. Having changed his last name to honor that of the 19th century French poet, Verlaine prized responsiveness and intricacy over density, speed, and volume. 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Akin to their mates, each are dialed-in from the extended period of woodshedding Television enjoyed before hitting the studio. Together, the four members achieve blends of virtuosic tightness, chromatism, expressionism, and moodiness that exist in gray areas between garage rock, punk, prog, and free-jazz disciplines. No wonder Marquee Moon proved a major influence on the new wave, experimental rock, art pop, and so-called “alt rock” subgenres that followed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAllergic to bombast, repetition, and convention, all eight songs function as individual highlight reels that simultaneously feed an inter-related, organic whole. 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