Television - Marquee Moon (1977)

[silvietta41]

thanks God for all this music!!!....on the shadow of Velvet Underground and so decadence and romantic

[garyw930]

May I recommend the book 'An Essential Guide To Music In The 1970s' by Johnny Zero. The author is a big fan of this track.

[tlm315]

this album changed the way i would hear music from the first time i put it on thanks guys

[JBrrou]

If this band had appeared on these times, they could have been huge.

[montrosederek]

Kids don't know what they're missing...

[poppedcultureuk]

What can I say... miss this at your own expense!

[klepzo]

This was my fav band inte late 70's.

I still like them. Even when the only Rock'n roll I like nowadays is the Stones.

[theacrylics]

The Best Band Ever!

[12345613219]

television fueron lo mejor

[lexworthington2]

This is cool!

[Dannyrocksass]

Damn straight motha fucka.

[carlosortizva]

HIPPIES MOTHERFUCKERS... IS NOT PUNK...

[ethicomm]

@carlosortizva Your arrogance is duly noted.

[ArmyOfZombies9]

@carlosortizva Richard Hell is a hippie? trolololol

[carlosortizva]

@ArmyOfZombies9 Of course not, I mean the group that formed much earlier and it is this, TELEVISION has nothing to do with Richard Hell, plus do not know if you know but RICHARD HELL away from them because they were only eating manure arties

[carlosortizva]

@ArmyOfZombies9 Y TELEVISION ERA MUSICA PARA HIPPIES, RICHARD HELL NO LO FUE Y SI LO HACIA ERA EN REFERENCIA A EL GRUPO ESTE LLAMADO TELEVISION...ME ENTENDES.

[MrHarpom]

In 1979 I walked into a record store while this song was playing. It was the first time i heard the song. I knew right away that i had to buy this album. It's one of the coolest songs i have ever heard. Still love it.

[jakubworona]

i like this track



[sourjoe]

Thanks for reminding me of one of my fav periods of music and I loved Television's music especially, Jimmy! you're a musical fascist, never read so much rubbish in my life.

[909BJ]

I saw them in i think 1978 at Newcastle city hall support act was ....Blondie... on their first ever uk gig.

[chetumalkid]

Television is the band Malcom McLaren took the Pistols to check and get some influence from around the time of "Blank Generation", according to an interview with Lydon.

[glaeken14]

I like the music and the liryc

[JimmyDFFDBorneo]

@luvulngtime2 If you like a band because of the way they sound you would naturally seek out other bands that sound similar to them. The only way you could listen to that band and not know about ELP or the Moody Blues is if you listened to them in order to not be different from your friends. PERIOD!

[JimmyDFFDBorneo]

@luvulngtime2 Better yet. If you listen to the Ramones but don't know who The Damned are, your a hipster. If you listen to Pink Floyd but don't know who ELP are, your a hipster. If you listen to Joy division but don't know who AATT are, your a hipster. If your a hipster, fuck you!

[FecklessCretin]

@JimmyDFFDBorneo

*you're.

And besides, you think if someone likes a band they MUST know and love another band similar to them? What exactly happened to just liking a band? Oh wait, music snobs happened.

[JimmyDFFDBorneo]

@FecklessCretin If you just liked a band, you would just like other bands that sound like them. If you like a band because you want to fit the image of being that bands fan, only then would you be content with what you've been spoon fed.

[FecklessCretin]

@JimmyDFFDBorneo Well no. If you want to fit the image of being a fan, you wouldn't even like what you'd been 'spoon fed'. If you actually did like it, then you would be an actual fan, wouldn't you. I mean, that's exactly what a fan is...I own Unknown Pleasures, Closer and Substance, and have no idea who AATT are. Does that mean I don't actually like Disorder, Leaders Of Men etc.?

[JimmyDFFDBorneo]

@FecklessCretin Why, if you like Joy Division so much then why haven't you checked out other post punk bands like Public Image Ltd., Bauhaus, and And Also the Trees (AATT)?

[FecklessCretin]

@JimmyDFFDBorneo Because, shockingly, I sometimes have other things to do which get in the way of saying 'right, I like this band, I think I'll go listen to another'. Does this make me a hipster?

[JimmyDFFDBorneo]

@luvulngtime2 You are. A hipster is a person who buys into an artificial counterculture and try to justify it by saying that people should be allowed to do what they want. Even if what they want is only what they've been programed to want.

[STR4WB3RRI3S]

this is one of my favourite <3..I love the solo

[TheIllegalKind]

probably one of the only 12 year olds that know this music and love punk and television

[Marievska]

@luvulngtime2 you're a hipster

[youthXattack]

@luvulngtime2 Its a stupid term that people use to loosly describe people who like modern indie music. But also used to describe people who dress certain ways and to describe people who ride fixed gear bikes.

Ive actually been called hipster for mentioning to a friend when certain bands we both like new albums are coming out. so yeah if im hipster for supporting musicians and buying their records when they come out and get excited about them so be it.

[toolkien]

Steely Dan crossed with The Stooges.

[AlNaafiysh]

@toolkien I really liked that! Let's say "Aja" guitar solos meet 'Down in the street'.

[ziggyjamesedwards]

The Most underrated band ever.... All Television albums are just classics!

[torpedomoskau]

One of the greatest tunes EVER ! THX for uploading (and the knowledge that there are people out there who make sure that these sounds will not be forgotten)

[GGMMaassoonn]

Damn, I guess Television won't rot your brain.

[Skorbutt]

I'll never get tired of this song.

[z000mx2]

Thank you so very much for this! Epicness. (I found this on NPR)

[newyorkdoll72]

Cool video!!!!!! ♥

[Johnnystrychnine]

The 60's, 70's and very late 80's to the mid 90's was when inhabitants of Western cities of the world took cool drugs to OD on and create individualistic music.

[YCSMusic]

THANK YOU TO ALL THE MANY PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD THAT LISTEN AND LEAVE COMMENTS ON THIS VIDEO, SO GLAD IT GIVES PLEASURE TO SO MANY.

BEST REGARDS TO YOU ALL - STEVE

[LFCLuffy]

@YCSMusic Thank you so much for uploading this gem! Marquee Moon should be played way more around the ether. "Fa fa fa" from Datarock is actually inspired by Television - kinda cool :)

[CodyRicheson]

So many bands today try to sound like this, but they don't come close. This sounds like it came out next week.

[upyerrzzz1]

Aaah, the northeast U.S. music scene during the mid/late 70s -- the best stuff around. Magic!

[bluejayway123]

To the stroke, "stop stealing songs from the 70's!"

[NolitaDenise]

Hey! Richard Lloyd can actually play the guitar! Cool! Thought he was just a verbose, dry, and cranky theory guy from Guitar World.

[ClueSign]

@NolitaDenise Richard Lloyd is a Monster on guitar -- if you ever had seen them live, you would be struck dumb.....

[NolitaDenise]

@ClueSign - what part of "can actually play the guitar! Cool!" is an insult? It should be obvious that I was just surprised based on that I had only seen his guitar world videos. If u watch them he gets cranky, rambles, and frequently sounds like he can't actually play but knows a whole lot about theory. You would have been surprised by the contrast too.

[ClueSign]

@ClueSign Um, I didn't say it was an insult and I have seen Richard's Guitar World and his own website instructions. I was merely highlighting what most people who were there already knew -- Richard was/is a wonderful player. Yes he is incredibly complicated and I might add, a drug-damaged victim of his time. If you check out his FB posts, you can see some of his other interests. The most interesting guitar parts of Marquee Moon, in my opinion, are Richards' (as opposed to Toms'). Ciao.

[newyorkdoll72]

i love them ♥ i love richard hell (LLLLL)

[krakenwave]

UK 1978. Changed my life

[NathaliaAzvdo]

WOOOWWW.

[x69RaNGER]

Seriously I fucking love this!!!!!!!!!!Like no lie

[x69RaNGER]

Seriously I fucking love this!!!!!!!!!!!

[x69RaNGER]

Fucking love this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lynnliulian]

fucking awesome

[Swingfinger]

wtf... now I know how the strokes developed their sound

[TheJohnsonsOfficial]

This track blows my mind

[109crizz]

I hear it first time inside a van in '77. We catch it when we were hitchhiking to Warsaw, Poland. The driver was Italian and he played very sentimental tracks. I asked him to change and he suggested Television. I agreed and started to look around for a screen to watch a TV program. There wasn't any screen at all inside a van. And then we started to beat a rhythm. It was Television, Marquee Moon. Wonderful unforgettable track. And you do not need a TV set. Ha-ha. Crizz

[pedrofaba]

love this guys.great fucking song

[jblackmd1]

Verlaine is such an amazing guitarist and lyricist. This is so good

[landerarts]

Fuck me you are the ones. Whatever age I was. WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

Fucking thank you.

[Sangria]

Where's the rest of the song?

[YCSMusic]

@Sangria Uploaded when youtube had the 10 minute rule on video length, and this was blocked also, hadn't better push my luck.

[tomass1026]

@Sangria

i kinda like it. its like the abridged version. XP

Its true though some of the best parts of the song are in the full version

[UrbsVictrixOsca]

joder me recuerda mucho a los Strokes

[jimmypagefan111]

Hey wiretap 96 gag how can the ripp it off if this came out in the 70s and razorlight fagit shit came out in the 2000s and television is way better dum bitch

[cantonadenmark]

Tom Verlaine is one of the greatest guitarists ever

[tattilemos]

é punk? sou punk!

[RHCPelmo]

thank you to my father for introducing me to these guys. he has the best music taste! :D

[taterdickens]

Tom Verlaine and Richard Hell bouncing off each other and the progression of the notes and chords-great! BTW this was one the best of the late 70's and I would put this entire album into the top 100 of the last two decades!

[krakenwave]

@taterdickens

i think u mean richard lloyd

[taterdickens]

@krakenwave You're right! Richard Hell was the leader of the Voidoids! My bad!

[SiddhartaMcCandless]

GREAT!!!

[qu1et]

wtf? This is missing more than half the song! unlike. :-(

[funkk]

So many hipster bands try to sound like this... They'll never get there!

[Hypact1v3]

@funkk What about The Strokes? They're rather epic....

[icanpeeyee]

@Hypact1v3 i hate how kids call bands "epic", that just brings them down and makes me want to turn the music off, go watch mtv if your gonna go all epic

[randiroads]

@funkk

nor will you.

[theghostofbuddyholly]

 1 year later

[theghostofbuddyholly]

real minf bending like time bending or sumthin

[JLWing77]

Thanks for posting this. I was just thinking "I've never listened to Television before. I wonder if someone posted any of their music on YouTube."

[sady863]

what a great band,often copied,never bettered

[YORUdgj]

忌野清志郎に声がにてますね

[supineny]

wow, this must be from some digital version (i.e. the CD version). i never heard the piano part before in my well-worn vinyl copy --- not a big part, just some notes in octaves, but its' so clear in this version.

[SnowBlinDoA]

In soviet Russia television is asd...

[hemmivaajooh]

In Soviet Russia 1977 is future!

[garrakz]

@hemmivaajooh now if only that was true...

[NopeeHopee]

In Soviet Russia, this song is called Radio by Marque Moon

[briansnat]

Hey they cut off the ending!

[RamboJake]

myspace/stanleyblack1

[RamboJake]

love this.1

[youtubbs67]

How did I not find this earlier? God, this is the good stuff.

[rodrigon818]

uno de los mejores grupos de la historia del rock , aguante television

[800Amilla]

but... but... where's Verlaine's solo? :(

[BobbyWinstonCooke]

nowww i knowwwww where the strokes got it from

[TheJelly1990]

@BobbyWinstonCooke the strokes , they claimed that they dont even know this band is exist .not surprising because this band they have less commercial break but good songs

[alexmortland]

It's all about interplay.

[IndependentVictor]

best band in the 70's... in my opinion

[MrJazzster]

@IndependentVictor

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but do you really feel that they are they BEST band of the 70's? There were countless incredible bands that came out of the 70's.

[PAULOcbi]

@MrJazzster thats the thing about it.What someone thinks is art is another persons garbage.People think impressionist art is the pinnacle of etching.I think my 10 yr. old could do impressionist art.

[youhavegeniusshins]

@PAULOcbi You must be proud to have such a talented 10 yr old.

[SimplyShadow]

i would work to this song.

[Alex23Gallo]

Fantastic riff . So Pure . The guitars flow beautifully ,almost jazz or prog - well UNIQUE its a better word to describe this lp !

Great drums and

Voice ! Love it .

[scottpastry]

first taste of television here..... very nice!!!

:)

[fingerlickingshez]

one of my favourite drummers ever.

I sampled this track in my instrumental hip hop group, have a look!

youtube.com/watch?v=EU0Dm8ItxL­s

[onurb3]

BEAUTIFUL!

[FlavioPoliti]

part of my roots in the process of criation.

[murderface414]

I'm glad I randomly clicked this song. First time hearing this, amazing.

[rodrigon818]

esto es musica , los pioneros

[centrifuge1789]

thanks for posting! they're awesome

[stoprejectingmynames]

Tom Verlaine is way to awesome for human words to describe.

[moremoxi]

Great video...hard not to miss those days...

[aritape]

Que riff...uh-uhmmmmm...

[elisaloba]

wowwwwwwwwwwww c´est trop cool de pouvoir les écouter!!!! merci de ce partage!!!

[hfield07]

Don't cut yourself short, listen to this ten minute piece in it's entirety!

[milissa5678]

@cluesign very funny!

[spectrum99122]

One of the great soundtracks to my humble existence.

[Nezwart]

I would fucking kill to look as cool as they did back then. Good album.

[rimmel65]

What a song!!

[stoprejectingmynames]

The dual guitars of Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd absoloutely blew my mind. Completely. I can't even describe it.

[nick40nick40]

thank you! good vid!

[Thumperdevine]

I like idea the television would have been less self indulgent if Hell had stayed in the band. The voidoids are about as self indulgent as you can get. Agree the album is a little over praised but I think the problem is overproduction. The live album 'the blow up' is a far better testament to how good they were. Best live band I've ever seen.

[ihasch]

@Thumperdevine-I think the idea is that Hell and Verlaine could have balanced each other out. By themselves they were self-indulgent. This is the first album of that era I ever got into. I enjoy it but I never saw it as anything seminal. Reminded me of Country Joe and the Fish. I honestly think being able to construct a well written three minute song is more impressive. I did play See No Evil so much I got sick of it though. It does seem that people overpraise it to follow the critics' lead.

[ihasch]

This is a good but overpraised album. If Hell had stayed in the band they may have been worth the praise. Instead there is a lot of self-indulgence.

[nasty6uldv8]

the true cbgb-er

[soysaucefool]

ITs to bad they only lasted for those two albums... Who knows we may have had!

[AnnArckey]

...home sweet home.

[maclennan73]

Excellent, totally unique, almost prog...love it, the album of the same name is superb too and Adventure the 2nd one.

[Maroj94]

Best solo ever!

[aquestionofkelly]

Just picked up this album today. Fuckin' classic.

[bizwiz21]

Sounds a lot like Modest Mouse.

[ScRe3cH]

@bizwiz21 you mean modest mouse sounds a lot like them.

[vicmal2112]

@bizwiz21 You mean Modest Mouse sounds alot like them.

[lob0corder0]

eighties orgistic ear trippy song

[pagafantas94]

this is a good song

[eylulguler]

best music ever

[ReggaeGotSoul89]

I had this CD but I lost it. Classic*

[XVLaHireXV]

yes!!! classic

[Rollerblader1]

Yeah Richard Hell!!!!!

[1nsanit]

where is the other half of the song?

[Marchini666]

The best solo ever!!!.

[usagisama100]

あけおめ。

トム先生。良すぎてやばいよ。

[DcCoO]

i didnt know television, but listening this song i think is nice

[ClueSign]

Child, most influential band of NY punk movement.

[337mastershake]

nope

ramones were

[ClueSign]

OH god, are we really going to do this? Here let me save you the trouble of re-posting: "Television was better"." No, Ramones were"." No, Television"." FU, Ramones". OK, had enough? Me too.

[337mastershake]

i did not say they were better!

but today there are much more bands that copy ramones or at least take something from them

metal music grew up on their sound,like it or not its extremely popular today

[hightimesbruce]

I'd say that it's a toss up between Television and Talking Heads as the most influential NY band from the 70's. I say that because Television were too technical of a band to be considered punk, at least to me.

[ClueSign]

Agree, hightimes. Their guitar skills were on a par with the top names in rock yet obscure and almost middle-eastern in key; their lyrics complex, and heavily influenced by Rimbaud and other 19th century poets. Their subject matter was obtuse, dense and yet -- another vein of punk, Their attitude influenced many many other multi-layered bands of the 80s, 90s and beyond.

[Genessender]

Right, because so many modern bands sound like Talking Heads and Television, and so few sound like the Ramones.

[hightimesbruce]

Ugh, I can name a ton that do actually.

[Genessender]

Um--I was being sarcastic. Television and Talking Heads are utterly brilliant, but they're not really chart-busters. The Ramones model is easier to imitate and more palatable to most people.

[moogus8000]

talking heads had some huge songs man..

[LloydApplebaum]

Actually we can see how modern indie bands are inspired by music from the late 70s and the 80s, like Talking Heads, Television, the Smiths and so on. There is also a new electronica outburst going on, even in rock.

[bearchildofdeath]

Sarcasm NEVER works on youtube.

[Genessender]

Are you being sarcastic? I can't tell.

[vicmal2112]

@Genessender I think there is a void ( I mean as far as people recognizing music ) of the music that was coming out of England and America during the early and mid-seventies.

[Diomedes22]

@Genessender half the bands of the past 20 years have succesfully imitated television. the strokes being the obvious example.

[SHRUDE]

@Genessender

Talking Heads/ Television not chartbusters?

So what? They arent POP

[FriedChickenofDeath6]

@SHRUDE 

[AdamJohnDale]

@Genessender

Nonsense. The Strokes would never have existed without Television

[andywarstarforever]

@Genessender totally. my band Warstars is a total Ramones rip-off. we also get all the sleaziest chicks because of our, er, i mean the Ramones style.

[DingoSauro]

@ClueSign teenagers I guess

[walesfan1]

Thanks for posting one of my favs. Christ I'm old !

[TheRickynow]

Another brilliant memory! "Guiding Light" from this album is still one my all time favourite recordsand i wanted to be Tom Verlaine lol

[carlos7217]

yeah,top tune ...!!!

[nhito]

thanks 4 reposting,i like it:)

[YCSMusic]

Many thanks nhito

[kathsherman]

@nhito i had not heard of this band. brilliant tune here... :) many thanks...