Television - Elevation

[TheFuzzieWuzzie]

omg---this album makes me weep

[rizzmag]

lovefool cardigans!!!!

[L0veAndSqualor]

I was born in the wrong decade.

[twobit211]

@L0veAndSqualor not really; this album (marquee moon) never sounded like it belonged to any one decade. it always reminds me of the 90's when i first got it. you could play it today and say it was released yesterday and nobody (who hadn't heard it before) would be the wiser

[L0veAndSqualor]

@twobit211 you said it's sounds like the 90's and that it doesn't sound like any particular decade. That I know of, there are maybe two current bands with this sound.

[twobit211]

@L0veAndSqualor sorry, i wasn't as clear as i could have been. i didn't actually say i thought this album sounded like 90's music (if that's what you're infering) but, rather, it reminds me of personal experiences during the middle part of the aforementioned decade. tho, that being said, rem's song 'tongue' is a complete rip off of 'guiding light'. no, but i stand firm: "marquee moon" really sounds fresh, no matter when it's heard

[TheEmilylander]

I am johnyess no mates - wheres the dancing ?

[buckeyewildcats45]

iheartradio/cbgb  plays all these classic tunes.....

[AlNaafiysh]

I went to church last weekend and then I thought of this album: the songs are very hymn-like. In church we sang a swedish hymn that sounded like Torn curtain. It was called "Beautiful is the world" (I translate: The world is wonderful, beautiful is the walk of the dead souls.<-- pretty Tom Verlaine-ish, huh!?)

[Richiebonzo]

Guitar solo... Chills big time.

[grampysimon1]

3.00 = shivvers

[ColdOasisU2]

wonderful

[seranda73]

An album that changes your life! ; )

[seranda73]

One of the most influential albums of all time! A real masterpiece!!!

[blaksu]

similar to a song from Animals by Pink Floyd, can't remember which. The two albums were released very close to each other..

[MEYERS3000]

@blaksu Pigs (Three Different Ones), probably.

[captainkundalini1]

Bought this in Longton market in Stoke on Tfrent...Back in1978 for 10 pence, (And See No Evil.)Safe to say I'll never get another bargain like that.!

[dalvs413]

best. guitar. solo. ever.

[evelyneverettgreen]

@dalvs413 yes, so wonderful

[evelyneverettgreen]

@dalvs413 yes, so wonderful. Played by Richard Lloyd

[TheInformation]

That guitar line, the short one that connects the verses with the chorus, is one of my favorite moments in all of music. It really builds the intensity of the track and makes an incredible song that much better. With a band this talented, every little detail could be the highlight.

[felipegiovanaz]

the bass line is a fucking bass class.

[HardieUK]

the chilli peppers ripped off the start of this song

[adamjg4]

Where can i get a guitar tab for this?

[thesunstartstoset]

My favorite television song!!!!

[thedizzies1]

Robert Forster of the Go-Betweens sounds quite a bit like Tom Verlaine

[MHTaccini]

reminds me of Pigs by Pink Floyd

[nadirzenit]

Timeless

[corydee123]

pink floyd animals

[krakenwave]

@corydee123

Fuck me, I've just come straight from there to here

[Nimsommanat]

Television. Just a starting point for many bands. A pity if you don't know them, as many bands have been influenced by Paul V. Thanks for this post, really.

[framboosspl]

found the vinyl in my dad's collection and i have been listening to this band non stop now, why did people stop making good music like they used to?

listen to the radio lateley or watch tv? get my point?

[stoopidryan8]

@framboosspl people still make fantastic music. you still won't catch it on after your local new report or between commercials and bad jokes on your way to work.

[Sndrtj]

@framboosspl Good music is still being made, you just have to look for it. You won't find it if you only listen to the radio or watch TV, I agree on that.

[germx7677]

@framboosspl

because people find it more easy to do whats cool instead of being original and true and yes shit on both radio and TV is lame and unreal and pretentious.

[KindOfMaroon]

Man, The Strokes had to be influenced by this.

[BergKarlErik]

@KindOfMaroon Totally. But the strokes did it well tho.

[andiseis66]

@TeamR3AcT

[Tonyfaster]

Searched "Elevation" on the YouTube search bar and all I got was U2...I don't want to live in this world anymore.

[lgacouldbedangerous]

@Tonyfaster It's the same thing when you search guiding light, all you got is Muse.I don't hate Muse but this makes me think that Television is one of the most underrated bands

[TheSouthernKiller80]

Underrated. And, in my opinion, Television is better than The Beatles.

[desasterz]

I want ot mix Television with "Klub Des Loosers". The perfect music.

[gigantesfan1]

good tune



[watashiwanachodes]

huh sounds like early u2 if you think about it

[El135o]

Greg Kihn chanelled this one for that song "they don't write like that anymore."

[Nimsommanat]

Thanks for this, whoever posted it. This song is a reference, and so few people knows it, except when you are a musician, or when you love music

[hayzeephantayzee]

the intro sounds like the Floyd's "Pigs" from the same year. Who copied who?

[flamingphil123]

@hayzeephantayzee I don't think either, Television recorded Marquee Moon in 1975 while Pink Floyd recorded animals is 1976. Saying that unless they used the same recording studio and heard television recording it(Which they Didn't!) It's probably just an odd coincidence.

[daddyfatsaxohten]

@hayzeephantayzee both bands were on a higher level of musical consciousness, I wouldn't ever accuse either of copying

[jrmetmoi]

The best part is from 3:00 to 3:34

[Searchandpreserve]

@jrmetmoi a wonderful solo!

[MrTuzzo77]

my year...1977....great song...only for us :))

[zetawxy]

why so hard to find an album named television? the best one i heard with great gitars and lyrics.

[MegaDELROY]

The song that changed the meaning of "tight timing", for me.

[wellspout]

because you simply can't buy taste like these fellows readily demonstrate, diamonds in the throbbing heart of the rough, that is lloyd's solo, right?

[cmonz9]

the majority of people listen to bad music

[newaccountforfilms]

@cmonz9 The majority of people make bad music.

[harryhho]

television stole this from the cardigans - lovefool lol

[snayll]

@harryhho That might have been an interesting theory, had it not been for the fact that this album came out about 20 years prior.

[ECHOES2131]

@harryhho Television 1977 - your shiti band 1990....



[toxochef]

cuz theyre not sold out

[EMPower08]

this is still my favorite album of the 70's.. it's so raw and philosophical

[SebastianStevens]

This song is how I wish Red Hot Chilli Peppers were.

[rafahhhhhh]

the whole album is fucking awesome, but this song and Marquee Moon are more than awesome.

[SimplyShadow]

i love the guitar here.

[treehows]

These songs were done before the time of videos. In the old days, if you didn't go to the concerts, you didn't see the bands. Then came MTV with 24/7 videos. another industry gone. The summer tour.

[raphael13377]

1977 - burn this into a brain, it will never be the same. deadly fuckin hook! 5:08 of mind-cleansing inspiration ...

[Annalisasil]

stupenda

[sweetttina666]

....we had broken up for good just an hour before, ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah...

[Giselle62]

this is my favorite Television song (Roky Erickson wrote it, right?)

[EarlMcCrackin]

Am I the only person on this Earth that thinks the Red hot Chili Peppers suck balls? I mean I like Frusciante and Flea individually but thats about it...

[mnwalke]

@EarlMcCrackin They were awesome up to and including "Blood Sugar Sex Magik." Frusciante got strung out, and (sorry if you read this, John) his playing never got back up to the level it was at. The guitar on "Under The Bridge" is very Hendrixian, in terms of chord progression and even the way JF used his fretting hand on the song. It's a very hard song to play correctly.

You go from that to "Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, de dun dun dun" on that "How Long" song.

DON'T DO HEROIN!

[mnwalke]

and yeah, I know, Dave Navarro replaced him for a while, during the "one hot minute" era.

I read an interview where Flea claimed he wrote most of the songs on that album, because long story short John Frusciante wasn't the only one strung out during that era. And I'm sorry, "Californication" and everything after has moments I don't hate, but starting with that one they don't have any energy at all in their music. Their older music is much more "upbeat" and less morose and depressing.

[musikfanat]

@EarlMcCrackin I guess it's just you and me...

[MmeLEnfer]

@EarlMcCrackin I think you should be more careful about what you say... it's easy to reveal a lack of intelligence by careless slip-ups such as stating that Television "sucks".

[MmeLEnfer]

@EarlMcCrackin Apologies... I meant to post that under another comment.

[CainmosniMirrored]

This song sucks who cares if the Chili peppers were influenced by it they made a better song from it. Led Zeppelin were the kings of stealing riffs but they made some great music.

[SolidWookie]

@CainmosniMirrored I agree completely. They're like the poor man's Jane's Addiction.

[mikeynelson]

one of the best songs ever written.......

[theredeyejedi1982]

Great song...shame they ripped off the Chilli Peppers so bad

[rustyj107]

@theredeyejedi1982 sarcasm??

[metalshreder127]

@theredeyejedi1982 they couldnt of ripped off californication cus the song was realeased 23 years after this

[mnwalke]

@theredeyejedi1982 This came out in 1977. "Californication" came out in 1999.

I am forced to assume you were joking with that comment.

[krakenwave]

Not many agree with me - but this is the best song off the album - this is the one that kept me up all night

[elkyuubi88]

@krakenwave I agree completely.

[daegrant]

@krakenwave lest it's any interest, I also think this is as good as the (truly fantastic) album gets

[HardieUK]

Does the start of this sound like the start of Californication by the Chilli Peppers to anyone else?

[breenrj]

@HardieUK

Wow you're so right.!! They went forward from 1976 to 1996 and back again to steal that riff.

Ijeet.

[threejay01]

heroes

[chaprube]

God Bless Youtube and it's supporters.I ask you...How could I have been exposed to this in any other form of media??? MTV NO MUSIC STORE NO ITUNES ..MAYBE

Don't let this end!!!

[MrGenerius1]

Stupenda , uno dei migliori album rockandrolla di sempre

[da1976stone]

this song is in my favorites

[pathammond]

ONe of my favourite songs to noodle along with at the moment. The harmonics at the start are cool. Just works so well.

[krakenwave]

best track on a great album

[Schmoople]

@stoprejectingmynames: I wonder the same thing myself...this song is a classic. I had the album during the 70s and almost wore it out. I love Richard Lloyd's guitar work...so crisp, clean and melodical...coupled with Verlaine's plaintive voice...WOW!

[wedriveforyou]

because most people have shit tastes...that's why crap songs get to number one!

[parkourandguitars]

beautiful

[stoprejectingmynames]

Why do all the great songs have so few views?

[okkcomputer]

@stoprejectingmynames who cares, as long as u see it.

i mean, let the stupid people listen to stupid things.

[musikfanat]

@stoprejectingmynames I agree-this song is so deep...

[rodoslu87]

@stoprejectingmynames

Cause they are so special that only lucky ones can hear about

[grrawrr19]

@stoprejectingmynames because people these days have bad taste in music

[OpenedCanOfWhoopAss]

@stoprejectingmynames Because the good songs aren't forced into the faces of the public so they can go ''Oh this is what everyone's listening to? I better just get that song or I'm not going to fit in!''.

[MrLudi1234]

@stoprejectingmynames So that it will be lonely at the top

[MrLudi1234]

@stoprejectingmynames So that it will be lonely at the top.

[wongoloid747]

@stoprejectingmynames count yourself lucky to be part of the minority!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jrmetmoi]

@stoprejectingmynames This is nothing. Take a look at the way low number of views for Tuxedomoon's Seven years, and that is THEIR song!

[SuperElm]

@jrmetmoi

But tuxedomoon is unknown.

[jrmetmoi]

@SuperElm Well then it's about time you got to know em darlin!

[SuperElm]

@jrmetmoi

Yeah I'm going to have to start listening to them!

[mjnotso98]

@stoprejectingmynames Seriously, I've basically put up 63k of these views.

[roku1er]

@stoprejectingmynames and even less likes.

[rosangelramses]

@stoprejectingmynames

i agree with you and i thing that the anwser its because just a few enjoy the good music.

[owsleythebear]

a perfect song

[LUVninety]

diskaraaaaaa!!!

[tommyig88]

Great song.