Always -Tom Verlaine (from Dream Time)

* Tom Verlaine -- guitars, solos, vocals on all tracks; bass on "Penetration" * Ritchie Fliegler -- guitars on all tracks, except "Penetration" * Fred Smith -- bass on "Mr. Blur", "Down on the Farm", "There's a Reason" & "Without a Word" * Donald Nossov -- bass on "Always", "Mary Marie", "Fragile", "The Blue Robe", "A Future in Noise", & bonus tracks * Jay Dee Daugherty -- drums on "Mr. Blur", "Down on the Farm", "There's a Reason", "Without a Word" & "Penetration" * Rich Teeter -- drums on "Always", "Mary Marie", "Fragile", "The Blue Robe", "A Future in Noise" & bonus tracks * Bruce Brody -- keyboards on "Always", "Mary Marie", end of "Penetration" & "Always" (alternate version)

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[MisterMojoSinkin]

A goodun fer sher and one of my fave solo Verlaine numbers -- but you can just tell it was recorded in the 80s -- whereas the Television tracks sound like they exist outside of time. Happened to a lot of great artists in that decade!

[ufohead1]

@MisterMojoSinkin Boy do I agree with you. Its like they got scared of analog sounds and things that breathed. Glad that lots of youngsters have an appreciation of soul, garage , psych, alt. country and other genres where your can hear realness of vocals and instruments Tom go even further into the bleep blop 80s approach on some later material. This one still rocks out. Agree with you on Marquee Mon which is a mind bending masterpiece and one of a kind. .

[SuperPais]

This is an excelent album. Period

[blackmax2323]

@MisterMojoSinkin Excellent point about Television music "existing out of time." Perfect. One of a number of reasons why, as much as I like Verlaine's solo work, I always come back to Television. I think it's the interlocking guitar play of Verlaine and Lloyd that makes Television's work so transcendent.

[blackmax2323]

@MisterMojoSinkin Excellent point about Television music "existing out of time." Perfect. One of a number of reasons why, as much as I like Verlaine's solo work, I always come back to Television.

[MisterMojoSinkin]

"Bleep Blop!" That just about sums it up! Anyway, we agree -- I hear it on albums from the 80s/90s by Brian Wilson, Pete Townshend, Lindsey Buckingham,Tom Petty, even Dwight Yoakam to name a few (not to mention your basic mainstream stuff of the period)-- good songs and performances but with that awful "Big" drum sound and wooshy crap. Give me Sun, Motown, 4 track, DIY, audience cassettes -- anything! Any day!