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albummaster
Janitor
Gender: Male
Location: Spain
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- #1
- Posted: 01/07/2019 21:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#2946): Marquee Moon by Television
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Today's album of the day
Marquee Moon by Television (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1977.
Country: 
Overall rank: 50
Average rating: 86/100 (from 1435 votes).
Tracks:
1. See No Evil
2. Venus
3. Friction
4. Marquee Moon
5. Elevation
6. Guiding Light
7. Prove It
8. Torn Curtain
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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Fischman
RockMonster, JazzMeister, Bluesboy,ClassicalMaster
Gender: Male
Location: Land of Enchantment 
- #2
- Posted: 01/07/2019 22:09
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Garage rock that gets musically heady... a seeming oxymoron, but it works here.
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CharlieBarley
Gender: Male
Age: 49
Location: Mount Olympus 
- #3
- Posted: 01/08/2019 05:11
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Fabulous album - one of the best albums of the late 70's. And that title track - just sublime.
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RoundTheBend
I miss the comfort in being sad
Location: Ground Control
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- Posted: 01/08/2019 05:13
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Title track is a great jam.
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PaperVinnie
Gender: Male
Age: 23
Location: Pennsylvania
- #5
- Posted: 01/08/2019 15:22
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Wonderful combination of Garage punk and art music. And to think, this album came out in '77, before other bands spent the entire decade of the 80's replicating and taking from it. You can trace this albums influence on almost every rock album of the '80s and beyond.
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- #6
- Posted: 01/08/2019 19:18
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| sethmadsen wrote: | | Title track is a great jam. |
: ) a very constructed kind of jam, then !
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MickLord
Gender: Male
Age: 44
Location: Fribourg 
- #7
- Posted: 01/09/2019 00:13
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A pivotal album in Rock history. The missing link between Pink Floyd and Joy Division !
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Antonio-Pedro
Subspace Highway Traveler
Gender: Male
Age: 25
Location: Rain forest Kingdom 
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RoundTheBend
I miss the comfort in being sad
Location: Ground Control
- #9
- Posted: 01/09/2019 05:22
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| Yann wrote: | | : ) a very constructed kind of jam, then ! |
Sometimes jam is just used as slang in English as simply a song. Like, yeah, buddy, that's my jam.
Not a real like improv jam or something.
Just to help clarify the word choice.
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AfterHours
Gender: Male
Location: originally from scaruffi.com ;-)
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- Posted: 01/09/2019 07:11
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Among the masterworks of Post Punk/Art Punk. A sort of "rubik's cube" of highly calculated virtuosity. The songs erect interlocking mechanisms of agonized vocals against twin "reverse engineered" guitars, against clockwork, emphatic, crushed, rumbling and splayed drums, into parts that seem to be a tense, instrumental "grind" both progressing forwards and walking backwards or falling downstairs in reverse (but symmetrically/geometrically aligned) directions. The songs are metaphysical ascensions while also painfully squeezing the life from or increasing the agonized tone of the vocalist, in tortuous guitar tones, rhythm by rhythm, verse by verse, epitomized by the epic title track. The songs are both elaborate deconstructions wherein all parts are methodically and mathematically, geometrically unraveled, as well as elaborate constructions from the very same material and at the same time; a sort of continual parallel universe of compositional direction.
(Not surprisingly, I've heard from highly skilled musicians that it's extremely difficult, very counter-intuitive, to play)
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Last edited by AfterHours on 01/09/2019 15:49; edited 1 time in total
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