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    Television

    Once out of time, always out of time: In 1977 the stunning ice-blue guitarchitecture and defiant spirit of free-jamming wanderlust on Television's debut album, Marquee Moon, blew wide holes through cream-puff AOR rock and the already calcifying primitivism of punk. Fifteen years later, in a guitar...

    1992 RS: 4of 5 Stars

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Biography

Television appeared at the same time and place as punk rock - in the mid-'70s at CBGB. But while the band's harsh attack and obvious affection for the Velvet Underground linked it to the rest of punk, Television's trademark chiming guitars and the tendency of lead guitarist (and main songwriter) Tom Verlaine and rhythm guitarist Richard Lloyd to spur each other on to long jams evoked such psychede...

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