S9E480 - Television 'Marquee Moon' with Alan Zweig

This week's returning guest, Canadian documentary filmmaker Alan Zweig, brings a record many before him have mentioned but never pulled the trigger to tackle. Released in February 1977 to lukewarm commercial reception, Television's stunning debut 'Marquee Moon' is considered by many to be one of the greatest rock guitar albums of all time. Let's DO this!

Songs discussed in this episode: Marquee Moon (Television cover) - Kronos Quartet; Halloween - The Dream Syndicate; That's All I Know (Right Now) - The Neon Boys; Prove It (Eno Demos), Venus De Milo (Eno Demos) - Television; In The Flesh - Blondie; Blitzkrieg Bop - Ramones; Betrayal Takes Two - Richard Hell; See No Evil - Television; Divine Intervention - Matthew Sweet; Venus - Television; Venus (Television cover) - Jeff & Spencer Tweedy; I Know What Boys Like - The Waitresses; Friction - Television; Screamin' Fist - Viletones; Marquee Moon - Television; Kassie Jones - Furry Lewis; Errors Of My Way - Wishbone Ash; Elevation - Television; Town Without Pity - Gene Pitney; Blank Generation - Richard Hell; Misty Eyes - Richard Lloyd; Guiding Light - Television; American Music - Violent Femmes; Pale Blue Eyes - Velvet Underground; Days, Prove It, Torn Curtain - Television; Souvenir From A Dream - Tom Verlaine; Marquee Moon (Television cover feat. Richard Lloyd) - Ellen Sundberg

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