Artist: Television Genre(s):
Rock
Rock: Punk-Rock
Discography:
Television Year: 1992
Tracks: 10
The Blow Up CD2 Year: 1991
Tracks: 4
The Blow Up CD1 Year: 1991
Tracks: 9
Marquee Moon Year: 1977
Tracks: 8
Television were 1 of the most originative bands to emerge from New York's punk scenery of the mid-'70s, creating an influential new guitar mental lexicon. While guitarists Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd liked to close up, they didn't fall out the accepted stone structures for temporary expedient -- they remote the blues piece retaining the raw energy of service department rock, adding complex, lyrical solo lines that recalled both jazz and rock. With its angulate rhythms and liquid leads, Television's medicine always went in unconventional directions, egg egg laying the al-Qa'ida for many of the guitar-based post-punk pop groups of the late '70s and '80s.
In the early '70s, Television began as the Neon Boys, a chemical group featuring guitarist/vocalist Tom Verlaine, drummer Billy Ficca, and bassist Richard Hell. At the end of 1973, the group reunited under the discover Television, adding rhythm method guitarist Richard Lloyd. The next year, the striation made its live debut at New York's Townhouse field and began to build up an metro following. Soon, their fan base was magnanimous sufficiency that Verlaine was able to persuade CBGB's to begin featuring live bands on a regular ground; the gild would become an important venue for punk and new wave bands. That year, Verlaine played guitar on Patti Smith's beginning single, "Hey Joe"/"Piss Factory," as well as wrote a word of God of poetry with the vocaliser.
Television recorded a demo tape for Island Records with Brian Eno in 1975, even the label distinct non to sign the band. Hell left the band after the recording of the demo tapeline, forming the Heartbreakers with former New York Dolls guitarist Johnny Thunders; the following year, he began a solo vocation supported by the Voidoids, cathartic a debut album,
Blank Generation, in 1977. Hell was replaced by ex-Blondie bassist Fred Smith and Television recorded "Minuscule Johnny Jewel," cathartic it on their have Ork record label. "Short Johnny Jewel" became an underground hit, attracting the attention of major record book labels. In 1976, the band released a British EP on Stiff Records, which expanded their reputation. They signed with Elektra Records and began recording their debut album.
Marquee Moon, the group's beginning album, was released in early 1977 to great critical applaud, yet it failed to attract a wide audience in America; in the U.K., it reached number 28 on the charts, launching the Top 40 individual "Rise It." Television supported Blondie on the group's 1977 enlistment, just the shows didn't gain the group's following significantly.
Television released their second album,
Risk, in the spring of 1978. While its American gross sales were better than those of
Marquee Moon, the record didn't make the charts; in Britain, it became a Top Ten hit. Months later, the group on the spur of the moment stone-broke up, mostly due to tensions betwixt the deuce guitarists. Smith rejoined Blondie, spell Verlaine and Lloyd both pursued solo careers; Lloyd besides played on John Doe's beginning solo album, as intimately as united Matthew Sweet's encouraging band with the 1991 album
Girlfriend.
Almost 14 years later their separation, Television re-formed in late 1991, recording a new record album for Capitol Records. The reunited band began its comeback with a performance at England's Glastonbury summer festival in 1992, cathartic
Video a mates months after. The album standard good reviews, as did the circuit that followed, yet the reunion was passing -- the group disbanded once more in early 1993. In 2001, Television once more reunited for a handful of shows in the U.K., as well as an appearing at the Noise Pop Festival in Chicago.
