Television were part of the late-’70s punk nucleus that put New York’s CBGB club on the map. Although it may share a similar permeating attitude, Television’s revolutionary 1977 debut Marquee Moon distinguished itself immediately from that of their New York punk contemporaries otherwise with the unconventional guitar interplay of Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd, Verlaine’s poetic songwriting and their labyrinthine extended song structures.

Side A
1 See No Evil
2 Venus
3 Friction
4 Marquee Moon

Side B
1 Elevation
2 Guiding Light
3 Prove It
4 Torn Curtain