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Television

Television was one of the most creative bands to emerge from New York's underground scene of the mid-'70s, creating an influential new guitar vocabulary. While guitarists Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd liked to jam, they didn't follow the accepted rock structures for improvisation — they removed the blues while retaining the raw energy of garage rock, adding complex, lyrical solo lines that recalled both jazz and rock. With its angular rhythms and fluid leads Read more on Last.fm

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Most Played Tracks as Scrobbled to Last.fm

# Title Plays
1Marquee Moon
2107458
2See No Evil
1498903
3Venus
1363102
4Friction
1018888
5Elevation
833409
6Guiding Light
727949
7Prove It
697145
8Torn Curtain
611839
91880 Or So
294623
10Mars
137071

Other Album Releases:

Live At The Academy NYC 12.4.92
Live at the Old Waldorf
The Blow Up
Television
Adventure
Marquee Moon
Marquee Moon (Edit)
Marquee Moon / Adventure / Live at the Waldorf: The Complete Elektra Recordings Plus Liner Notes
Psycho Killer: 1977 Rock
Spurts: The Richard Hell Story (2013 Remaster)

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