It is a good album in its own right, agreed, but I think they'd set themselves an impossible task of following up what remains, in my opinion, one of the best 3 or 4 lps ever made. Also worth tracking down is the bootleg album of early demos from 1974/75. This features some fantastic raw versions of a number of the Marquee Moon songs, including the "legendary" 1974 Eno-produced sessions, featuring Richard Hell on bass. His technique might have been primative, but the energy on these tracks is amazing. If you like early Television, you should also hear the Neon Boys' (Hell and Verlaine pre-Television) "Love Comes in Spurts", still available on Overground records, I believe. Oh, and the live cassette (may be available on cd now?) "The Blow Up", on ROIR records, recorded in 1977, is also worth hearing, if only for Verlaine's outrageous guitar playing in a 10 minute version of "Little Johnny Jewel". Erm, no B&S content, sorry.
Nigel xx
These are indeed good, there's also, if you're interested, a bootleg floating around that's got different versions of Double Exposure and Blank Generation. Plus a couple of tracks that I don't know what they are. There's a different live version of Little Johnny Jewel on this too. V.Good indeed. And right enough, "The Blow Up" is available on double CD now. Did you know... Belle and Sebastian watch Television. Cheers, Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------