The band photo itself shows a difference from the bleeding saturated colours of ‘Marquee Moon’ to the crisp, over-lit Adventure line-up. It’s still the same bold and plain group portrait with a large border and clear titles, but ‘Marquee Moon’ is in midnight blues and blacks – ‘Adventure’ in fiery afternoon oranges and reds. It’s a step down, but it’s also a step across… it’s not called ‘Adventure’ for nothing! It’s a shame coz here is where the show gets really interesting! ‘Adventure’ is exactly the right second album to put out after such a game-changer. Like ‘Never Mind the Bollocks’, ‘Spiral Scratch’, ‘The Ramones’, ‘Unknown Pleasures’ and Talking Heads’ first albums – ‘Marquee Moon’ has created its own genre within punk and new wave. ‘Adventure’ could never live up to ‘Marquee Moon’. RL = Richard Lloyd- backing vocals, guitars and guitar solos on Glory, Days, Careful and Ain’t That Nothing.įF = Fred Frith – backing vocals and bass guitar. TV = Tom Verlaine – lead vocals, guitars, organ, piano, slide guitar and guitar solos on Foxhole, Carried Away, The Fire and The Dream’s Dream. I’d like to show that Television completed at least 2 great albums in the following transmission: For one album at least… Of course The Sex Pistols only really released one album and ‘changed everything’ too, if you are to listen to some people…. I’m not saying they were on their own, or even that they were best at it – but they sure are there. You can also hear plenty of copies of Tom Verlaine’s strangled yelp and Romantic, Impressionistic and Surreal lyrics in many singers popping up from the early 80’s onward. ‘Seminal’ is such a disgustingly overused word in rock criticism, but there’s no doubting how many British and American bands were spawned out of Television’s singular songwriting, aggressive yet glowing guitar attack and non-Bonham drumming. Compare and Contrast Television’s second album, ‘Adventure’ with its predecessor: the seminal ‘Marquee Moon’.
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