A brilliant live album is made even better with the remastered version enhancing the sound,the original release was very murky! Television start the show with the Elevators song “Fire engine”,they then play most of the tracks from “Marquee Moon ” and “Adventure ” That’s the beauty of Television’s live show,they like to jam and on the song “Foxhole” there is an added guitar part which make it a better version than the one on the album ! They also cover “Knockin’ on Heavens door” and there’s fine guitar playing (don’t know if it’s Verlaine or Lloyd ) and the final track is “Satisfaction” is brilliant For me the gem of the concert is 15 minutes worth of “little Johnny Jewel” this is surely Verlaine,s finest moment! Not a bad track on this album and once again the guitar interplay between Verlaine and Lloyd is amazing A classic !
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This CD set claims to be the only recorded source of TV’s covers of Dylan’s Knockin and the Stones’ Satisfaction but whilst the former is certainly very listenable (and actually sounds like a Verlaine original) the real gems here are a 15 minute versions of Marquee Moon and Little Johnny Jewel and really tight live perfomances of classic tracks like Prove It, Venus and Ain’t That Nuthin. Only Elevation disppoints, perhaps because it is my favourite off Marquee Moon and the standard of the studio version is so high, but it seems to have significantly worse sound quality than other tracks. But buy this album if you like this band (and who doesn’t?) and want to hear them live at their peak.
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I have all of Televisions and Verlaines albums on vinyl and cd formats. This product in its cd format was very disappointing. The recording quality is very poor even for a live album. On hearing it I wish I had not bought it. Only really for the completionist collector.
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Intense,
A brilliant live album is made even better with the remastered version enhancing the sound,the original release was very murky!
Television start the show with the Elevators song “Fire engine”,they then play most of the tracks from “Marquee Moon ” and “Adventure ” That’s the beauty of Television’s live show,they like to jam and on the song “Foxhole” there is an added guitar part which make it a better version than the one on the album !
They also cover “Knockin’ on Heavens door” and there’s fine guitar playing (don’t know if it’s Verlaine or Lloyd ) and the final track is “Satisfaction” is brilliant
For me the gem of the concert is 15 minutes worth of “little Johnny Jewel” this is surely Verlaine,s finest moment!
Not a bad track on this album and once again the guitar interplay between Verlaine and Lloyd is amazing
A classic !
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|Not just for completists,
This CD set claims to be the only recorded source of TV’s covers of Dylan’s Knockin and the Stones’ Satisfaction but whilst the former is certainly very listenable (and actually sounds like a Verlaine original) the real gems here are a 15 minute versions of Marquee Moon and Little Johnny Jewel and really tight live perfomances of classic tracks like Prove It, Venus and Ain’t That Nuthin. Only Elevation disppoints, perhaps because it is my favourite off Marquee Moon and the standard of the studio version is so high, but it seems to have significantly worse sound quality than other tracks. But buy this album if you like this band (and who doesn’t?) and want to hear them live at their peak.
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|Live Recording Television,
I have all of Televisions and Verlaines albums on vinyl and cd formats.
This product in its cd format was very disappointing.
The recording quality is very poor even for a live album.
On hearing it I wish I had not bought it.
Only really for the completionist collector.
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