Sold Date: December 18, 2023
Start Date: December 14, 2023
Final Price: $125.00 (USD)
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Offered here is a very nice copy of the epic, legendary Marquee Moon from 1977. This is a first pressing, not the more frequently seen 180 g repress. Original pressings are hard to find in this condition. The OG sounds tremendous.

The vinyl plays EX WITH SOME HAIR LINES AND SCUFFS. Minimal crackle upon playback on the Linn LP12. FULL gloss. THE JACKET IS EX WITH FULL lustre. Jacket does have a very small cut out notch as shown. Also has very slight corner wear from being on the shelf.

The record will be professionally packed in a record mailer and shipped FREE immediately upon payment.

Marquee Moon Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Marquee Moon is a revolutionary album, but it's a subtle, understated revolution. Without question, it is a guitar rock album -- it's astonishing to hear the interplay between Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd -- but it is a guitar rock album unlike any other. Where their predecessors in the New York punk scene, most notably the Velvet Underground, had fused blues structures with avant-garde flourishes, Television completely strip away any sense of swing or groove, even when they are playing standard three-chord changes. Marquee Moon is comprised entirely of tense garage rockers that spiral into heady intellectual territory, which is achieved through the group's long, interweaving instrumental sections, not through Verlaine's words. That alone made Marquee Moon a trailblazing album -- it's impossible to imagine post-punk soundscapes without it. Of course, it wouldn't have had such an impact if Verlaine hadn't written an excellent set of songs that conveyed a fractured urban mythology unlike any of his contemporaries. From the nervy opener, "See No Evil," to the majestic title track, there is simply not a bad song on the entire record. And what has kept Marquee Moon fresh over the years is how Television flesh out Verlaine's poetry into sweeping sonic epics.