Marquee Moon - Television (1977)

This is one of those that everyone is supposed to love, and I think it’s… fine.

There’s some great guitar shredding, and it’s done on more modern terms that fit in a conversation with punk and funk and the other movements that were taking apart popular music in the late 70s. So it’s a cool historical document.

But listening to it now, after we’ve had 40 years of snotty white boys with guitars sounding like this, doesn’t really set it apart.

Maybe I’m just not in the mood.

Tracks I Liked

See No Evil - great riffage, great backing vocals

Marquee Moon - the 80s-modern rock epic, at least until Dire Straits got up to speed.