TELEVISION "Marquee Moon" 1977 UK ELEKTRA MINT AUDIO

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TELEVISION "Marquee Moon" 1977 UK ELEKTRA MINT AUDIO SUPERB UNPLAYED 1st PRESSING w/LYRIC INNER SLEEVE

TELEVISION
Marquee Moon

ORIGINAL UK ELEKTRA RECORDS (K 52046) FIRST PRESSING (February 1977) OF TELEVISION'S STUNNING DEBUT, "Marquee Moon" - CRITICALLY REGARDED AS ONE OF THE FINEST ALBUMS EVER MADE: in 2003 NME declared the LP the fourth best album of all time and Rolling Stone ranked the LP at #128 in their '500 Greatest Albums of All Time' list, while Pitchfork named the album the 3rd best of the 1970s

THIS COPY IS IN OUTSTANDING CONDITION AND HAS POSSIBLY NEVER BEEN PLAYED (the labels are clean and bright with NO spindle traces) AND THE VINYL DELIVERS MINT, CRYSTAL CLEAR, SHARP AND FRESH AUDIO THROUGHOUT - BEAUTIFUL COPY

PRESSED WITH THE FIRST ISSUE ELEKTRA 'BUTTERFLY' LABELS WITH "Made in UK" TEXT
MATRIX: K 52046 A-1 (etched 'AL') / K 52046 B-2 (etched 'ALLEN') (the earliest set for this LP)
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL SINGLE SLEEVE PRINTED BY “Shorewood Packaging Co. Ltd., England”
AND COMES COMPLETE WITH THE FIRST ISSUE PHOTO/LYRIC INNER SLEEVE WITH ROUNDED BOTTOM CORNERS

SUPERB UK VERY FIRST PRESSING OF TELEVISION'S MASTERPIECE - VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

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.

Track Listing:
Side 1: SEE NO EVIL / VENUS / FRICTION / MARQUEE MOON
Side 2: ELEVATION / GUIDING LIGHT / PROVE IT / TORN CURTAIN

LABELS: MINT - CLEAN and BRIGHT with NO wear, NO writing and NO spindle traces - COMPLETELY UNPLAYED, IN MY OPINION
VINYL Visual: The vinyl surfaces retain their original DEEP, LIKE-NEW, GLOSSY SHEEN but the inner has caused some (very) light hairline marks - these are of NO audio consequence - the playback is FLAWLESS throughout
VINYL Audio: SUPERB - CRYSTAL CLEAR, CLEAN, SHARP audio reproduction. On playback at a LOUD volume there are NO scratches, NO jumps/sticks, NO surface noise and NO clicks/pops. The record plays to the highest standard with NO groove-wear and NO distortion and is graded MINT for audio - PRISTINE sound
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT condition - CLEAN and UNMARKED with just a slight impression of the record on the surfaces, some light creases around the edges and a little storage rubbing to the opening edges - all of these made all the more prominent due to the (mostly) black nature of the sleeve. The spine again, displays a little storage wear but all text is CLEAR and BOLD
INNER SLEEVE: CLEAN and UNMARKED with NO splits to any of the edges and again, just some light record impression - EXCELLENT+
The LP is now housed - and will be posted in - a new inner to prevent any 'knifing' damage to the original during transit


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THIS IS AN OUTSTANDING FIRST UK PRESS COPY OF A TREMENDOUS LP AND A FINER ONE I THINK WOULD BE VERY HARD TO LOCATE INDEED - VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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