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Television is tagged as: post-punk, punk, new wave, proto-punk, rock

Television was one of the most creative bands to emerge from New York’s underground scene of the mid-’70s, creating an influential new guitar vocabulary. While guitarists Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd liked to jam, they didn’t follow the accepted rock structures for improvisation — they removed the blues while retaining the raw energy of garage rock, adding complex, lyrical solo lines that recalled both jazz and rock. With its angular rhythms and fluid leads, Television’s music always went in unconventional directions, laying the groundwork for many of the guitar-based post-punk pop groups of the late ’70s and ’80s.
In the early ’70s, Television began as The Neon Boys, a group featuring guitarist/vocalist Tom Verlaine, drummer Billy Ficca, and bassist Richard Hell. At the end of 1973 in New York City, New York, the group reunited under the name Television, adding rhythm guitarist Richard Lloyd. The following year, the band made its live debut at New York’s Townhouse theater and began to build up an underground following. Soon, their fan base was large enough that Verlaine was able to persuade CBGB to begin featuring live bands on a regular basis; the club would become an important venue for punk and new wave bands. Television...
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Top 10 Television Songs
Marquee Moon
See No Evil
Venus
Friction
Guiding Light
Elevation
Prove It
Torn Curtain
Little Johnny Jewel (Parts 1 & 2)
Glory
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Top 10 Television Albums
Marquee Moon
Adventure
Television
The Blow Up
The Blow-Up (disc 2)
Live at the Old Waldorf
Double Exposure
The Blow-Up
The Blow Up (CD1)
Rhino Hi-Five: Television
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