This demonstrated their status as a particularly proficient, accomplished, and coordinated group, the members’ skills honed as they were from years of playing live together, in addition to rehearsing four to six hours a day six days to seven days a week in preparation for the recording of their debut studio release. Thus, Marquee Moon contained only eight tracks, the majority of which ran over five minutes long and were astoundingly recorded in just one take.
It was clear that the band would rather spend as much time as they could perfecting one long-running and melodically intricate composition than they would churning out more radio-friendly and traditional two- to four-minute-long tunes. Much of the album’s power lay in the fact that it valued quality over quantity in terms of individual songs. However, it was more than worth the wait, as Marquee Moon turned out to be a musically innovative, technically impressive, and emotionally and intellectually gratifying piece of work, one that forever cemented Television’s revered place in classic rock history. Their studio debut was a long time coming, as the band, together since 1973, had begun receiving offers from record labels as early as 1974. Rarely, if ever, has a rock band so thoroughly and undeniably established themselves as one of the greatest of all time with a single release the way Television did with their first album, 1977’s Marquee Moon.
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