Marquee Moon is the 1977 debut album by American rock band Television. By 1974, the band had become a prominent act on the New York music scene and generated interest from a number of record labels. They rehearsed extensively in preparation for the album and, upon signing to Elektra Records, recorded most of the songs in single takes. Television's frontman Tom Verlaine and fellow guitarist Richard Lloyd eschewed contemporary punk rock's power chords in favor of rock and jazz-inspired interplay, melodic lines, and counter-melodies. Verlaine's lyrics for the album combined urban and pastoral imagery, references to lower Manhattan, themes of adolescence, and influences from French poetry. Marquee Moon was critically acclaimed upon its release and achieved unexpected commercial success in the UK, but sold poorly in the United States. It has since been viewed by critics as one of the greatest albums of the American punk rock movement and a cornerstone of alternative rock. The band's innovative post-punk instrumentation on the album strongly influenced the indie rock and new wave movements of the 1980s, as well as rock guitarists such as John Frusciante, Will Sergeant, and The Edge.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1571:
A Western Christian coalition inflicted a significant defeat upon the Ottoman Navy near the Gulf of Corinth in the Battle of Lepanto, the first major Ottoman loss to European powers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lepanto
1800:
The French privateer Robert Surcouf led a 150-man crew to capture the 40-gun, 437-man East Indiaman Kent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Surcouf
1868:
Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, was inaugurated, with an initial enrollment of 412 students the next day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_University
1944:
The Holocaust: When members of the Sonderkommando—Jewish work units in Auschwitz—learned that they were due to be murdered, they staged a revolt, managing to kill more than 70 SS men before being massacred themselves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderkommando
1958:
Attempting to control the political instability in Pakistan, President Iskander Mirza suspended the 1956 constitution, imposed martial law, and cancelled the elections scheduled for January 1959. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iskander_Mirza
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
croggy: A ride on the handlebars or crossbar of a bicycle. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/croggy
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
I feel very much like Dirac: the idea of a personal God is foreign to me. But we ought to remember that religion uses language in quite a different way from science. The language of religion is more closely related to the language of poetry than to the language of science. True, we are inclined to think that science deals with information about objective facts, and poetry with subjective feelings. Hence we conclude that if religion does indeed deal with objective truths, it ought to adopt the same criteria of truth as science. But I myself find the division of the world into an objective and a subjective side much too arbitrary. The fact that religions through the ages have spoken in images, parables, and paradoxes means simply that there are no other ways of grasping the reality to which they refer. But that does not mean that it is not a genuine reality. And splitting this reality into an objective and a subjective side won't get us very far. --Niels Bohr https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr
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