Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Television
Adventure
(Elektra, 1978)
After Marquee Moon, they did this. Surprise, surprise – it’s brilliant too.
I was too young, or not hip enough (let’s say I was too young) to have my life changed by Marquee Moon. Instead, I came to Television via the ’80s bands they influenced, enlightened by The Rain Parade’s version of Ain’t That Nothin’ and (gulp, here goes) Lloyd Cole & The Commotions covering Glory. Hence, for me, Adventure was never Television’s stepchild album, but its equally “valid” companion piece – gracefully psychedelic (Days) where MM was splenetic; walking-on-eggshells soulful (Carried Away) and raucously, unexpectedly Creedence-y (Ain’t That Nothin’). As time wore on, and my rock knowledge grew, it revealed what I imagined to be its “post-breakthrough” elements, and I read into it a shrugged, sad-eyed acknowledgment that here were people who had turned the world upside down then slipped back into the groove of “just” being an awesomely cracking band (well, that’s how I hear “Discover dishonour with its thousand commands”). But when I enter the intense guitar web of The Dream’s Dream, I’m not missing Torn Curtain or yearning for Guiding Light; I’m digging Adventure, and that’s good enough for me.
Danny Eccleston
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 20/01/2008
Further Listening
Television – The Blow-Up (ROIR)
De La Soul – De La Soul Is Dead (Tommy Boy)
The Clash – Give ’Em Enough Rope (CBS)
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Earl Brutus - Larky
Last salvo of Ginsters Pasty-Warholism from Britpop ramraiders.
12:04 PM GMT 08/06/2011
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Loudon Wainwright - T-Shirt
An overlooked small wonder from an unpredictable career.
6:00 AM GMT 03/06/2011
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Landscape - From The Tea-rooms Of Mars… To The Hell-holes Of Uranus
Dry computer club Futurists, upon hitting implausible chart paydirt.
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Causa Sui - Summer Sessions Vol 1-3
Epic Danish jams, for when the neighbours get you down.
6:00 AM GMT 12/05/2011
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Worst somophore-album-after-a-great-one heard in my life. Sorry.
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So where do you stand on Give ’Em Enough Rope?
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Comic Book Guy.
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