(TV) RE: Verlaine's great but unavailable songs - The Miller's Tale 2 ? / Take 5

["Casey, Leo J" <CaseyL@VOLPE.DOT.GOV>]

>And I know that this puts me in the minority, 
>but "Cover" is a great record...

We, Allison, Thornton, Mark e, and me (and a few others?), 
may be in the minority, but we're a minority within the  
minority of TV/Television listeners. 

INMHO, "Cover" is superior to "WFTW" [albeit an easy 
accomplishment]---though "Postcard From Waterloo" 
is close-to "Marie Marie" and "Without a Word"; and 
superior to "The Wonder"---the same exact (and leaden) 
drumming on almost every track, fewer interesting good 
songs, so-so vocals, and even its mediocre production 
[just as under-par as "Cover"'s], make it my second least 
favorite album ["Prayer" and "5 Hours from Calais", 
notwithstanding]. 

Speaking of Calais, from a fascinating audio interview 
(supplied to me very recently by a MM Lister), TV said 
that he generally writes about places he has never been 
to, but of which he has imaginary and probably idealistic 
notions.  Related Question: I'm too lazy to go to Keith's 
gigography--didn't Television play somewhere in Portugal 
in last 2 years?

Back to "Cover".  It's orig. vinyl version and the Miller 
Tale's  version of "5 Miles of You" has IMHO one of 
Verlaine's 5 greatest studio guitar solos -- simultaneously 
virile and tender. (See Monica Kendrick below.) 

"...Five Miles of You," with its bittersweet tension between 
ambivalence and desire, is maybe the most beautiful of all 
Verlaine's love songs; and the segue between the last verse 
("Walking out in the wind and light / Before me I see only 
you / Walking out in the wind and light / Into the mystery of 
you") and the final choruses, where Verlaine's guitar and voice 
well up out of the rhythm track, is one of the most transcendent 
moments in post punk pop music."

	Leo 

PS: One of these days I'm going to drop the qualifier, 
"INMHO". :>)



-----Original Message-----
From: tv-owner@obbard.com [mailto:tv-owner@obbard.com]On Behalf Of Keith
Allison
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 6:11 AM
To: tv@obbard.com
Subject: Re: (TV) Tom Verlaine's great but unavailable songs -- The
Miller's Tale 2?



And I know that this puts me in the minority, but "Cover" is a great
record. I certainly listen to it more than "Tom Verlaine", which I've
always considered over-rated.


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