Re: (TV) The 100 Greatest Debut Albums

["BlackMonk" <BlackMonk@email.msn.com>]

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From: "Keith Allison" <keith@marquee.demon.co.uk>
To: <tv@obbard.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: (TV) The 100 Greatest Debut Albums


> In message <a06230912c0df83327d73@[68.234.162.69]>, "edi, redux." 
> <the_postmodern_closet@adelphia.net> writes
> > in two years, or a year, when the tom verlaine buzz dies, i
> > should think we would no longer be hearing that television fly-around at 
> > the no. 2 spot on such a list as this.
>
> Er.. There isn't any Tom Verlaine buzz, never has been, really. It's there 
> because, as they say, it's a "work of breathless wonder. Eloquent, minimal 
> and portentous...The post-punk era's original template." Tom's current 
> releases will make absolutely no mark at all on the musical landscape, 
> Marquee Moon has never been "out of print".

Are you sure? I think the Television albums were out of print in the early 
80s. At least, one of the first things I remember reading about Tom Verlaine 
was a review of Dreamtime in Trouser Press that said "Elektra has already 
remaindered their Tom Verlaine and Television product." 
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