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Gaz Coombes recommended Marquee Moon by Television in Music (curated)

 
Marquee Moon by Television
Marquee Moon by Television
1977 | Rock
9.0 (4 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"I was listening to this a lot when Supergrass were making Diamond Hoo Ha over in Berlin. This was the record of that album for me and I was listening to it over and over again. I love the rawness and the vocal performances. When I first heard it, it was unlike anything I'd ever heard before. It was different and I love Tom Verlaine's vocal quality; it's really androgynous and like the male Patti Smith. It had that delivery and I love it. I've never been drawn into the alternate tunings that they used and so I've never delved into that. I'm probably not enough of a nerd about other people's music to do that. But their playing is never pompous or self-indulgent. It wasn't guitar duelling but Television are very sensitive to their instruments. Everything had its place but I think I was drawn to it because of the band I was in. This was what we aspired to in terms of Mick [Quinn] being a brilliant bass player so we let him speak with what he was doing. And you couldn't tread over Danny because he had these amazing bass fills and we had that internal dialogue where everybody got to speak. The best bands are the ones that connect that way and are really on fire when there's that understanding between each other."

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Becs (244 KP) rated This Is The Life in Books

Oct 2, 2019  
This Is The Life
This Is The Life
Alex Shearer | 2019 | Fiction & Poetry
2
2.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
I actually ended up DNF-ing (Did Not Finish) this novel because I just couldn’t get into it. I read about 50 pages and was just so bored with the story, the writing, the plot. There just wasn’t any part of the story that appealed to me, which I find so hard to believe because I can generally get into any book and love it.

I will not be trying to reread this as it’s honestly one of those books I can never see myself getting into. When I first picked it up, the synopsis gave me a hint of a memoir style of reading and I absolutely love memoirs. But as I read, I was just blown away with how boring the writing was. There was no sense of wonder and even the story was just lacking that hint of storytelling that makes a story this grand thing, that catches your attention, and leaves you wanting more.

Don’t let my opinion on this affect whether you pick This Is the Life up for yourself, because you never know, you could love it!

“When she’d gone I said to Louis, ‘How come no one here has any worries?’ He looked at me, puzzled. ‘Everyone says “No worries,” ‘ I told him. ‘I can’t believe they don’t have any.’ “