Television Reimagines Guitar Rock onMarquee Moon: Band's 1977 Debut Is Rankedthe 107th Greatest Album of All Time byRolling Stone and Cited on Virtually EveryMajor "Best" ListExperience the Pioneering Record inAudiophile Sound: Mobile Fidelity'sNumbered-Edition Hybrid SACD Plays withExceptional Clarity, Textures, and TonesTelevision's Marquee Moon reimagines guitar rock in such original,pioneering ways that critics and fans still struggle to describe it'sessence five decades after it's original release. Made after the bandcut it's teeth for four years amid New York's thriving arts scene, the1977 album blends the inimitable interplay of guitarists Tom Verlaineand Richard Lloyd; spontaneous and precise approaches; andwinding arrangements that draw as much from classical, jazz, andpsychedelia as the punk ethos to which the album is often linked.Few records of the era combine such high-wire technical prowess,back-to-basics architecture, jam-band improvisation, narrativemysticism, delicate finesse, hook-laden catchiness, and excess-freeexploration.Marquee Moon reaches new sonic heights on Mobile Fidelity'snumbered-edition hybrid SACD. Housed in mini-LP-style packaging,this numbered-edition reissue of the effort Pitchfork named the thirdgreatest of the entire 1970s plays with excellent detail, dynamics,and clarity. The presence, emotionalism, warmth, and dimensionalityof the textures alone make this audiophile release a treat for bothlisteners who know the record inside-out and for audiophilesembarking on Television's incomparable journeys for perhaps thefirst time. To quote Verlaine on "Prove It," those are "just the facts."