Song For The Moment
“Prove It” by Television
Today, I was planning on uploading the latest Mixtape put together by Matty & myself… (“Irresistible Gladness: The Happy Songs”) but, as I put the finishing touches on things this morning, I realized that I misspelled the title on the cover.
Alack and alas.
It shall be remedied tonight, and uploaded to ShuffleThis tomorrow.
This song, in the meantime, will hopefully tide you over. It’s from a band and an album that has another track on our next mix (“Too Long To Mix It Up”). A band that I wouldn’t probably be listening to right now if Matty hadn’t decided to walk into Tunes and scoop up Marquee Moon; then, fall in love with them; still then, give me my own copy of the album as a gift.
I don’t think either of us had been so totally wallopped by an album like that in a long time. Matty, from the liner notes of “Too Long To Mix It Up”:
“I feel like… I don’t know what I feel like. I love it. I mad, furious, that no one gave this album to me in eighth grade.
…I feel like I could take this album out on a date and not be at all disappointed. I would like to sit and drink a bottle of wine with these songs. With this guitar. How did I not know about this!? You’re partly to blame for this, I count on you for this shit. The whole thing is just so f**king good. It’s all the good parts of all the good music.”
I agreed wholeheartedly. I’m still going back to this album almost every week. It doesn’t feel dated, it actually feels (to use a very cliched term)… “timeless”. There’s a reason it is often described among the best albums of all time. Rolling Stone: “One of the all-time classic guitar albums….MOON still shimmers with urban grime and psychedelic imagination.” Spin: “It’s the first punk jam album and a thing of swooning, brawny loveliness.” Q: “A brutally stark, yet intricate weave of guitars and affectingly passionate vocals.” Mojo: “A graceful new wave bite that betrayed delicate hints of neo-psychedelic sophistication.”
To quote Matty yet again: “I was raised on television, but I wish I was raised on Television.”
