I don’t know why but I just couldn’t get into Television or Tom Verlaine’s solo albums. Mebbe ‘cause I was distracted by other New Wave / punk(ish) bands like the Talking Heads, The Cars, The Clash and, at the time, “new” artists like Tom Petty and Van Halen. I had also “discovered” jazz and country as well as a new genre, reggae, around then too.
But mebbe one of the most significant reasons were those pesky customers who would come into the record store where I worked and ask us to put on albums by Fleetwood Mac, Michael Jackson, the soundtrack to “Saturday Night Fever” or other disco crap while they shopped. I mean, WTH, they already had those albums at home, why the flock you gotta listen to it when I’m working? Broaden your flockin’ horizons and listen to some good music, dammit!
So, with that being said, sorry Tom. I’ll hafta Spotify his stuff later on.
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