Did anybody here get Television - Adventure (remaster)?

It's a great album though.

It turns into a long 'jam' and ends suddenly like they ran out of tape.

Cheers if you can do that...

I'll listen to it on the way to work tomorrow and tell you what I find out.

I note that the booklet mentioned a different 'coda' rather than an alternate ending...

this album is really great. obv it lives in the shadow of marquee moon, but damn this is good stuff

yeah it is a wonderful record -- obviously it's gonna be tough to follow up that debut, but you're missing out if you think Television is just Marquee Moon. So much good music on here -- Verlaine's solo on "Foxhole," that opening riff on "Days," the fade out on "Dreamer's Dream" ...

"days" is one if their best songs. ditto "carried away"

The Clientele covered "The Fire" on some EP or single a few years back -- an inspired choice. Not a lot of cover versions from this album, though! I assume some people have done "Glory" but I haven't heard any I don't think.
Richard Lloyd claims the "Days" riff is "Mr. Tambourine Man" backwards. Or something like it.
A few years ago, someone popped up on an ILM thread claiming to have heard unreleased demos from this album that were amazing. Said they hadn't been bootlegged. Where is that guy now?

i also LOVE the bonus title cut (on the reissue). and "ain't that nothin" is another killer track on there.

yeah, crazy that the title track didn't make the album, that is a fun track.

man verlaine's solo on "the fire" is intense

Lloyd Cole did a fine cover of "Glory," which made me go back and appreciate the original even more (though I might almost prefer Cole's version).

This album is still colossally underrated... the biting riff on 'Foxhole'! The entirety of 'Glory'! The sweet guitar work and vocal harmonies on 'Days'! No, it's not Marquee Moon, but it's fucking close.

Dream's dream ranks with anything they ever did

Yeah, there's some lovely guitar work on that, but... of course there is, this is Television! Anyone who loved the guitar playing on Marquee Moon should dig Adventure, really!

I think the Adventure material done on Live at the Old Waldorf really shines and when done alongside Marquee Moon stuff you realize the difference in perception was mostly just Adventure's slightly bloodless production

Yeah, I agree that it could have done with a less "clinical" production, but I genuinely think this record is great on its own terms.

definitely a great album

I often get the impression that if Adventure had been the debut and Marquee Moon the follow-up, then it would be seen by more people for what it is rather than what it isn't.

Verlaine seems to have been reacting *against* punk/new wave with Adventure, loading the album up with slower tempos and more elegant arrangements. If he had thrown in "O Mi Amore" and the title track, it might've been a little more in line with the times. but i think the album is great as is ...

Bought it again about a month ago because my previous version was scratched.
Unfortunately looks like its long since OOP. So had to go through Discogs.
But have always loved the lp since buying it mid 80s.

I really like the '78 live sets too.

yeah the live stuff from that era is unbelievable.

someone tweeted this at me today, and it's probably otm
"play Adventure on 45 & it sounds exactly like Crazy Rhythms"

A few years ago, someone popped up on an ILM thread claiming to have heard unreleased demos from this album that were amazing. Said they hadn't been bootlegged.

There are bootlegged live-in-the-studio sounding demos with arrangements that are not very different from the album version. Favourites are the instrumental versions of Glory and Foxhole. I think some of this has came out officially now, on the last reissue of Adventure.

Yeah I think he/she suggested these were different from the stuff that's surfaced on bootleg or on the rhino reissue? There's an acetate w/ different mixes that's floated around ... but from what I remember these were summer of 77 demos?

"Foxhole" is easily the worst thing on this album - by a fucking million miles. Apart from the solo, which is genius. Everything else is great. "Carried Away" is gorgeous.

... music and lyrics.

It's crossed my mind that Foxhole, with those lyrics and the sub-Keith Richards riff is sorta like a Dogs D'Amour/Hanoi Rocks type thing.

It's rockist, I tell ya.

"Carried Away" is gorgeous

meant to bold that "is", sorry

Shame there isn't a full gig from the time around on video.
There is a good take of Foxhole from I think OGWT from '78.
& the Hell line up in Terry Ork's loft.
But would love a full set from 78.

'Carried Away' is gorgeous, I agree, but 'Foxhole' is fucking great.

some acetate-sourced rough mixes here — nothing earth-shattering, but cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsmcth6V6Fo&feature=youtu.be

^ what is that ? video doesn't work for me.

hmm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsmcth6V6Fo&feature=youtu.be

youtube.com/watch?v=rsmcth6V6Fo&feature=youtu.be

i guess copy and paste the link -- must be un-embeddable for some reason.

yeah, got it twice i fact I think.

Couldn't find first copy i had a couple of years ago so I reordered and found out that the readily available one then was teh previous version. But did get the digipack version, probably from DIScogs.,

Do love taht lp, possibly not as much as the live material fro the era which can get really hypnotic.

Soun di sgood, bonus tracks are ok. Do love the title track which is pretty fun and r'n'r-y .