TV Family

Television was a great band and this pick shows that they each had playing power. Tom Verlaine, Billy Ficca and the Richards (Lloyd and Hell) started it early on. Three of them in the Neon Boys. Hell left after a bit in Television and started the Voidoids and also played with the Heartbreakers (Johnny Thunder's band). Fred Smith took his place. Fred had played with an early version of what became Blondie. Ficca played with the Waitresses and a several others. Lloyd had a couple solo albums and did a track with Chris Stamey. Verlaine had many albums and yesterday you got a lot from that. He also guested on several other tracks from different bands, including Patti Smith, the Violent Femmes, Luna, the Million Dollar Bashers and the Waterboys. I included a couple of tracks from Television's first album and one live track from San Francisco. 

TV Family

01 The Waitresses - I Know What Boys Like

02 Richard Lloyd - Misty Eyes

03 Tom Verlaine - Souvenir From A Dream

04 Television - Venus

05 Tom Verlaine & The Million Dollar Bashers - Cold Irons Bound

06 Television - Friction

07 Tom Verlaine - Fever

08 Violent Femmes featuring Tom Verlaine - Hotel Last Resort

09 The Neon Boys - Love Comes In Spurts

10 Richard Lloyd - Fire Engine

11 Television - Little Johnny Jewel (Live at the Old Waldorf)

12 The Neon Boys - That's All I Know

13 Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Blank Generation

14 Patti Smith - Break It Up

15 Heartbreakers - Born to Loose

16 Chris Stamey And The Db's - (I Thought) You Wanted To Know

17 The Waterboys - This Is The Sea (Tom Verlaine Lead Guitar)

18 Luna - 23 Minutes In Brussels

TV Pick

TV in this pick stands for both Television and Tom Verlaine. I picked tracks from the first single and the first two albums, plus one from the reunion album. The rest is spread out over many of the Tom Verlaine solo albums. Nothing live (see tomorrow for a live track). If you know either of the TV's, you know how great guitar playing is or was since he's now dead. And you probably have an idea how his vocals were, so I won't get into any of that. And tomorrow I will have the family pick. Just listen to this and once again be amazed at his work. I'm sorry if I missed one of your favorite tracks. It was hard to pare it down to just these. I had fun with the cover.

TV Pick

01 Tom Verlaine - Spiritual

02 Tom Verlaine - Dissolve-Reveal

03 Tom Verlaine - Shimmer

04 Television - Call Mr.Lee

05 Tom Verlaine - Kingdom Come

06 Television - Days

07 Television - Marquee Moon

08 Tom Verlaine - True Story

09 Television - Little Johnny Jewel

10 Television - Glory

11 Tom Verlaine with Ricky Wilson - Breakin' In My Heart

12 Television - 1880 Or So

13 Tom Verlaine - Always

14 Tom Verlaine - There's A Reason

15 Television - See No Evil

16 Tom Verlaine - The Earth Is In The Sky

17 Tom Verlaine - Cry Mercy Judge