Ultimate Spinach

(BALLAD OF) THE HIP DEATH GODDESS

I'm feeling like a driver on a one-way road
and it's a dead end no matter which way i go

I'm dancing on a wire in a hurricane
getting flipped around like a weather vane

[bridge]
we've let the genie out
and there's no going back in
the world that we know
will never be the same
it's going away
all going away 


I'm watching as a shadow learns to steal my face
and very soon we will be replaced

I should try to make the scene
it won't do any good to smash the machine

[bridge]
we've let the genie out
and there's no going back in
the world that we know
will never be the same
it's going away
all going away 

Written by Jeff Whitaker and Joe Linstrum

Out of Control

TOTAL

Transmission

Adventure

Days (2003 Remaster)

Marquee Moon/Adventure/Live At The Waldorf [The Complete Elektra Recordings Plus Liner Notes]

Marquee Moon (Remastered)

The Best Of The Beta Band

Dry the Rain

Mellow Gold

Fuckin With My Head (Mountain Dew Rock) (Album Version (Explicit))

Magnolia Electric Co.

Farewell Transmission

Miami

Mother of Earth (Remastered 2020)

Play With Fire

Fire Starter

TOE CUTTER THUMB BUSTER

Elektra/Asylum is of course famously associated with the earth-toned California sound of the ‘70s. Meanwhile, on the New York City underground, something both weird and wonderful was happening. Led by guitarists Tom Verlaine (née Thomas Miller) and Richard Lloyd, Television formed in 1973 from the ashes of the legendary Neon Boys, which featured Verlaine, drummer Billy Ficca, and a gifted poet/bassist by the name of Richard Hell. With Lloyd as second guitarist, Television persuaded CBGB’s owner Hilly Kristal to give the fledgling band a gig at his recently opened Bowery bar, making them the first rock band to officially play at the soon-to-be-celebrated venue.
A demo recorded with producer Brian Eno failed to get the band signed and by 1975, friction between Verlaine and Hell saw the latter leaving Television to co-found The Heartbreakers with Johnny Thunders and later, his own hugely significant Richard Hell & The Voidoids. Now counting original Blondie bassist Fred Smith among their ranks, Television began turning heads with their geometric dual guitar interplay, psych-garage energy, and Verlaine’s cryptic lyricism.

The band soon signed to Elektra, whose long history of releasing brave new artists continued with 1977’s milestone debut, Marquee Moon. Epic and eloquent, the album remains an all-time masterwork of forward-thinking rock‘n’roll. Television’s sophomore effort, entitled Adventure, followed in 1978, bearing a more textured sound than its esteemed predecessor.
Television broke up shortly after their second album’s release, with Lloyd and Verlaine each opting to pursue their own singular creative visions. In Verlaine’s case, that included a brilliant self-titled solo debut, released on Elektra in 1979.

By the 1990s, Television was appreciated as both pre-punk pioneers and one of rock’s all-time most important bands. As such, they reunited in 1992 for an eponymous third album and then continued performing live on a semi-regular basis. In 2007, Lloyd was forced to leave Television following an extended hospital stay that prevented him from performing at the band’s sold-out concert in New York’s Central Park. Though Lloyd was replaced on that evening by guitarist Jimmy Ripp, the gig now officially stands as Television’s last.

Marquee Moon (Remastered)

Television

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