Album Info

The Blow-Up (Live)

Alternative - 1982

This 1978 live recording captures Television at their peak, floppy-fringed and glorious. The versions here of “Ain’t That Nothin’” and... more

Tracklist

1

The Blow-Up (Live at CBGB's, 1978)

4:00 min
2

See No Evil (Live at CBGB's, 1978)

3:22 min
3

Prove It (Live at CBGB's, 1978)

5:00 min
4

Elevation (Live at CBGB's, 1978)

4:50 min
5

I Don't Care (Live at CBGB's, 1978)

3:04 min
6

Venus (Live at CBGB's, 1978)

3:31 min
7

Foxhole (Live at CBGB's, 1978)

5:04 min
8

Ain't That Nothin' (Live at CBGB's, 1978)

6:13 min
9

Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Live at CBGB's, 1978)

7:50 min
1

Little Johnny Jewel (Live at CBGB's, 1978)

14:56 min
2

Friction (Live at CBGB's, 1978)

5:01 min
3

Marquee Moon (Live at CBGB's, 1978)

14:45 min
4

(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (Live at CBGB's, 1978)

7:18 min

About The Blow-Up (Live)

This 1978 live recording captures Television at their peak, floppy-fringed and glorious. The versions here of “Ain’t That Nothin’” and “Venus de Milo” are unprecedented in their purity, while “Foxhole” and “See No Evil” charge like angry outbursts from a hostile world. Listen to the ear-bending take of “Little Johnny Jewel,” resplendent with methodically expounded and extended guitar interplays between Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd, and you’ll hear Television sounding like their true selves: a hybrid of art-scene punk, John Coltrane, and The Grateful Dead. Their covers of The 13th Floor Elevators, The Rolling Stones, and Bob Dylan beautifully articulate the band’s inherent detachment.