Marquee Moon by Television (1977)

Launching a thousand post-punk bands in its wake, Televisions' 'Marquee Moon' created an entirely new template for rock music over night. As tightly wound and complex as the best jazz albums ever recorded, this hook driven ode to Lower Manhattan, influenced by Bohemian and French poetry, is as immediate and impactful of a guitar record as anything from Zeppelin, Clapton or Hendrix — but entirely its own. With all apologies to Patti Smith's 'Horses' and Talking Heads' '1977', this is the best and most enduring album from the notoriously influential and fertile first few years of CBGB.

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