Tom Verlaine: Punk Provocateur & Pioneer

The albums I’ve listened to more than Television’s Marquee Moon are precious few in number. Not unlike our days on this pale blue dot, it seems.

The past couple of months have been awful when it’s come to the loss of our musical heroes, but this one smarts. Verlaine was punk as fuck, but his outfit proved that the idiom had room for musicians who could smoke most of their contemporaries off the stage. The twin guitar attack of Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd was unlike anything which came before, and the rest of the world is still trying to catch up.

RIP Tom Verlaine, and thank you for the music.