There are a couple of albums that I consider lost in time.

To me, music does tend to reinvent itself anyway. It’s something like a massive solera system, where it all takes a similar path, filters out and ultimately pours out of the same cask — albeit with different nuances.

One of those albums is Television’s Marquee Moon and particularly the title track. It’s back on top of my playlist these days.

I’m actually not sure how it jumped onto the top of the stack again — although it does that every few years. I’ve been listening to a bit of Wilco lately and there’s something about their guitar work that reminds me of Tom Verlaine, Television’s frontman.

Either way, Marquee Moon was released in 1977, and was quickly dubbed one of the greatest guitar albums of all time by Rolling Stone magazine. It doesn’t have screaming licks. It’s simply melodic and beautiful — and inventive.

Were the rock gods less fickle, Verlaine and company would’ve enjoyed greater success, and shared in the acclaim that contemporaries like the Talking Heads, Blondie and others eventually enjoyed.

As we told you in our earlier profile of Verlaine, he did just fine elsewhere. He packed it up and headed to Europe, where he enjoys relative success and where he continues to live and perform.

But whatever his musical path, I’m grateful it started with Marquee Moon, the song and the album.

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