Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares some posts from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives. The latest shared post is yet another page torn from the chronicles of The Greatest Record Ever Made!, celebrating the dizzying splendor of "Elevation" by Television.
I'm a little bummed that this chapter is no longer part of the blueprint for my long-threatened book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1). But the book was simply too long; if I have any hope of placing the book with a publisher, I needed to make some cuts. And I have a different book due for publication in the spring of 2023. The GREM! Television chapter has now moved to the even-more-hypothetical The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 2).
And it's in pretty good company for Volume 2. Other completed chapters moved from Volume 1 to Volume 2 discuss tracks by the Rubinoos, Sam Cooke, the Kinks, Grand Funk, Alice Cooper, Suzi Quatro, Joan Armatrading, Arthur Conley, the Searchers, Rufus, the Byrds, Elton John, Love, Nelson Riddle, the Jam, First Aid Kit, the Five Stairsteps, Wham!, Heart, the Runaways, Eddie Cochran, Rick James, the Romantics, the MC5, the Dixie Cups, T. Rex, America, the New York Dolls, and more. SEQUEL! Clearly, I need to sell Volume 1 and expedite Volume 2. An infinite number of tracks can each be THE greatest record ever made, as long as they take turns.
And today, that infinite turn belongs to a fantastic track that blew my freakin' mind when 17-year-old me first heard it in 1977. A Greatest Record Ever Made! spotlight on Television's "Elevation" is the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.
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