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The Six Best Songs That Are At Least 50% Guitar Solo

Oct 24, 2012 at 11:48 am

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1. Television - "Marquee Moon;" 56% solo For how tightly wound Television's Marquee Moon record is, the ten minute title track is surprisingly sprawling. The structure is as follows: intro, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo, verse, chorus, solo, solo, solo, solo, solo, solo, solo, backwards solo, verse, chorus. On top of that, the choruses are backed by miniature solos. There's a lot of solos, okay? But they're all done with musicality in mind. The lengthiest one stretches four and a half minutes from 4:50 to 9:20, and guitarist/singer Tom Verlaine's main motivation throughout seems to be one of a ringleader to the other band members. The solos on "Marquee Moon" are many, and the payoffs are vast. Micro high-fives inserted within a macro high-five. Television is credited as one of the first post-punk bands, but the group may have truly been one of the first to prove that punk could mean more than fast, loud, and short.

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