Robert Forster: Venus by Television is the most perfect song of all time

In this new Guardian Australia series, musicians share their favourite songs, what makes them perfect and how they shaped their lives

‘I adored the druggy drift,’ recalls former Go-Betweens frontman Robert Forster of hearing Tom Verlaine from Television sing Venus.‘I adored the druggy drift,’ recalls former Go-Betweens frontman Robert Forster of hearing Tom Verlaine from Television sing Venus.How could the perfect song be anything else?

I was 19 years old, living in suburban Brisbane, writing my first half-decent songs, when Television released their debut album, Marquee Moon. I had been following the band for two years through the music press, buying their first single,. Expectations were high, but nothing prepared me for the splendour and clout of the group’s debut album, released in February 1977.

It combined every great flourish of cool 60s rock – extraordinary guitar work with out-of-this-world lyrics, adding the crunch of late-70s rock production and a quality to the songwriting that many mythic 60s bands just didn’t reach. Pacing my bedroom in excitement, sitting down at intervals to absorb the music’s overwhelming beauty, I knew I could never write songs as textured and intricate as the band’s singer-songwriter Tom Verlaine, who also happened to be a virtuoso guitarist.

. A 10-minute opus that climbed through many musical stages, a brilliant guitar solo included, to splinter in a rain shower of guitar notes – a kind of punk rock Stairway to Heaven. The seven other songs on the album rotated in its orbit. Blistering jagged-wired rock numbers. Swooning, tender-hearted ballads. And there was

SimonMorton93 From one of the best albums too...a moment of inspired genius.

Best song? It is simple to learn it by ear Intro F G ---F C G. verse C F G Chorus Am Dm Am Dm G.

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