I had never really attempted to listen to Television, but your post had me intrigued (plus I had heard a really neat cover of the song "Marquee Moon" by Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs), so I pulled them up on Spotify this morning. I was expecting more of a Talking Heads kind of thing, but they're pretty cool power-popish stuff--I feel like I missed out not having listened to them before.

I get what you mean about Verlaine's voice, but there are a few times where he's in a bit of a lower register and sounds just a bit like DB.