...thinking of Speaking In Tongues
No songs from Little Creatures are on SMS.
― sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:44 (eighteen years ago) link
My favourite TH album is 'The Name of this Band is...." Holy jack-in-a-box, Adrian Belew ****ing rules, especially on "Born Under Punches", which I've only listened to about.... 38 times? I love that song.
― GLC (ZakAce), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― wogan lenin (dog latin), Thursday, 21 September 2006 09:39 (eighteen years ago) link
well, it would make sense you liking 'SMS' and 'SIT' above the other eno-era material. of the three eno albums i'd rate 'em: 'fear' best, then 'more songs', then 'remain'.
― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Thursday, 21 September 2006 09:41 (eighteen years ago) link
Yes, really really good stuff. For me the jury's still out on Belew - I much prefer the twin Fenders of Byrne and Harrison on the earliest stuff. The playing on New Feeling and especially A Clean Break is terrific - crisp and sparkling. I'd love to know on which trax (studio and live) Byrne uses a Jaguar. NF and ACB sound like a Strat/Tele combination to me.
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 21 September 2006 09:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Thursday, 21 September 2006 09:53 (eighteen years ago) link
Life During WartimeSwampOnce In A LifetimeCrosseyed And PainlessPsycho Killer
― wogan lenin (dog latin), Thursday, 21 September 2006 10:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― willem -- (willem), Thursday, 21 September 2006 10:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Thursday, 21 September 2006 10:33 (eighteen years ago) link
I thought you said "emo-era" instead of "Eno-era", and I was, like, "WTF?" Me and my stupid eyesight.
― GLC (ZakAce), Friday, 22 September 2006 00:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― H2-H4 (H2-H4), Friday, 22 September 2006 00:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 22 September 2006 01:14 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.discogs.com/release/157172http://www.discogs.com/release/424908
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 22 September 2006 01:17 (eighteen years ago) link
Although Remain in Light's probably my favourite Talking Heads album I really like Johnny Marr's guitar on Nothing but Flowers from Naked, I think that's a great pop song. Classic.
― badg (badg), Friday, 22 September 2006 01:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― H2-H4 (H2-H4), Friday, 22 September 2006 01:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 22 September 2006 03:10 (eighteen years ago) link
Lifetime Piling Up is my favourite Talking Heads song. Anyone know why it didn't make it onto any of their albums?
― Popture, Monday, 23 June 2008 13:18 (sixteen years ago) link
They had other things to do.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 23 June 2008 13:23 (sixteen years ago) link
"Naked" is actually an amazing album. I will fite u ifn u say no.
― the next grozart, Monday, 23 June 2008 13:29 (sixteen years ago) link
also i heard luke slater play a dance version of i zimbra - what is this called?
― the next grozart, Monday, 23 June 2008 13:30 (sixteen years ago) link
it's probably the Peter Black remix.
http://www.vinylrecords.ca/talking-heads-zimbra-peter-blackjezebel-spirit-p-60.html
― dan selzer, Monday, 23 June 2008 17:26 (sixteen years ago) link
lifetime piling up was made after naked, I believe. I agree that it's one of their best songs, along with sax and violins. I kind of feel like if they'd managed another album it could have been completely classic, based off just those two tracks. anyway I guess these songs AREN'T bonuses on any of the reissues which is a bad oversight and makes the 'sand in the vasoline' collection absolutely necessary.
― akm, Monday, 23 June 2008 17:52 (sixteen years ago) link
are there enough hip hop and house songs that have sampled TH to warrant their own thread?
― jaxon, Monday, 23 June 2008 19:07 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost Weirdly enough -- assuming that the 2005 Brick box set contains the same reissues you're talking about, and I think it does -- "Sax and Violins" is there as an extra on the Naked disc, but "Lifetime Piling Up" is not. Though it is on the Once In A Lifetime multi-disc compilation from 2003. The catalogue is a mess of reissues.
― kenan, Monday, 23 June 2008 19:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, "Sax & Violins" is on my copy of the Naked reissue. Has there really been a mess of reissues? Comps, sure.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 23 June 2008 19:26 (sixteen years ago) link
I think the non-album singles from 1977 that are collected on Sand in the Vaseline are pretty essential.
― o. nate, Monday, 23 June 2008 19:48 (sixteen years ago) link
KC Flyte - Planet E
― dan selzer, Monday, 23 June 2008 19:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Old question - Who are the nineties/noughties TH?
I do agree with Dismemberment Plan and Radiohead. Would have to think about others. Going back to their own era, Talking Heads were a big influence on King Crimson for their Discipline (1981), Beat (1982) and Three Of A Perfect Pair (1984) albums.
Martha & The Muffins sort of paralleled the TH Eno trilogy with their work with Daniel Lanois on This Is The Ice Age (1981), Danseparc (1982) and Mystery Walk (1984). The first is available, and Danseparc will be reissued on August 4 in the UK.
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 23 June 2008 20:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Totally. "Sugar On My Tongue," "I Want To Live," "Gangster of Love," "Popsicle" – all great.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 23 June 2008 20:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, "I Wish You Wouldn't Say That". "No Compassion" from the album '77 is another fave of mine.
― o. nate, Monday, 23 June 2008 20:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I finally read Tom's article several years late - http://freakytrigger.co.uk/old-ft/essays/2001/02/africa/
Here's a comment I posted:
You likely know this by now, but My Life... was actually recorded before Remain In Light. It makes more sense as a sort of warm up to their masterpiece rather than a follow-up. The band supposedly wrote "The Overload" as their concept of what Joy Division might sound like, having not yet actually heard them. "Listening Wind" is by no distance the worst track. It's freaking eerie and haunting, and just another strong track in a nearly flawless masterpiece.
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 20:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Wanna define...so say so, so say so Divine to define, she is moving to define, so say so, so say so Night must fall now-darker, darker. She...has got to move the world...to move the world...to move The world
so so great
― Hunt3r, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 22:34 (sixteen years ago) link
listening wind is one of my favorite songs on that album
― akm, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 22:55 (sixteen years ago) link
I think the Dismemberment Plan turned out not to be like Talking Heads at all... I don't know if they sounded so great at the time because I was younger or because so much shit has come out since then. The D-plan's legacy has turned out to be a, well... dumb one. The bands who picked up on a lot of their references ended up dumbing down indie rock instead of running with it in new directions (like RiL's influence on electronic music) or acting as a hipster reference for pop musicians.
I'm listening to "Sax & Violins" right now for the first time in a while -- what a great song! The melody is really very well written and honestly beautiful. When I was a much bigger TH fan (see upthread, haha!) I was really impressed by the Philip Larkin reference, partly because I was also geeked out on a lot of academic poetry at the time... I'm surprised to say I still think it's pretty well done! Not a lot of songwriters could pull that off. There will probably never be another Talking Heads, oh oh oh....
― people explosion, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 22:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Fear of Music is still so amazing.
― Freedom, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I must be the only person here who loves True Stories (the album).
― anagram, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 16:14 (fourteen years ago) link
"true stories" isn't bad ... it isn't great, either, and seems like a letdown compared to the albums that came before it, which is why it gets a bad rap.
― ON THE PHONE WITH THIS FAT CHICK… WHERER MY IHOP (Eisbaer), Friday, 4 December 2009 09:11 (fourteen years ago) link
boring and wrong
― Melvin van Osterlow, Jr. (res), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 01:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Talking Heads Live in '80-'81>>>>>>>>>>>>most other live music.― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Wednesday, September 20, 2006 1:54 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Wednesday, September 20, 2006 1:54 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Talking Heads live in Rome 1980...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wp2qhoop9U
If you don't have time for the full concert (it's worth it!), go to 30:00 for Crosseyed and Painless or 48:50 for Born Under Punches then The Great Curve.
― misty sensorium (Plasmon), Friday, 1 June 2012 09:31 (twelve years ago) link
listening to Naked all the way through in a long time. I loved this when it came out, then went through this period where I thought it was substandard like everyone else. Certainly feels more like a David Byrne solo record than anything else they did but now I really like it again.
― akm, Thursday, 25 April 2013 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
Good discussion: Talking Heads: Naked poll
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 April 2013 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
Wow. The Born Under Punches from that Rome show xxp is extraordinary. I always wondered how/if they tackled that live.
Is there a decent-quality audio boot from that era?
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 25 April 2013 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
i wonder if he felt like that would compete with his catherine wheel stuff from the same period?
― Karl Malone, Monday, 20 December 2021 19:22 (two years ago) link
i can imagine how the hassles byrne was getting about appropriation & imperialism in the early 80s might dissuade him from taking on that particular subject matter at that moment in time
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 20 December 2021 19:40 (two years ago) link
The new Spider-Man opens with "I Zimbra" playing over the opening credits, which I wasn't expecting
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 20 December 2021 19:57 (two years ago) link
UH SPOILERS???
― class project pat (m bison), Monday, 20 December 2021 19:58 (two years ago) link
jk jk im not gonna watch that for a few years probably
You forgot to add #onethread there.
― Blue Suede Q*bert (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 December 2021 19:59 (two years ago) link
Dadaist poetry finally makes it to the mainstream.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 20 December 2021 20:15 (two years ago) link
you may ask yourself
where is that radioactive spider
― deez nuts roasting on an open fire (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 20 December 2021 20:23 (two years ago) link
About the talking heads 5.1 downmixes that were going around a few years ago (and which are fucking fantastic)… does everyone else’s file of the first track on Naked have a jarring glitch on the very first brass note? Been trying to live with it but it really bugs me!
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 26 March 2022 14:24 (two years ago) link
Yes! I made a fix, lemme see if I can dig it out.
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 26 March 2022 14:31 (two years ago) link
Oh yay yes please! Lol i knew it would be you who’d respond
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 26 March 2022 14:35 (two years ago) link
Hah! Here 'tis - https://www.fromsmash.com/V~DKjP.~u7-bt
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 26 March 2022 14:38 (two years ago) link
Listening now, thanks a lot MN!
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 26 March 2022 15:24 (two years ago) link
No worries!
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 26 March 2022 15:35 (two years ago) link