I have this: https://www.discogs.com/The-B-52s-Party-Mix-Mesopotamia/release/76869
but I guess these are remixes, different from Byrne's originals?
― Οὖτις, Friday, 13 May 2016 16:28 (eight years ago) link
There are three mixes, afaik. The US Warner Brothers is the standard mix, the UK Island label contains the Byrne mixes (only on the very first copies? I think the Island release was fixed to include the standard mix shortly after release.) WB tweaked the mix again for the twofer release; I've seen this referred to as a "rock" mix. I own both US releases, but I've never really done a compare and contrast.
― Double Nickels on the Pecunidigm (Dan Peterson), Friday, 13 May 2016 16:57 (eight years ago) link
hey after basking in the glory of those fold-down mixes for a while, I have realized that for some reason I am missing "Life During Wartime", guess it failed to extract? if anyone happens to have that a PM would be great, it bugs the completist in me to have a track missing esp on one of my fave albums.
― ro✧✧✧@il✧✧✧.c✧✧ (sleeve), Saturday, 23 July 2016 18:31 (eight years ago) link
DLing the downmix of Remain in Light; seems like perfect hot-day music.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Saturday, 23 July 2016 19:15 (eight years ago) link
yeah the downmixes are just a work of genius. the final minute or so of Seen And Not Seen where you hear Byrne scatting and mumbling stuff that is literally unheard in the final mix (i'm sure he says "Brian?.." at one point). does make the originals sound very flat by comparison.
― piscesx, Saturday, 23 July 2016 22:54 (eight years ago) link
I'm gonna go contrarian on this - the magic of Remain for me is the intricate melange of parts simmering away in a fugue. You can focus on and isolate an element while you listen, or you can lose yourself in the ocean. The downmixes sound like worktapes to me, where the mix is not bedded in and the rough edges are showing. Fascinating, but not fully realised and in no way superior to the released mixes.
― MatthewK, Sunday, 24 July 2016 12:45 (eight years ago) link
Did anyone watch the Documentary Now! parody of 'Stop Making Sense'? It was so lovingly done.
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Thursday, 29 December 2016 01:04 (seven years ago) link
While this thread is active, my uh version of the downmixes discussed above failed to properly extract "Life During Wartime" ( the regular album version), if anyone has this plz ILXmail me.
― sleeve, Thursday, 29 December 2016 02:42 (seven years ago) link
yeah that was good (the documentary now episode).
any more to the rumors that they were in rehearsals?
― akm, Thursday, 29 December 2016 03:34 (seven years ago) link
I'm probably going to get lynched for this but...
...*deep breath*...
...Dud.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Friday, 8 September 2017 19:32 (six years ago) link
if you say so
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 8 September 2017 19:59 (six years ago) link
They're no GENESIS...
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 8 September 2017 20:13 (six years ago) link
so wrong Turrican, most of the time you are OTM. not even close on this one.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 9 September 2017 01:11 (six years ago) link
I deeply love Remain in Light but not too jazzed about anything else.
i like todd edwards' remix of "burning down the house"!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M_BpfEOd9U
― brimstead, Saturday, 9 September 2017 01:14 (six years ago) link
incredibly overrated but not dud. i love so many of his songs but i find david byrne to be really insufferable
― flappy bird, Saturday, 9 September 2017 01:19 (six years ago) link
ha, let me just say - i love the talking heads. but for so many people i know, they're foundational. Remain in Light is the only record I like front to back.
oh yeah, I went to a screening of Stop Making Sense last month and the movie was missing most of the soundtrack. bass, vocals, drums, guitar. nothing else. they'd cut to the backup singers, keyboard players - nothing. we left once tina weymouth started singing genius of love, it was like watching a st. sanders shreds video. i was pissed at the time but now it's just funny. p sure i posted this already on ilx
― flappy bird, Saturday, 9 September 2017 01:22 (six years ago) link
later talking heads is good too, fools.
― Shart Dressed Man (kurt schwitterz), Sunday, 10 September 2017 21:16 (six years ago) link
wtf flappy explain...
when we left I asked the employees what happened (obviously wasn't their fault) - apparently it was an issue with the copy they got from the distributor. I'm not exactly sure how DCP works, but it wasn't just the movie, the theater's "Don't talk" ad that played when the lights went down had the same sound issues - muffled & missing layers. It was bizarre & disappointing but what are you gonna do. they gave us passes for a free movie & I used them to see It last night.
― flappy bird, Sunday, 10 September 2017 21:20 (six years ago) link
Super classic c'mon
― yesca, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 14:31 (six years ago) link
flappy bird - might have been a stereo issue? think they'd got their plugs in the wrong way round and the two channels were phase-cancelling
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 14:55 (six years ago) link
Yep almost definitely. I have a pair of earphones that do the same thing as flappy described, if I plug them in the wrong way
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 15:25 (six years ago) link
I just heard the live LP The Name of This Band is Talking Heads for the first time ever. Very different feel to my ears than their records, sloppy and immediate.
― Eazy, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 15:47 (six years ago) link
I would have thought phase cancellation would occur more from faulty wiring than having any plugs the wrong way around, but it does seem like that's what's happened.
In stereo, if left is plugged into right and vice versa, all this does is reverse the stereo field, for phase cancellation to occur both stereo channels need to be played through the same channel (in mono) with one of the channels inverted.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 15:55 (six years ago) link
flappy bird - might have been a stereo issue? think they'd got their plugs in the wrong way round and the two channels were phase-cancelling― Shat Parp (dog latin), Tuesday, September 12, 2017 10:55 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkYep almost definitely. I have a pair of earphones that do the same thing as flappy described, if I plug them in the wrong way― Vinnie, Tuesday, September 12, 2017 11:25 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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hahaha awesome, i love that an 800 capacity theater had this problem
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 16:33 (six years ago) link
I'd say either a plug wasn't inserted fully (sometimes if a headphone jack plug isn't inserted properly it has this exact effect) or it's some other wiring problem. But yeah, incredible that a cinema - particularly one showing a concert film - had this problem.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 17:32 (six years ago) link
This, along with "Stop Making Sense", is my go-to Talking Heads. I rarely play the studio albums, in fact. Not too many bands work improves that dramatically on their live albums.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 17:58 (six years ago) link
Likewise, with the exception of Remain In Light, which is impossible to improve upon
― doug watson, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 18:08 (six years ago) link
Fear of Music is their best album
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 18:18 (six years ago) link
I'm not the biggest fan of "Remain In Light" either tbh.
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 18:30 (six years ago) link
"Fear Of Music" is godlike.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 18:56 (six years ago) link
FOM is v good but yall are high as fuck if you think it's better than RIL
― Rob Lowe fresco bar (m bison), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 19:03 (six years ago) link
otm
― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 19:11 (six years ago) link
i've been called worse things, i'll accept that
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 19:14 (six years ago) link
hey, opinions formed while high as fuck are opinions too, you know
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 19:20 (six years ago) link
especially opinions about fear of music and remain in light
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 19:26 (six years ago) link
Would not be good listening if you're paranoid-when-high.
― Eazy, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 19:29 (six years ago) link
Eazy OTM, "Drugs" is a bad trip
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 19:38 (six years ago) link
Lost my shape!Trying to act casual!
― Eazy, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 19:43 (six years ago) link
they only have one genuinely bad album and that album is True Stories.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 19:44 (six years ago) link
and it's puzzlin' evidence either way
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 19:54 (six years ago) link
― Bee OK, Saturday, 9 September 2017 01:11 (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I am profoundly disturbed by this post.
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 21:16 (six years ago) link
Good!
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 21:46 (six years ago) link
But yeah, I have tried a lot with this band - particularly since their so-called "peak" years (1977-1980) fall within one of my favourite periods of time for music ever. There is the occasional song I like here and there, but I find a lot of their material a little on the tedious side. I'm often left with the impression that they're a white funk band for people who perhaps consider themselves a little too artsy and deep to listen to the real deal, with some superficial "African" elements sprinkled on top and a thoroughly annoying vocalist bulldozing his way through it all, and I can tolerate seal-bark Andy Partridge just fine. Perhaps this description is a little harsh, but that's the impression that I get. The post-Remain in Light particularly comes across to me as quite bland.
It is, of course, undetstandable why there are fans of Remain in Light that haven't taken to their other albums - it sticks out like a sore thumb in their discography.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 21:58 (six years ago) link
*understandable
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 22:00 (six years ago) link
their entire discography is sore thumbs
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 22:00 (six years ago) link
I'm often left with the impression that they're a white funk band for people who perhaps consider themselves a little too artsy and deep to listen to the real deal
Yeah, there's so many of these types around isn't there?
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 22:01 (six years ago) link
I think you can chart a pretty clear progression - you can see what ideas they're playing with and where they're going with them - from the beginning to the end, but none of their albums really sound like each other. Each one is in many ways a departure from the one before it.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 22:01 (six years ago) link
a white funk band for people who perhaps consider themselves a little too artsy and deep to listen to the real deal
ad hominem bullshit
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 22:02 (six years ago) link
What century is it again?
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 22:02 (six years ago) link