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
just get the name of this band is talking heads (the reish) -- that's got a whole disc worth of awwwwwesome remain in light tour tracks.
― tylerw, Thursday, 25 April 2013 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 25 April 2013 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
the Warner Music Show radio lp is a keeper too--six tracks from the FoM tour. Three numbers from the set appear on the expanded TNOTBITH, but it's all gold.
― Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 25 April 2013 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
(part of?) that Rome concert is available on cd: http://www.discogs.com/Talking-Heads-Rome-Concert-1980/release/3762045. Non-official. Bought it a few years ago. Source unclear to me, I get the feeling that it might be a transfer from VHS. Still, stellar performance.But definitely get the 2CD reissue of The Name of this Band... tyler mentioned.
― willem, Friday, 26 April 2013 08:54 (eleven years ago) link
The audio's taken from VHS? That doesn't sound like it'd be great.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 26 April 2013 09:02 (eleven years ago) link
1982 was an interesting year for TH live as well, you start to get weirder song choices like Jerry's solo track 'Slink' and DB's 'Big Blue Plymouth' and the fantastic 'My Big Hands' creeping into the set.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58oSPZO-qSo
― ヘイシグ・ブローズ (MaresNest), Friday, 26 April 2013 09:24 (eleven years ago) link
and of course the following year was the Stop Making Sense tour, and the go-to boot from the era is the Saratoga one, recorded 3 months before the movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSWffJxbWYs
― piscesx, Friday, 26 April 2013 10:05 (eleven years ago) link
xpost to ismael - well it doesn't sound bad, just find it/the mix a little weird. i can send you the files if you like.
― willem, Friday, 26 April 2013 10:15 (eleven years ago) link
That'd be fantastic, thanks: ismaelklata at gmail dot com
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 26 April 2013 10:43 (eleven years ago) link
didn't know they played "Big Blue Plymouth" live!
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 April 2013 11:07 (eleven years ago) link
Yep, here's a good example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HOvElJtxfA
― ヘイシグ・ブローズ (MaresNest), Friday, 26 April 2013 11:14 (eleven years ago) link
unreleased surf(!) instrumental
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae_J3iPEE-A
― nauru, Thursday, 18 September 2014 11:52 (nine years ago) link
This live footage from late '80 just surfaced, b&w but it's the full concert and sounds pretty good too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-_PC6TlIhs
― MaresNest, Sunday, 11 January 2015 21:39 (nine years ago) link
So many great shows from the Capitol Theatre you can find online. This, Clash, Springsteen, Prince. Rush.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LJKXIHaKqE
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 11 January 2015 22:17 (nine years ago) link
Great to see them with Belew. His guitar is such an x factor.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 12 January 2015 04:23 (nine years ago) link
seems weird that the album version of "Take Me To the River" was any kind of hit, it's so leaden and sluggish - possibly the worst idea/song on the album
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 16:08 (nine years ago) link
otm
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 16:11 (nine years ago) link
for sure
first album is better anyway
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 16:12 (nine years ago) link
too far
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 16:13 (nine years ago) link
Odd choice for a single, yes, leaden no.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 16:17 (nine years ago) link
First and second albums are the same album except the second has that swirling Eno production.
While I much prefer Al Green's funky original, I've always liked the intensity of the Heads' cover.
― Jazzbo, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 16:20 (nine years ago) link
yeah I don't feel the intensity. the band seems removed from the quasi-religious emotional fervor underpinning the song, which is a little strange given that Byrne def figured out how to incorporate that into later material
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 16:26 (nine years ago) link
I was looking up live performances of "Girls Want To Be With The Girls" recently, and kind of fascinated by the difference between this vs. concert performances just a year or so later. Also, this video pretty much confirms the origin of the Feelies' first album cover.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25XLlpAigWw
― dlp9001, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 16:32 (nine years ago) link
I just loooove the way the guitars sound on that first record and the way the two of them frisk each other
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 17:07 (nine years ago) link