Talking Heads- Classic or Dud?

TBF the bass plays a syncope every second measure in Heaven. So it's kinda funk, right?

You would be wrong, Tom.

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Oh right, you haven't even heard it yet.

Ha! Okay Tom, you're getting desperate now.

Well, yeah, I'm not a fan of this band but, of what I've heard, I only really think of them as funk-based in the Remain in Light/Stop Making Sense era. I do like "Road to Nowhere" and "Psycho Killer" a lot btw! xps

an outtake from "Mothership Connection" iirc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvua6zPIi7c

I'm hoping anyone using roaming minutes in Florida as their phone batteries have 3 percent power doesn't find this thread.

Apologies to everyone in the world.

'Funk' really just means thinking ever so slightly about rhythms, right?

funk is a joint rolled in toilet paper iirc

watch out folks, turri's expounding heads band

ok lol

Haha!!

A whole bunch of their last two albums are clearly influenced by Talking Heads,

Well, yeah. But inexplicably people were comparing them to TH c. "Funeral," which is so not TH.

calm down, nerds.

Um...TH are definitely funk. As is Gang of Four and the Stones are r'n'b. Everyone knows this. The ridiculous part is claiming Remain In Light is derivative or for people who don't listen to r'n'b genres. Remain In Light is a perfect album for Fela Kuti fans who want to hear that groove taken places.

Steering away from this madness, it occurred to me that I've never heard any of jerry harrison's solo records. What's good?

they are not good

The Red and the Black rips off so much of Remain in Light's sound that Byrne could have sued Harrison for plagiarism (if Harrison hadn't been part of creating that sound.) The other ones I can't even remember.

If everything syncopated is funk, then Talking Heads is definitely sorta kinda a funk band? The really insane thing is that Turrican then says Can isn't a funk band. So The Overload is funk, but this isn't?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp6oPyQnX60

Btw one of the first reviews of Arcade Fire I remember reading called them a funkpunk band. Guess that's halfway to being a TH cover band, then?

Of course Can aren't a funk band.

Now you're getting the picture.

Halleluhwah is funk

Tom, you'd have a point if I hadn't already said the same thing a zillion posts up.

The point being that playing funky stuff every so often doesn't make you a funk band.

TBF to Tom you never ever do anything but repeat yourself, so it's kinda hard to react to.

I LOVE TALKING HEADS

You can't handle the real thing, admit it.

this sort of thinking is A-OK by me:

https://i.pinimg.com/236x/07/46/2d/07462d5c14327ec81075f9ccae163e26--weird-music-hipster-tattoo.jpg

Are people honestly concerned that other people might not agree on what genre Talking Heads are? Like if someone is wrong about this (if it's even possible to verify such a thing and I think it isn't) can't you just let them be wrong and smugly but silently enjoy the fact that you're right about everything?

For the sake of the argument it's more giving to pretend that Turrican knows what 'funk' is and has ever heard a song by Talking Heads, instead of having an actual argument with a somewhat sentient pile of feces that doesn't seem to understand 'of course it is' and 'it speaks for itself' isn't good arguments. I guess that means I'm strawmanning, and for that I guess I'm sorry.

Also, 29 Facepalms is clearly a Turrican sockpuppet, right?

You'd know all about socks, eh Frederik?

everyone knows talking heads are PUNK just like blondie and television

Clearly.

I wouldn't mind Frederik, 29 facepalms, he's a very stressed, highly-strung guy who reacts badly when he's unable to relax. I'm guessing his DVD/Blu Ray player is broken or he's out of Kleenex or has given himself RSI or something, in which case I'd feel bad about slagging off a man in such obvious pain.

I've never heard any of jerry harrison's solo records. What's good?

First and only song I heard for a long time was "Man with a Gun" featured on the Something Wild soundtrack. Has that "Fast Car" / "Losing My Religion" video style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNjfVqzJR8g

Hey I just came here to talk about the absurdity of treating genres like ontologically essentialist categories, I'll leave the ad hominem shit to others.

That sounds like mediocre INXS in ballad mode.

xpost

Also Stop Making Sense is great and I'm currently engaged in learning how to play all of the tracks on it which is why I opened this thread in the first place.

fp'd everyone on this thread including myself

it took 2 and a half hours

I guess I can't think of anything more horrible to say to a poster than that they remind me of Turrican, so I'm sorry 29 Facepalms, I guess that was over the line. I deserve the fp.

lol frederik so mad

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ine9ZoGRl9s/WXBTObHkeiI/AAAAAAAAQkU/7ouF6G_NtRAwiy3twkNsOvrupnDTjnbGgCEwYBhgL/s1600/b.talking%2Bheads%2B2.jpg

That's ok, I didn't know enough about either of you to be upset.

'fp' pronounced as 'fap'

More Songs About Buildings and Fp

Now, back to the topic...

The point being that playing funky stuff every so often doesn't make you a funk band.

― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Wednesday, September 13, 2017 5:47 PM (forty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

In Talking Heads' case, this is more than "every so often" ...

is there something wrong with saying tina weymouth is a funky bass player? i don't get ilx sometimes....

it's just music christ

No, I just thought it was funny that, at the same time, other people were defending Talking Heads by arguing that it's crazy and wrong to call them funk.