Thanks for clarifying that Sund4r :)
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 21:54 (seven years ago) link
So did we figure out if Talking Heads are a funk band or what?
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 22:11 (seven years ago) link
No, we found out that people are in denial about it and Frederik B is a middle aged divorcee with an anger problem, who seems to enjoy re-using the exact wording of his personal correspondence.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Thursday, 14 September 2017 05:31 (seven years ago) link
(with some words changed obviously)
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Thursday, 14 September 2017 05:33 (seven years ago) link
I LOVE TALKING HEADS
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 14 September 2017 05:35 (seven years ago) link
No, we found out that people are in denial about it - everyone is in denialand Frederik B is a middle aged - who cares how old he isdivorcee - who careswith an anger problem- I'M GONNA PUNCH A WALL, who seems to enjoy re-using the exact wording of his personal correspondence.-
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0i love talking heads
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 14 September 2017 05:36 (seven years ago) link
Now now, there's no need to start going and punching walls.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Thursday, 14 September 2017 05:42 (seven years ago) link
clearly ilm is going through a golden era
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Thursday, 14 September 2017 07:54 (seven years ago) link
what's the cutoff for a "golden era"? anything under two?
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Thursday, 14 September 2017 12:34 (seven years ago) link
Animal think...they're pretty smartShit on the ground...see in the dark.
― rock and roll tucci coo (voodoo chili), Thursday, 14 September 2017 14:27 (seven years ago) link
What about Houston?What about Detroit?
― Eazy, Thursday, 14 September 2017 14:29 (seven years ago) link
WHAT ABOUT PITTSBURGH P-A?
― rock and roll tucci coo (voodoo chili), Thursday, 14 September 2017 14:35 (seven years ago) link
Some TH playing in Morrisons when I was doing my shopping last evening, very deep and artsy.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Friday, 15 September 2017 09:47 (seven years ago) link
All the fans of real funk fled
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Friday, 15 September 2017 09:48 (seven years ago) link
I've never been too crazy about them, don't dislike them really either, just ambivalent I guess. However, On the strength of this thread, I decided to DL Fear of Music and the live thingy. Will live with them for a week or so and see if they click. Off topic but the Liam Gallagher pre-covers thing is wonderful. Nice work everybody.
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Friday, 15 September 2017 14:14 (seven years ago) link
Much of early Heads, like say, Name of This Band is spiky art-punky, with the uber trebly sound and intentionally naïve/awkward vibe.
Late Heads could be funky, like Popsicle of Love, or world-musicky like I Zimbra.
In between, I think, is both their creative and popular peak - Little Creatures, Stop Making Sense.
Tangentially, I liked how Byrne's book (and TED Talk) discusses the extent to which spaces CBGBs - narrow and live - complemented and enhanced the sounds they happened to be making. Short delays, hard surfaces. Just as Gregorian chants and 18th-century chamber music worked well in the spaces those musics were performed in. Characteristically, he leaves open whether it's chicken or egg.
― Tegumai Bopsulai (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 15 September 2017 14:26 (seven years ago) link
spaces LIKE
For me, Fear of Music is 50% peak Heads and 50% awkward murkiness that doesn't push my buttons. The live albums (and vids of course) are the best intro to the band.
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Friday, 15 September 2017 14:26 (seven years ago) link
otm
― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 15 September 2017 14:32 (seven years ago) link
fear of music is their best album
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 16 October 2017 04:29 (six years ago) link
I actually really, really like Little Creatures. It's quality cheerfulness. I don't know the first two albums but LC is my fave out of albums 3 to 8.
― Valentijn, Monday, 16 October 2017 06:50 (six years ago) link
Can't get enough of this Rome, 1980 version of "Born Under Punches"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO7N2tFb0X8
― Prometheus Freed's Rock and Roll Pâté (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 February 2018 22:52 (six years ago) link
hell yeah
that version is great, creepier in a different way than the studio version. this show/era was great. i love the super slow languorous intros to Crosseyed and Painless
― flappy bird, Sunday, 18 February 2018 00:05 (six years ago) link
That is really good. At points the groove got real Lagos and the dual basses is a bit Miles Davis, that's a real good take.
― earlnash, Sunday, 18 February 2018 00:12 (six years ago) link
I don't think I've ever heard that. Straight fire.
Tina.
Wow.
― persona non gratin (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 18 February 2018 01:36 (six years ago) link
The whole Live in Rome show is straight fire.
― that's not my post, Sunday, 18 February 2018 03:48 (six years ago) link
Belew is just ridiculous. Master
― flappy bird, Sunday, 18 February 2018 03:49 (six years ago) link
Great all around-- everyone on the stage
― curmudgeon, Monday, 19 February 2018 06:16 (six years ago) link
I've kind of forever dismissed the T Heads cuz of Byrne dislike and general allergy, but I've come around to that 79-81 era and that holy cow that Rome show is insane.
Adrian Belew is the worst dresser in rock music.
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 19 February 2018 14:11 (six years ago) link
nah that outfit is some str8 up dirtbag peacocking, thats confidence right there
― NBA YoungBoy named Rocky Raccoon (m bison), Monday, 19 February 2018 14:17 (six years ago) link
I do like this jumper
https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/f/7/d/7/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gwdfmt.png/1496464311120.jpg
― soref, Monday, 19 February 2018 14:40 (six years ago) link
I've come around to that 79-81 era
the expanded heads were one of the best live bands of all time imo, just phenomenally tight and exciting
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 February 2018 14:42 (six years ago) link
always found it cool how the bassline pops out in the live versions of born under punches. the remain in light version feels like a totally different song.
― T'Chadwick (voodoo chili), Monday, 19 February 2018 15:25 (six years ago) link
despite telling a familiar story, i still enjoyed this little mini-doc:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeDf-1Wr-Ks
lots of great eno-era footage i had never seen, just from talk shows and the like i think.
― and in my opinionation, the sun is gonna surely shine♪♫ (Karl Malone), Monday, 5 March 2018 06:26 (six years ago) link
the sources for ^^ led me to this pretty cool doc as well, from 1979:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5EzLDD1D_Q
― and in my opinionation, the sun is gonna surely shine♪♫ (Karl Malone), Monday, 5 March 2018 06:32 (six years ago) link
all of this is probably upthread, apologies if it's already been discussed
David Byrne on Desert Island Discs! Available now and in the online archive thereafter.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09vz6r1
― piscesx, Sunday, 18 March 2018 13:29 (six years ago) link
Man, I love “Listening Wind,” which is used very effectively in the season premiere of The Americans.
Also good to see Turrican takes his wrong opinion road show into other threads. I thought I was the only one who had to deal with this.
― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 3 April 2018 00:21 (six years ago) link
for prosperity:
POLL Me Up Up Up Up Up Up Up Up – TALKING HEADS – ILM Artist Poll #82 - (The Results Thread)
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 3 April 2018 03:12 (six years ago) link
Should be revived every few months, thx. 🙂
― Hunt3r, Tuesday, 3 April 2018 03:20 (six years ago) link
Listening to the 5.1 down mix for Remain in Light for the first time.
― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 3 April 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link
I love those things. I interviewed Tony Visconti years ago when they did a 5.1 mix of Electric Warrior, and one of the things we talked about is how music of course is a 360 degree, room filling expanse that our ears sort of pick and choose from to process, but a stereo mix is sort of the producer picking one pair of ears for you. And yet with all these sonic elements swirling around there are so many ways an album could have sounded without changing a note of music, just by picking different instruments to foreground or emphasize, and listening to 5.1 mixes kind of pulls the curtain back to reveal some of them. And then 5.1 mix downs in turn take those elements and re-introduce them as an alternative mix of the album that if it sounds like hearing something for the first time could very well be because you are!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 3 April 2018 15:57 (six years ago) link
Also good to see Turrican takes his wrong opinion road show into other threads. I thought I was the only one who had to deal with this.― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, April 3, 2018 12:21 AM
― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, April 3, 2018 12:21 AM
Sorry, who are you again?
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 3 April 2018 19:46 (six years ago) link
Oh yeah, some guy that I interacted with on that one thread a billion years ago.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 3 April 2018 19:50 (six years ago) link
Anyway, I still stand by my opinion of Talking Heads as a white funk band for art-rockers who don't like funk.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 3 April 2018 19:53 (six years ago) link
This old chestnut
― Eris (Ross), Tuesday, 3 April 2018 19:54 (six years ago) link
I can imagine Talking Heads fans stroking their chins to Devo or Brian Eno, but can't imagine them getting down to... well, anything. Even Talking Heads themselves.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 3 April 2018 20:02 (six years ago) link
always good to judge a band by what you imagine their fans are like imo
― someone’s burgling my miscellanea (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 3 April 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link
All TH were huge fans of funk and soul hence the introduction of big name funk and soul people into the expanded band. In the sleevenotes for Sand In The Vaseline (1993) DB raves about The Jacksons' Get It Together as being as important as Sgt Pepper. Just last week on his Desert Island Discs he was picking Brazilian music, Parliament and recent RnB stuff. I think he and Tom Tom Club especially, did as much as anyone to celebrate as many other forms of music as they could and fold that successfully into their own stuff. I can't imagine what more they could have done to 'get down' live on stage either. They're could hardly shake their collective ass *more* than they do in Stop Making Sense. They've always struck me as a white funk band for art-rockers who LOVE funk and not really a very 'chin stroke' kind of band at all.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 3 April 2018 20:18 (six years ago) link
Sounds like turricans describing a crisis of imagination
Not sure it’s worth bothering here
― Eris (Ross), Tuesday, 3 April 2018 20:21 (six years ago) link