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.
Wow.
― 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
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
dude when TH were the biggest band ever and SMS was in theaters and my mom took my sister and I to see it, the whole ass theater was getting down in the isles!
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 3 April 2018 20:22 (six years ago) link
Everything is possible with imagination
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 3 April 2018 20:27 (six years ago) link
I'm not denying that Talking Heads were funk fans - obviously they were! Their audience was not a funk audience, though.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 3 April 2018 20:28 (six years ago) link
https://media.tenor.com/images/81fc2c1a812010ed3333122056e47694/tenor.gif
― someone’s burgling my miscellanea (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 3 April 2018 20:30 (six years ago) link
are you calling my mom not a funk fan?
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 3 April 2018 20:32 (six years ago) link
but yah you're forgetting that TH fans aren't just NYC cool people. Burning Down The House was on tv and radio 24/7. TH fans are Madonna fans, MJ fans, Prince fans.
Caught b/w a rock and a hard place as I decide whether to toss out my art rock or my funk albums. This new dogmatism is killing me.
― doug watson, Tuesday, 3 April 2018 20:40 (six years ago) link
I'm not denying that Talking Heads were funk fans
Not just Talking Heads...
https://cdn-s3.si.com/s3fs-public/golf/2015/04/22/FunkClinton.jpg
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 April 2018 20:46 (six years ago) link
Sorry, who are you again?― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, April 3, 2018 3:46 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, April 3, 2018 3:46 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I guess your thing is stinking up multiple threads with your negativity and played out devil’s advocate trolling. Didn’t realize you were so ubiquitous.
― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 3 April 2018 21:54 (six years ago) link
the funniest thing lately is when he admits he never talks about music with people in real life. like dude, you should try that, it could really help u!
― map, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 04:12 (six years ago) link
I don't get what's so difficult to understand about that - not when I have a zillion other things to talk about.
As for the poster above, I enjoyed his or her memorable and insightful posts on the same three or four bands so much I had to check their posting history to remind myself just where and when we'd interacted on here.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 06:33 (six years ago) link
well this is all very good but how are people who like Talking Heads supposed to chat about their favourite band now?
― loud horn beeping jazzsplaining arse (dog latin), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 07:48 (six years ago) link
I still experience the 5.1 mix of fear of music like I've been abducted by aliens and I'm in a dream state listening to the best reimagination of a very good album into a... well a fucking perfect album. Like a beautiful usgs topo map scan of canyonlands, it makes me wanna cry a little.
― Hunt3r, Saturday, 7 April 2018 04:04 (six years ago) link
i just listened to the remain in light 5.1 downmix this week, holy shit
― NBA YoungBoy named Rocky Raccoon (m bison), Saturday, 7 April 2018 04:10 (six years ago) link
ughhhhhh this band is o fucking good
― NBA YoungBoy named Rocky Raccoon (m bison), Saturday, 7 April 2018 04:11 (six years ago) link
RIL in 5.1 was first one I did, and while it amazed, it sorta didn't change my perception of how good RIL is. It was an improvement bud not a revolution to me, even with its several revelations.
FOM just ~changed everything~. "This is a crime...against the state..." HOLY SHIT a song I didn't care about before is the best shit ever.
― Hunt3r, Saturday, 7 April 2018 04:26 (six years ago) link
If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is- a 5.1 mix.
― Hunt3r, Saturday, 7 April 2018 04:40 (six years ago) link
FOM is def bigger and fuller in 5.1 but there are straight up entire instruments revealed on RiL.
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Saturday, 7 April 2018 05:17 (six years ago) link
Byrne was on Desert Island Discs last week. Sounding so much more relaxed and confident than back in the day. Great interview with lots of details about growing up Scottish and great tunes too.
― everything, Saturday, 7 April 2018 05:27 (six years ago) link
Damn I would love to hear that 5.1 mix of fom. The first record I heard of theirs and my favourite talking heads record
― Droni Mitchell (Ross), Saturday, 7 April 2018 05:41 (six years ago) link
Here's the link http://www.sharoma.com/eclectic_ril.htm
He seems to take a lot more liberties with FOM than with RIL, especially "Electric Guitar". Is there a reason that one is so different than the original mix? It seems like there is a lot of material in that track that just isn't in the original at all.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 7 April 2018 07:57 (six years ago) link
electric guitar has added percussion that totally changes the vibe - seems tacked on, also some extra synth parts
― Droni Mitchell (Ross), Saturday, 7 April 2018 08:01 (six years ago) link
the additional percussion changes the tempo
But why was all of that added? Most of the other tracks just seem to enhanced without a bunch of new things added.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 7 April 2018 08:11 (six years ago) link
from what I gather it was done as a way to give "clarity" to the mix - liberties is the key word as mentioned above
― Droni Mitchell (Ross), Saturday, 7 April 2018 08:47 (six years ago) link
The arcade console missile command video game sounds popping up in _Cities_, along with Byrne's relaxed,funny vocal style, will never not bring me total amusement and joy. Incredible.
― Hunt3r, Sunday, 8 April 2018 03:27 (six years ago) link
So apparently Angélique Kidjo is releasing a full-album cover version of Remain In Light next month, and the video for "Once In A Lifetime" is kinda cheesy but also nuts in a good way...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z84rtbVbIEQ
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 12 May 2018 00:40 (six years ago) link
She's touring it at the moment (I found out a few days after she played here).
― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Saturday, 12 May 2018 01:09 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR8jgFGmqvU
omg im in love with this
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Saturday, 12 May 2018 02:43 (six years ago) link
Damn^
― Blood roses (Ross), Saturday, 12 May 2018 05:22 (six years ago) link
So necessary
― Blood roses (Ross), Saturday, 12 May 2018 05:26 (six years ago) link