Talking Heads- Classic or Dud?

New stuff was nothing special, was really all about the visuals imo.

Interesting essay: https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/angelique-kidjo-interview-myth-of-cultural-appropriation-covering-remain-in-light/

How do you all rate the new record? I haven’t really given it a full listen. Feel like I’m a completist at this point

It's nothing special.

Alexa just played “No Compassion,” followed by a live acoustic version of “Heaven” – and I’m not gonna lie, the combo was poignant.

First song on the new album is off-putting. After that it gets better.

Angelique Kidjo has just covered all of Remain in Light:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR8jgFGmqvU&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR8jgFGmqvU&feature=youtu.be

Hmm. Anyway, pretty great.

was pretty blown away by benjamin clementine as the opener at the show i saw. had never heard of him before.

byrne was excellent too ofc :)

Man the reviews are excellent for this. Just got it and excited to listen to today

this version shits on the original from a high place

That's... a very vivid image

xp FP'd you for that, don't take it personally

i'm kidding of course, but it's amazing

sorry i was in passion's control, bad place, no harm sleeve

Back in style *yawns*

What’s back in style?

Angelique Kidjo has just covered all of Remain in Light

This is a fantastic record.

if we're talking covers of burning down the house i love yasuyuki oyamura's version (not on youtube unfortunately)

kidjo's essay is completely and totally otm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRxxt53yFBs

The Kidjo is a perfect, seamless cover start to finish. She completely owns it.

I hate to say it but much as I respect the Kidjo album, it also unintentionally gives off some old-fashioned eighties 'WORLD MUSIC' vibes that I'm not sure I'm 100% on board with

I think we can all agree the cover art is horrible
https://i.imgur.com/US00TQo.png

I don't mind that cover so much!

I mean, I don't get it at all, but it sure looks cool.

some old-fashioned eighties 'WORLD MUSIC' vibes that I'm not sure I'm 100% on board with

Between Kidjo and 80s WORLD MUSIC, where would you rank David Byrne?

Half-fatuous, half-serious question.

Years ago the bassist Bob Babbitt came out and claimed he played bass on the first Talking Heads record. It sounded like the usual studio musician bullshit, since they're always claiming they played on everything from the Beatles on down. But the new Tape Op features an interview with Tony Bongiovi, and he (fwiw) confirms the story in detail. I guess Babbitt plays on four tracks because, according to Tony, Tina was paying the wrong notes but refused to rewrite the parts. Why wouldn't she just re-record her parts? Who knows. But there you go, mystery solved.

Was "Psycho Killer" one of these purported tracks?

But there you go, mystery solved.

Not necessarily...Ed Stasium posted the following on the Electrical Audio forum in 2009:
https://www.electricalaudio.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=46055

Re: The Talking Heads bass blasphemy

Postby Ed Stasium on Wed Oct 14, 2009 8:10 pm
A pal of mine informed me of this discussion....

This will be brief...I want to set the record straight about Tina playing on TH77. At the sessions Bongiovi would show up once in a while and when he did he would proceed to the lounge and read airplane magazines. [Engineer] Lance [Quinn] was there most of the time, I was the only person involved in the recording of the project who was there for every minute of the process. Tina played bass on the ENTIRE LP, Bob Babbitt did come in and overdub on one or maybe two songs but at the mixing stage I did not put Babbitt's bass up in the mix and the "producers" knew none the better! I seem to recall that I may have "Ghosted" Bob on the chorus (for effect) of "Love Has Come To Town" under Tina's bass for alas, I was WAY on the band's side.

David could not stand Bongiovi and did not want him present whilst he recorded vocals, David informed me of this and I was the one who broke the news to Bongiovi (who did not care). Jerry has since remixed all of the Band's LPs for 5.1 etc. and he would be the one to know (from the track sheets) which of the tracks Bob played on. But geez, it's been 32 years....c'mon!

Oh... and as for the Bongiovi quotes in Greg Milner's "History" My lovely wife Amy found the book and the first thing she did was read me several paragraphs and I choked on the tremendous amount of BULLSHIT squatted out by Bongiovi! Mr. Milner should get a truthful source for the addendum that should be added to that chapter. I manned any razor blade that was wielded on "Psycho Killer" (at the band's request), and there are no fucking TYMPANI on "Sheena".

The only person who did not know what was going on during those sessions was Bongiovi himself.......I suppose I could go on but I must prepare dinner!

Drinks for my friends!.....cheers.....ed

nice

That does confirm Bob was on there, though he's not credited. Like a lot of these semi-apocryphal session stories, there's a chance he is on there but barely on there, or no one remembers where or what or whatever. Everyone's right!

Was just listening to J. Geils Band, and hmm, around 3 minutes in this sounds a bit like a precursor to Crosseyed and Painless:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDU3evB5_K8

Wow, nice catch

Heard that song many times, but never connected

Same

It sounds like a Can rip to me, but who knows

honestly it sounds kinda like the doobie brothers

if you ask a 60+ year old American white man who writes novels what he's been listening to, 9 times out of 10 he starts telling you how great Fear of Music is

I need to find some of those guys then, cuz no one ever seems to know / want to talk about that particular album!

60+ year old American white men who write novels OTM

jonathan lethem is 55.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfl3N9nesRg

classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR5WWaK6DB4

Ha.

So, Talking Heads in Rome YouTube > David Byrne’s American Utopia Broadway show

Don't know where to post this, so I am posting it here. Wait for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX-cP4t9uvE

Also, are you in NYC?

Love that coffee commercial, total Suntory time.

Back in the day, when members of Warrant, the Clash, GNR, Cosby Show and Talking Heads would rub elbows at the Scrap Bar, the CBGBs of the '90s, long since relegated to the scrap bar of history.