I think we can all agree the cover art is horriblehttps://i.imgur.com/US00TQo.png
― niels, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 08:02 (six years ago) link
I don't mind that cover so much!
I mean, I don't get it at all, but it sure looks cool.
― pplains, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 13:21 (six years ago) link
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.
― pplains, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 13:28 (six years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 September 2018 19:34 (five years ago) link
Was "Psycho Killer" one of these purported tracks?
― growing up in publix (morrisp), Monday, 24 September 2018 19:38 (five years ago) link
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 blasphemyPostby Ed Stasium on Wed Oct 14, 2009 8:10 pmA 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
Postby Ed Stasium on Wed Oct 14, 2009 8:10 pmA 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
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 24 September 2018 19:41 (five years ago) link
nice
― growing up in publix (morrisp), Monday, 24 September 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link
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!
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 September 2018 19:45 (five years ago) link
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
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 11 March 2019 00:02 (five years ago) link
Wow, nice catch
― flappy bird, Monday, 11 March 2019 17:14 (five years ago) link
Heard that song many times, but never connected
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 11 March 2019 21:01 (five years ago) link
Same
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 21 September 2019 12:19 (four years ago) link
It sounds like a Can rip to me, but who knows
― fgti (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 21 September 2019 14:34 (four years ago) link
honestly it sounds kinda like the doobie brothers
― i'm not a garbageman i am garbage, man. let me handle my garbage, damn (m bison), Saturday, 21 September 2019 14:39 (four years ago) link
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
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 21 September 2019 15:44 (four years ago) link
I need to find some of those guys then, cuz no one ever seems to know / want to talk about that particular album!
― #YABASIC (morrisp), Saturday, 21 September 2019 16:04 (four years ago) link
60+ year old American white men who write novels OTM
― brotherlovesdub, Saturday, 21 September 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
jonathan lethem is 55.
― Thus Sang Freud, Saturday, 21 September 2019 18:44 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfl3N9nesRg
classic
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 1 November 2019 07:41 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR5WWaK6DB4
― pplains, Monday, 17 February 2020 02:57 (four years ago) link
Ha.
So, Talking Heads in Rome YouTube > David Byrne’s American Utopia Broadway show
― curmudgeon, Monday, 17 February 2020 06:26 (four years ago) link
Don't know where to post this, so I am posting it here. Wait for it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX-cP4t9uvE
― He’s the Listener DJ, I’m the Listener Rapper (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 17 February 2020 06:33 (four years ago) link
Also, are you in NYC?
Love that coffee commercial, total Suntory time.
― Maresn3st, Monday, 17 February 2020 11:36 (four years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 February 2020 14:42 (four years ago) link
X-post- wife & I were in NYC for MLK weekend and saw David Byrne American Utopia.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 17 February 2020 18:21 (four years ago) link
American Utopia closed on Broadway, but now I see it’s coming back for 17 weeks. I think Byrne & band doing Janelle Monae’s Black Lives Matter song is the highlight.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 18 February 2020 18:22 (four years ago) link
Interview with Chris Frantz on his Talking Heads book to be published later this month.
Amazon quotes this review/recommendation:
"From the first time I saw Talking Heads live (CBGB, 1976), I've had a huge thing for Tina Weymouth. And since then I've been biding my time, waiting for the right moment to make my move. But after reading Remain in Love by Chris Frantz, it's become pretty clear to me that she's already in a relationship (see pages xi, 3, 33-34, etc.), and what's more, it looks to be serious (pages 41, 43-48, and especially 147). But you know something? That's OK. I'm happy for Tina, and for Chris, a great drummer who has written a great book." ―Bill Murray
― willem, Tuesday, 14 July 2020 14:54 (four years ago) link
lol
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 14:56 (four years ago) link
:D
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 15:03 (four years ago) link
irl lol at “especially 147”
― Master of Treacle, Tuesday, 14 July 2020 21:46 (four years ago) link
Probably not the biggest Heads fan on the borad, I mean I like them fine but they aren’t one of “my bands” but dying to read this based on the tastes I’ve gotten and the interview just posted is no exception. I am a huge Modern Lovers fan so there is that, I guess.
― Isolde mein Herz zum Junker (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 22:11 (four years ago) link
watching the “stop making sense” concert right now and I think these guys might be the peak of music.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 24 June 2021 15:25 (three years ago) link
Many (most?) days I would not disagree.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 June 2021 15:32 (three years ago) link
i like stop making sense a lot, but i always feel a lil' lonely in thinking i would much rather see them in 79 somewhere
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 24 June 2021 15:50 (three years ago) link
before they got the giant band, i mean (which rules, i get it)
Had I gone with Karl in '79 I'd have to stop him from pogoing.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 June 2021 15:52 (three years ago) link
oh my god, it's hard to put a lid on that though once it gets going
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 24 June 2021 15:54 (three years ago) link
imagine being one of the ORIGINAL white kids being taught how to dance by talking heads, in the late 70s! i could have told some stories to the later generations of white kids being taught how to dance by talking heads-influenced bands
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 24 June 2021 15:55 (three years ago) link
I assume they actually grew up to spread that weird funkless herky-jerk '80s dance you always see.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 June 2021 15:57 (three years ago) link
i'm surprised the trademark Stop Make Sense collective "Running in Place" move didn't take off, it seems like excellent cardio
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 24 June 2021 15:58 (three years ago) link
for real though, i do get a bit distracted by all that stuff (the dancing) during the film. whereas, i imagine a sweaty '79 gig (did they even tour in '79? whatever) where everyone is on too many drugs to dance
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 24 June 2021 15:59 (three years ago) link
Here's a one-off of them in 1979 as afaict a quintet (with Belew):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1KIYV9ZuKM
Looks like they just kept adding musicians after that.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 June 2021 16:01 (three years ago) link
i feel like the odd th fan out because i like the first disc of the name of this band is talking heads, which covers the first two albums, a lot more than the second, which covers remain in light era.
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Thursday, 24 June 2021 16:03 (three years ago) link
Whoops I meant this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTUuheVHmZE
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 June 2021 16:03 (three years ago) link
i can confirm (and this is sciencE) that SMS is the peak of music
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Thursday, 24 June 2021 16:04 (three years ago) link
xxp Me too
― search term: buttrock (morrisp), Thursday, 24 June 2021 16:09 (three years ago) link
xp map i remember wearing that first CD (out of 2) when it came out, i agree
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 24 June 2021 16:10 (three years ago) link
(I’m prob an atypical fan for only really being into the first 3 albums… and a few later songs here and there)
― search term: buttrock (morrisp), Thursday, 24 June 2021 16:11 (three years ago) link
i still include remain in light in my holy albums list, and i finally let speaking in tongues in a few years ago. but that's IT from talking heads, NO more
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 24 June 2021 16:16 (three years ago) link