Yeah true, I guess I was thinking along the lines of the actual band members, but were the whole crew considered to be “in the band” at this point? Would seem unusually democratic for Byrne.
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 3 December 2021 17:23 (two years ago) link
finally getting around to the Chris Frantz book and today i learned that the sonar-ping sounds on "take me to the river", which ive spent 30 years assuming were an Eno keyboard sound, are actually Frantz hitting some kind of woodblock w/reverb.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 17:46 (two years ago) link
burning down the house and once in a lifetime are good but the rest bores me!
― xzanfar, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 17:56 (two years ago) link
there are 3 other songs on the spotify top 5 for Talking Heads
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 17:56 (two years ago) link
xzanfar you should try "take me to the river", theres this cool 'ping' sound in the beginning that you might think is a keyboard but is actually a woodblock
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 18:01 (two years ago) link
the ping is only on the streaming version though, not the CD, and it depends on the stereo you have
#onethread
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 18:04 (two years ago) link
My friend and I like to talk about this late '70s/early '80s era of art-rock where it's sometimes impossible to tell the synths from the real instruments. Like, Peter Gabriel albums, sometimes it's a synth, sometimes it's a guitar, sometimes it's Gabriel yelling into a mic through a synth, etc.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 18:07 (two years ago) link
Yep, like the outro to "Once in a Lifetime" has like these insanely distorted warbles that probably started life as humble organ parts
― Mark Antonym (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 19:24 (two years ago) link
Yeah, I always thought they were distorted guitar power cords, but I'm pretty sure they're just overdriven organ.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 19:26 (two years ago) link
and sometimes the synth yelled at Gabriel
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 19:28 (two years ago) link
the synth yelled at Gabriel
Sequel to "The Boy Looked at Johnny"?
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 23:31 (two years ago) link
Lol
― Santa’s Got a Brand New Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 December 2021 02:36 (two years ago) link
Franz book ended up being a letdown imho, but did offer some interesting tidbits I'd never heard before about ideas for Talking Heads projects that Frantz liked but which never materialized - thankfully, bc they largely sound terrible.
One is that apparently the idea of having Phil Spector(!) produce the third Talking Heads LP got as far as the meeting stage - and no farther, after Spector predictably acted like a lunatic at the first meeting. Would he have added a children's choir to "Heaven"? Sadly we'll never know.
Another scuppered idea which Frantz still seems steamed about is that apparently he was approached by Ken Kesey in the early 80s about Talking Heads doing an opera based on Longfellow's "Song of Hiawatha"...? Frantz loved the idea but apparently it was nixed by the bad ogre David Byrne, and we have the Stop Making Sense movie instead. The mind reels at the alternate-universe possibilities...
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 20 December 2021 18:04 (two years ago) link
i wonder if he felt like that would compete with his catherine wheel stuff from the same period?
― Karl Malone, Monday, 20 December 2021 19:22 (two years ago) link
i can imagine how the hassles byrne was getting about appropriation & imperialism in the early 80s might dissuade him from taking on that particular subject matter at that moment in time
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 20 December 2021 19:40 (two years ago) link
The new Spider-Man opens with "I Zimbra" playing over the opening credits, which I wasn't expecting
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 20 December 2021 19:57 (two years ago) link
UH SPOILERS???
― class project pat (m bison), Monday, 20 December 2021 19:58 (two years ago) link
jk jk im not gonna watch that for a few years probably
You forgot to add #onethread there.
― Blue Suede Q*bert (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 December 2021 19:59 (two years ago) link
Dadaist poetry finally makes it to the mainstream.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 20 December 2021 20:15 (two years ago) link
you may ask yourself
where is that radioactive spider
― deez nuts roasting on an open fire (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 20 December 2021 20:23 (two years ago) link
About the talking heads 5.1 downmixes that were going around a few years ago (and which are fucking fantastic)… does everyone else’s file of the first track on Naked have a jarring glitch on the very first brass note? Been trying to live with it but it really bugs me!
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 26 March 2022 14:24 (two years ago) link
Yes! I made a fix, lemme see if I can dig it out.
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 26 March 2022 14:31 (two years ago) link
Oh yay yes please! Lol i knew it would be you who’d respond
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 26 March 2022 14:35 (two years ago) link
Hah! Here 'tis - https://www.fromsmash.com/V~DKjP.~u7-bt
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 26 March 2022 14:38 (two years ago) link
Listening now, thanks a lot MN!
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 26 March 2022 15:24 (two years ago) link
No worries!
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 26 March 2022 15:35 (two years ago) link