Talking Heads 3rd Album Poll: Fear of Polls

I ZIMBRA

This is hard. I haven't got it figured out yet.

Was listening to this today and wow I never clicked with "Drugs" like that before! Great synths on that one. Textural guitars on "Mind" pretty mindblowing too..

A6 A++++++++

Specifically the last 30 seconds or so.

"Memories Can't Wait" is the most consistently enjoyable, but I voted "Cities" because there are drunken occasions where I enjoy it more than just about anything else (ON EARTH).

yeah, "Memories Can't Wait". Fucking LOVE the Living Colour version and the original is similarly excellent.

A6 FTW

drugs - a great ending track

i was about to do this poll but did Neutral Milk Hotel instead. i would have never figured this was a Talking Heads poll until i clicked on this poll, so i'm glad i didn't put this one up today as there would have been two...voting for "Drugs."

nother vote for drukqs, with memories a close not-second

xpost to Bee OK: maybe I should ask for a mod to include "Talking Heads 3rd album" or something?

Listened to it on my commute this morning and only now did it occur to me that in "Heaven" ("There is a party/Everyone is there") Byrne is mumbling the last "there" in a way that he could be singing "dead" as well. D'oh.

Not my favourite Talking Heads, but not without its highlights. Voted for "Air" because it's really pretty, but could have voted for "I Zimbra" having once heard Luke Slater play it mixed into his set. "Animals" is good too but the live version on "The Name Of This Band" is better. "Cities" is also an amazing track!

i would because this thread should have a bit more chatter...

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Cities. The fade in and fade out gives me creepy sense that it's just an extract and goes on forever and that the band are still in a studio somewhere playing it, with Byrne working his way through more cities he might live in ('Wells! A small city..' etc).

ELECTRIC GUITAR

I don't like "Heaven" because it reminds me of Queen's "It's a Kind Of Magic"

they say animals don't worry

they're livin on nuts and berries

they say animals don't worry

Drugs.

This is the one and only TH album I can say I truly love.

Cities. Surprised no shouts for Life During Wartime though. Drugs is also amazing. This is not my favourite Heads albums but they are one of the greatest bands ever, so it's still superb.

This is hard. I haven't got it figured out yet.

^^^^ This. "Cities" and "Animals" are the funniest.

"Drugs". I LOVE "Drugs"

(And the quotation marks are very important not to misinterpret this quote ;) )

Voted for Drukqs too, but "Cities" on another day.

Aw no way! I totally overlooked Life During Wartime! I'd have voted that one! Actually I take it back, this album rulezz!

CAN'T SEEM TO MAKE UP MY MIND

Can't even begin to express how huge this record was for me growing up.

Life During Wartime.

"Paper" is such an underrated jam

Can't even begin to express how huge this record was for me growing up.

ditto.

another Memories fan here, Heaven a close second.

"Memories" vs "Heaven" for me. but if this had been 5 or 6 years ago it probably would have been "I Zimbra"...my TH tastes have changed so much.

And all I see are little dots Dots DOTS DOTS

possibly mind

My second favorite Talking Heads LP, after Remain In Light. "Life During Wartime" will take this,
but I voted for "I Zimbra".

"Life During Wartime" will take this

I'd be surprised.

"Life During Wartime" will take this

Hold on to that paper.

"Heaven" needed another vote.

this album is eno's crrraziest production imo

The mix reminds me of another classic released that year in which Eno was involved: Lodger -- dry, hard, crunchy.

it never dawned on me that those two were from the same year, even though they both sound very of a piece! i love both to death for similar reasons, seems like an eno-produced record never really went there again.

life during wartime is better on the name of this band is. drugs is better nowhere else

seems like an eno-produced record never really went there again

helluva drug, but you can't do it forever.

It's very easy to imagine "Red Sails" or "Repetition" on Fear of Music.

Sorry to go with the obvious, but Life During Wartime.

Also went with the obvious, with "I Zimbra" and "Paper" close behind.

Way back when I bought this on vinyl, I somehow mixed up Side 1 and Side 2 and listened to it that way for years. So for me it has always begun with "Air" and ended with "Memories Can't Wait"; now that I've got the CD it's a much different ride that never feels quite right.

The sound of gunfire, off in the distance,
I'm getting used to it now

It's always worth pointing to the 1980 show they shot in Rome. Insanely good.

Drugs
Cities
I Zimbra
Life During Wartime

I had to dig out "Cities" yesterday because of this thread. Byrne's vocal is brilliant, halfway between beautiful and infuriated.

Simply impossible to pick between "Mind" and "Heaven". What a fucking album.

"Paper" is the perfectess on an album of perfect songs.

On the LP the diamonds on the cover are raised just like a real floor

"I Zimbra" forever

just saw this for the first time since it aired. a deeply 1998 thing, somehow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1AmcBM5Ejg

kind of like the david byrne exercise video

This album is just a bunch of songs and then "Drugs"

Just a bunch of great songs and then one more great song.

my least favourite of the classic 3 album run (or 4 if you count the debut) but still has some incredible stuff on it. Animals feels like one of those 'derivative of nothing' songs to my ears but i'm sure ILM folk can tell me where i'm wrong about that.

classic 3 album run = Fear, Remain in Light and Speaking in Tongues

Have been listening to TH 77 this week for the first time in many years and I think it's one of my ideal guitar records. I could listen to those two guitars chattering at each other forever. Fear of Music pulls off guitar heaven a few times too-- 'Paper' and 'Mind' are among my favorite 2-guitar thingies of the era.

When Meat Puppets Up on the Sun was new, some sagacious reviewer mentioned TH 77 as a comparison for its sound and that was really OTM.

just saw this for the first time since it aired. a deeply 1998 thing, somehow

electronic beats on this are so unforgiveable

classic 3 album run = Fear, Remain in Light and Speaking in Tongues

'77 is my favourite

^^^ gets it

I've never seen that Sessions at W. 54th show! That's the same lineup/outfits as when I saw him at Bumbershoot. Big fun.

it's a 4-album run and that's if you leave out speaking in tongues.

that flames onesie is unbelievable.

Five album run, for my ears. . . Plus 'Bush of Ghosts' and 'Tom Tom Club' : )

5-album run for me: 2nd, 3rd, 4th + Bush of Ghosts + Catherine Wheel

Bush of Ghosts worst in the sequence tho

i don't think Byrne made a bad record until True Stories, which was at least offset by a decent/funny film

Bush of Ghosts worst in the sequence tho

― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, June 11, 2013 1:48 PM (2 minutes ago)

Not by a huge margin, but yeah I pretty much agree.

BTW Alfred, I just noticed yesterday that I had sent you a FB friends request...it must have been a couple of years ago, because I completely forgot about it!

are we friends now?

I admire Bush of Ghosts and Catherine Wheel more than I actually play them. Tom Tom Club, though, I wore out.

are we friends now?

― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, June 11, 2013 1:54 PM (5 minutes ago)

Hmm, can't tell if that's a sick burn or "did that work?".

the latter lol

Didn't work then. I wonder if friend requests have an expiration date?

he also did "Memories Can't Wait" on Sessions (i think a dif episode? he hosted one season and performed multiple times iirc), which got me really hyped because i had just started getting into TH at the time and it was one of my favorite deep cuts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1OwsD5Ypj0

i really had no idea anybody thought "Drugs" was one of the best songs on this record

Most days I love this record forever, but on Tuesdays I think "I Zimbra" is jazz hands and much of the rest of the record boasts David's weakest singing and lyrics. "Drugs" tho is unspeakably good and is one of those songs that will always stop me in my tracks to listen, a perfect song

it's obviously the classic 4 album run - 77 through RIL, with More Songs being the best. Speaking in Tongues a slight drop in quality.

animals is fun to vamp along to

yeah songwriting-wise, FOM probably better deserves the title "more songs about buildings and food" given how many of the songs are just 'here is a noun that i will riff on blankly for the next 3 minutes.'

except they aren't blank riffs they're profound treatises that you can make paranoid clown faces to

both previous posts otm

it's a creative writing exercise more songwriters should follow. Write a song a day about: iPhone, house keys, laptop, hair gel.

in my case those four songs would be autobiographical

http://www.countryuniverse.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Brad-Paisley-Water.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Ray_Bradbury_%281975%29_-cropped-.jpg/220px-Ray_Bradbury_%281975%29_-cropped-.jpg

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Toothbrush_x3_20050716_002.jpg/300px-Toothbrush_x3_20050716_002.jpg

it's a creative writing exercise more songwriters should follow.

get yr 'îron game up, rap

Killer Mike called a song "Reagan." 2 Chainz should write one called "Grover."

5 album run, with "The Name of this band..." being their peak imo

i don't really think that should really count as part of their run. it'd be one thing if the songs were drastically different than their album counterparts, but they're pretty faithful. i agree that it's an awesome album (one of my favs as well).

they definitely have one of the best 2-album runs of live albums

not unless you discount Neil Young and his quasi live albums.

i like the song "heaven" a lot, how it contrasts with the twitchy nervousness of the rest of this album. i also like how the album it sounds simple, almost stripped down, compared to their later masterpiece "remain in light" which is the only other talking heads album i've spent a lot of time with. i should listen to these guys more, but byrne irritates me after a while even though i am a great admirer of his schtick, which i think was very original

heaven is a song where nothing ever happens obv

All those single-word song titles in one place - it's almost like the early '90s

lol