Talking Heads

jesus these 5.1 mixdowns are amazing.

...okay, chris, which song on "fear of music" sounds like the eagles?

ha, I wondered which song he was thinking of there as well - 'Heaven' maybe?

I just picked up Stop Making Sense on Laserdisc. There are forum threads with audio nerds saying how it's the best sounding version, but i'm going to have to find a used laserdisc player to find out.

ha yeah it really is supposed to be the best version, i've thought about getting a Laserdisc copy over the years. plus it still has the un-altered 'Snow white..' line that was dubbed over on the DVD/Blu-Ray, and a couple of other un-messed with bits that were present in the original soundtrack.

i grew up loving Talking Heads singles from every era of the band and when i picked up Remain In Light as my first TH album i found it kind of dense and difficult to love, and found the first 3 albums a lot more immediate. Fear Of Music still sounds to me like a nice halfway point between the early albums and RIL.

I came to TH via Stop Making Sense and therefore I had no real idea how the various songs fit into their timeline when I first heard them. Actually, off that video I found it was the Speaking In Tongues material that worked best. Never understood why that album was so bad and hated. Other than 'Moon Rocks', every track's a classic in my book.

Another reason I can't love Fear Of Music: I really don't like 'Heaven' at all.

yeah Stop Making Sense is how i got introduced to a lot of songs, i think at that point RIL was the only album i owned, and the movie definitely is extremely flattering to Speaking In Tongues.

i don't love "Heaven" but i think it works really well as an outlier on FOM.

Reminds me too much of 'It's A Kind Of Magic' for some reason. The lyrics are dull and the whole thing feels derivative or something, I dunno...

good version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGbREuyYNZM

*runs away*

Okay, I had no idea that cover existed, I don't hate what little Simply Red I've heard (which I'm sure puts me in a distinct minority around here) and I actually kinda like that one. It's an odd idea, wonder what brought it about.

check out their obvious homage to The Great Curve (which is the track after 'Heaven' on the same album bizzarely). it's such a blatant rip; the drum pattern, the Belew-style guitar breaks, the whole thing. maybe they were just obsessed with Talking Heads.

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

can only apologize for multiple Simply Red links.

Speaking in Tongues is "so bad and hated"? Surely this is a mixup with Little Creatures?

i mean it lacks the prestige of the Eno albums for sure, but that's definitely overstating it

Concerning the album's title, bassist Tina Weymouth was quoted in an 1979 interview with Creem magazine:
When we were making this album I remembered this stupid discussion we had about titles for the last album," Tina smirked. "At that time I said, 'What are we gonna call an album that's just about buildings and food?' And Chris said, 'You call it more songs about buildings and food.'[13]
XTC frontman Andy Partridge claimed in a tweet, however, that he gave the title to Byrne.

wut

how can this thread have so many he-said-she-said anecdotes about Tina Weymouth but not the "baby penis" story

I do not know this anecdote I must know it

Speaking in Tongues definitely definitely my favorite TH album but I have more use for them as a weirdo funk band than arrrrrtraaawwwwk. "I Zimbra" (which has somehow escaped mention thus far in spite of all the FOM talk?) is definitely my favorite track on Fear, although I love the SMS version of "Life During Wartime".

Speaking in Tongues is "so bad and hated"?

everyone knows that it is their best album of the ones that come after it, and also most of the ones before it too

http://www.salon.com/2003/12/03/heads_2/

In the late 1990s, Weymouth even reportedly called several old friends in the middle of the night to tell them that Byrne had a “baby penis.”

haha. I could laugh off that middle-of-the-night phone call. A phone call from her husband singing "Jaaaames Brroooown. JAAAAAAAMEs BrrroooOOOOWN" would be unforgivable.

I Zimbra is definitely my favourite on Fear of Music too. Speaking in Tongues isn't bad at all but the studio versions of the songs are so lifeless compared to the far superior takes on Stop Making Sense.

I felt that way at first, but the studio versions have grown on me. Same for TNOTBITH and 77.

its weird that the SMS versions of all of these are all better

SMS is horrible, wtf is with these defenders of those awful overdubbed drums & etc. I vastly prefer the dry, meticulous Eno-less sound of the studio versions.

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kinda feeling this post from the Speaking in Tongues thread these days

i am also kind of a SMS hater

insanity

Speaking in Tongues is probably their best collection of songs though

In the late 1990s, Weymouth even reportedly called several old friends in the middle of the night to tell them that Byrne had a “baby penis.”

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Andy Partridge has since claimed in a tweet that it was he, not Weymouth, who made these calls.

on "Morning Joe" yesterday Donald Trump in his call-in segment admitted to doing it iirc

btw while googling for that link i found that the Rolling Stone review of Little Creatures says Byrne "cackles with delight in appreciation of a sleeping baby's penis"

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/little-creatures-19850815

maybe he stole that baby's penis. maybe that's what Tina meant.

Reunion rumors...

i was wondering if something was going to happen at that benefit for bernie worrell last month. i think jerry harrison and david byrne were present.

I am as confused as anyone that that link heads to this one: http://en.mediamass.net/people/talking-heads/new-album.html

Which has on it this:

UPDATE 04/05/2016 : This story seems to be false. (read more)

Which links to this:

http://en.mediamass.net/blog/mediamass-project

Which states this:

The website mediamass.net is the medium of our satire to expose with humour, exaggeration and ridicule the contemporary mass production and mass consumption that we observe.

Also it will not only mock the producers (mainstream media, journalists) as it is common when questioning and criticizing mass media, but also the consumers as one cannot exist without the other. Sensationalism, lack of verification of information, ethics and standards issues are only symptoms of the actual social and economic order. This is particularly obvious when observing the role of social networking sites in spreading rumours.

Our ‘People’ section
Our website is very new (launched back at the end of October 2012) and still under construction. The ‘People’ section the only active one.

The concept is to select the most typical, representative and recurrent articles across Gossip magazines and to make them available for all the celebrities in our database. The ‘People’ section is a humorous parody of Gossip magazines, all stories are obviously not true.

Thus thousands of celebrities, Bill Gates in USA, Zhang Ziyi in China, Ranbir Kapoor in India, etc. all have a dog called “Spinee” recovering from successful surgery.

We won’t change the world, but at least we'll laugh trying.

Our project is still in its early stages. If you have any questions, comments or ideas or want to join the team please feel free to contact us.

Is this clickbait posing as satire?

http://www.snopes.com/2016/01/14/fake-news-sites/

This is really cool...

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0h..ADOTysST5cQ1h5k1axMTu0La?dl=0

Nothing there ...

did they break up

This ain't no dropbox

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0hhketqtmuob7me/AADOTysST5cQ1h5k1axMTu0La

Apologies, try this.

pre-Jerry, whoa, 75 or 76?

Cool from an archival perspective. tbqh if I'd seen that band, I would have said, "hmm, interesting," but I would not have been transfixed, nor would I have been able to foresee the lush riches to come.

this is awesome, thanks for sharing Maresn3st. its even in stereo! i think theres a clip from this on that "Chronology" DVD, but never seen the whole thing.

Whoa! Thanks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNZHGrDRb9E

Love that. Belew has stupid pants and Tina may have been the coolest person on the planet

entire band reuniting for the first time in however many years at TIFF with a Q&A moderated by Spike Lee

this will be a mess, I must be there

I should be clear, they're not performing, unless them pretending to get along at the Q&A is a performance in itself

they're performing their affinity

This ain't no party

no time for lovey dovey