The Name of This POLL Is...- ILM artist poll #82 - TALKING HEADS - (voting is open until Sunday March 26, 2017)

I listened to all albums and the result is: they did not have 25 good songs. With a lot of stretching of my personal quality criteria I can scramble together 22 tracks. And I am quite generous there. They made a lot of awful music.

fped ;)

i liked "swamp" at the time, but it hasn't aged well. the band's first smirky pastiche of a familiar pop style, harbinger of decline.

― The sandwiches looked quite dank. (contenderizer), 17. marts 2017 22:21 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't know, there's a bunch of segments on MSABAF that sounds like muzak/commercial music to me. They just leave the style quickly, while Swamp is bluesy snooze all the way through. I kinda like it, but probably not enough to vote for it.

actually i've been listening to little creatures a lot bc of this poll and i'd like to amend my "indifference" to it upthread. i like it more and more. i'm probably gonna vote for "perfect world" bc under different circumstances of production it'd be a highlight on 77

i didn't care about this album beyond the singles for YEARS. no idea what happened

Love swamp. Still trying to figure out if the line about Risky Business predates the movie or was inspired by same. Both from 1983. I first heard the song in that reprehensible but great film, where it's perfectly used.

Weird poll for me, as I like a lot of this band's songs, but kind of hate the band, if that makes any sense. Like I immediately distrust anyone who declares themselves a big fan, but at the same time recognize that they have a ton of great tracks.

"Swamp" was also on the King of Comedy soundtrack, released (I think) just before Risky Business

But I'm guessing that filming schedules being what they are, it's hard to sort out what influenced what. I've always wondered, and it's weird that nobody on the internet seems to know decisively whether the movie inspired the song, song inspired the movie, or coincidence...

on my way to Teenage Fanclub in Hollywood.

anyways, just wanted to say we are in double digits. keep them coming.

what, is it the 26th already?

lol, you have plenty of time. i need it too.

Relistened to Naked... it's sad how much the quality dips from side 1 to side 2. Take some of the songs from side 1 of Naked and some off Rei Momo, and I think you'd have an album better than any single Heads album

And while I'm on Rei Momo, let me shill for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21CO3_KVsmQ This is up there with the most beautiful songs Byrne made. Having Kirsty MacColl on it helps I suppose

Take some of the songs from side 1 of Naked and some off Rei Momo, and I think you'd have an album better than any single Heads album

ew no

yeah no. byrne the smoothed-out singer songwriter is much less interesting to me than talking heads the band.

TH are one of those bands where the sum really is more than the parts. There's a lotta good stuff about them and specifically the Eno period in Rip It Up And Start Again iirc

like, they were at their best (imo) when their identities were most fully merged/subsumed

I love this wide-ranging, witty interview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhUq52YmeLA

I FEEL LIKE SITTINNNG DOOOWWWWNNNN

walk it down
talk it down
ohhhh

sympathy
luxury
somebody will take you there!

always liked this from 1990's Red Hot And Blue album of Cole Porter covers

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

Me too.

i love "sax and violins" and "cool water" so much ok bye

is "sax and violins" entirely responsible for vampire weekend

just added popsicle to my ballot, who's with me

o god, i'd completely forgotten about "popsicle". "sugar on my tongue" redux, right? certainly the most libidinal byrne ever got on the mic.

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aawww i was all excited cos i thought the roll out was happening today

no way man, I have six days to tweak my ballot order!

the order is really what's killing me. seems to shift every day

would the true stories movie open up the album to me in any way? i don't really get it as a record

i hated it but..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_vze4K-x5g

would the true stories movie open up the album to me in any way? i don't really get it as a record

― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson),

it will make you loathe humanity and force you to vote for Trump in 2020

I wonder what the Talking Heads Sway will be. IE relatively obscure album track beloved by fans that ends up placing surprisingly high in the ILM poll. The Big Country perhaps?

would the true stories movie open up the album to me in any way? i don't really get it as a record

― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson),

it will make you loathe humanity and force you to vote for Trump in 2020

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, March 20, 2017 7:27 AM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh excellent

It doesn't work as a record b/c the Heads weren't even supposed to play these songs.

...relatively obscure album track beloved by fans that ends up placing surprisingly high in the ILM poll. The Big Country perhaps?

would only be surprised if it came in low

I definitely enjoyed the album more after seeing the movie and feel like the songs "make sense" in the context of the movie in a way that wasn't obvious to me from just hearing the album. I think all movie versions of the songs are on youtube.

*reconsiders placement of "The Big Country" on ballot*

xp but also the movie versions of the songs are all better, so it kind of made the album feel even more redundant at the same time

yeah i just listened to the movie version of "dream operator" which is the first time i recognized it as a really lovely song

oh also the john goodman "people like us"!!!

oh huh "puzzlin' evidence" is like reading about pizzagate

ha, I was just re-watching the Puzzlin'Evidence clip the other day due to this poll, and was thinking how it seemed apropos to Trump-era political discourse

i was kinda down on More Songs earlier but i've finally managed to connect with it properly in the last few days, i love all the weird little muzak-y interludes now, and the second half of Stay Hungry is fantastic. Found a Job is still probably the worst song on the first four albums though

i don't really know what would even be a surprising placing for anything from the first four albums, apart from a few obvious favourites everything seems up in the air

I'm listening to True Stories for the first time right now. I've never seen the movie, but this very much sounds like the soundtrack to a crappy 80s musical.

The band soudns like it's holding its nose.

might find room on my ballot for "city of dreams," "dream operator," or "people like us" idk

"wild wild life" sounds like someone's lazy idea of what a "talking heads single" sounds like

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