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

Bee OK - do what you need to do. Talking Heads polls can wait

I came to the conclusion the other day that TH are my favourite all time musical act. More than Autechre or the Boo Radleys or Scott Walker or even the Beach Boys or any if the bands I harp on about round here. I became a fan after seeing SMS back in 2006 and the visceral requirement for them to be in my life has never waivered. There's little else out there that sums up how I feel about the world. TH are basically my life #drunkpostofcourse

Funny, out of this thread I was saying like a week ago to musician friend that TH are my concept of a cool rock band and that a 1980 show is like my platonic ideal of awesome concert, that'll be my show in heaven.

ha ha

i hate to break it to you hunt3r, but heaven is a place, where nothing....

oh nm

song where nothing happens

Remain in Light TOWERS over the rest of their discography except the live records at least to me.

yet live remain in light songs are the worst, not including crosseyed and painless of course

ugh, I really hate 'Heaven'. Will anyone rep for it? A real stumbling block right near the beginning of SMS too, which I almost always skip

Heaven is fine on Fear of Music and The Name of this Band but doesn't really play to any of their strengths, they can do a lot better than just 'fine'. The only one of the stripped down songs I like at the start of SMS is Psycho Killer, Thank You For Sending Me An Angel is especially hurt by the lack of the second guitar.

Heaven is wonderful, especially the SMS version.
it's the lyric/the song that counts there, arrangement is secondary.

POLL To Nowhere
This Must Be The POLL
- my choices

I Wouldn't Live There If You POLLed Me
Uh-Oh, POLL Comes To Town
- hilarious as well, but less universally known as titles, therefore less effective at a first glance.

Know what's great on The Name Of This Band? Memories Can't Wait.

I'm listening to Fear Of Music today. I really love about half the songs on here while finding the other lot a bit ploddy and dirgey. I really don't understand things like Paper and Electric Guitar. Mind is growing on me, but for me TH are at their best when they're not trying to be all dark and postpunky.
And yeah I just really dislike Heaven. Might have something to do with how it shares a lot of melodic similarities with 'It's A Kind Of Magic' (unintentional of course because the Queen song came out later), still it just does nothing for me.
Still, Air, Animals, Cities and Life During Wartime are alltime TH for me.
It took me ages to work out that Byrne wasn't singing 'Air in her tutu'. It bugged me so much I had to look up the lyric online.

You need something that will change your mind?

(Miiiiiiiiind)

ugh, I really hate 'Heaven'. Will anyone rep for it?

wtf

I am revoking yr fan card asap

top 5 easy

I love "Heaven." I even recently citied the chorus in an essay I wrote on the Mary Gaitskill short story of the same name. If the music is "boring," it is for the explicit purpose of matching the lyrical content--the band performing as the band in a Heaven "where nothing ever happens."

I'm still shuffling my ballot around (and relistening to some of the later albums that I had never bothered with before, just to be sure), but "Heaven" is going to be way up there.

y'all better list "Listening Wind."

no room :(

Heaven was top 10 for me. I didn't specify a version.

voted!

If I had specified versions my ballot would basically look like the tracklist from Stop Making Sense. I love that movie, way more than any of the albums. I haven't heard The Name of This Band though, for whatever reason.

if you like SMS I think you'd love TNOFBITH, although I adore SMS for the sheer performance of it. Still need to see Live In Rome 1980

Voted.

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Voted, and then instantly had voter's remorse.

Voted.

I watched Stop Making Sense on Thursday and I'm wondering if a verdict was made on whether "What a Day That Was" counts

Of course it does. "Big Business/I Zimbra" from the extended set will be on my ballot.

I couldn't not vote for it despite the ambiguity. The Catherine Wheel version is good but the Talking Heads version on Stop Making sense takes it so much further, it's one of their very best

Voted. Fully expect my #1 to be the overall #1, but threw a few votes to things which may get overlooked.

Aw, crap! I forgot "what a day that was" because I was going to rep for it on the solo ballot, which I ended up not doing.

ran across this recently. it may be familiar to all of you but it's new to me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyaPRx5fNlQ

"Talking Heads vs Television", a BBC4 doc with lots of performances (and no footage of the band television, in case you're wondering)

Voted!

In all the re-listening, I finally realized that "Lifetime Piling Up" is the same song as "Carnival Eyes" on Rei Momo

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VOTING is still open.

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That TV doc Karl posted is amazing. I didn't know about it all. The missing link between the Remain In Light tour and SMS. It was made for the independent Channel 4 btw, nothing to do with the BBC. Channel 4 broadcast loads of cool docs like this in the early 80s.

I was fractionally too young to be able to go to the 1982 Wembley Shows. I was hoping they'd come back to the UK some day but that never happened :(

Sent!

How many hours left?

In all the re-listening, I finally realized that "Lifetime Piling Up" is the same song as "Carnival Eyes" on Rei Momo

TH has been a favorite band since fifth grade — a bit too late (1990, shortly before their disillusion was announced, and then I was confused and hopeful at the release of "Sax and Violins" on the Until the End of the World OST).

I'm mainly curious to see how the TTC/Byrne solo stuff does; as far as the TH poll everything from the first five albums deserves to place, it's just a question of the order. (77 places would make room for most of the band's catalogue — the question would be which songs from the last three or four albums don't make it.)

It was made for the independent Channel 4 btw, nothing to do with the BBC. Channel 4 broadcast loads of cool docs like this in the early 80s.

my bad, but good to know! i just believed the youtube description, which is definitely right at least 15% of the time

Is MY POLL still open

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