I had a stoner theory that each song gets faster than the one before. But I must have been reeeaally stonered.
― big darn deal (Z S), Thursday, 3 December 2009 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link
goddamn the bass sounds in Houses in Motion so awesome
― strange asses outside liquor stores (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 3 December 2009 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
this is one of those records where I'd love a multi-disc "sessions" kinda box set, like the Miles Davis releases. So many layers and sounds to uncover.
― tylerw, Thursday, 3 December 2009 20:20 (fourteen years ago) link
what the fuck at "Seen And Not Seen" losing?
― Udon Nomi (Stevie D), Thursday, 3 December 2009 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
It really is remarkable how they nailed Joy Division's sound on "The Overload" without ever having heard their music.
― flappy bird, Sunday, 29 July 2018 22:08 (five years ago) link
i never believe that story. it can't be true
― Gâteau Superstar (dog latin), Monday, 30 July 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
also it's one of my least favourite songs by them. appreciate the fact it exists but not into the dark atmospheric Heads so much as the funkier stuff
― Gâteau Superstar (dog latin), Monday, 30 July 2018 00:02 (five years ago) link
yeah I mean they started recording Remain in Light a full year after Unknown Pleasures came out, and I can't imagine Eno would've had any trouble getting a copy. Still. this legend I hold onto. it's such a good story!
― flappy bird, Monday, 30 July 2018 00:31 (five years ago) link
yeah dog latin otm - i skip that song every time
angelique LP of this is on fire as well
― Ross, Monday, 30 July 2018 15:49 (five years ago) link
I love the way Byrne trembles through the line, "in the free trade zone"
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 July 2018 15:50 (five years ago) link
I love the way this record is sequenced, the way it just slowly grinds to a halt
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 04:40 (five years ago) link
yes
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 04:59 (five years ago) link
thirded
― transcendental headache (Ross), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 21:12 (five years ago) link
the version of "Houses in Motion" on The Name of this band is Talking Heads is so much funkier and livelier that I almost can't believe it's the same song
― frogbs, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 21:23 (five years ago) link
oh yeah, the live Houses in Motion is one of the very best Talking Heads songs.
Might be hard to find a Heads song where the live version isn't better than the studio tbh
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 21:34 (five years ago) link
Once in a Lifetime and Great Curve never came off too great live IMO. I mean they still rule but the studio recordings are perfect.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 21:46 (five years ago) link
yeah i've never felt like "once in a lifetime" comes across right in a live setting for some reason — the chorus doesn't have the same lift
― tylerw, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 21:59 (five years ago) link
wearing shoes with no socks
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 22:05 (five years ago) link
I love "The Overload." And I never really 'got' Joy Division. But I 'get' The Melvins and this song is as close as Byrne ever got to Buzz (which is, admittedly, not very close, but that drone that runs throughout is some straight up Lysol shit)
hey, did Eno ever cop to "I Fall Up" being, err, inspired by "Houses in Motion?" Seems obvious to me but I'm no Eno scholar, and, lord knows, if anyone has the right to borrow ideas from TH it's Eno (and Hassell)
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 22:16 (five years ago) link
the wind in my heart, the dust in my head <3 <3 all time ultra humid groove
― brimstead, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 23:38 (five years ago) link
For the first four songs this is the greatest album ever made! Pity about the slower dirgey ones.
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 1 August 2018 00:07 (five years ago) link
xp "Great Curve" was excellent live when I saw Byrne ten years ago, but I agree I haven't heard a live version of "Once in a Lifetime" that matches the studio version
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 1 August 2018 01:07 (five years ago) link
otm and “Born Under Punches” too imo, perfect studio creations. “Crosseyed and Painless” bangs though.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 1 August 2018 01:20 (five years ago) link
live version of born under punches slays the studio version, you crazy
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 01:23 (five years ago) link
Too slow and a totally different groove. Tape loops make the song.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 1 August 2018 04:15 (five years ago) link
I like the live Born Under Punches, but it doesn't really compare. As flappy said the groove is totally different.
Not sure why Once in a Lifetime doesn't come through so well live, it's kind of got a strange rhythm to it and I think Eno's vocals are missed on the chorus. I feel like a lot of the power in the tune is due to the way the instruments are mixed - the bass up top, the twinkly synths in the background, Byrne front and center.
Great Curve...feel like it's too layered and complex to properly replicate. The live version I have sounds like it had to be slowed down and the mass vocals don't gel the way they do in studio.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 1 August 2018 04:28 (five years ago) link
there are plenty of live versions of born under punches that are significantly faster than the recording, like this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVIKF03KkVM
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 04:30 (five years ago) link
it's true that the live version doesn't start out with the same groove as the studio version, but it slowly builds the component parts until it reaches a reasonable facsimile of the recorded groove. idk, born under punches is prob my fav heads song, i love both the live and studio versions, but in the live version you can really hear weymouth's bassline--about half of it is totally buried in the recording--and the moment when the rest of the groove locks in with her line is goosebump-inducing.
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 04:34 (five years ago) link
Still a totally different groove though. The parts that make up the studio version are perfectly out of sync in a way that is only possible with tape loops (or samplers, I suppose, but certainly not a live band).
xp
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 1 August 2018 04:35 (five years ago) link
Good point about her bass line - the main sort of jumbled up slap bass loop sits really high in the mix.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 1 August 2018 04:36 (five years ago) link
back to the topic at hand, Houses In Motion...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaMzKpNC2Jk
y'all should really check out the whole Rome 1980 concert on YT, the versions from that show match anything on The Name of This Band..
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 04:45 (five years ago) link
yes. Belew is an air bomber at this show. Insane playing
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 1 August 2018 04:53 (five years ago) link
Just watching the version of Crosseyed and Painless from this show. Belew's solo around the 4-minute mark. Fucking hell. What a band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g8lFmsCXhg
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 10:39 (five years ago) link
Srsly Rome 80 is a top 3 all time reason for youtube existing and i have no idea what the other two are.
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 1 August 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link
^^
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 1 August 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link
Breakdown of "Rapture" sounds like a Remain in Light outtake: discusshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp9An5OcdE4
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 1 December 2018 23:38 (five years ago) link
yes!
― flappy bird, Saturday, 1 December 2018 23:57 (five years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/AdrianBelew/photos/a.10150340764179995/10151334736169995/?type=3&theater
― Maresn3st, Sunday, 12 January 2020 16:34 (four years ago) link
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― budo jeru, Sunday, 12 January 2020 17:31 (four years ago) link
The Eno mix of Houses.. is still unavailable on CD; i can't understand why it wasn't on the Remain In Light reissue. 40 (!) years old this year;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2twY8YQYDBE
― piscesx, Sunday, 12 January 2020 22:18 (four years ago) link
Ha oops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=580i1YCnli0
― piscesx, Sunday, 12 January 2020 22:19 (four years ago) link
XXP - Apologies, I was posting this news - https://www.loudersound.com/news/adrian-belew-teams-up-with-jerry-harrison-to-tour-remain-in-light
― Maresn3st, Monday, 13 January 2020 13:00 (four years ago) link
Be conservative : bring a $20 into the bar and that’s all you can spend.
Just watching the version of Crosseyed and Painless from this show. Belew's solo around the 4-minute mark. Fucking hell. What a band. 📹
― calstars, Monday, 13 January 2020 14:05 (four years ago) link
Long interview with Jerry Harrison about upcoming RiL shows and other stuff
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/talking-heads-guitarist-jerry-harrison-remain-in-light-tour-936665/
― that's not my post, Thursday, 16 January 2020 20:08 (four years ago) link
I just heard about those shows this morning. Cool, but:
Are you playing the album straight through in sequence?
I don’t see a reason to do that. I don’t think that the order on the album is the order that I would want to play it live... Let’s just say we don’t feel obligated to play every song.
― A perfect transcript of a routine post (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 16 January 2020 20:31 (four years ago) link
Since we’re playing festivals, we have maybe 45 minutes to play. We definitely want to give Turkuaz a chance to play a couple of their songs. I think Adrian and I both probably want to play something of our own, too.
So a 45 minute set featuring some Jerry Harrison solo songs, some Adrian Belew solo songs, some songs by this band Turkuaz, and a few songs from Remain in Light? Good for Jerry but I might take pass tbh.
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Thursday, 16 January 2020 21:32 (four years ago) link
Great interview though. What a wonderfully weird guy: I’ve co-founded a company that’s trying to create an antidote to snakebites. Basically, mosquitoes kill the most people, humans kill the next most people and then snakes.
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Thursday, 16 January 2020 21:35 (four years ago) link
is THAT why Byrne still gets Old-Fashioneds with him
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 January 2020 21:38 (four years ago) link
xps I LOVE that "Houses In Motion" remix, a whole extra verse at the end
and yeah, never reissued, just like the cool early version of "New Feeling" here:
https://www.discogs.com/Talking-Heads-Love-Building-On-Fire-New-Feeling/release/1168619
― The Squalls Of Hate (sleeve), Thursday, 16 January 2020 21:43 (four years ago) link
Cross eyed and PainlessThe OverloadOh DaddyBand Intro VampCherokee Chief
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 16 January 2020 22:03 (four years ago) link