― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 12 February 2006 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link
Holger Czukay might have something to say about that.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 12 February 2006 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 12 February 2006 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 12 February 2006 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link
Talking-heads.net has this info on that bootleg:
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts outtakes (45 min) (CD “Ghosts”)
Interview with Brian Eno - Mea Culpa - Into the Spirit Womb (orig version of “The Jezebel Spirit”) - Regiment - The Friends of Amos Tutuola - America is Waiting - The Carrier - Very Very Hungry - On the Way to Zagora - Les Hommes ne le Sauront Jamais - A Secret Life - Come With Us - Mountain of Needles
But there seems to be yet another version(scroll down) with these extra tracks (was that pink thing the cover of the first edition?) :
- Cunning Tendacy (sic)- interview- Iron Bed- Late But Not Serious- Lot (= Into the spirit womb = the jezebel spirit original)- The Carrier (about a minute longer, extra vocals in the middle)
(found these online, so they do exist) - I presume this second one is also a bootleg?
― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 12 February 2006 16:55 (eighteen years ago) link
*cough*
I listened to this album over and over when it came out. Now I wouldn't exactly call it horrible, but I don't think it's very good. It mostly is of historical interest, without deserving any lost classic status. Also, I think this was a case where having heard Eno providing background on the source material in an interview contributed a lot to my enthusiasm for the record.
If you want to hear recitation of the Qur'an, it's not hard to find recordings. Putting a lame rhythm track underneath does not improve it (though I am a little sad it is being left off the album under pressure--see the Danish Muhammad Cartoon thread). I prefer solo recitation, rather than the sort of group recitation that appears on the samples on this album. (The latter really seems to be more about communal worship, while the solo recordings tend to have more artistry to them.)
Samira Tewfic is on this too, though I only properly discovered her in 1993/4. Now there's someone who needs to be reissued, seriously.
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 12 February 2006 17:07 (eighteen years ago) link
http://kikka.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/images/enobyrne2.jpg
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 12 February 2006 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 12 February 2006 17:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 12 February 2006 17:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Nick Holmes (nother), Sunday, 12 February 2006 17:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Sunday, 12 February 2006 17:52 (eighteen years ago) link
I tend to associate all those evangelist-sampling songs (stuff like Front 242) that were popular a little bit later with this record, not that there is necessarily a direct line of influence. (I'm sure you could find earlier examples.)
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 12 February 2006 17:56 (eighteen years ago) link
Shocklee/Bomb Squad, mentioned upthread.
Qur'an was taken off the record years ago, I doubt current events had anything to do with it.
Based on looking at Amazon, I believe it was taken off the second edition vinyl issue, put back on the first CD, and taken off again more recently. BTW, here's an odd tidbit for a little perspective, courtesy of an Amazon reviewer:
'I initially heard of it thanks to a recommendation by Pink Floyd's keyboardist Richard Wright, in a 1996 interview given to Record Collector Magazine.Mr. Wright (who incidentally also thinks highly of Remain in Light) describes his first reaction to the album, presumably on its initial release: "This knocked me sideways when I first heard it--full of drum loops, samples and soundscapes, stuff that we really take for granted now, but which was unheard of in all but the most progressive musical circles at the time."'
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Sunday, 12 February 2006 18:27 (eighteen years ago) link
cunning tendacy = on the way to zagorairon bed = the friends of amos tutuolalate but not serious = les homes ne sauront jamaisinto the spirit womb = lot = the jezebel spirit (original)
― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 12 February 2006 20:24 (eighteen years ago) link
For better or worse, Moby's Play.
― Deluxe (Damian), Sunday, 12 February 2006 20:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Monday, 13 February 2006 00:10 (eighteen years ago) link
like Ned hinted at, Hassell does not have the copyright on cross-cultural tape collage -- Czukay / Dammers' 'Canaxis' 1968, Richard Maxfield's 'Bacchanale', 1963, and James Tenney's 'Viet Flakes' 1967, all worth mentioning in reviews if you're going to get archival on us -- none of those are pop, though even there there's precedent in Czukay's 'Movies' from 1979.
Hassell overstates his case, he already had amazing solo records out & there's no confusion as to who was doing what, though yeah it would have been great if he'd been in on the sessions for this record.
― milton parker (Jon L), Monday, 13 February 2006 00:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― milton parker (Jon L), Monday, 13 February 2006 00:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Nick Holmes (nother), Monday, 13 February 2006 02:53 (eighteen years ago) link
Not to be too self-promoting, but I wrote a little bit about this here, although the second installment of the column will really get into the post-Eno/Byrne landscape in greater depth. I note that other posters here have covered some of the same key pieces as well.
― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Monday, 13 February 2006 05:19 (eighteen years ago) link
H8erz who bag on this record = teh suq, UR all ghey
― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Monday, 13 February 2006 11:52 (eighteen years ago) link
My ex-partner, whom I otherwise loved on several zillion counts, absolutely HATED my taste in music. He endlessly mocked my Steve Reich, Cocteau Twins, Kate Bush, and Stina Nordenstam, whom I otherwise need to listen to every day.
Needless to say, I did say ex-partner...
― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Monday, 13 February 2006 12:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Nick Holmes (nother), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 19:48 (eighteen years ago) link
who has the skinny on the re-release?
― piscesboy, Tuesday, 14 February 2006 19:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 14 February 2006 20:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 20:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tyler W (tylerw), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 21:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― willem -- (willem), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 22:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 22:17 (eighteen years ago) link
The Ghosts record isn't considered a Talking Heads record, hence no DualDisc, Geir.
The story I'd heard is the one Naive tells, that as Eno became more and more involved with the band - and remember, he'd been around since their first LP - Harrison et al. got sick of being the backup for the Byrne and Eno Show.
― Brakhage (brakhage), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 22:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― willem -- (willem), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 22:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― willem -- (willem), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 22:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 00:07 (eighteen years ago) link
http://s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2WL2GT7XI83EP0KFMOF1N31CKM
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 12:16 (eighteen years ago) link
Jean Michel Jarre's Zoolook. Honestly.
― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 12:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Any chance of another re-up, someone? Pretty please?
― Jeff W (zebedee), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 13:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― willem -- (willem), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 13:38 (eighteen years ago) link
http://download.yousendit.com/300B8AC731FAF5D1
72 Mb zip file, 14 tracks (13 from the boot + Qu'ran)
― myfullname, Wednesday, 15 February 2006 17:47 (eighteen years ago) link
Anyway, got it, thanks very much myfullname.
beta.yousendit.com = uploads expire after 10 downloads !? damnOn the plus side, no annoying adverts... yet.
― Jeff W, Wednesday, 15 February 2006 18:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 23:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 23:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 16 February 2006 00:20 (eighteen years ago) link
Nice to see some Zoolook love here though. I think it's often my favourite.
― JimD (JimD), Thursday, 16 February 2006 01:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 16 February 2006 01:18 (eighteen years ago) link
Okay, I suppose I was remembering there being more dated robo-funk on this album, but having listened to it again, "Zoolook (Remix)" is the only track that doesn't hold up much for me. I stand corrected. Really, few have done as much with language (as opposed to simply voices) as Jarre did on this album...
― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Thursday, 16 February 2006 03:04 (eighteen years ago) link
But let's not forget this: Analog Synthesizer Epics: S/D, POV
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 16 February 2006 03:29 (eighteen years ago) link
All of the multitracks from two of the album's songs will be available for download on a special website, www.bush-of-ghosts.com, which will go live approximately one month before the reissue's release. Users can remix the tracks and upload them, listen and rate other users' remixes, and create and upload their own videos inspired by the album's songs. In addition, the site will feature archival material dating back to the record's original production and release, including press, session photos, polaroids taken by Byrne, and a video for "Mea Culpa" directed by Bruce Conner. The video will also be included on the CD reissue.
Anything involving Bruce Conner is good. So maybe this will be a DualDisc then?
― Brakhage (brakhage), Thursday, 16 February 2006 20:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brakhage (brakhage), Thursday, 16 February 2006 20:58 (eighteen years ago) link