Letting the POLLS go by
POLLS are simple, POLLS are straight
― that's not my post, Saturday, 25 March 2017 00:24 (seven years ago) link
someone needs to let Balls and Some Dude and ... know that this is the last weekend to vote. starting to miss so of our better peeps on this board.
― To Live and Die In L.A. (Bee OK), Saturday, 25 March 2017 01:33 (seven years ago) link
soME
― To Live and Die In L.A. (Bee OK), Saturday, 25 March 2017 01:44 (seven years ago) link
work asked me today if i could come in next week and throw some OT at me. i did think about delaying this poll for one week but decided not to. so this will be the last weekend to vote.
― To Live and Die In L.A. (Bee OK), Saturday, 25 March 2017 02:03 (seven years ago) link
(i'm also probably getting a promoting in the next billing cycle which does start that next week)
could not delay this, it was too important.
― To Live and Die In L.A. (Bee OK), Saturday, 25 March 2017 02:05 (seven years ago) link
Just voted.
― SlimAndSlam, Saturday, 25 March 2017 02:14 (seven years ago) link
last weekend to vote and here is some inspiration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wp2qhoop9U
― To Live and Die In L.A. (Bee OK), Saturday, 25 March 2017 02:40 (seven years ago) link
just found this vid and now having serious voter's remorse at not having voted for ithttps://youtu.be/DFeforW2ycI
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Saturday, 25 March 2017 04:00 (seven years ago) link
Bee OK - do what you need to do. Talking Heads polls can wait
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Saturday, 25 March 2017 04:02 (seven years ago) link
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
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Saturday, 25 March 2017 04:08 (seven years ago) link
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.
― wishy washy hippy variety hour (Hunt3r), Saturday, 25 March 2017 04:25 (seven years ago) link
ha ha
― Balðy Daudrs (contenderizer), Saturday, 25 March 2017 04:40 (seven years ago) link
i hate to break it to you hunt3r, but heaven is a place, where nothing....
oh nm
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 25 March 2017 04:55 (seven years ago) link
song where nothing happens
― Sufjan Grafton, Saturday, 25 March 2017 04:57 (seven years ago) link
Remain in Light TOWERS over the rest of their discography except the live records at least to me.
― earlnash, Saturday, 25 March 2017 05:09 (seven years ago) link
yet live remain in light songs are the worst, not including crosseyed and painless of course
― Sufjan Grafton, Saturday, 25 March 2017 05:13 (seven years ago) link
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
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Saturday, 25 March 2017 10:46 (seven years ago) link
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.
― ufo, Saturday, 25 March 2017 11:11 (seven years ago) link
Heaven is wonderful, especially the SMS version. it's the lyric/the song that counts there, arrangement is secondary.
― Max Florian, Saturday, 25 March 2017 12:29 (seven years ago) link
POLL To NowhereThis Must Be The POLL- my choices
I Wouldn't Live There If You POLLed MeUh-Oh, POLL Comes To Town- hilarious as well, but less universally known as titles, therefore less effective at a first glance.
― Max Florian, Saturday, 25 March 2017 12:32 (seven years ago) link
Know what's great on The Name Of This Band? Memories Can't Wait.
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 25 March 2017 12:53 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Saturday, 25 March 2017 13:18 (seven years ago) link
You need something that will change your mind?
(Miiiiiiiiind)
― neva missa lost, wednesday nights on abc (voodoo chili), Saturday, 25 March 2017 14:01 (seven years ago) link
ugh, I really hate 'Heaven'. Will anyone rep for it?
wtf
I am revoking yr fan card asap
― sleeve, Saturday, 25 March 2017 15:42 (seven years ago) link
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.
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Saturday, 25 March 2017 16:04 (seven years ago) link
y'all better list "Listening Wind."
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 25 March 2017 16:30 (seven years ago) link
no room :(
― sleeve, Saturday, 25 March 2017 16:33 (seven years ago) link
Heaven was top 10 for me. I didn't specify a version.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Saturday, 25 March 2017 16:57 (seven years ago) link
voted!
― Dan S, Saturday, 25 March 2017 18:17 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Guy Pidgeotto (Tom Violence), Saturday, 25 March 2017 18:30 (seven years ago) link
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
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Saturday, 25 March 2017 18:32 (seven years ago) link
Voted.
― Brad C., Saturday, 25 March 2017 19:55 (seven years ago) link
Alfred otm
― Sufjan Grafton, Saturday, 25 March 2017 20:02 (seven years ago) link
― sleeve, Saturday, 25 March 2017 22:17 (seven years ago) link
Voted!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 25 March 2017 22:44 (seven years ago) link
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Saturday, 25 March 2017 23:14 (seven years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 25 March 2017 23:47 (seven years ago) link
― the future is now, Sunday, 26 March 2017 04:37 (seven years ago) link
Voted, and then instantly had voter's remorse.
― Ρεμπετολογια, Sunday, 26 March 2017 04:54 (seven years ago) link
― lingereffect (Kent Burt), Sunday, 26 March 2017 05:48 (seven years ago) link
I watched Stop Making Sense on Thursday and I'm wondering if a verdict was made on whether "What a Day That Was" counts
― SSN Lucci (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 26 March 2017 13:58 (seven years ago) link
Of course it does. "Big Business/I Zimbra" from the extended set will be on my ballot.
― Jeff W, Sunday, 26 March 2017 14:01 (seven years ago) link
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
― ufo, Sunday, 26 March 2017 14:38 (seven years ago) link
Voted. Fully expect my #1 to be the overall #1, but threw a few votes to things which may get overlooked.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 26 March 2017 16:57 (seven years ago) link
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.
― hardcore dilettante, Sunday, 26 March 2017 18:01 (seven years ago) link
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)
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 26 March 2017 18:05 (seven years ago) link
In all the re-listening, I finally realized that "Lifetime Piling Up" is the same song as "Carnival Eyes" on Rei Momo
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 26 March 2017 18:50 (seven years ago) link
another round of confirmations emails are on their way.
― To Live and Die In L.A. (Bee OK), Sunday, 26 March 2017 20:01 (seven years ago) link
VOTING is still open.