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

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.

Alfred otm

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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

another round of confirmations emails are on their way.

VOTING is still open.

sent!

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

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I wonder how many people think "David Byrne sucks solo" yet have never heard The Catherine Wheel.

You know, they were okay, but I had forgotten about them. Didn't know he produced it or whatever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrome_(Catherine_Wheel_album)#/media/File:CatherineWheelChrome.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2o1VwhbFX6w/TMUT89EPciI/AAAAAAAAA4s/dw0KSD7e0TE/s1600/cw+chrome.jpeg

Wait, you say you were talking about what?

oh man, do i feel

https://thebrokenrecorddotcom.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/david-byrne-head-slap.gif

I've really gotta sit down and listen to The Catherine Wheel

tempted to really test the limits of propriety with a liquid days vote

so looking forward to the results roll out.

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

This is a) true b) the reason MCW is on my ballot

c) this will ruin it for you: https://www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/talking-heads-memories-can-wait-tab-s64715t1