Talking Heads- Classic or Dud?

I still experience the 5.1 mix of fear of music like I've been abducted by aliens and I'm in a dream state listening to the best reimagination of a very good album into a... well a fucking perfect album. Like a beautiful usgs topo map scan of canyonlands, it makes me wanna cry a little.

i just listened to the remain in light 5.1 downmix this week, holy shit

ughhhhhh this band is o fucking good

RIL in 5.1 was first one I did, and while it amazed, it sorta didn't change my perception of how good RIL is. It was an improvement bud not a revolution to me, even with its several revelations.

FOM just ~changed everything~. "This is a crime...against the state..." HOLY SHIT a song I didn't care about before is the best shit ever.

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is- a 5.1 mix.

FOM is def bigger and fuller in 5.1 but there are straight up entire instruments revealed on RiL.

Byrne was on Desert Island Discs last week. Sounding so much more relaxed and confident than back in the day. Great interview with lots of details about growing up Scottish and great tunes too.

Damn I would love to hear that 5.1 mix of fom. The first record I heard of theirs and my favourite talking heads record

Here's the link http://www.sharoma.com/eclectic_ril.htm

He seems to take a lot more liberties with FOM than with RIL, especially "Electric Guitar". Is there a reason that one is so different than the original mix? It seems like there is a lot of material in that track that just isn't in the original at all.

electric guitar has added percussion that totally changes the vibe - seems tacked on, also some extra synth parts

the additional percussion changes the tempo

But why was all of that added? Most of the other tracks just seem to enhanced without a bunch of new things added.

from what I gather it was done as a way to give "clarity" to the mix - liberties is the key word as mentioned above

The arcade console missile command video game sounds popping up in _Cities_, along with Byrne's relaxed,funny vocal style, will never not bring me total amusement and joy. Incredible.

So apparently Angélique Kidjo is releasing a full-album cover version of Remain In Light next month, and the video for "Once In A Lifetime" is kinda cheesy but also nuts in a good way...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z84rtbVbIEQ

She's touring it at the moment (I found out a few days after she played here).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR8jgFGmqvU

omg im in love with this

Damn^

So necessary

Very nice

Wow, love the Born Under Punches. Less said about her Once in a Lifetime the better.

Yeah, agree. That's really good. I'm really curious to hear her version of "Houses in Motion," kinda not too optimistic about "Listening Wind," which really won't benefit from a big voice.

I always liked this one:

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

Wow, love the Born Under Punches. Less said about her Once in a Lifetime the better.

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u r hi af. her version fuckin slaps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRxxt53yFBs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcGUXNRV-NI

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9Xi2AdpEDU

sure?

i saw this latest tour, it was quite good

that video misses how great the lighting design was, definitely see this in a theater hall if you can

Seeing him Friday, seen him before but still looking forward to it.

Great documentary about the London scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwCCfWiYk2s

Yo global tell me more about the tour

i will be seeing his tour too

it was staged like a field show/halftime marching band show, tightly choreographed, extremely minimal staging- no amps, no gear. at least 4 percussionists, byrne said it was like the most ambitious thing he'd done since SMS although that could have been hyperbole. expect 7-8 talking heads classics but no variation from night to night. personally i thought the lighting was one of the most impressive parts. i dunno, just a pro knocking it out of the park basically. people smoked weed near us and upset my mom, who i took for mother's day haha

Thanks global and you sound like a nice person

I saw him maybe... nine years ago? and that show was incredibly choreographed, as many dancers as musicians, moving amongst them, sitting the musicians in office chairs & wheeling them round as they played etc

I saw him on that tour (Songs of Byrne and Eno) too. Fantastic show. It was a seated show but soon enough everybody was out of their seats and dancing. Great setlist.

Strange Overtones
I Zimbra
One Fine Day
Help Me Somebody
Houses in Motion
My Big Nurse
My Big Hands (Fall Through the Cracks)
Heaven
Wanted for Life
Life Is Long
Crosseyed and Painless
Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
Once in a Lifetime
Life During Wartime
I Feel My Stuff

Encore:
Take Me to the River
The Great Curve

Encore 2:
Air
Burning Down the House

Encore 3:
Everything That Happens

urgh fck off setlist spoilz

No worries, this was from the 2009 show. Considered comparing it to a recent show but refrained, at your service :)

Going to see him in London, hope he doesn't play Lazy but everything else I've glimpsed from that Chile concert I'm excited about.

I saw him on the eno tour and his voice blew me away.
Regret missing the vincent tour

I hope he brings out Rocky & Diesel and plays a 15-minute version

vincent tour was great!

Nice Niels!

The live YouTube clips from that tour ripped

Saw this in Portland a few days ago

One of the most memorable concerts I've ever attended, joyous and life-affirming at every possible moment

Byrne's voice is a marvel, he's singing better than ever

Lighting is unreal

Go see it

and a few lucky(?!) punters got to peep this while he was in town:

https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2018/05/29/20188583/david-byrne-sang-a-prince-song-at-a-portland-karaoke-bar-over-the-weekend

One of the coolest shows I've seen in years.

Saw it last night and agree. ^^ Considering going back for a second time tomorrow night.

‪Full-on peak-80s conceptual concert, Stop Making Sense Pt. 2 and holding its own against the original, with pt. 1’s Robert Wilson influence replaced by Ivo Van Hove’s.‬

Does away with any traditional band-on-stage setup, instead being both carefully choreographed and playing all over a giant empty space with no grounded instruments.

I likened it to a neo-futurist drumline.