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- Thank you to our alpha patron Gail H for her album pick for this month... this is the first 4 tracks on the album (All of side 1 and the first track of side 2) "Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)" "Crosseyed and Painless" "The Great Curve" and "Once in a LIfetime".
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In terms of the progression of their albums, the Talking Heads really kind of remind me of the beatles, and that each album was a light year jump forward. I remember when this album came out, it was just so groundbreaking, and it influenced so much other music. But if you really want to get down to some of the truly crazy Innovative stuff, there were all these interesting collaborations going on at the time. Brian Eno and David Byrne did some fantastic work together. Robert Fripp from King Crimson is often involved. It's just amazing
"Remain In Light" was a ground-breaking album. Early Talking Heads had an intense, bare, stripped-down style, but then this album exploded with a totally new, lush, complex sound. Talking Heads had amazing live performances, phenomenal musicianship, and an awesome collection of original songs. Late 70s/80s, Talking Heads became my "Favorite Live Band". They are currently rather underrated. Pay extra attention to their strong rhythm section, and particularly to Tina Weymouth's catchy bass playing!
tina is an absolute machine on that thing. such a tight groove they keep EVERY second of the song. absolutely nuts.
@@L33ReactsTina and her husband/drummer Chris Franz also have a group called Tom Tom Club.. Their song "Genius of Love" was highly influential. It has only been sampled 181 times. That's all.
The first four Talking Heads albums are classic. Top notch entertainment!!!
The biggest influence here is the amazing Fela Kuti and his afrobeat sound. A mix of Funk and Jazz and driving african rhythms underpinning protest lyrics and civil rights poetry.
My friends and I got to see Talking Heads in 1977 at CBGBs, before they had any fame. For about a year it was our little secret, (other than occasional radio play of "Psycho Killer"). Their 2nd Album had a bigger hit with "Take Me To The River", and the general public started becoming "fans". For a while I almost felt jealous! They had been "our band", and I didn't have to share them with everyone! Talking Heads kept growing and changing, and they turned out to be such a dynamic group! I've met David Byrne several times since the band ended. He was alway very down to earth, real, asking me interesting questions.
that is so cool. i wish i could have met them!
I’d practically forgotten about that movie I saw called “CBGB” back when I used to have Netflix. It was a fun watch, knowing it was based on a true story. Must have been a cool experience to be there !
Well now you're making me jealous. I was such a fan, I would have loved that. I was following them just ever so slightly to my local College alternative radio station. I do remember when life during wartime from their third album actually crossed over onto rock radio and it was the most surreal thing.
@thomascanfield9165 cool movie! Loved Taylor Hawkins (RIP😢) as Iggy Pop. Was always in love with Television's first album, was dying for insight into the roots of that scene which I followed via Rolling Stone from Vancouver, where I'd just relocated from Toronto, hanging with many early figures on the Van punk/new wave scene, auditioning for DOA, living with Art Bergmann and a couple others.
You !lucky so and so, must have been an amazing scene..
For more than 4 decades, this has been in my "Desert Island" bag....absolute favorite album for the sacred meetings of the Little Rock Vegetarian Punk Rock Dance Society!!!
Once in a Lifetime opened Side Two.
This album always makes my top 10! And what a way to usher in the 80s! The sounds and the technology that were created in the late 70s come together on this album! Eno and Byrne! And Adrian BELEW guitar ads to the magic!
One of the greatest albums from one of the greatest bands of all time
I was tripping the first time I heard this and it blew my mind! It retroactively made me fall in love with their earlier work which I had previously considered goofy since I was in the middle of a personal prog revival. This brought music into the 21st century 20 years ahead of time. It is so unique. Comparisons are not sufficient. It is an ancient future tribal modern eternal present. David Byrne is a brilliant guitarist, but Adrian yanked this into a hypercharged trippy zone that we, without knowing it, were always waiting for.
lol at the last line. This guy gets it!!
Groundbreaking album! Adrian Belew’s guitar work is amazing. Especially on Born Under Punches. You also need to check out some of Adrian’s solo work. Do Adidas in Heat and Swingline. Once in a Lifetime got MAD airplay on MTV back in the day.
That's Adrain Belew playing guitar on The Great Curve. The club that Bowie , Eno and Belew were in was one you could only look through the window at. Only a preciouis few gained admission to that club.
The great curve is one of my favourite TH songs. It drives forward relentlessly like no other song I know. There was no way to end it except a fade
Just an incredible groundbreaking album for the time. It's unspeakable how much effect it has had on so much music moving forward. For those of us that grew up with them, and I love their earlier albums as well absolutely. It's one of those bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd where I literally like every song they ever did, Creedence is the same way.
Yeah that was Adrian blue on guitar, I actually got to hang out with him once for about 20 minutes at an after-party from a gig here in town, and he was really cool but we idolized him there for a while at that time, he was really groundbreaking and fun. He came out of Frank Zappa's band.
But you got to check out when he joins King crimson, and so they put out a Trilogy that's the red album and the yellow album in the blue album. But the red album, in discipline, was the one that blew everybody's doors off after a slight Hiatus by the iconic and early prog rock band.
It occurred to me while watching your reaction that you would totally totally totally get off on elephant talk, from the Ondiscipline album. It was all happening around the same time as Remain in Light.
Elephant Talk will blow Lee's mind. So amazing.
@@robertkelsow-geall7395 He actually made a reaction on Elephant Talk. I would go with Niel and Jack and Me, Dig me, Thela Hun Ginjeet and Nuages.
Check out some of the same material live on the 80/81 tour they did with Adrian Belew on lead guitar from the double album "The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads".
Yes, that double-live Album is amazing! And the later CD version was extended with additional great songs included.
The title "The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads" is kind of funny, because they were literally saying to stop putting a "The" in front of "Talking Heads".
i will add it to the list. thank you for the suggestion, my friend.
I saw this! In the flesh
Yes, I'm old
@@JoTracy Me too, in Houston. One of the two or three best shows I've ever made it to.
@@JoTracy Me too. At the Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin.
This is Classic business. Tina is a Queen bass player. Each groove is like a mantra based on Fela Kuti's African Rhythm crossed with club/electronic music. Adrian is fabulous on this. "Born Under Punches" has my favourite solo of all time, it's like an anti solo.
From the year I gradumutated. I wasn't into Talking Heads in 1980 BUT...I saw the tour that resulted in the movie "Stop Making Sense" on Sunday October 16th, 1983, at the Charlotte Memorial Coliseum. I bought their back catalog the following Monday and everything they made from that point forward. Watch "Stop Making Sense"!
The "Blind" album is beautiful.
i've done a video from it! not the whole thing, i think it was the last song... could be wrong though. i want to watch the rest though for sure!
This is their masterpiece, and the ferocious midwifing tour for it was a joy to celebrate the birth of its live version. Stop Making Sense, yes. Much of their discography, of course. That's why they're in the Hall of Fame. But this is why they are great.
Lol, ME TOO! Now I just want to hear the rest of the album, laugh. And you've really got to go back and listen to these and get the lyrics as well, it's so amazing. And like this song in particular I know you would deeply relate to. But, like all of their stuff, it's open for interpretation, just like expressionist painting with a little bit of surreal thrown in there as well. But then bits and pieces of everyday blue collar life, a sense of understanding and compassion, and a definite air of psychosis and paranoia. What a great combination!. Also, art student life vibes at the edge for the time, because they were art students at RSDI.
That wild guitar solo is Adrian
All the best bands or acts have a unique sound that can't be duplicated. Like Beatles, Pink Floyd, Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Bowie, it's a long list, but the secret is being yourself and not imitating. Yoe may be influences by those that came before but its the creation of something original that lives on. Long live creativity. It's the same in visual arts.
i agree. long live creativity.
Perfect music.
I also love that THE Robert Palmer is listed on percussion too❤
Always enjoy a little Talking Heads.
If I remember correctly, this album for the Talking Heads came out of nowhere. This was a totally new sound for them, and brilliant. And then we saw David Byrne and the group were brilliant video and live performers. Who knew?
Not out of nowhere if you had followed the band from the beginning.
i'm glad them and Eno hooked up. what a sound they have here. so unique and so ahead of its time.
They were certainly going this way as on Fear of Music. I would say Adrian Belew's contribution came out of nowhere for sure! He lit up this that track.
They have so much energy and creativity. But while it feels like a wall of sound, the thing that makes it really work, especially the groove that you keep coming back to, is precisely because there is so much space in it. Talking Heads were always fantastic at that and so was Brian Eno so it was a natural combination. But even in these songs that sounds so busy, and they are, they carve out space in so many ways. In short little pockets or for whole sections before it radically changes again. It's so dynamic. It is the perfect expression of complicated dynamics with lots of space inside.
Complex minimalism.
that's a great way to put it. I agree.
LOVE Talking Heads! You’re so right…. how does anyone not move to these rhythms? I get that they’re not everyone’s cup of tea. Maybe an acquired taste. But damn, I love ‘em. David Byrne is brilliant.
One of the all time great albums. Adrian and Jerry have been touring this album for the past few years.
Energy came from coke.
lol thats why i said what i said xD
You should check out the video for Once in a Lifetime. It's trippy and his bizarre dancing is something else
they were mentioning that in the live chat, so i will take a look!
David´s a little bizarre anyway...
My favourite talking heads album with Bryan Eno's input, was one of the most innovative albums of the decade,and still sounds fresh and funky.
still fresh to this day! this is the ultimate blend of... music period. so damn good. can't wait to finish it next week!
So captivating when this came out, I knew whatever Byrne was a part of I’d give it a go. Total respect to Talking Heads . So out there yet the club people could still dance. I bought tickets to his show Utopia when it was still in trials ,at 70 he gathered amazing talent and put on a magnificent musical performance .
it's such a strange blend of something you dance to and something you shake your head at and say "excuse me?" lol such an interesting blend of EVERYTHING
The first four tracks on Remain in Light are danceable, while the last four are introspective. Personally, I prefer the latter.
The tracks on this album were created from successive layers of instruments. Sometimes there are several people on bass, keyboards and percussion on the same track to create polyrhythmic figures. These studio sessions were a bit like a musical laboratory.
At this point, Brian Eno and David Byrne's ascendancy over the other members of the band ended up creating long-term tensions between Byrne and Harrison/Weymouth/Frantz.
That was great Thanks Gail , more Talking Heads anytime ,Lee i would recommend the first 4 Roxy Music albums for great early Eno
I played the grooves right off this album. Saw the Stop Making Sense tourin '83 or '84 and it was the best show I have yet seen.
Ya, this is a cool album. I was already a fan. I had their first three albums and had seen them twice before this came out. So I was real happy with this album. Belew's solos on the Great Curve belew me away. lol.
It's good you're doing the album before watching 'Stop Making Sense'. That was a cool tour, but appreciate the music first. Side two is less energy.
Try to see video of them touring with Belew after that. He's not in 'Stop Making Sense'. They had a second bass player on that tour also.
i for sure want to see the stuff with adrian live. these guys are pure energy. i bet their shows were NUTS lol
Thanks Lee and thanks Gayle H! My youth!❤
glad we could take you back! it's like a flood of memories every time (someone elses comment, not mine lol)
@@L33Reacts YEP!❤️
Ive played this for years and it still sounds like today’s best record.
Did you know that front man David Byrne was diagnosed Autistic?This may also be part of the reason his sound is so individual and creative.They were also another art school band.
Asperger's, specifically
i believe someone mentioned that on another video. very interesting. we don't understand much about anything so who knows, maybe that is the next phase of human development and we just don't know it yet (how could we?)
@@semchen9 Your right,but I work with autistic children and the term Asperger's isn't used anymore(In the UK anyway,I don't know if that is the case in the US)They just see that as part of a very wide spectrum,but yes correct he is very high functioning on a lot of levels,but by some band members account he can struggle socially.This is not a quote i might add,but I'm paraphrasing.
@@redgoals5701 Hi from the Bay Area ! My Bestie since 77', who practices Intellectual Law (PhD in Medicine/Law Degree), admittedly, has "Asperger's".
@@L33Reacts Good Point, Lee. Consider Synaesthesia, for instance.
African artist Angelique Kidjo covered this entire album. There are some hits and misses , but overall an interesting take on this lp.
Born under punches- th-cam.com/video/qR8jgFGmqvU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=UvysjgMl8oWp0DFB
What? I know her from Jasper van´t Hof´s Pili Pili. Pretty well known dutch jazz keyboardist at the time and his then new band, a mix of jazz, pop and african music. A recommendation for this channel : Pili Pili - Kibassa Live88 with a typical african vibe and her on percussion, not vocals, and a huge Bass-solo.
one of the best things I ever saw on MTV ! LOL Once in a Lifetime video is worth looking for
The reason side one only has three songs is because each of those three songs are longer than any of the songs on side two. As for the bass, it's hard to tell which bass parts are Tina, which are David, & which are Eno. After Tina would lay down a bass part, Byrne & Eno would erase it, then one of them would redo it. Tina found out they were doing this, so she'd go into the studio after they left & erase their redoing of the bass part, & then she'd redo it herself. Adrian Belew only plays in two tracks: He plays the two guitar solos on "The Great Curve" & does the atmospheric guitar effects (seagulls, etc.) on "Listening Wind". This was their last album with Eno (& their best album overall).
The Heat Goes On indeed, what a superb piece of music this album is. One of my all time top 10.
Very creative ... incorporating so many sounds
So hypnotic.. Born Under Punches was great... what a start to a record. Loved listening to this with all of you.
glad to have you!! yeah that was a helluva punch to the mouth to start the album lol i cant wait to hear the rest.
This was a very ground breaking record it had a big impact on a lot of great bands that followed I remember Radiohead saying what an impact this was.
One of my favorite albums. You need to watch anything from "Stop Making Sense". Its a high quality concert movie and the performance is impeccable. I own the VHS, vinyl, CD and DVD.
The first side of this record is so great, it's almost as good as the second side of this record
Great start for The Talking Heads. So innovative and they had some damn hooks, didn’t they. Thanks Gail, fantastic choice.
this album and the tour of RIL changed my idea of music..this is one of the most important album ever
Every track is killer on this album. The song, Listening Wind ,is really something, one of tbeir most compelling tbemes.
next week! can't wait to hear it!
'There is water at the bottom of the ocean / under the water, carrying the water'
I had a g of MDA at the 83 show. A purple pleasure of a night. We were so pumped after the show that we ran back to our car. To sit in traffic for an hour. Blazing.
oooooooo that sounds fun. i bet that was a blast lol
The crazy guitar is Adrian Belew. Check out the 1980 Rome or Dortmund shows (both on TH-cam) to see him making those wild sounds in real time. Belew and Harrison are touring again starting late July with their Remain in Light project where they play this album plus other songs.
Amazing album. Phish covered it as their "musical costume" for their Halloween show in 1996. They still play Crosseyed and Painless, but the Great Curve was a one-off and it was immaculate. Wish they'd bring it back.
One of Enos techniques is to have everyone switch the instruments. Adrian belew play the elephants and other animal sounds.
Eno and David Byrne collaborated to make the album my life in the bush of ghosts I think prior to this album.
Saw them at Zellerbach Auditorium at UC Berkeley when they toured this album. My pals in the dorm and I dropped acid and walked 6 or 7 blocks to see the show. Nobody sat down. The polyrythms on the record and show were awesome. Check out the live album The Name of This Band is Talking Heads - better even than Stop Making Sense. Belew was amazing and Tina wore tights with one red leg and one black. Bought a shirt with the album cover and my roommates mohawk wearing punk friend tried to rip it off from my closet - like I wouldn't notice. 🤪
I've always thought "Once in a Lifetime" was David Byrne's take on the Flitcraft Parable from Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon, but you need to read the book (it's not in the film version). Do an internet search for it. I think you'll see the parallels.
I´m not really into a never changing beat, but with Talking Heads it´s different. And with great album it´s especially different, cause as a matter of fact the rythmical interplay between guitars, keyboards, percussion, bass and last not least the great chorus lines is most invigorating. "The great curve" is absolutely top-notch in this regard - and yes, it´s Adrian on the guitar. He played with Zappa too.
Then the use of effects of the solo instruments "making noise" without following a melody line, which hardly exists in the songs anyway. Very rhythm-oriented music and very inventive at the time. On "Houses in motion" on side B there´s a strange hypnotic-sounding trumpet part by Jon Hassell, an experimental american trumpet player who lately died, which fits perfectly into this scheme of using an instrument for a "solo".
Love them !
David is such a unique and brilliant artist, as is Brian
they both really are. i'm glad they found each other! and Adrian too! what a line up lol
@@L33Reacts yes! A mind meld for the gods
@@L33Reacts I saw them live in Sydney
So great! Never a dull moment
Definitely in my top 5 live acts
That's definitely Adrian Belew on the guitar solo on The Great Curve. He went on from this gig to play with King Crimson.
Good Talking Heads is is like an Acid trip without the Acid.
Check out Bowie’s “D.J.” which was produced by Eno around the same time that Eno was working with Talking Heads. Bowie has said that “D.J.” was his attempt at writing a Talking Heads song. Bowie’s vocals on the opening line is a spot-on impersonation of David Byrne.
Once in a life time , the soundtrack to Down and out in Beverly Hills.
A must see movie👌
Another one of those "seminal" albums for me. The relentless AfroCuban beats, the Enoesque sound and the screeching and grinding of Belew's guitar makes for a potent combo. (btw the solo in The Great Curve is Adrian Belew as are a ton of the other weird sounds. lol ) Great selection and often overlooked.
Thanks Lee!
Saw them at The Greek in Berkeley the same tour as The Stop Making Sense film. Legendary promoter Bill Graham and some Gratefull Dead fan stopped in front of me as they were arguing , the Dead fan didn't like TH, Bill finally blew his stack and screamed 'I promote the Talking Heads because they make white people dance!!!!' Classic.
After this album the other band members said they had to get David away from Eno. He started walking and talking like Eno. But Eno's presence is all over this album. I couldn't take this record off my turntable.
I have the mandatory watch concert film Stop Making Sense. The only album I owned was More Songs about Buildings and Food (1978).
Now for Fear of Music. Another great album.
Nice one
an album so nice they named it "Remain In Light"
.... well it sounded better in my head.
@@L33Reacts 😂 The whole world sounds better in my head 🙃
Brilliant band. First song of theirs I ever really “heard” was Once in a Lifetime. I was maybe 15? It was in the soundtrack of a movie that I saw with my mum (Down and Out in Beverly Hills). Then it was Road to Nowhere a few years later in the UK charts. Then came Stop Making Sense, by which time I was a fan anyway ❤️
David Byrne had the late 1970s/ 1980s plaintive, monotone, New Wave lead vocals.
Fun and way out there.
a great way to start the day! who needs coffee when you have cocai- i mean talking heads
@@L33Reacts yeah you hear the coffee in the music.
A good companion to this album is "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts", a collaboration between Byrne and Eno that came out around the same time as "Remain in Light". It was one of the first records to make heavy use of sampling (both musical and spoken-word).
I just today realized how similar this is to King Crimson's Adrian Belew era! Listen to Beat or Discipline or Three of a Perfect pair...and see.
I LOVE this album! 😁💖
Brilliant Album with some fantastic tracks, The Great Curve is just so brilliant. The last track on the Album is Talking Heads mimic’ing Joy Division without having ever hearing any of their stuff, apparently, and if true, wow, they nailed it it. By the way, side 2 is better than side 1 in my opinion and certainly darker.
I haven't heard this in a long while but I remember liking the second side even better.
Also, every live performance I have seen, just watch and try to keep up, best cardio workout you may ever get! 🤣🤣😃
Just for your own amusement you should check the cover done by the Muppets Show, where they replicate part of the videoclip and part of the live presentation of the song, with Kermit the frog playing the part of David Byrne
IMO Great Curve is one of the best tracks ever recorded!!!
Fun sound💥
That's Adrian Below from King Crimson he's very talented.
It's Adrian
Awesome. Proceed directly to the movie Stop Making Sense.
i wish i could do the whole thing! i've done one video for that show so far but thats it. so much energy! life during wartime!
@@L33Reacts - Ah yes. Maybe you can watch it in chunks and post those. It's WELL worth the watch.
Belew plays the guitar solos on this record. Eno and Byrne wouldn't let him hear the songs, they just gave him a count. Nothing else quite like it.
When this music came out I was still such a stubborn "prog rocker" that I didn't even give other musical approaches and styles a chance (for some reason "The Police" was an exception). Oh well, you get older and (sometimes) wiser ;-)
i was like in my early 20s. was convinced prog death metal was the top dog. it's not. still amazing though. but it's all built from the stuff from the 60s to 90s.
I was a “classic” rock guy while it was originally coming out. Then I got a job at a record store. I was forced to listen to other types of music 8 hrs a day. Thank you Jesus, Jussi Björling and Talking Heads. Every genre has outstanding songs.
Here are; “Genre
New wave post-punk dance-rock afrofunk worldbeat art rock art pop” - Wikipedia
exactly.
Oh, fvck yes....i remember the first time i heard this album about 22 years ago, & i remember my own reaction....i just woke up & this is too much for me right now🤣😂🤣😂🤣, im just dropping a comment, but ill be back later, lol.
LOL that's why i made it the first video of the day. time to wake up f uckers! xD
@@L33Reacts , 😂🤣😂
Again Little Feat and The Banc. Talking Heads is my eightys/ ninetys band. Like you say wall of sound. No one is more unique than these three bands . Wish I could afford to lay some bucks on ya but I can't .Live long and prosper mon ami!
That was most probably Adrian. It's signature. Like the Eno stuff. I think David picked up some Adrian from the time together.
i can see why. adrian is one of the best! so underrecognized for his guitar genius (these days at least)
Fear of Music is one hell of a fucking album too.
Check out “Cities” on that great LP.
If you ain’t jigging about,you have no musical ear at all.
Fear of Music is miles better than Remain in Light, for me. Although it's pretty innovative and modern, I find "Remain" very repetitive and too much Eno oriented.
Gabriel surprised the other members of the band at the National Stadium in Dublin on 28 September 1972 by wearing a costume on stage, Genesis was about to disband with poor sales since 1967, so as you can hear Gabriel tried to copy David Bowie on stage and in the studio, David Bowie ended the Ziggy Stardust Persona, and practically fired The Spiders from Mars on stage at their final performance in London’s Hammersmith Odeon on July 3rd, 1973.
I like the concert from Rome even better than Stop Making Sense. The sound quality is a little rough though.
Great album, but the next one, Speaking In Tongues, is my favourite.
IF the guitar sounds like an elephant, it's likely Adrian.
How else would you intro a trippy album...?
Al go rhythm is all off!