Albums that Changed Music: Talking Heads - Remain in Light
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Reflecting on the lyrics to the Talking Heads iconic track “Once in a Lifetime,” David Byrne told NPR, “We’re largely unconscious. You know, we operate half awake or on autopilot and end up, whatever, with a house and family and job and everything else. We haven’t really stopped to ask ourselves, ‘How did I get here?”. The introspection of Byrne’s famous lyrics serve as an invitation to understanding the sonic roots of the Talking Heads’ fourth album Remain in Light. Fusing punk, rock, funk, Afrobeat and nascent hip-hop into their own language of New Wave music, the album exploded popular music’s sonic consciousness with a complex array of sounds and rhythms, and became one of the most influential albums of the decade.
The Talking Heads formed In 1975 when Byrne, Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, three art students from the Rhode Island School of Design, were living together in a communal loft in New York. The trio began playing at the famed CBGB club in 1977, opening for the Ramones for their first gig. Soon after, they brought in Jerry Harrison on keyboards. Their first album, Talking Heads: 77, contained the now legendary hit “Psycho Killer” which established the band as a leading voice in the emerging New Wave scene in New York.
Their next two albums were created in partnership with producer Brian Eno, a collaboration which suited the artistic and intellectual sensibilities of all involved. “You know what he reminded us of?” Weymouth told Search and Destroy in 1978, “A young Jesuit monk.” Similarly enthralled, Eno described the band’s music as “the product of some very active brains…constructing music in a kind of conceptual way.” However, by the end of the decade, and despite two artistically fruitful collaborations with Eno, the band still found itself at a bit of a crossroads. Eno and Byrne were busy working on a new experimental project together, and Harrison was producing an album for soul singer Nona Hendryx. In response, Frantz and Weymouth, who had married in 1977, decided to take a trip to the Bahamas to consider their place with the group. By this point, Byrne had become the group’s de facto leader - a dynamic which did not appeal to his old art-school classmates.
While in the Bahamas, Frantz and Weymouth spent time playing music with reggae rhythm musicians Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, and exploring the cultural life of the region. Soon after, the pair purchased an apartment above Compass Point Studios in Nassau, where the Talking Heads would reconvene to create Remain in Light.
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What are some other albums you would like us to cover in this series?
Hi Warren, they're not albums but could you do Amen Brother by The Winstons or The Funky Drummer sometime? Can't get much more influential than those two! Thanks....
In The Court of the Crimson King
The Smiths - Strangeways, here we come
Or any Smiths album
Avalon? Boys& Girls?
Revolver by the Beatles?
I heard Born Under Punches for the first time maybe 8 months ago and it blew me away. I literally sat there and listened to it on repeat for maybe 30 minutes. It could come out today and still be considered new and fresh!
It’s good shit huh
Now, do the album!
Completely agree. That album was ahead of its time but that song in particular is simply magical. Never gets old.
My favourite song of all time
Adrian Belew’s solos on The Great Curve are sensational. His skilful whammy bar manipulations are right up there with Jeff Beck’s. Fantastic album.
That Sola cuts meat!
The Great Curve is the greatest song ever. In my humble but also correct opinion.
It's a crime: a 16 minute video about arguably TH's best album and he spends nearly zero minutes on its best track: The Great Curve.
This is maybe my favorite guitar solo in rock music. I still can hear it over and over....🎸🔈🔉🔊🎼🎶🎵
I've been listening to this album since it came out and it still sounds futuristic to me. At times it sounds totally electronic, yet it was created with mostly conventional instruments. Listen to Adrian Belew's guitar on "Born Under Punches" -- it sounds like a dial-up modem from the '90s.
Agreed, absolute Masterpiece!
Belew is a genius. Not dissimilar to Robert Fripp on some of Eno's solo albums.
a dial up modem used by a rhinoceros Googling his good old mud bath.
Still sounds like something new. This is 2021. Whatever they did- it really worked.
Man is so ahead of the curve it isn't funny lmao
This album is Tinas finest work. So many great bass lines and sounds. So very good.
Agreed 100%!
Once in a Lifetime transcends pop, rock or other labels. It's simply one of the greatest pieces of music ever made. And the lyrics are nearly as quotable as Airplane! the movie.
Strange thing is, to this day I consider it the weakest song, very relatively spoken, of the album.
Very well said John!
@@voiceover2191
I completely agree with you! I think it's easily the weakest track on a brilliant album!
It falls in line with the main character(s) of the album "giving up" and assimilating into the everyday government life hence the weak position
It feels more like a novelty song to me. The video where David Byrne dances and shakes like a spazz is just clownish and ridiculous, and I can’t take it seriously at all. 😂
Having listened to this album for over 35 years, I still find it amazing how little singing David Byrne did on it. A chorus here, a coda there, but essentially it's like a spoken word record set to the most delicious music ever.
He's a preacher (and a voice of a person being controlled by the government)
A truly landmark album, one of my all time favorites, not just because of the stunningly great music, but because of what it did for me at a particular point in my life. I was fifteen when this album was released and my home life was pretty awful, full of familial dysfunction and trauma and violence. Listening to music and practicing guitar were really my only refuges - well , besides drugs but that’s a whole other story. So late one night, when I was wishing I could just disappear so I wouldn’t have to hear what was happening in the other room, I turned on the radio. I listened to a few songs, and then a song came on that was unlike anything I’d ever heard before. It was so different and downright alien to my ear that I really didn’t know what to think of it. But I was fascinated, and the more I listened and tried to grasp what I was hearing the more my expectations of what music sounded like were confounded. When it was over, I wasn’t even exactly sure if I liked it or not, it’s strangeness defied my attempts to form a judgment about it. But it was riveting and mysterious and strangely exhilarating, and most of all it made me forget all about being scared shitless about the shouting and crying and slamming doors and sounds of breaking glass coming from the rest of the house.
Thing is, that night I never learned who or what I’d heard. I fell asleep eventually after waiting breathlessly for the DJ to tell me what it was. But he never did. Every time I listened to the radio for a while after that I kept hoping to hear it again but I never did. I started to wonder if I’d just dreamed it, but the mystery of it remained compelling. It was three year later, during my first year of college, having moved away from home pretty much for good, that I was at a party (under the influence of LSD as it happened) when someone put on “Remain in Light” and two songs in I finally learned that it was “Crosseyed and Painless”. THAT’S IT! THAT’S IT! I remember shouting this, to the bemusement of the other party guests. It was a moment of epiphany and validation. I’d found it, it was real. It wasn’t a dream, it really happened. It’s kind of hard to express, and it might not make much sense, but if you’ve ever had a time when music really saved you, you probably know what I’m talking about.
Anyway, superb album in every way.
One of the best albums of all time, not a single weak song on it.
Agreed 100%!
Even 43 years after its release it’s still a classic. It’s sounds so different but in the greatest way. It doesn’t sound old or antiquated, it’s beautiful
Adrian was a perfect fit for them at the time. His solo on "The Great Curve" is exceptional .
Agree 100% I’d never heard anything like it before and haven’t since.
@@ZigbertD You guys really have to hear his work with Fripp and company on King Crimson's Discipline it easily rivals his work on Remain In Light
Huge fan of Adrian Belew Robin!
@@Producelikeapro I've still got that coloured limited edition LP of 'Love Can Tear Us Apart'. Do you want it?
@@ronsis2002 It surpasses it!
"Remain in the Light" is a never ending classic. Its innovations are sky high. Very little competition!
Innovations? Hah.
The Talking Heads are by far my favorite band of the 80's. Their music is still very relevant today.
Agreed 100%!!
Talking Heads and The Smiths 👍
Don't sleep on The Cars
and yes, their outstanding eponymous debut album came out in 1978 but it, and they, are '80s
Can't help but think Born Under Punches is an Eno song in spirit and energy; it sounds so much like a natural evolution of Third Uncle, which makes me wonder how many "Eno" songs are hidden in Talking Heads albums, or Devo, U2, Coldplay. And now there are bands like The 1975 producing great pop songs clearly influenced by the sound of B.E. I am convinced Eno is the most important figure in pop music history, not to mention experimental music, all the way back from Roxy Music, King Crimson, Bowie, the man is King Midas and he has no apparent ego to get in the way of his natural talent and creative force.
Wow! Thanks for the wonderful insight! Yes, I’m a huge Eno fan and I’m excited to talk more about him soon!
Check out "Live in Rome" version
I think Tina said that Brian wanted to become the fifth member of the band. Don’t know if she was joking.
YES ! Has anybody seen Tina Weymoth play live its like watching a yogi she can dance in 4/4 play in 7/8 and sing in 3/4 all at once truly magical. And when I say dance that is an understatement ! She would run in place while playing in time !
Yes! I toured, opening for the Heads and Tina truly is an amazing player!
I always took her for granted till I took up the bass . Amazing playing and singing !!!!!!
@@gilbertspader7974 incredible talent!
@@Producelikeapro and a very nice person. Interviewed the band in ‘77 (sans Byrne). Cool folk.
Talking Heads never required her to do that. And that's not her name.
In the summer of 1977 I traveled to San Francisco and my brother's roommate turned me on to Brian Eno. He was a bassist and basically handed me a J, headphones, put on "Here Come The Warm Jets" and left the room. I come back to New York City, went to St. Marks Square in the East Village and started picking up albums by or produced by Eno and his alumni of musicians. I also make friends with a guy in school who turns me on to the Velvet Underground, Patti Smith, Lou Reed, etc. In 1980, I leave high School and go back to San Francisco to study art at the SF Art Institute. 1980 is forever etched in my mind as the year Lou Reed and Patti Smith both took a break to get married and filling the void were Talking Heads' "Remain in Light," David Bowie's "Scary Monsters...," and The Clash's "London Calling." These stick in my mind somehow as being somehow representative of my personal zeitgeist for the year. Many other notable mentions, but these remain cherished albums, memories of a place and time, and my go to albums when talking to people about "modern rock" music.
Wow, you were in the middle of it all! I was a baby at the time but that era seems legendary to me. So many classic and revolutionary albums coming out around the same time.
@@exerciserelax8719 I also had the pleasure of seeing Lou Reed perform at the Bottom Line right around the same time as the "Take No Prisoners" album was recorded. A few years later saw Laurie Anderson perform her "Mister Heartbreak" tour with David Van Tieghem, Nona Hendryx, and Adrian Belew.
You're speaking my language Neil! Those are all incredible albums and musical references!
@@ncmartinez_his incredible!!
I wonder if Brian Eno is underrated?
My parents had this album, I was six when it came out. The cover art fascinated me from the jump. This music changed my life.
Amazing! Thanks for sharing
This album is transcendental. Not even sure what genre it belongs in. And no other band sounds like this.
It’s a masterpiece
Amazing album still sounds as fresh today as then class in a glass 👌
Agreed 100%!
Such a great band! Percussion is second to none!
@@MagravatorMag yes, agreed 100%!
Amazing album.
Road tripping across Florida, 1984.
The melodic rhythms with evening thunderstorms, chasing the Sunset listening to the complete album, (on cassette) in a Surfed out Lime Green Subaru (tipping my hat to Deborah Harry & Blondie). Trying to follow the "Great Curve" while trying to understand the World. Trance like, coming of age, while experiencing the "rights of passage".
The poly-phonic chants, almost primative with droning sonic-scapes punctuated by evangelical, even angelic voice.
A modern Shamanic Sonic Journey for Gen X
A Masterpiece
What a way to kick off the eighties, with one of the greatest albums ever made. This was oddly enough the first album I ever bought at wax tracks record store in chicago. I still have it, now framed on my wall As a historic document
Another great documentary. It is a great shame that Byrne did not get on with the othe band members. The world got to appreciate what a brilliant live band Talking Heads was in the movie Stop Making Sense, but never got to see them in an actual live concert, becuase they were like the Beatles in 1969 (a band that knew it was going to break up). David Byrne is proud of Talking Head's role in the invention of sampling.
My all time favourite!
Cross eyed and Painless is one of the most sublime songs ever written in my view.
Fear of Music and Remain in Light are my two favorite albums. I had them on vinyl when the came out and they got played a LOT.
That’s great! Thanks for sharing
One of my all time favorite records ever!
Everything about it is fabulous and so unique…!!!
I remember the moment I heard the album for the first time. 1980. 19 years old. And I instantly knew that this album would become a pinnacle. Still have the vinyl!
ME TOO!
That's fantastic to hear!
@@johngoldenbritt5112 amazing!
This album is fresh every time you hear it. It has many layers of sound, you notice different things every listen.
Masterpiece!!!!
Agreed! Masterpiece
One of my favorite albums ever
Thom Yorke has said that "Remain In Light" was a big influence on Radiohead's 2000 release "Kid A". There is an artistic link and shared musical DNA between Fela Kuti and Radiohead that goes through The Talking Heads. I think a takeaway from this lovely video worth considering is to discover who has influenced the artists who inspire you. It can reveal a fertile landscape of great music and inspiration that will help you on your artistic journey!
Since Warren has asked, I think it would be a great service to the community to consider creating additional videos in this series for Fela Kuti's "Afrodisiac", Radiohead's "Kid A", and finally a third video that explores and documents their shared musical DNA.
Thanks so much for this video! Cheers from South Wales, NY, USA.
Peace, Love, and Ringo,
chaz
Atoms for peace has more of an afrobeat feel though
Afrobeat, stoopid spellcheck.
Greetings from south Wales , south Wales
There was one song from Fela Kuti they always played, everyone danced on it but I forgot the title.
Thanks ever so much Chaz! That's a wonderful comment my friend!
One of the greatest albums of all time. Interesting process.
The absolute pinnacle of pop, never been bettered.
Agreed 100%! Masterpiece!
Disagree. I can’t listen to a single song
@@chrisparker5278 Are you deaf?
@@chrisparker5278 🤣🤣...no accounting for taste...of which you have none
@@curtisw502 because your taste is gospel truth
I loved the Talking Heads, they did not sound like anyone else…🔥🔥🔥
This album changed my concept of music as I knew it when I finally listened to it.
perfect Sunday afternoon documentary.
"We didn't get it quite right, but in missing we ended up with something new" - this is a powerful mindset for artists worried about not being original enough! Also, David Byrne's American Utopia show is AWESOME, for anyone who hasn't seen it.
Agreed 100%! Wonderful quote
Or, to wit, a powerful framework for artists who are frightened to just start because they want to be guaranteed that what they want to create, build or make will work.
@@rusticrow Lol yeah dude, or even worse is guys who start stuff and keep the same project going for years on end because it's just "not good enough yet." It's like, at least they started something, but at some point you gotta put a fork in it & call it done.
@@OwenAdamsMusic Sunk cost fallacy...
You have made a lonely, frustrated middle-aged man happy with your videos. You have taken my almost obsessive compulsive studio trivia and went even further. I enjoy your presentation and knowledge, so thank you for continuing service WH!
Thanks ever so much Kris! I really appreciate it
Dude i hear that.
Same boat in a totally different sea.
I remember how the album stopped me every time I heard it played at any friends house. "What's this?" "Which album is this?" This in 1981.
It is remarkable in both it's quality and how different is was to anything is ever heard.
Forty years later I still switch it on when I want to drive the back roads in a fast car, get uplifted with a tall glass of beer, or share 40 minutes with someone else who understands. I just smile
Great album and Adrian Belew’s guitar work on this album is fantastic, “Crosseyed and Painless” is a burner. Tom Tom Club was a great group too. Thanks Warren.
Couldn't agree more! Amazing performances and incredible album!
@@Producelikeapro I’m a big John Hassell fan too. His contribution to this album was also great
@@sspbrazil Yes, agreed 100%!!
All of David Byrne’s backing musicians did a great job on this album, including Jerry, Tina and the drummer
@@wyganter Don’t let them hear you say that.
Oh man, this album was a great part of the soundtrack of my youth.. Can't remember how many times I have listened to it. Fantastic to learn about the organic, groove based approach to the recording process. Letting the days go by, Same as it ever was. Well not really, the recording world has certainly changed..Those were the days!
Mine too Jens!! Hugely influential album!! Incredible time for music~!
Remember going to a party 15 years after its release and sneaked in behind the turntable, as I saw the cover lying around and putting it on. Everybody got to dancing, we played the entire album and I was opposite this girl and we both knew all the lyrics to each song and sang along the whole album. Good times!
YES ! Once In A Lifetime, the song built around the simplest and most effective bass riff in pop history.
Masterpiece!! Thanks ever so much!
a consistent exhibition of brilliant taste
Thank you kindly! I really appreciate
One of my favorite records of all time!
Mine too!
Seminal album indeed. Whilst I appreciate Eno's input in this, I have to admit that I feel all Talking Heads tracks take on a whole new level live.
talking heads are my favorite artist ever and I can't help but feel that they are more popular than they've ever been.
more and more people my age are talking about them and acknowledging their influence
They were huge to us in the UK! Thanks ever so much!
I’m 16, I listen to a range of music from Bruce Springsteen to ASAP rocky, and out f all the artists I have listened to, talking heads takes my place for number one (I’m yet to meet anyone under 30 who knows of them)
I bought this album from a friend in high school for 5 bucks, he said he didn't like it ! One of my favorite albums.
One of mine too!!
I don't even think the word Masterpiece is strong enough. This album is funky perfection. Not a dud on it. It actually takes you on an allegorical trip from infancy to old age, someone once said. By the way this is the first album I ever bought at Wax Trax Records in Chicago when it was on Lincoln Avenue just north of Fullerton , you know the record label of Front 242 and Ministry and the guys.
I still have a copy of (Everyday is) Halloween from Wax Trax. It still has the sticker on it.
I can never get enough of this album.
This is probably my favorite video on the internet, and damn that ending got me
This album changed my life.
I remember it vividly. MTV kept them in constant rotation. Seems like you would like The Church - Starfish. Or The Fixx - Shuttered Room. Or Midnight Oil. Or Modern English. Or Red Rider. These were enormous hits, and they were all groundbreaking New Wave, something I guess people almost forget.
It’s just radical!
Remain in Light is in a class all by itself
Yes! Incredible
Yes! Incredible
Brilliant Album, I’ve been playing it for almost 40yrs....! Still love it.
how great of you to reference Paradise Garage in NYC and that whole period we were an epicenter of musical culture.
Larry Levin was a master of dance party tracks.
As a musician who would not claim to be particularly cerebral in my approach to music, I find this mind-blowing. I always was aware of the connection between TH and FK but to have it broken down like this is incredible.
Yes, I'm a huge Fela Kuti fan and it's wonderful to know their connection! So amazing!
I would add some Sunny Ade to that mix. David Byrne is very eclectic.
One of the best albums of the last fifty years, HAVE to listen to it loud once a year and the Rome 81 concert, just brilliant...
1980 was the best year for Rock:
Back in Black
Blizzard of Ozz
Remain in Light
Zenyatta Mondatta
Making Moves
British Steel
Heaven and Hell
Sandinista!
...and:
Permanent Waves
Gaucho
Duke
The Game
Women and Children First
@@GoodSneakers Permanent Waves helped take Prog Rock into a more modern style, so that should be acknowledged. Steely Dan's more of a soft fusion band IMOH. Not a fan of 80s Genesis, The Game was the last decent studio album Queen released till The Miracle, and yes, WACF is important. You can't talk about 80s Hard Rock without Van Halen
all mid
Listening to "Born Under Punches" for the first time was like being struck by lightning.
There are very few albums that you can call "life-changing" without hyperbole (or irony), but this is at the top of that list.
I've never seen the THs live - while in college in the late 70's, I remember seeing flyers all around VCU in Richmond for this band calling the 'Talking Heads'. It must have been in 1977, maybe 1978, and we were laughing at their images. How can these guys be rock stars? They all looked like pencil neck geeks?, I remember saying to my friends at the time. And stupidly, we didn't see them. Nor did I see them during their '83/84 Stop Making Sense tour, another golden opportunity missed.
However, in the late 80's, after their demise, I saw the Tom Tom Club several times, one time with Jerry Harrison (that show also included the Ramones and Blondie/Deborah Harry at Merriweather Post). But my favorite show was at a legendary DC club - the Bayou in Georgetown. A small, intimate club. They were perfect.
It wasn't until the summer of 2017 that I saw David Byrne. That was the tour that I called 'the marching band' tour, everyone wearing the same grey suits, playing barefoot and marching around like a high school band. When they played Naive Melody, I really lost it - as it is in my personal top 5 greatest songs list. Not ashamed to admit that.
Thank you for this episode.
This may well be the album I've listened to more than any other. Magical.
Agreed! It is magical
just bought it on vinyl. i feel like I've missed out on a whole other world.
A truly great band. The name of the band is talking heads is one of my favourite all time live albums. Its raw, avante garde & so sums up the innovation & ground breaking music that flooded the 80's.
Legends
Sonic Youth Evol, the wildest thing i had ever heard when it came out and probably to this day
My favorite TH album and still holds up today.
They released a live compendium called 'The Name of this Band is Talking Heads' named in a vain attempt to stop people calling them 'The Talking Heads'.
Wouldn't be surprised if they used Eno's Oblique Strategies for this album.
Pa0
Eno threw the kitchen sink at this one
THANKS FOR THIS VIDEO I DONT LIVE A DAY WHITOUT A SONG FROM THIS ALBUM
For me this still sounds as in the future. One of the best albums I have ever heard.
Thank you for this info. Info on one of my favorite ablums ever. Video has been done perfectly: short, but very informative story.
I've been listening these tunes for decades. With pouses ofcorse. But lately...I can't help myself but find some tune from this album.
So brilliant. Thank you again for this excellent insight into the whole process of making Remain in Light.
Btw....for decades, I'm trying to Remain in Light.
41 years later and this is never far from my turntable !
That’s amazing to hear
Remain In Light is THE album of my life. Pure genius.
Top 10 album of all times for me.
Agreed
Such a great album. You could easily talk about each song for hours. Thanks for indulging in this one
I’m 71 & bought this album at a time when musical art was flourishing, even though I looked like a punk rocker, my interest was in anything different or unusual. I remember sitting with my girlfriend in my car, overlooking the ocean high up, the moon shon on the water, I played this album over & over .. Once In A Lifetime & The Overload my favourites, but I love the whole album & still do.
i absolutely love your break downs of these classics. never stop! :) cheers!
It influenced me hugely, still to this day. Got me into afro-beat as well. Very much a collaboration between Eno and Talking Heads. Tom Yorke included it in his Desert Island Discs. I shall have to go listen to it again right now.
Yes! It’s a masterpiece!!
Great vid, thanks Warren! This album opened my ears big time and it still sounds gorgeous
The listener becomes particularly aware of the incredible brilliance of the songs on this record when he hears these pieces on the live double album recorded 1 year later. As great as these studio recordings were. Life was only breathed into them with these live recordings. The musicians' enthusiasm for playing, which is always a little lost in a studio mix, and even has to be lost, returns twice on stage ...
One of my all time favorites. Thanks for this great Video! :)
Fantastic album. Enough said.
One of my all time favourites and I found it by accident! I was only 10 when this record came out but, once found, it has never been forgotten - unlike so many other albums I have bought since. A true classic.
Great episode, ‘cause I love Talking Heads ! 👍🏻
This album changed my life back in early 81. Still is nr 1.
Thanks for another great video, excellent! Talking Heads have always been a big inspiration for me, I have fond memories from my childhood of my parents and I watching Stop Making Sense when it came out on VCR, it was truly magical. Such a fantastic energy - although listening back later, the sound from that original video did kinda need remastering (as it later was!) Hats off to you Warren and of course to 'The Heads'! Glad to see modern bands citing them as influences too - the legacy continues...
This is still my favourite album of all time. I bought it when it first came out and still playing it on Spotify quite a lot these days.
I grew up listening to talking heads. And once in a lifetime is probably one of my favourite songs, I tried to replicate the dance David Byrne does, but I couldn't match it he's too good. It's awesome to see Talking Heads here on your channel!
Angelique Kidjo's rendition of "Remain in light" is also a celebration of the polyrhythmic masterwork, well worth a listen. Remain in light is one of my favourite albums of all time, each play feels fresh and interesting
My favourite album. Well ok, number 2.
Another great video Warren. These are so well researched, well shot, and well edited. Just great, great content. The second album I ever bought was "Fear of Music". I knew nothing about it, I just thought the cover was cool. It was and so was the record. I still love it - I was 12.
That’s some weird shit to be listening to at 12.
Brilliant album....timeless, as good as the first time I listened to it, maybe even better now, your view made me appreciate even more thanks.
Thank you Warren for this video on one of my favorite albums by one of my favorite bands. I've been so influenced by their work and have been a fan for many years. Last fall I had the honor to hang out with Chris and Tina at their wonderful home in Westport. They are gracious and wonderful people. Unfortunately because of social isolation I didn't get to tour their studio (above a barn on the grounds). Keep up the wonderful work, love your videos!
This album will always be my number one, I haven’t heard anything so innovative, exciting and different since I first listened to it back in 1980. The production quality is extraordinary, I’m so pleased you helped us understand where this album came from, it’s makes me love it even more. Your amazing Warren, thanks. 😀👍🏼
My CD copy is signed by Jerry Harrison..met him at the Greek..and had the CD on the bus....top fella duly obliged when I asked him!
I had to subscribe. I love this album. This album is completely badass. It has everything.
Mind Blown. Thank you.
Still one of my favorite all-time records. Loved this journey. Thanks.
I was about to say that I could never have the patience to put tracks together they way they did for this. Then I realized that it's exactly what I do. I just do it by myself. Kinda lifted my heart. I love their use of rhythm on this album. I love the way the parts sit. So not typical. I have this album. I'm going to get deeper into it. Thanks again, Warren. You help us all see a lot that we might have missed. It's fantastic.
You happen to feature my favourite artists and bands in this serie and I always learn something new. Thank you!