Talking Heads – Remain in Light – 1980 David Byrne sounds like a shaman on “Born Under Punches”, the opening super-percussive salvo. Only this time I get the real sense that he has, dare I say it, a sense of humor. “Some of you people just missed it!” is a Continue Reading
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Listening Post: Talking Heads – Fear of Music
Talking Heads – Fear of Music – Fear of Music “I Zimbra”, a percussion heavy, african-rhythm layered song, opens Remain in Light, and, like the first album, suggests a much more accessible experience for the listener than we’ve been used to from TH. Oh, it’s still more concerned with noise-scapes Continue Reading
Listening Post: Talking Heads – More Songs About Buildings and Food
Talking Heads – More Songs About Buildings and Food – 1978 Remember when bands gave a shit what their album covers looked like? Sigh…The reason for the Talking Heads-rospective is because of Eno. I immersed myself in so much of his work (and come to love his work and his Continue Reading
Listening Post: Talking Heads – Talking Heads: 77
Talking Heads – Talking Heads: 77 – 1977 Not THE Talking Heads. Talking Heads. Important distinction. Like Smashing Pumpkins. Not THE Smashing Pumpkins. “Smashing” could be how they look, right?Talking Heads is more of a commentary on the takeover of television. These are 2nd generation tv people. Still Boomers, but Continue Reading
Listening Post: Roxy Music – Avalon
Roxy Music – Avalon – 1982 Just how influential was Avalon? Besides being the crowning achievement of the New Romantic movement that Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry started, it is also the flashpoint for just about every other band of the era that is associated with the movement. The Psychedelic Continue Reading
Listening Post: Brian Eno – Music For Airports (Updated)
Brian Eno – Music for Airports – 1978 And I’m done. Music for Airports is exactly what it says it is. Music to help with the monotony and anxiety of flying. It’s new age to the very core. I listened to it twice and by that I mean that I Continue Reading
Listening Post: Brian Eno – Before and After Science
Listening to “No One Receiving”, the opening track on Before and After Science, its easy to hear the bridge to Talking Heads. In fact, it’s not surprising that Eno would work with them. This album provides the roadmap between that band and XTC and Genesis and proves that New Wave Continue Reading
Listening Post: Brian Eno – Discreet Music
Brian Eno – Discreet Music – 1975 I will listen to Discreet Music precisely the opposite of the way it was intended. Eno wanted it to be something that blends into the furniture. Not meant to be focused on. So, I’ve got my noise canceling headphones out and I’m giving Continue Reading
Listening Post: Brian Eno – Another Green World
Brian Eno – Another Green World – 1975 From the very outset I think I’m in trouble. Everything I don’t like about Talking Heads can be found in the first few minutes of the opening track, “Sky Saw”. The tribal rhythms mashing up against wailing, minimalist viola. It doesn’t last Continue Reading
Listening Post: Roxy Music – Country Life
Roxy Music – Country Life – 1974 There’s no way I was going to look back at Brian Eno’s solo work without taking a good hard look again at one of the most important New Wave records from his old band, Roxy Music. I’ve never heard the band WITH Brian Continue Reading