Talking Heads – Little Creatures – 1985 I was standing on the subway platform, reading the Village Voice, in 1985. There was a review of the new Talking Heads album and the writer, I don’t recall who (but it might have been Christgau) wrote about how, for the first time Continue Reading
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Listening Post: Talking Heads – Sp eak in gi n To ngu es
Talking Heads – Speaking in Tongues – 1983 It took a couple years (probably for egos to cool) for Talking Heads to give us some new music. The result was their most audience friendly to date. One of the things I love about doing these reviews is that it has Continue Reading
Listening Post: Talking Heads – Tom Tom Club – Tom Tom Club
Tom Tom Club – Tom Tom Club – 1981 Ah, piffle. It’s pretty well known that Tina Weymouth was becoming more and more frustrated with the control over Talking Heads that David Byrne was wielding. As though he was the genius and they were lucky to be there.So, on the Continue Reading
Listening Post: Talking Heads – David Byrne – The Catherine Wheel
David Byrne – The Catherine Wheel – 1981 Ah, the early 80s. When we would all traipse to BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) to see Philip Glass’s The Photographer. Or go to the movies to witness Koyaanisqatsi. You could see Laurie Anderson perform or bowl at the University Lanes and Continue Reading
Listening Post: Talking Heads – David Byrne – My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
David Byrne & Brian Eno – My Life in the Bush of Ghosts – 1981 (This review is based on the original vinyl pressing and not the expanded reissue.) No overview of Eno or Talking Heads would be complete without taking a look at the work they did together in Continue Reading
Listening Post: Talking Heads – Remain in Light
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
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