The Strokes – Room On Fire – 2003 This is the first album I bought digitally on iTunes. I remember it like it was yesterday. Weird. Dunno what that means, if it means anything. Milestones….. When The Cars first album came out it was such a masterwork of stripped down Continue Reading
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Listening Post: The Strokes – Is This It
The Strokes – Is This It – 2001 Fall, 2001. It’s early morning. Actually, more like 10 am. I’m flipping the dials and come to MTV. I still watch the channel every once in a while but I’m not sure why anymore. Popular music has become a vast wasteland of Continue Reading
Listening Post: Talking Heads – David Byrne – Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
David Byrne & Brian Eno – Everything That Happens Will Happen Today – 2008 My first exposure to this record was through the movie Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (Or Ridiculous things said by ridiculous people in a ridiculous movie). I found the song, “Home” pleasant enough but it reminds Continue Reading
Listening Post: Talking Heads – Naked
Talking Heads – Naked – 1988 Take one part Tom Tom Club’s poppines, latter day Heads songcrafting, a little Remain in Light esoteria/polyrhythm dance grooves and swirl it around with soul and you get the last Talking Heads record: Naked.As opposed to the last two records this was recorded much Continue Reading
Listening Post: Talking Heads – Little Creatures
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
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