Talking Heads Remain in Light
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Topic: Talking Heads Remain in Light
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Subject: Talking Heads Remain in Light
Date Posted: March 01 2018 at 07:31
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So many great songs, such a tough choice! All of side two, but I have to go with the stunning display of layering, all built around a totally bizaree/off the wall guitar solo (by Adrian Belew): "The Great Curve." ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: March 01 2018 at 07:38
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Listening Wind. ------------- 
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: March 01 2018 at 07:41
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Same as it ever was............... ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Larkstongue41
Date Posted: March 01 2018 at 08:46
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Just recently realized how great of a group Talking Heads were upon watching a video of the Stop Making Sense tour. Such a great show! Not a single wrong choice on here. Going with "Crosseyed and Painless". ------------- "Larks' tongues. Wrens' livers. Chaffinch brains. Jaguars' earlobes. Wolf nipple chips. Get 'em while they're hot. They're lovely. Dromedary pretzels, only half a denar." |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: March 01 2018 at 09:02
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Once in a Lifetime ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: March 01 2018 at 10:25
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I'm not quite that keen on their earlier offerings, but Remain in Light is top notch. Once in a Lifetime has such a strong presence in my "inner ear" over the last 30+ years, I must vote for it, but quality is very dense here. All the songs are great. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: March 01 2018 at 10:55
| Crosseyed. |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: March 01 2018 at 10:59
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Crossseyed and Painless ------------- |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: March 01 2018 at 19:30
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great album obviously.. but The Great Curve isn't merely the best on the album.. I'd rate it as the single best song the Talking Heads did. f**king amazing... in no small part to Belew taking that to outerworldly levels of masterliness. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: March 01 2018 at 22:33
| The whole album is really great, I think at the moment the greatest album of Talking. My choise is the ending piece the Overload. Itīs really great example how to make a really great song with a very simple structure, only one chord. Itīs really hypnotic & dark, like the best Joy Division songs. |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: March 01 2018 at 23:23
| Im not too familiar with TH, I always say I dislike them, but in all fairness, that Once In Lifetime song smells suspiciously like 80s model King Crimson, and the finest track Ive heard from them. I do, however, prefer Devo. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: March 02 2018 at 07:25
this.
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micky wrote:Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: March 02 2018 at 07:26
The whole album is like that - every song basically consists of the same 4/8 bar rhythm section repeated with different bits over the top.
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: March 02 2018 at 09:16
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Torn between several choices but finally leaned in favor of Houses in Motion. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Walkscore
Date Posted: March 02 2018 at 21:51
| Definitely the best Talking Heads album. These eight tunes are probably all in my top 10 TH song list. Wish they had stuck with this approach, but as it is there is really no album like it. |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: March 03 2018 at 06:33
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Another vote for "Crosseyed and Painless" - one of my favourite dance songs. The whole album, however, is a masterpiece, and way more progressive than a lot of so-called "prog". |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: March 03 2018 at 06:37
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^ how do you dance to that? unless you pull an Elaine LOL
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: March 03 2018 at 06:38
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^ hahahaha... let your imagination run free brother. Raff has moves let me tell ya... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: March 03 2018 at 08:23
| Everything. Same for for the three previous albums. |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: March 03 2018 at 14:55
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All of it. A fine production by Brian Eno, to boot. ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: LearsFool
Date Posted: March 03 2018 at 16:54
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Probably "Listening Wind" -------------  
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