oh, yeah, i had that walkman too, precisely like that picture, gold and red!
― updates from chuck and betty (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 17:33 (nine years ago) link
my favorite talking heads album. this album is one of the greatest poems about america ever written, it so perfectly captures the spirit of american culture. "the good thing" is my favorite song on here, and one of my favorite talking heads songs overall.
― Spectrum, Sunday, 25 May 2014 03:30 (nine years ago) link
perfect juxtaposition. listening to this on spotify right now, home depot commercial comes up. "more saving, more doing." could be an unused david byrne lyric.
― Spectrum, Sunday, 25 May 2014 04:02 (nine years ago) link
take "the good thing". song was written in the late 70s, but it could be the religious hymn sung by silicon valley true believers in 2014. say what you want about david byrne, but he got it.
― Spectrum, Sunday, 25 May 2014 04:17 (nine years ago) link
People who think "art rock" is Rush doing a Coleridge poem are bloody morons.― Bad Banana On Broadway (kenan), Monday, February 16, 2009 2:23 AM (5 years ago)
― Bad Banana On Broadway (kenan), Monday, February 16, 2009 2:23 AM (5 years ago)
― katsu kittens (contenderizer), Sunday, 25 May 2014 04:33 (nine years ago) link
MSABAF is a decent enough Talking Heads album, not my favorite. "Xanadu", OTOH, kicks all kinds of ass.
― nitro-burning funny car (Moodles), Sunday, 25 May 2014 04:37 (nine years ago) link
huh, it's funny, did some research on "the good thing" and it turns out david byrne's lyrics were inspired by old chinese communist party literature. i remember doing some research on authoritarianism in america, and found surveys and sociological papers that found that america was the most culturally authoritarian-leaning of the 1st world industrial nations, to an off-the-charts degree, in total contradiction of our own view as an individualistic culture, even before the bush/911 years.
guess it was a "happy" accident byrne's cribbing of authoritarian literature sounds so incredibly american. links up pretty well with this thread: Silicon Valley Techno-Utopianism weird how we might have more in common with communist china than france or england.
― Spectrum, Sunday, 25 May 2014 05:44 (nine years ago) link
I always thought there was a whiff of Japanese "happy corporate family" culture to lyrics like "The Good Thing" and "Don't Worry About the Government."
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 25 May 2014 17:08 (nine years ago) link
Ha! Musically, the verses Radiohead's 'Anyone Can Play Guitar' is identical to the verses of 'Warning Sign', except that Radiohead slowed it down.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Thursday, 23 July 2015 16:19 (eight years ago) link
This fuckin album.
― SPOILER: Everyone Is A Robot (Mr Andy M), Saturday, 1 August 2015 18:09 (eight years ago) link
Not even sure what I would have voted for. Maybe I'm Not In Love. Or The Big Country. But really the whole thing is pretty perfect.
― SPOILER: Everyone Is A Robot (Mr Andy M), Saturday, 1 August 2015 18:11 (eight years ago) link
Today, "The Good Thing."
― hardcore dilettante, Saturday, 1 August 2015 18:38 (eight years ago) link
his album is super-economic. no mucking about
― (no offence to people) (dog latin), Monday, 3 August 2015 09:14 (eight years ago) link