Talking Heads- Classic or Dud?

The Red and the Black rips off so much of Remain in Light's sound that Byrne could have sued Harrison for plagiarism (if Harrison hadn't been part of creating that sound.) The other ones I can't even remember.

If everything syncopated is funk, then Talking Heads is definitely sorta kinda a funk band? The really insane thing is that Turrican then says Can isn't a funk band. So The Overload is funk, but this isn't?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp6oPyQnX60

Btw one of the first reviews of Arcade Fire I remember reading called them a funkpunk band. Guess that's halfway to being a TH cover band, then?

Of course Can aren't a funk band.

Now you're getting the picture.

Halleluhwah is funk

Tom, you'd have a point if I hadn't already said the same thing a zillion posts up.

The point being that playing funky stuff every so often doesn't make you a funk band.

TBF to Tom you never ever do anything but repeat yourself, so it's kinda hard to react to.

I LOVE TALKING HEADS

You can't handle the real thing, admit it.

this sort of thinking is A-OK by me:

https://i.pinimg.com/236x/07/46/2d/07462d5c14327ec81075f9ccae163e26--weird-music-hipster-tattoo.jpg

Are people honestly concerned that other people might not agree on what genre Talking Heads are? Like if someone is wrong about this (if it's even possible to verify such a thing and I think it isn't) can't you just let them be wrong and smugly but silently enjoy the fact that you're right about everything?

For the sake of the argument it's more giving to pretend that Turrican knows what 'funk' is and has ever heard a song by Talking Heads, instead of having an actual argument with a somewhat sentient pile of feces that doesn't seem to understand 'of course it is' and 'it speaks for itself' isn't good arguments. I guess that means I'm strawmanning, and for that I guess I'm sorry.

Also, 29 Facepalms is clearly a Turrican sockpuppet, right?

You'd know all about socks, eh Frederik?

everyone knows talking heads are PUNK just like blondie and television

Clearly.

I wouldn't mind Frederik, 29 facepalms, he's a very stressed, highly-strung guy who reacts badly when he's unable to relax. I'm guessing his DVD/Blu Ray player is broken or he's out of Kleenex or has given himself RSI or something, in which case I'd feel bad about slagging off a man in such obvious pain.

I've never heard any of jerry harrison's solo records. What's good?

First and only song I heard for a long time was "Man with a Gun" featured on the Something Wild soundtrack. Has that "Fast Car" / "Losing My Religion" video style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNjfVqzJR8g

Hey I just came here to talk about the absurdity of treating genres like ontologically essentialist categories, I'll leave the ad hominem shit to others.

That sounds like mediocre INXS in ballad mode.

xpost

Also Stop Making Sense is great and I'm currently engaged in learning how to play all of the tracks on it which is why I opened this thread in the first place.

fp'd everyone on this thread including myself

it took 2 and a half hours

I guess I can't think of anything more horrible to say to a poster than that they remind me of Turrican, so I'm sorry 29 Facepalms, I guess that was over the line. I deserve the fp.

lol frederik so mad

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ine9ZoGRl9s/WXBTObHkeiI/AAAAAAAAQkU/7ouF6G_NtRAwiy3twkNsOvrupnDTjnbGgCEwYBhgL/s1600/b.talking%2Bheads%2B2.jpg

That's ok, I didn't know enough about either of you to be upset.

'fp' pronounced as 'fap'

More Songs About Buildings and Fp

Now, back to the topic...

The point being that playing funky stuff every so often doesn't make you a funk band.

― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Wednesday, September 13, 2017 5:47 PM (forty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

In Talking Heads' case, this is more than "every so often" ...

is there something wrong with saying tina weymouth is a funky bass player? i don't get ilx sometimes....

it's just music christ

No, I just thought it was funny that, at the same time, other people were defending Talking Heads by arguing that it's crazy and wrong to call them funk.

Talking Heads = Music Christ. it is settled law.

Amen!

The album wasn't called Fear of Funk after all.

No, I just thought it was funny that, at the same time, other people were defending Talking Heads by arguing that it's crazy and wrong to call them funk.

You have to put that in the context of the original post that kicked all this off:

I'm often left with the impression that they're a white funk band for people who perhaps consider themselves a little too artsy and deep to listen to the real deal

And then all manner of further nonsense from the same poster thereafter.

Who considers themselves too artsy to listen to real funk anyway? Hasn't that been cool for decades?

Or am I reading it wrong and does 'the real deal' mean that somehow Jamiriqoi is where it's at?

"This song started from a jam," says bassist Tina Weymouth in the liner notes of Once in a Lifetime: The Best of Talking Heads. "Chris [Frantz, drummer] had just been to see Parliament-Funkadelic in its full glory at Madison Square Garden, and he was really hyped. During the jam, he kept yelling 'Burn down the house!' which was a P-Funk audience chant, and David dug the line, changing it to the finished version, 'Burning down the house'." (Bernie Worrell of Parliament-Funkadelic joined Talking Heads' live incarnation.)

hmm, so there does appear to be a connection between talking heads and funk

very interesting

boy did this become tedious

mission accomplished Turrican

Didn't they work with that guy what's his face from Roxy Music? So they're clearly glam rock!

Yeah, sorry, this is tedious. I'll fap myself out.

they are actually a white rap group cf David Byrne's rapping on Crosseyed and Painless

let's change the topic. how about this one: all of sgt pepper's is totally overrated. and after that: that thing your grandma told you on your 6th birthday party that stuck with you your entire life? it wasn't that insightful, and you didn't even remember it correctly. final topic: that thing you like? no, wrong.

except for those times they used a pedal steel guitar, then they were a white country group

xp

xp i liked that post up until your final topic explained very clearly how it was wrong to do so

lol
well, at least david byrne might appreciate the contradiction

Y'know. I've really been thinking today. About a lot of things. Talking Heads. Can. What funk is and is not. How to form an argument. And I just want to say to Turrican: Thank You. Because you make me a better person. I mean, you don't really 'better' anything, you're an awful piece of shit, who clearly couldn't construct a cohesive argument if you're life depended on it, clearly hasn't heard an appropriate amount of funk music, and you seem to have some deep rooted issues related to masturbation, which is a good and natural thing. I guess what I mean to say is this: You're lowering the bar. And you do that for all of us. And the way my life has been going these last few months, I really needed that. So Thank You.

Also, I guess I should really stop watching BoJack Horseman at this point.

I'm often left with the impression that Bojack Horseman is the horse cartoon for people who perhaps consider themselves a little too artsy and deep to watch the real deal, my little pony