yeah I immediately thought of "Cities"
― lukas, Friday, 25 June 2021 20:12 (two years ago) link
Sometimes, he's a little freaked out.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 25 June 2021 20:19 (two years ago) link
also, in my judgment, detachment is the posture of the defeated, not the winners.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 June 2021 20:20 (two years ago) link
Meantime, literally on Twitter just now
EVERY MEMBER OF THE TALKING HEADS, AT ONE POINT OR ANOTHER: (doing cocaine) there should be a little rap part here.— Patrick Cosmos (@veryimportant) June 25, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 June 2021 20:21 (two years ago) link
I think he (sincerely) engaged with yuppie tropes using various degrees of irony and subtlety, in a way that probably wouldn't go over in today's just-tell-me-what-I-want-to-hear climate.
― we don't have to be around all these coffee shops (morrisp), Friday, 25 June 2021 20:43 (two years ago) link
i like him in the true stories movie for some reason but find him insufferable in most other contexts.
― brimstead, Friday, 25 June 2021 20:46 (two years ago) link
Very, very interesting points, morrisp, Alfred, and esp. L+J Rocco's "American striver" hint.Also the discussion re: 'The Big Country' more above.
― Max Florian, Friday, 25 June 2021 21:02 (two years ago) link
nothing says brazen truth telling like engaging in yuppie tropes during the reagan years
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Friday, 25 June 2021 21:26 (two years ago) link
with irony and subtlety to boot
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Friday, 25 June 2021 21:27 (two years ago) link
Exactly my point—I don’t think he was going for “brazen truth-telling.” Lots of other bands were for those who wanted it, though.
― we don't have to be around all these coffee shops (morrisp), Friday, 25 June 2021 21:36 (two years ago) link
The thing that always confuses me about "The Big Country" is it seems to describe a functioning farm-to-table relationship between local farms, grocery stores and consumers that definitely doesn't exist in the middle of the country now; did it exist in 1978?
― Lily Dale, Friday, 25 June 2021 21:55 (two years ago) link
I think he's idealizing. The character is a city guy who doesn't really know how it works; his thoughts are drifting as he looks out the airplane window.
― we don't have to be around all these coffee shops (morrisp), Friday, 25 June 2021 22:06 (two years ago) link
I also think Byrne really like(d) the idea of smoothly functioning industrial processes, daily routines, etc.
― we don't have to be around all these coffee shops (morrisp), Friday, 25 June 2021 22:09 (two years ago) link
(as artists often do)
― we don't have to be around all these coffee shops (morrisp), Friday, 25 June 2021 22:10 (two years ago) link
I can't listen to Strange Ritual without pondering the Byrne/scat rumour
― PaulTMA, Friday, 25 June 2021 22:19 (two years ago) link
Don't know about that one, but there was a very brief-lasting rumor in the Italian press when Feelings came out that he'd been dating Kate Bush - never substantiated and quickly gone. My guess is that happened on account of the b/vox on "Wicked Little Doll" uncannily sounding like Kate.
― Max Florian, Friday, 25 June 2021 22:40 (two years ago) link
Can we discuss the awesomeness of Weymouth's bass line on the live "Born Under Punches."
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 29 November 2021 00:23 (two years ago) link
dude. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO7N2tFb0X8
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 29 November 2021 06:38 (two years ago) link
That was absolutely insane!
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Monday, 29 November 2021 08:30 (two years ago) link
dude. 📹
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 05:32 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR8jgFGmqvU
― Duck and Sally Can’t Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 05:50 (two years ago) link
I'm sure this has been discussed before but I wish that whole Rome show was available as an official release. Absolutely insane.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Thursday, 2 December 2021 21:15 (two years ago) link
The whole band are on FIRE. Belew is demonic.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Thursday, 2 December 2021 21:17 (two years ago) link
Busta + Weymouth play the solo. I can't separate them.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 December 2021 21:20 (two years ago) link
i used to figure the odds were pretty good that they were sitting on it for an eventual release, but i'm less certain now, feels like the moment may have passed
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 2 December 2021 22:02 (two years ago) link
So Busta plays the solo. Cool.
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 2 December 2021 22:21 (two years ago) link
iirc one of them was asked about releasing the rome show once but they said there was some rights issue that meant it wasn't a possibility? but i'm not certain about that
― ufo, Thursday, 2 December 2021 22:45 (two years ago) link
practically in tears watching that video. incredible
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Thursday, 2 December 2021 23:01 (two years ago) link
They were/are all so great.
Tina, Busta, Scales? It's not like we need to be stingy about praise. It's not zero-sum.
― tone-loki (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 2 December 2021 23:11 (two years ago) link
This show is from the same tour. More vivid color vs the washed out look of the Rome show. Think the music was better in Rome. Anyway in case you want another version...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQo1YK3I0BY
― that's not my post, Thursday, 2 December 2021 23:22 (two years ago) link
hell yeah
― skull. kneel. kneel. kneel. kneel. (Karl Malone), Friday, 3 December 2021 00:32 (two years ago) link
weird how little screen time Weymouth, Frantz and Harrison get - it's essentially Byrne, Belew, Jones, Scales, McDonald for 80% of the time. I love that old weirdo YouTube stabilising algorithm though.
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 3 December 2021 00:47 (two years ago) link
Well, I hear you Matt but I suspect the true fans know.
― tone-loki (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 3 December 2021 00:49 (two years ago) link
I mean
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 December 2021 00:53 (two years ago) link
I met somebody over the summer who was going to see David Byrne’s show on Broadway who told me Talking Heads was one of her favorite bands. I asked her if she had read Chris Frantz’s book and she said “Who?” /TrueStory
― Goofy the Grifter (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 December 2021 00:53 (two years ago) link
ouch :(
― chaos goblin line cook (sleeve), Friday, 3 December 2021 01:13 (two years ago) link
anyway, that Rome show was the reason I got an external DVDRW hard drive in 2003 - because I couldn't save the torrented files to a CDR. absolutely essential.
― chaos goblin line cook (sleeve), Friday, 3 December 2021 01:14 (two years ago) link
Probably a bland/untutored comment but to go back to the original comments about Tina on that clip: I'm not used to seeing her play with a pick - is that a rare move or have I just not been paying attention?
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 3 December 2021 07:37 (two years ago) link
she uses both techniques regularly, depending on the song
― ufo, Friday, 3 December 2021 08:12 (two years ago) link
Chris Frantz has even shared links to fans' YouTube uploads on his social media accounts. I'm certain he'd love to put it out officially on a DVD or something if he could.
― birdistheword, Friday, 3 December 2021 13:45 (two years ago) link
there's a bunch of interviews from last year where frantz says he would love to be able to get the footage remastered & released. harrison has praised it a lot in interviews too
can't dig up anything corroborating my memory of there being some rights issue preventing it getting an official release but i would certainly assume they've looked into it in the past or are looking into it
― ufo, Friday, 3 December 2021 14:10 (two years ago) link
weird how little screen time Weymouth, Frantz and Harrison get
True, although I didn't know Bernie Worrell was there until about 10 seconds from the end!
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 3 December 2021 16:44 (two years ago) link
Yeah true, I guess I was thinking along the lines of the actual band members, but were the whole crew considered to be “in the band” at this point? Would seem unusually democratic for Byrne.
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 3 December 2021 17:23 (two years ago) link
finally getting around to the Chris Frantz book and today i learned that the sonar-ping sounds on "take me to the river", which ive spent 30 years assuming were an Eno keyboard sound, are actually Frantz hitting some kind of woodblock w/reverb.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 17:46 (two years ago) link
burning down the house and once in a lifetime are good but the rest bores me!
― xzanfar, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 17:56 (two years ago) link
there are 3 other songs on the spotify top 5 for Talking Heads
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 17:56 (two years ago) link
xzanfar you should try "take me to the river", theres this cool 'ping' sound in the beginning that you might think is a keyboard but is actually a woodblock
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 18:01 (two years ago) link
the ping is only on the streaming version though, not the CD, and it depends on the stereo you have
#onethread
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 18:04 (two years ago) link
My friend and I like to talk about this late '70s/early '80s era of art-rock where it's sometimes impossible to tell the synths from the real instruments. Like, Peter Gabriel albums, sometimes it's a synth, sometimes it's a guitar, sometimes it's Gabriel yelling into a mic through a synth, etc.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 18:07 (two years ago) link
Yep, like the outro to "Once in a Lifetime" has like these insanely distorted warbles that probably started life as humble organ parts
― Mark Antonym (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 19:24 (two years ago) link