back to the topic at hand, Houses In Motion...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaMzKpNC2Jk
y'all should really check out the whole Rome 1980 concert on YT, the versions from that show match anything on The Name of This Band..
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 04:45 (five years ago) link
yes. Belew is an air bomber at this show. Insane playing
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 1 August 2018 04:53 (five years ago) link
Just watching the version of Crosseyed and Painless from this show. Belew's solo around the 4-minute mark. Fucking hell. What a band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g8lFmsCXhg
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 10:39 (five years ago) link
Srsly Rome 80 is a top 3 all time reason for youtube existing and i have no idea what the other two are.
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 1 August 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link
^^
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 1 August 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link
Breakdown of "Rapture" sounds like a Remain in Light outtake: discusshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp9An5OcdE4
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 1 December 2018 23:38 (five years ago) link
yes!
― flappy bird, Saturday, 1 December 2018 23:57 (five years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/AdrianBelew/photos/a.10150340764179995/10151334736169995/?type=3&theater
― Maresn3st, Sunday, 12 January 2020 16:34 (four years ago) link
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― budo jeru, Sunday, 12 January 2020 17:31 (four years ago) link
The Eno mix of Houses.. is still unavailable on CD; i can't understand why it wasn't on the Remain In Light reissue. 40 (!) years old this year;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2twY8YQYDBE
― piscesx, Sunday, 12 January 2020 22:18 (four years ago) link
Ha oops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=580i1YCnli0
― piscesx, Sunday, 12 January 2020 22:19 (four years ago) link
XXP - Apologies, I was posting this news - https://www.loudersound.com/news/adrian-belew-teams-up-with-jerry-harrison-to-tour-remain-in-light
― Maresn3st, Monday, 13 January 2020 13:00 (four years ago) link
Be conservative : bring a $20 into the bar and that’s all you can spend.
Just watching the version of Crosseyed and Painless from this show. Belew's solo around the 4-minute mark. Fucking hell. What a band. 📹
― calstars, Monday, 13 January 2020 14:05 (four years ago) link
Long interview with Jerry Harrison about upcoming RiL shows and other stuff
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/talking-heads-guitarist-jerry-harrison-remain-in-light-tour-936665/
― that's not my post, Thursday, 16 January 2020 20:08 (four years ago) link
I just heard about those shows this morning. Cool, but:
Are you playing the album straight through in sequence?
I don’t see a reason to do that. I don’t think that the order on the album is the order that I would want to play it live... Let’s just say we don’t feel obligated to play every song.
― A perfect transcript of a routine post (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 16 January 2020 20:31 (four years ago) link
Since we’re playing festivals, we have maybe 45 minutes to play. We definitely want to give Turkuaz a chance to play a couple of their songs. I think Adrian and I both probably want to play something of our own, too.
So a 45 minute set featuring some Jerry Harrison solo songs, some Adrian Belew solo songs, some songs by this band Turkuaz, and a few songs from Remain in Light? Good for Jerry but I might take pass tbh.
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Thursday, 16 January 2020 21:32 (four years ago) link
Great interview though. What a wonderfully weird guy: I’ve co-founded a company that’s trying to create an antidote to snakebites. Basically, mosquitoes kill the most people, humans kill the next most people and then snakes.
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Thursday, 16 January 2020 21:35 (four years ago) link
is THAT why Byrne still gets Old-Fashioneds with him
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 January 2020 21:38 (four years ago) link
xps I LOVE that "Houses In Motion" remix, a whole extra verse at the end
and yeah, never reissued, just like the cool early version of "New Feeling" here:
https://www.discogs.com/Talking-Heads-Love-Building-On-Fire-New-Feeling/release/1168619
― The Squalls Of Hate (sleeve), Thursday, 16 January 2020 21:43 (four years ago) link
Cross eyed and PainlessThe OverloadOh DaddyBand Intro VampCherokee Chief
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 16 January 2020 22:03 (four years ago) link
Did not know about either of those alternative versions. Could go for a roundup of all Talking Heads odds and sods, anyone have a list?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 17 January 2020 03:19 (four years ago) link
Giving it a few listens last week, it struck me that segments of the jam part on the Isley Brothers "Live It Up" kinda remind me a bit of the grooves on Remain in Light.
The Live in Rome versions of some of these tracks are outrageously good.
― earlnash, Friday, 17 January 2020 03:23 (four years ago) link
― Gerald McBoing-Boing
no but there's some interesting stuff, there's the 5.1 mixes which are good and significantly different (even the downmixes of them circulating are great), the eno 12" version of "i zimbra" (this is the one frankie knuckles would spin at the power plant), the longer cassette mix of "speaking in tongues", the version of "psycho killer" with arthur russell...
― revenge of the jawn (rushomancy), Friday, 17 January 2020 05:24 (four years ago) link
"Life During Wartime" with Fripp shredding over it as well
never heard that Eno 12" version of "I Zimbra" or the Arthur Russell "Psycho Killer"... YSI? Youtube link?
― The Squalls Of Hate (sleeve), Friday, 17 January 2020 05:28 (four years ago) link
I think we owe it to ILM to compile these
those downmixes are so great. as said re ril, there's bits and lines you can't really even hear in the original and they fit well
― in a mellow, balmy way (Hunt3r), Friday, 17 January 2020 05:29 (four years ago) link
yeah agreed, they are pretty much essential for fans
― The Squalls Of Hate (sleeve), Friday, 17 January 2020 05:31 (four years ago) link
here's the eno i zimbra remix:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgiHT8SVnXg
― tylerw, Friday, 17 January 2020 20:09 (four years ago) link
and here's the arthur russell psycho killer (this was a bonus track on a 77 reish) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoclXuB6JOU
― tylerw, Friday, 17 January 2020 20:11 (four years ago) link
fuck yeah, thanks Tyler!
― The Squalls Of Hate (sleeve), Friday, 17 January 2020 20:28 (four years ago) link
Tyler is definitely the guy to compile TH rarities and post it on his blog. Please and thank you! ;-)
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 17 January 2020 20:50 (four years ago) link
ha! this thing pulls together some bits n bobs: https://www.amazon.com/Bonus-Rarities-Outtakes-Talking-Heads/dp/B00122REJU
― tylerw, Friday, 17 January 2020 21:52 (four years ago) link
I’d always thought of them as a band that did t leave much on the cutting room floor bc other van that houses in motion remix they were pretty stingy with their b-sides. But there’s a surprising amount of alternate versions and outtakes that have come out over the last 10 years from all the various reissues, the box set, greatest hits and etc. Not many of them are very revelatory imo, not many fully-realized unreleased songs, but a lot of fun listening just the same.
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Saturday, 18 January 2020 03:04 (four years ago) link
^typos, posting from the bar, etc etc
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Saturday, 18 January 2020 03:09 (four years ago) link
That Arthur Russell mix is an interesting historical artifact but it is p bad tbqh
― uncrut gems (crüt), Saturday, 18 January 2020 16:50 (four years ago) link
yeah, it's kinda neat but it sounds more like an overdub than a remix
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Saturday, 18 January 2020 17:59 (four years ago) link
I've waffled on this before but it's funny how the non-extended cuts from the vinyl LP of Speaking In Tongues are pretty obscure now too; the CD copies all used the extra long mixes from the original cassette. Some are a minute longer, some almost 2 minutes.
Also weird; you can only get Storytelling Giant as part of that 2003 box set, there's still no other proper vids compilation.
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51gCb0C1zmL._SX355_.jpg
― piscesx, Saturday, 18 January 2020 17:59 (four years ago) link
I got it on vhs in my attic if anyone wants to come over and check it out
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Sunday, 19 January 2020 01:22 (four years ago) link
On my way
― We Jam von Economo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 January 2020 01:25 (four years ago) link
The 5.1 downmix of Houses in Motion >>>
― that's not my post, Sunday, 19 January 2020 01:57 (four years ago) link
personally i prefer the long mixes but i guess i would...
― revenge of the jawn (rushomancy), Sunday, 19 January 2020 05:36 (four years ago) link
Listened to this for first time in a long while - historically have played S1 far more but S2 genius really unlocked for me this time - just incredibly sequenced album
Anyway Seen and Not Seen - struck me as having a real Robert Ashley thing going on - like pretty specifically re vocal mannerisms - has Byrne ever copped to a direct influence/tribute here? Like I guess he def woulda been across Ashley’s thing - or was it just more that this “detached anthropological observer of humanity” vibe was common in NYC art scene of the time?
― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Thursday, 16 March 2023 21:23 (one year ago) link
Heads albums have some really strong sides. This one, and side one of Naked come to mind.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 16 March 2023 21:44 (one year ago) link
Side one of Fear of Music also.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 16 March 2023 21:45 (one year ago) link
The final track on the album, "The Overload", was Talking Heads' attempt to emulate the sound of the band Joy Division. This effort was made in spite of the fact that no one in the band had actually heard the music of Joy Division. Rather, it was based on an idea of what Joy Division might sound like. [1]
As opposed to the reality of what "I Remember Nothing" sounded like? Yeah, right.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 March 2023 22:28 (one year ago) link