Article Response: Byrne/Eno

Cheers for posting that - have been reobsessing over Remain In Light & have just started listening to Fear Of Music. Um, rilly good article; & makes me want to hunt down the Ben Okri & "My Life . . .". Will post a less sleepless answer later (<= is worst sentence ever).

You'll have to revise the article slightly at the end, seeing as Radiohead keep claiming those albums as a big source of inspiration, at the least.

(This is where I will say that I love the article but just can't find anything much interesting about the Talking Heads at all outside of maybe two songs -- glad to see they connect with others and all, but they just feel so...eh.)

that was written a year and a half ago: how much do you still think it, tom? talking heads went completely off my radar for years — wore out their mid-80s welcome, basically — until 9-11 (see here, at bottom of page), when they jumped straight back out of my subconscious at me

It made me want to listen. More. Thank YOU.

Thanks a fucking lot Tom, I went online as a distraction from reading about Africa for my midterm tomorrow, THERE IS NO ESCAPE. Really good article nonetheless. :>

but...i LOVE "listening wind"!

and i'll listen to remain in light tonight
and since i do not own a functional turntable anymore but do have a (now useless) vinyl copy of my life... i think i'm gonna buy the cd tonight... (i was actually considering that last week, now you pushed me over the edge, tom).
it's nice to see someone to try and put things into a perspective that you've never even considered, so: a good article!

two white men, one American and one European

Eno is American?

Seriously, Byrne not being (or considering himself) American makes a lot of sense, he has the first generation immigrants precision but sense of other too.

damn it, couldn't find my life... yesterday...
bought eno's taking tiger mountain (by strategy) as a *substitute*... pretty good! off that album, china my china strongly reminded me of another, pretty well-known, song but i couldn't come up with a name or a title... anyone?

I enjoyed this article a lot. While particularly liking the anecdote about Byrne running around the studio to make himself breathless, the general effect of it all made me want to listen to Fear of Music again (and acquire the other two).

one interesting band dynamics thing - I gather the Byrne/Eno relationship came very close to breaking up Talking Heads, and the rest of the band demanded Eno be ditched as producer after Remain In Light or they would break up the band. It was the crediting of songs to "David Byrne, Brian Eno, & Talking Heads" , implying that Talking Heads were Byrne's backing band, that upset the rest of them.

Of course, arguably Weymoyth, Frantz, & Harrison were basically little more than Byrne's backing band. Any thoughts on their contrubution to the Talking Heads project, particularly in this period?