Is "Remain In Light" a good entry point for the Talking Heads?

excellent picture quality

great clip. i think this is their best album. it still sounds futuristic somehow.

goddam, that's a hell of a thing. wish to god i'd seen this version of the band, and agree that it still sounds fresh. except maybe for the frippertronic gtr, for w/e reason? dig it, but it seems somehow of a moment.

wowwww

3:33 on is ridiculous

will agree that more than 10 minutes of Belew's screech-o-tronics is way more than we need

Loved them during that era

http://talkingheadsconcerthistory.blogspot.com/2013/01/1982.html

lol what is Tina Weymouth even doing in this clip cuz it isn't playing bass

I don't think Byrne's guitar is plugged in either. Nevertheless that's completely marvellous.

weymouth's definitely playing, i think she and busta jones are doubling parts most of the time -- you can hear weymouth do some slides that jones isn't doing there.

Weymouth is playing.

the remain in light band really is incredible -- almost hard to believe talking heads had the imagination/ambition/balls to pull something like that off so successfully.

belew is amazing, though someone should've talked to him about his wardrobe. Nona Hendryx is a dazzling ray of light.

I can't imagine watching this in fall '80 knowing what I knew about how the band sounded 18 months earlier.

Yeah, it's extraordinary that they ever got to a place like that, and so quickly too.

belew is amazing, though someone should've talked to him about his wardrobe. Nona Hendryx is a dazzling ray of light.

― tylerw, Monday, April 29, 2013 5:32 PM (1 hour ago)

That's Dolette McDonald in that clip, though, right?

yep

i kinda like the implication that that's how belew dressed when byrne/demme weren't stage-directing everything

my favorite part of the commentary on the SMS dvd is when there's a water bottle in the bottom corner of a shot and byrne says "that shouldn't be there"

xp watch the vids of belew in king crimson wearing a pink suit.

I watched that Live in Rome concert from the same tour recently and Belew gets to be a bit much over the course of it.

That's Dolette McDonald in that clip, though, right?
oops, my bad - Dolette McDonald is a dazzling ray of light

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

Lol "Houses in Moion" totally jacks "Better By the Pound"

^t

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrgVppXrK64

Jacks as in,"they're both funk-based and in the same key"?

yeah and "houses" is slower

i mean i tried to verify the similarity by working out the rhythm parts to both, but found that i own no instrments and do not know how to play them anyway

still i drop the needle on the last :10 of "better by the pound" and it all makes sense

http://www.wnyc.org/story/angelique-kidjo-reimagines-remain-light-in-studio/

Saw Angelique Kidjo do a bunch of songs from Remain in Light last night, outside W. DC. Femi Kuti opened. Kidjo and band's renditions mostly worked, though on some songs I don't like her changes to the vocal flow and vocal melodies.

Cool you saw her

Kidjo's bringing this tour to the US now, and said onstage she wants to bring it everywhere including Africa

She encored with "Burning Down The House" the night before.

sounds like a party!

bringing this tour to the US now

?? as opposed to April & May, when she was touring it in the US?

She said onstage last night outside DC in Virginia that the show was the second of her tour. I guess she has separated this current tour from the April/May one you are referring to. Or perhaps I misheard her.

actually, looks like she may have only done three dates on the west coast in May (though she'd also done it at least in NYC a year earlier) - I was bummed because promo and TV appearances all happened after the Seattle show, which I hadn't heard about, but that could have been the first one, and was before the album release.

her version of listening wind is amazing