Album of the day (#2955): Remain In Light by Talking Heads - Music

Yann

Gender: Male
Location: France

Skinny wrote:

"new wave with a funk influence" is and always will be unfair doe. It is its own mix of afrobeat and glacial whoknowswhat.

Exactly !

Jasonconfused
If We Make It We Can All Sit Back and Laugh

Gender: Male
Location: Washington

It was cool, but can you imagine Doobie-in your funk?
JK, I love this album. Agree with Martin that Listening Wind is stellar.
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Lastings

Gender: Male
Age: 42
Location: Minnesota

As a note:

Tina Weymouth's baseline on Born Under Punches is absolutely outstanding.

Given that there are two basses (her's and a slap bass) on that song, it can get a little buried in noise on the album version. but, they really accentuate it on live versions. And once you know exactly whats lying under there, its hard to listen to anything else. even on the album.

might I suggest this particular live version, for starters.

https://youtu.be/YO7N2tFb0X8

Fischman
RockMonster, JazzMeister, Bluesboy,ClassicalMaster

Gender: Male
Location: Land of Enchantment

I'm not sure exactly where I put this album.

It is impressive, all the grooves and polyrhythm going on, even more so that they keep it up throughout. But it does get tiresome for me. And while Mendelssohn is famous for his "Songs Without Words," this album could be called (for the most part) "Songs with words without meaning."

Personally, I can dig it, but only in limited doses.

911Turbo

Gender: Male
Location: Toronto

I believe this is the bands best work- it rocks like a monster. It is a masterpiece.
They did come very very close with "Fear of Music" : FYI, both of these albums were produced by Brian Eno.

I love the guitar work on "remain in light" .
Cross-eyed and painless, houses in motion, and the great curve- the heads found their groove.
The harder they tried to imitate music from around the world, the more they sounded
like 4 clean cut american college kids: eager to please, embarrassed about their privilege.

Fischman
RockMonster, JazzMeister, Bluesboy,ClassicalMaster

Gender: Male
Location: Land of Enchantment

911Turbo wrote:

I believe this is the bands best work- it rocks like a monster. It is a masterpiece.
They did come very very close with "Fear of Music" : FYI, both of these albums were produced by Brian Eno.

I love the guitar work on "remain in light" .
Cross-eyed and painless, houses in motion, and the great curve- the heads found their groove.
The harder they tried to imitate music from around the world, the more they sounded
like 4 clean cut american college kids: eager to please, embarrassed about their privilege.

Curious.... how saying they aimed for one thing and ended up with the opposite qualifies praiseworthy as "best work?"

Lastings

Gender: Male
Age: 42
Location: Minnesota

Fischman wrote:

911Turbo wrote:

I believe this is the bands best work- it rocks like a monster. It is a masterpiece.
They did come very very close with "Fear of Music" : FYI, both of these albums were produced by Brian Eno.

I love the guitar work on "remain in light" .
Cross-eyed and painless, houses in motion, and the great curve- the heads found their groove.
The harder they tried to imitate music from around the world, the more they sounded
like 4 clean cut american college kids: eager to please, embarrassed about their privilege.

Curious.... how saying they aimed for one thing and ended up with the opposite qualifies praiseworthy as "best work?"

I believe in the last sentence, he is referring to their later work.

Fischman
RockMonster, JazzMeister, Bluesboy,ClassicalMaster

Gender: Male
Location: Land of Enchantment

Lastings wrote:

Fischman wrote:

911Turbo wrote:

I believe this is the bands best work- it rocks like a monster. It is a masterpiece.
They did come very very close with "Fear of Music" : FYI, both of these albums were produced by Brian Eno.

I love the guitar work on "remain in light" .
Cross-eyed and painless, houses in motion, and the great curve- the heads found their groove.
The harder they tried to imitate music from around the world, the more they sounded
like 4 clean cut american college kids: eager to please, embarrassed about their privilege.

Curious.... how saying they aimed for one thing and ended up with the opposite qualifies praiseworthy as "best work?"

I believe in the last sentence, he is referring to their later work.

I see. Makes sense. Thanks.

RoundTheBend
I miss the comfort in being sad

Location: Ground Control

Arguably the least funky music made by white people... hehe. Kind of kidding. I really do think it's not that funky. It's good and plays with afrobeat/funk elements, but I would not classify this as funk with a capital F. For an all "white" group, RHCP rocks the socks off this in the arena of funk. I can't think of a single Talking Heads song more funky than a funky RHCP song. Doesn't hurt when you have George Clinton producing your album or imitate to a degree Larry Graham's bass playing.

I do agree it sounds better live though, which a is a great compliment.