Talking Heads

...uhm, "Differences of opinion exist." Also: insurance company bureaucrats are getting between patients and doctors, to beat the band. This discussion is going about as well as I suspected, with everyone yelling at Debbie W-S for daring to...

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By John Cook, 1:20 PM on Wed Nov 11 2009, 133 views (Edit, to draft, Slurp) Copy this whole post to another site Send an email to the author of this post at john@gawker.com. By John Cook In our third installment from the Spitzer...

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During that gem, the band showed off their almost telepathic powers and followed the groove through tips of the hat to Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti, some Parliament-Funkadelic grind and a tease of Talking Heads geek punk/funk. I smelled...

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...thoughts of how Mr. Byrne had gotten them far more right the first time. The expanded Talking Heads band of the early 1980s gave the music clout and counterpoint. New, tepidly efficient arrangements, with Mr. Byrne as the lead and rhythm...

In this article: David Byrne, Brian Eno, Radio City Music Hall, New York City, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, David Byrne, Radio City, Once in a Lifetime, and Burning Down the House

...could be described as afro-prog, especially the title track from the album Discipline, and the introductory riff of I Zimbra from the Talking Heads new-wave/art-rock classic Fear of Music. An arguably afro-prog approach to guitar can be...

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There are echoes of Byrne's old band, Talking Heads, in the avant-funk of LCD Soundsystem and other dance-rock bands, and you can hear the singer's workaday hysteria in the cadences of Arcade Fire's Win Butler and Modest Mouse's Isaac Brock.

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...Byrne's sleevenotes for the recent reissue of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts - the album the former Talking Heads singer made with the band's producer and mentor, Brian Eno, in 1981 - he describes the duo encountering a novel problem. The...

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...song rose to the point of breaking. That segued into the best-known tune from "Remain in Light," "Once in a Lifetime," and from there the band plunged into the frantic "Life During Wartime" from "Fear of Music," the Eno-helmed 1979 album...

In this article: David Byrne, Brian Eno, Remain in Light, Shelburne Museum, E mail, Holy Trinity, Life During Wartime, and Everything That Happens Will Happen Today

...electric guitars and synthesizers prominently. In the vernacular of the time, Come Upstairs was a "new wave" album, and it followed the lead of new bands such as The Knack and Talking Heads. The album was generally well received, and many...

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...a Lifetime, and from there the band plunged into the frantic Life During Wartime from Fear of Music, the Eno-helmed 1979 album where Talking Heads really found their creative, multi-cultural stride. Another thing that separates Byrne from...

In this article: David Byrne, Brian Eno, Remain in Light, Shelburne Museum, E mail, Holy Trinity, Life During Wartime, and Everything That Happens Will Happen Today