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More Songs About Buildings and Food is excellent and Fear of Music is good (similar in quality to the debut album) They're off kilter and edgy rock with an arty icing on the top if you will. Half the double live album The name of this band is Talking Heads is also very worthwhile especially the bits featuring Adrian Belew. After that yer own yer own matey - the 'world tribal music' period of Talking Heads sounds grievously dated to me now. White hipsters ingratiating themselves to ethnic affectations are no different to watching your parents dance to pop music - so embarrassing you want to die
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Posted: October 14 2010 at 07:34
Being a long time fine since I heard Remain In Light, that remains one of my favorites. The live album is also not a bad place to start. It's been released as an expanded version and it covers what I consider to be the band in their prime.
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Posted: October 14 2010 at 07:57
The first four have each been a favourite of mine at various points in my existence. The Eno records "More songs about Buildings and Food" (1978), "Fear of Music" (1979) and "Remain in Light" (1980) are equally good starting points. "Fear of Music" was my first encounter. The debut "77" (1977) is less proggier and more in N.Y. punk/new wave/art rock vein. Easily digestible and a perfect feel-good record with very clever lyrics and a delightful fresh sound... The record I put on the most.
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Posted: October 14 2010 at 13:04
chopper wrote:
Anything from the first to Remain in Light. I particularly like their second one, More Songs About Buildings and Food.
I would say the same. Through Remain in Light they were really, really interesting and it's very cool to hear how the music progressed from the first album to Remain in Light. After that I think they started fragmenting and the music was much less interesting and fun. Both live albums-The Name of the Band is Talking Heads and Stop Making Sense-are very good.
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Posted: October 16 2010 at 23:56
advice: Remain in Light doesn't necessarily sound innovative. After all, we live in 2010, and we have heard all sort of electronic sounds. It's also a highly repetitive album. The first track is the same riff over and over again. Some people like it that way (I do), but it's generally considered a bad thing by progheads. so don't expect too much.
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Posted: October 17 2010 at 00:19
paganinio wrote:
advice: Remain in Light doesn't necessarily sound innovative. After all, we live in 2010, and we have heard all sort of electronic sounds. It's also a highly repetitive album. The first track is the same riff over and over again. Some people like it that way (I do), but it's generally considered a bad thing by progheads. so don't expect too much.
#1: It wasn't always 2010. Thank goodness for that. Train your ears to listen, not just to hear whatever random modern noise is dumbing you down at the moment. #2: Repetition is key here. Tape loops, repetitive playing based on African pop traditions and Eno's method of 'addition by subtraction' are key to understanding the record.
Edited by WalterDigsTunes - October 17 2010 at 00:20
advice: Remain in Light doesn't necessarily sound innovative. After all, we live in 2010, and we have heard all sort of electronic sounds. It's also a highly repetitive album. The first track is the same riff over and over again. Some people like it that way (I do), but it's generally considered a bad thing by progheads. so don't expect too much.
#1: It wasn't always 2010. Thank goodness for that. Train your ears to listen, not just to hear whatever random modern noise is dumbing you down at the moment. #2: Repetition is key here. Tape loops, repetitive playing based on African pop traditions and Eno's method of 'addition by subtraction' are key to understanding the record.
Remain in Light sucks hugely due in no small measure to Byrne's song-writing having degenerated into inane ethnic contraband. I also think the production date-stamps the album to its detriment e.g. that bright, brittle, sterile ball-less 80's 'digitalis' malaise that was endemic at the time.
You're right about the repetition though, as it does strive to imitate ethnic pop styles and tribal music (which are just savoury ingredients to taste at the end of the day y'all - not my bag though)
However, citing anything that comes out of any Eno orifice as being indicative of a record's merit is at best, plain vanilla flimsy. (3 - 2 = 5 anyone?)
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Posted: October 17 2010 at 01:33
WalterDigsTunes wrote:
paganinio wrote:
advice: Remain in Light doesn't necessarily sound innovative. After all, we live in 2010, and we have heard all sort of electronic sounds. It's also a highly repetitive album. The first track is the same riff over and over again. Some people like it that way (I do), but it's generally considered a bad thing by progheads. so don't expect too much.
#1: It wasn't always 2010. Thank goodness for that. Train your ears to listen, not just to hear whatever random modern noise is dumbing you down at the moment. #2: Repetition is key here. Tape loops, repetitive playing based on African pop traditions and Eno's method of 'addition by subtraction' are key to understanding the record.
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advice: Remain in Light doesn't necessarily sound innovative. After all, we live in 2010, and we have heard all sort of electronic sounds. It's also a highly repetitive album. The first track is the same riff over and over again. Some people like it that way (I do), but it's generally considered a bad thing by progheads. so don't expect too much.
#1: It wasn't always 2010. Thank goodness for that. Train your ears to listen, not just to hear whatever random modern noise is dumbing you down at the moment. #2: Repetition is key here. Tape loops, repetitive playing based on African pop traditions and Eno's method of 'addition by subtraction' are key to understanding the record.
Remain in Light sucks hugely due in no small measure to Byrne's song-writing having degenerated into inane ethnic contraband. I also think the production date-stamps the album to its detriment e.g. that bright, brittle, sterile ball-less 80's 'digitalis' malaise that was endemic at the time.
You're right about the repetition though, as it does strive to imitate ethnic pop styles and tribal music (which are just savoury ingredients to taste at the end of the day y'all - not my bag though)
However, citing anything that comes out of any Eno orifice as being indicative of a record's merit is at best, plain vanilla flimsy. (3 - 2 = 5 anyone?)
I don't know if I've ever disagreed with anything more strongly in my life.
advice: Remain in Light doesn't necessarily sound innovative. After all, we live in 2010, and we have heard all sort of electronic sounds. It's also a highly repetitive album. The first track is the same riff over and over again. Some people like it that way (I do), but it's generally considered a bad thing by progheads. so don't expect too much.
#1: It wasn't always 2010. Thank goodness for that. Train your ears to listen, not just to hear whatever random modern noise is dumbing you down at the moment. #2: Repetition is key here. Tape loops, repetitive playing based on African pop traditions and Eno's method of 'addition by subtraction' are key to understanding the record.
Remain in Light sucks hugely due in no small measure to Byrne's song-writing having degenerated into inane ethnic contraband. I also think the production date-stamps the album to its detriment e.g. that bright, brittle, sterile ball-less 80's 'digitalis' malaise that was endemic at the time.
You're right about the repetition though, as it does strive to imitate ethnic pop styles and tribal music (which are just savoury ingredients to taste at the end of the day y'all - not my bag though)
However, citing anything that comes out of any Eno orifice as being indicative of a record's merit is at best, plain vanilla flimsy. (3 - 2 = 5 anyone?)
I don't know if I've ever disagreed with anything more strongly in my life.
If I don't like the production or most of the songs and consider Eno a pseudo-intellectual w.a.n.k.e.r you must think me insincere then?
advice: Remain in Light doesn't necessarily sound innovative. After all, we live in 2010, and we have heard all sort of electronic sounds. It's also a highly repetitive album. The first track is the same riff over and over again. Some people like it that way (I do), but it's generally considered a bad thing by progheads. so don't expect too much.
#1: It wasn't always 2010. Thank goodness for that. Train your ears to listen, not just to hear whatever random modern noise is dumbing you down at the moment. #2: Repetition is key here. Tape loops, repetitive playing based on African pop traditions and Eno's method of 'addition by subtraction' are key to understanding the record.
Remain in Light sucks hugely due in no small measure to Byrne's song-writing having degenerated into inane ethnic contraband. I also think the production date-stamps the album to its detriment e.g. that bright, brittle, sterile ball-less 80's 'digitalis' malaise that was endemic at the time.
You're right about the repetition though, as it does strive to imitate ethnic pop styles and tribal music (which are just savoury ingredients to taste at the end of the day y'all - not my bag though)
However, citing anything that comes out of any Eno orifice as being indicative of a record's merit is at best, plain vanilla flimsy. (3 - 2 = 5 anyone?)
I don't know if I've ever disagreed with anything more strongly in my life.
If I don't like the production or most of the songs and consider Eno a pseudo-intellectual w.a.n.k.e.r you must think me insincere then?
I don't think you're insincere-nobody would ever dream of making up that opinion unless they were trolling and I don't think you're a troll. I just can't even wrap my head around Brian Eno being a "pseudo intellectual", or Remain In Light's production being described as "bright". The last statement, in particular, is more or less patently false.
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chopper wrote:
Remain In Light & Stop Making Sence cd or better the DVD.
