treatment_bound wrote: 

 peekay wrote: 
I say no way!  Saw them both in the 70's live in Mpls.---great performers.

LOVE! Cant help, it is the music of my generation.. Gotta love it :-)

Whenever RP plays Talking Heads and/or Elvis Costello I dive to turn it off. Can't we finally say enough of those two?

 ziakut wrote: 
Musicians have a technical term for changing keys in the middle of a song, they call it modulation. Try it sometime, you might like it ;-)

—
As a climber, I always loved this song — the words just fit perfectly:

Where is that protection that I needed?
Air can hurt you too
Air can hurt you too
Some people say not to worry about the air
Some people never had experience with...
Air ....

PSD indeed

P oor S illy D avid. 

 aspicer wrote: 

Pre-punk??? Not quite.

Start with "Fear of Music" listen to the whole thing they have entire albums on youtube now.

Poor David Byrne...it's so tough to be cutting edge and different when you're trying too hard and you forget what key you're playing mid way through the song...wait...it was written that way. This is worse!  This is supremely forgettable.

 RoelantSiekman wrote: 
Was surprised again by this song, thinking it may be the second song of TH I actually like..
The reason is probably because this song is 'carried' (is this an English expression as well?) by the music and not so much by the voice of DB. It rescues the song.

 yodasan_magoo wrote: 
Since you are apparently an authority on Innovation, or, at least, find it easy to "be innovative" (are you done with that flying-car/time-machine yet?), how do you explain the popularity of this band for the last 32 years if they were unable to make "likable" music.

This is absolutely amazing: it's the first Talking Heads song I can endure for more than 30 seconds! In fact, it sounds great!
Must be the heat...
(8/10)

 aspicer wrote: 

Its not hard to be innovative, but it is hard to make innovative music that is likable.  This is far from likable as is most of the talking heads music.  Make it go away.

RE: the album "The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads" In case you're wondering how early 'Air' was performed, the release year for this album in incorrect (it says 1977 above). The album was originally released on vinyl in 1982, and was subsequently re-released on CD with bonus material in 2004. The material was recorded between 1977 and 1981 as part of the movie "The Name of This Band is Talking Heads". This version of Air was recorded at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, New Jersey on January 17, 1979. Additional information and most performance dates can be found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Name_of_This_Band_Is_Talking_Heads

Wow - chill everyone!  IMHO you're being quite harsh to an incredibly innovative band that was making music unheard of at the time......in 1977 - pre-punk and pre-new wave.  .....yes I love TH but still...?!  ;-)  .....or maybe it's just this live version that's upsetting everyone?! Hmm...

Last night I saw David Byrne's concert film Ride, Rise, Roar.  Live concert film with very cool dancers.  This song in particular was really nifty.  The dancers were basically dancing with Strats.  Playing "Air" guitar I guess.  It's on Netflix streaming and well worth a watch.  

 Stratocaster wrote: 
I agree - I can't stomach Talking Heads, or anything by David Byrne.   Absolutely painful!  

 

Spare us the screeching car tires!

TMTH

Too much talking heads 

Check please!!  Jeeves, bring the car around.  We're leaving.  

This is just plain terrible to me. I already don't like David Byrne much...and this is just starting to really smell foul to me.

 Stratocaster wrote: 
wow. Swap out Talking Heads with Peter Gabriel, and TH to PG, not sure about the song count, but there is a shit-ton of Peter Gabriel in the rotation; and there you have my thoughts exactly.

I've tried.

I've really tried.

But I just can't like Talking Heads. 

I can't stand them, about as much as the majority of RP music gurus and advisors can't stand Coldplay.

Not helping is the fact that there are 44 $%^&#* TH songs in rotation here.

Pretty much guarantees that they will be heard every day. 

I saw , I swear to God, a Talking Heads tribute band last weekend.  They're called Start Making Sense and they are really, really good.  

 rickhoran wrote: 
The release date listed above says "1977," which is clearly wrong. I believe this is a fault with the Amazon.com database, not on RP's end.

 Foot wrote: 

dates are not wrong, this came out in 1981 or 1982 and these are live recordings from 1977 to 1981.i just listened to the Vinyl version of these great recordings.

Excellent track but I think you have your dates confused above.  "Air" was 1st released on the Heads 3rd studio album, Fear of Music, in August 1979, so I doubt it was included in a Talking Heads album called The Name of the Band is Talking Heads in 1977.

Otherwise, more Heads anytime!

Sounds like a ninety-year-old tone-deaf whore.  God awful.

Circuital, perhaps?