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Talking Heads — Totally Nude
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Sloggydog
(UK)
Posted: Dec 20, 2012 - 02:38
 
I thought this was Ganggajang at first but its nothing like them.  However looking at who it is I realise the trick my brain fell into.  I had a rather awesome cassette I played to death in my walkman with Ganggajang's self titled first release (a must for all lovers of good aussie music) on one side and Talking Heads Little Creatures on the other. 

Poacher
(Brighton, UK)
Posted: Oct 18, 2012 - 09:27
 
I totally understand this song. . . being as I am happy to take my kit off in public. 

Euskadita
(MX)
Posted: Aug 16, 2012 - 08:34
 
This guy's pseudo-funny music...

On_The_Beach
(The Blue Planet)
Posted: Jul 15, 2012 - 23:39
 
 Stingray wrote:
the woman I see, is a chick in her late 60's
According to the sounds of her simple-minded music!
Good enough for the (silly) "JAPS", I guess!
 
Stingray never misses an opportunity to show his true colours.

Stingray
("ANONYMOUS INTERNET")
Posted: May 23, 2012 - 05:01
 
laughable, silly and bad!

cohifi
(Denver)
Posted: Feb 18, 2012 - 00:55
 
 Stingray wrote:
Music cannot get any worse than this!
Î wasted my career - hearing this "voice"!
TERRIBLE by any means!

1
 
and he's probably a good guy if you cut off the oxygen

lemmoth
(NYC)
Posted: Feb 08, 2012 - 09:41
 
 rabbi_phil wrote:
It's amazing. No other artist elicits as much of a love/hate response than DB &Talking Heads. I think Bill really likes it that way.
 

I think you are right.  Don't get the TH animus.  At least the massive U2 animus is related to people not liking Bono's preaching.

I was a big fan of the TH since first hearing Psycho Killer on the Max's Kansas City jukebox in 1977.  They immediatly became one of my top ten artists.  They have dropped a bit down the list since then but are still in my top 25.

Stingray
(NWO reloaded)
Posted: Jan 07, 2012 - 14:51
 
 calypsus_1 wrote:
 
the woman I see, is a chick in her late 60's
According to the sounds of her simple-minded music!
Good enough for the (silly) "JAPS", I guess!
 


Stingray
(NWO reloaded)
Posted: Jan 07, 2012 - 14:49
 
Music cannot get any worse than this!
Î wasted my career - hearing this "voice"!
TERRIBLE by any means!

1

terrapin52
(Terrapin Station, SC)
Posted: Jan 07, 2012 - 14:48
 
Horrible.  Makes me want to slash my wrists. I'm outta here, like Vladimir.


msymmes
(Toronto, CA)
Posted: Dec 16, 2011 - 14:00
 
Yes Bill, we are listening all day long.  The 2nd track from this album in less than 6 hours.

But still good stuff.  The very first "CD" if ever had after wax. I mean vinyl.
 

MiracleDrug
(Earth)
Posted: Dec 16, 2011 - 13:56
 
 pinnyrat wrote:
I don't understand RPs (or anyone else's for that matter) fascination with Talking Heads.  They are like grating hell to me.  Lord.
 

THEY were awesome...

YOU missed out....


pinnyrat
Posted: Oct 04, 2011 - 14:46
 
I don't understand RPs (or anyone else's for that matter) fascination with Talking Heads.  They are like grating hell to me.  Lord.

calypsus_1
Posted: Aug 26, 2011 - 21:20
 
 
Tokyo - Tina Weymouth performs with Tom Tom Club (Summer Sonic Day 2) by burning_man
Seán Diver
http://www.flickr.com/photos/burning_man/

In case you're wondering, she's nearly 60 :)

This photo was taken on August 8, 2009 using a Canon EOS 450D.

Copyright All rights reserved


coloradojohn
(Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan -- 15 min. west of Shinjuku, center of the freaking Universe)
Posted: Aug 02, 2011 - 19:10
 
PERFECT, coming after Drume Negrita...  Awesome memories: a similarly bent Brit named Mike R. and I were driving a little Suzuki Jimny 4WD all over Bali for the first time, Christmas Eve of '88 through New Year's '89, and this was one of a few very key albums we had on tape, and this was perfect played loudly as we drove through fruit-laden jungle down village paths, dodging cows and minibus bemos whose betel-chewing crews and passengers were busy tying down chickens, goats and pigs, zooming past topless local women with cargo on their heads, both of us high as kites on the exotic fragrances and flavors of cloves, cinnamon, coffee, and MUSIC.


fredriley
(Nottingham, UK)
Posted: Jun 10, 2011 - 09:27
 
The CD cover reminds me of a newly-established brewery just outside Nottingham called Blue Monkey, which does some excellent cask ales:

Blue Monkey logo

Nowt to do with Talking Heads, but IMO a lot more interesting and pleasurable. I hit mute within a second of this song starting, which is likely a record.

Marcuse
(Ouilmette)
Posted: May 09, 2011 - 18:57
 
 jagdriver wrote:
 Two Talking Heads tracks in one day is two too many.
But, no limit on the whining apparently. 

V-bro
Posted: Apr 08, 2011 - 03:49
 
Great music from the band, but it's the singing I can't get used to... sounds like he's got the voice, but just didn't know how to use it...

DD rabbi_phil
(beach)
Posted: Mar 07, 2011 - 16:01
 
It's amazing. No other artist elicits as much of a love/hate response than DB &Talking Heads. I think Bill really likes it that way.

jagdriver
(Just a nod and a wink south of Paradise)
Posted: Mar 07, 2011 - 15:58
 
 Two Talking Heads tracks in one day is two too many.


leaf
(Vancouver, BC)
Posted: Jul 19, 2010 - 10:31
 
 rkread wrote:
Awkward David Byrne living as a nature boy, riding his bike through NYC...love this song. Makes me happy.

{#Daisy}
 
Me too! It's a great pick-me-up. {#Bounce}

helgigermany
(Germany)
Posted: Jun 27, 2010 - 06:02
 
 calypsus_1 wrote:

Talking Heads by ~JSaurer
©2008-2010 ~JSaurer

one of the most important american bands!
airbrush, water colours & pencils & collage, 1986

 
I dont like the drawings from this artist!!


calypsus_1
Posted: May 26, 2010 - 17:53
 

Talking Heads by ~JSaurer
©2008-2010 ~JSaurer

one of the most important american bands!
airbrush, water colours & pencils & collage, 1986


bachbeet
Posted: Mar 14, 2010 - 10:48
 
Always liked this album and this song.

ambrebalte
(Beijing)
Posted: Jan 10, 2010 - 09:35
 
 Stingray wrote:
...and if you had a thousand years, you were not able to find another F****D-UP voice like the one of Talking Head´s David Byrne. I have to switch off the radio, or VOMIT! ARTEMIS!
 

did you try singing?

WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: Oct 17, 2009 - 19:25
 
 jedley wrote:
The Heads' first four albums are masterpieces, thanks entirely to Byrne's vision, voice, songwriting and persona. When that vision dried up, the musical paucity of his backup band started shining — or rather, leaking through. This song exemplifies that paucity.
 
Okay, I'm going to disagree with this one. Chris Franz, Tina Weymouth, and Jerry Harrison made up an excellent band behind Byrne. As Byrne's vision expanded—oh, I don't think it dried up—, and let's not fool ourselves into thinking that the Heads were anything but a vehicle for Byrne's ideas, so did his notion of what constituted support. Byrne supplemented and expanded the band as he imagined its sound expanding. This happens all the time—even The Beatles added Billy Preston; the Stones, Sugar Blue and Ry Cooder—the list is endless.

It may be that Byrne's vision outgrew the original band's capacity, but to characterize the original band with the tag "musical paucity" I think denigrates them unnecessarily and misses the point.


casey1024
(Still Hanging On...)
Posted: Sep 16, 2009 - 05:34
 
Like it - quite a bit

rkread
Posted: Sep 06, 2009 - 14:23
 
Awkward David Byrne living as a nature boy, riding his bike through NYC...love this song. Makes me happy.

{#Daisy}

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: May 12, 2009 - 13:26
 
 jedley wrote:
The Heads' first four albums are masterpieces, thanks entirely to Byrne's vision, voice, songwriting and persona. When that vision dried up, the musical paucity of his backup band started shining — or rather, leaking through. This song exemplifies that paucity.
 
There are a lot of reasons for the changes in the music of Byrne and Talking Heads, but the original line-up were all actually quite good musicians, and they contributed to the quality of the first four albums.  I never heard a smallness or "paucity" in their musical abilities.  The early "vision", I believe, had more to do with the ephemeral thrill of 3, (later 4) art students, being in their early twenties and making music together (and working with Brian Eno, as noted below).
  I don't particularly like this song, but I wouldn't say that it's because of the technical skills of the band or any of the other musicians on the record.  David Byrne has as much to do with their less-than-appealing songs as he does with their good ones.



Wizzuvvoz
(Land of Nod. East of Eden on Route 66.)
Posted: May 12, 2009 - 13:00
 
 jedley wrote:
The Heads' first four albums are masterpieces, thanks entirely to Byrne's vision, voice, songwriting and persona. When that vision dried up, the musical paucity of his backup band started shining — or rather, leaking through. This song exemplifies that paucity.
 
Eno had something to do with it too, I think


SweTex
(Swede living in Texas)
Posted: May 12, 2009 - 12:59
 
 Stingray wrote:
...and if you had a thousand years, you were not able to find another F****D-UP voice like the one of Talking Head´s David Byrne. I have to switch off the radio, or VOMIT!

ARTEMIS!
 

Did you forget to take your meds this morning?


Wizzuvvoz
(Land of Nod. East of Eden on Route 66.)
Posted: May 12, 2009 - 12:59
 
 bobrk wrote:
You should go see David Byrne live. His voice is really great in person, especially singing his latest stuff. Great range and emotion. After 30 years, he still seems scared of the audience, though. ;)
 
"Air can hurt you too".


jedley
(milan, italy)
Posted: Mar 10, 2009 - 10:34
 
The Heads' first four albums are masterpieces, thanks entirely to Byrne's vision, voice, songwriting and persona. When that vision dried up, the musical paucity of his backup band started shining — or rather, leaking through. This song exemplifies that paucity.

TanteJensen
(one step ahead from my shoe shine, two steps away from the county line)
Posted: Nov 04, 2008 - 02:35
 
gekkosan wrote:
This seems like a good place for what's been on my mind for a while after a few months of reading comments. Why do people get so worked up about something as harmless as a song?
And if the station or the selection is so annoying, then why waste time and energy hanging in here and writing hateful stuff? Sheesh.. there are literally THOUSANDS of internet radio stations out there. Heck, some of my best friends listen to other stations!
One of them, in fact, asked me in earnest the other day to give Secret Agent a try. I did. Some of the play list is good. Eventually I found I didn't like it as much, and came back here. Easy.
Never occurred to me to find a way to write about how annoying of boring I found SA's selection. I dunno... Just don't get some people...

Gooooood questions. I don't get'em either.

I suppose it's because music is such a good means to help you find yourself when you're young (or maybe it aint good alt all but anyway alot of us used it for that) that some people mistake it for something that constitutes them, and not just something they listen to. Hell, yeah, I wore band t-shirts and thought I was so much cooler than the rest (Cranberries in pre-zombie times e.g.) but most people get over it when they mature. Some dont. And some dont mature.

Sometimes it's good to remind ourselves that concentration camp leader requested all kinds of music from the jewsih bands they sent to the gas chambers the following day - even Jazz.

Or maybe read High Fidelity for the ninth and this time actually understand it. Peace, folks.



ruthless
(Midtown Memphis)
Posted: Oct 25, 2008 - 11:37
 
 bobrk wrote:
You should go see David Byrne live. His voice is really great in person, especially singing his latest stuff. Great range and emotion. After 30 years, he still seems scared of the audience, though. ;)
 

I saw him a couple of weeks ago.  His voice is amazingly good and I really liked his new things, as well as most of the older.  Being in Memphis, he brought the house down with "Take Me to the River"!!

FrankMc
Posted: Oct 25, 2008 - 11:35
 
Or get a DVD of Stop Making Sense. Great performance movie that lists Jonathan Demme as director.

 bobrk wrote:
You should go see David Byrne live. His voice is really great in person, especially singing his latest stuff. Great range and emotion. After 30 years, he still seems scared of the audience, though. ;)
 



orpheus
(pacific northwest, finally!!!)
Posted: Oct 03, 2008 - 12:26
 
this "song" doth sucketh in sooooooo many ways, I can't even begin to count them{#Beat}{#Frustrated}{#Razz}{#Ass}{#Snooty}{#Exclaim}{#Grumpy}{#Headache}{#Arghhh}{#Mad}{#Sick}

MJMJ
Posted: Mar 18, 2008 - 16:33
 
michaelc wrote:
I liked this then, it was new a different, now it just seems dated and not in a good way.


Wow, that's almost exactly what I wanted to say.
bobrk
(Beautiful Downtown San Jose)
Posted: Jan 15, 2008 - 17:24
 
smdeeg wrote:
Quite untrue. There are many worse voices out there. Neil Young comes to mind. You must have an allergy to be having such a severe and irrational reaction.

(BTW: I love Neil, and he uses his voice very well.)
You should go see David Byrne live. His voice is really great in person, especially singing his latest stuff. Great range and emotion. After 30 years, he still seems scared of the audience, though. ;)
D2r
(Utrecht, the Netherlands)
Posted: Dec 31, 2007 - 00:10
 
I simply love the quirkiness of the talking heads and especially of david byrne!
smdeeg
(SillyCone Valley)
Posted: Nov 29, 2007 - 15:02
 
Stingray wrote:
...and if you had a thousand years, you were not able to find another F****D-UP voice like the one of Talking Head´s David Byrne. ...
Quite untrue. There are many worse voices out there. Neil Young comes to mind. You must have an allergy to be having such a severe and irrational reaction. (BTW: I love Neil, and he uses his voice very well.)



szym
(Boston/Pittsburgh/other)
Posted: Nov 13, 2007 - 22:02
 
no doubt they are talented, but I just cannot bear it. radio went mute for a couple minutes.
20times0ver
Posted: Sep 27, 2007 - 20:08
 
This tune is nice. Sounds like the singer has perfect pitch. Or at least his overdubs do.
dapower
(thar be no snakes here.)
Posted: Sep 12, 2007 - 02:47
 
Stingray wrote:
...and if you had a thousand years, you were not able to find another F****D-UP voice like the one of Talking Head´s David Byrne. I have to switch off the radio, or VOMIT! ARTEMIS!

Lethal font size and colour, and with those caps and exclamation point you just know he really means it. Stay back...


michaelc
(Walnut Creek, CA)
Posted: Aug 27, 2007 - 09:43
 
I liked this then, it was new a different, now it just seems dated and not in a good way.
gekkosan
(Ithaca, NY)
Posted: Jun 25, 2007 - 12:17
 
This seems like a good place for what's been on my mind for a while after a few months of reading comments.

Why do people get so worked up about something as harmless as a song?
And if the station or the selection is so annoying, then why waste time and energy hanging in here and writing hateful stuff?

Sheesh.. there are literally THOUSANDS of internet radio stations out there. Heck, some of my best friends listen to other stations!
One of them, in fact, asked me in earnest the other day to give Secret Agent a try. I did. Some of the play list is good. Eventually I found I didn't like it as much, and came back here. Easy.
Never occurred to me to find a way to write about how annoying of boring I found SA's selection.

I dunno... Just don't get some people...
MylenerHead
(Somewhere In the South)
Posted: Jun 25, 2007 - 12:01
 
Stingray wrote:
...and if you had a thousand years, you were not able to find another F****D-UP voice like the one of Talking Head´s David Byrne. I have to switch off the radio, or VOMIT! ARTEMIS!
Wow, and I thought I didn't like it....


leathepea
(Hickory, NC)
Posted: Jun 25, 2007 - 12:00
 
this gives a new definition of FREE BALLIN.


Zep
(Behind home plate)
Posted: Jun 09, 2007 - 19:18
 
Stingray wrote:
I have to switch off the radio, or VOMIT!


Just turn your head away when you do, thanks.
Limpopoking
(Limpopo)
Posted: May 25, 2007 - 02:47
 
Luved the Heads... Luv D Byrne... Sublime stuff!