response 100 of 151:

Oct 26 01:26 UTC 1998

The only David Byrne I've heard is his album with Eno, which I take it is Not
Representative of what he did w/the talking heads. I'll have to give some of
that a listen sometime.

response 102 of 151:

Oct 26 03:30 UTC 1998

 re #100:  by "his album with Eno" I presume you mean "My Life In the
 Bush of Ghosts", which, you're right, is not typical of his other stuff,
 even the other stuff with which Eno was involved.

 I love all of Talking Heads' albums through "Little Creatures" but
 never really liked the last two ("True Stories", "Naked") (I do like
 the movie "True Stories", though, and like the songs as performed in
 the movie.  The band's versions don't thrill me.)  I also very much
 like "The Catherine Wheel" and "My Life.." Byrne's solo career, though,
 has been spotty at best.  If nothing else, it's proven how important
 Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth were to the band..

 I've heard a song or two that I've liked from "Feelings", Byrne's latest
 solo effort and was thinking of giving it a try..  Every time, though,
 that I decide to do so I remember the times I've been burned and decide
 against.  Anyone care to offer an opinion and tip the scales firmly into
 the "buy" or "don't buy" category?
 

response 104 of 151:

Oct 26 19:49 UTC 1998

  I've got both "The Forest" and a CD-single of remixes of some of the
  songs from it.  I like the remixes better, the album is a little boring
  to listen to the whole way through..

response 106 of 151:

Oct 29 02:11 UTC 1998

"Feelings," if not great material, is packaged very unusually.  He portrays
himself like a Ken-like Barbie doll..the back of the CD seems to look like
a Barbie doll package description, and the liner notes show different
detachable heads with various feelings.  Plus, as the jewel box is clear,
Byrne uses the print on the CD and the print on the inside of the spoke cover
for a 'mood computer.'  The CD has an arrow on it-- you spin it in the jewel
box and look to see which mood is indicated.

Odd.

response 108 of 151:

Oct 30 00:36 UTC 1998

I think we do.  Browse around; I forgot the item number.

response 110 of 151:

Nov 3 21:31 UTC 1998

NP:  U2, "The Best of, 1980-1990".  I'd been eagerly awaiting this
since the news stories announced it, some months ago.  U2 has always been 
more of a singles band for me than an album band, and this set seems to 
sweep up most of the songs I care about.  
 
Copies shipped the first week contain an extra disc of single B-sides, 
including "Silver and Gold," which I have always been fond of.
The record company claims this edition will be deleted next Tuesday, 
so if you believe them & if you care, don't wait on picking up the 
first edition.  (The 2-disc version seems to be priced at $22 at 
most shops.)

response 112 of 151:

Nov 5 06:52 UTC 1998

  I looked the discs over in Best Buy earlier today.  They seemed very
  heavily weighted towards the "Joshua Tree" and "Unforgettable Fire"
  years.  To be fair, those were probably when they had their biggest
  hits.  On the other hand, they're also the part of the band's career
  I find most intolerable.  I'd much rather hear stuff from the War/
  Boy/October period or the post-Achtung-Baby stuff..

  It's not all that popular with many U2 fans, largely because it doesn't
  sound like the band's traditional sound, but the U2 album I like best
  (by a large margin) is Zooropa.  I'd probably pick "War" as my favorite
  of the early stuff..

response 114 of 151:

Nov 8 01:23 UTC 1998

I'm afraid that early U2 passed me by.  The first current U2 release I 
bought was probably RATTLE AND HUM...  just last year I picked up BOY
as part of a 1980's revival program, but I didn't get any more.

response 116 of 151:

Nov 13 07:00 UTC 1998

  I was listening to the radio this evening in the car and some 
  station was playing the U2 set mentioned above.  One of the songs,
  'Dancing Barefoot', struck me as sounding odd and I couldn't quite
  place what was wrong until I realized that I had never heard it as
  a U2 song but was familiar with the version by a band called Xymox
  (originally "Clan of Xymox" but by the time they got around to the
  album with 'Dancing Barefoot' on it they were just Xymox..)

  Next time you've got the disc handy, if you remember to do so, I'd
  be interested in whether the liner notes reveal who wrote it.  I'd
  always assumed the Xymox folks but it sounded fairly natural as a
  U2 song..

response 118 of 151:

Nov 13 17:15 UTC 1998

  I don't know, I'm not particularly familiar with Smith's work,
  but it would kind of surprise me if it were.  

response 120 of 151:

Nov 15 15:58 UTC 1998

Interesting. My band does the Patti Smith version, though a bit more
rocked up. I had no idea it has been covered so much. 

response 122 of 151:

Nov 16 12:52 UTC 1998

I think Howard Jones did "Everlasting Love" in the late eighties,
but there may have been someone else with a song by that name too.

response 124 of 151:

Nov 16 14:02 UTC 1998

I didn't realize it was even legal to do covers without giving credit to the
original songwriters.