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Grex > Music2 > #208: Talking Heads and David Byrne | |
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krj
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response 25 of 46:
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Nov 2 23:34 UTC 1999 |
My guess would be "Music from The Knee Plays," which was for a
theatre piece, by, maybe, Robert Wilson the Philip Glass collaborator?
This was notable for introducing me to Bulgarian women singing,
because Byrne set one of the Bulgarian songs from the legendary,
then-lost album "Le Mystere Dex Voix Bulgares" to a brass ensemble.
I have a copy of this somewhere.
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happyboy
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response 26 of 46:
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Nov 3 00:03 UTC 1999 |
that's it...i was just lissening to THe Knee Plays
a cupple of months ago.
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orinoco
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response 27 of 46:
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Nov 7 08:11 UTC 1999 |
I got a tape of "Stop Making Sense" at a garage sale a while back, and finally
got around to giving it a good listen. I was more or less unimpressed by the
first side (with the slight exception of "Girlfriend is Better"), but I rather
liked the second side, especially "Once in a Lifetime" (which I'd heard
before, loved, and not realized I was listening to the Talking Heads) and
"Take Me To the River" (of which Annie Lennox's version now seems a lot less
original....). For what it's worth, I think I agree with McNally's low
opinion of "Swamp".
So between the song "Once in a Lifetime" and the reccomendations it's gotten
here, I guess I'll be putting "Remain In Light" on my to-buy list, although
the weirdnesses Ken mentions on "Fear of Music" sound awful tempting...
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goose
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response 28 of 46:
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Nov 7 16:07 UTC 1999 |
I can't remember if it was mentioned here, but "Take Me to The River" is
by Al Green and the original is very R&B.
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orinoco
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response 29 of 46:
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Nov 7 18:31 UTC 1999 |
Right; that was the version I knew originally. So when I heard Annie Lennox
do her Annie-Lennox-sounding version of it on "Medusa," I sort of though "oh,
who would have thought to do a pop version of that one?" And apparently, the
Talking Heads would have.
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happyboy
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response 30 of 46:
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Nov 7 19:31 UTC 1999 |
r28...i'm not fer sure goose but i think rev. al *covered*
it as well. you may dump some hot grits on me
if i'm wrong tho, k?
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scott
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response 31 of 46:
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Nov 7 21:32 UTC 1999 |
Hmmm, I've heard it as being attributed to Al Green. I know it better these
days in the "Commitments" movie band version, since I played it that way in
a band last year (an R&B version). Interesting thing is that the words sound
almost like a gospel song.
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bruin
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response 32 of 46:
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Nov 7 23:16 UTC 1999 |
The song "Take Me To The River" was originally sung by Al Green, although the
Talking Heads cover was somewhat better remembered.
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happyboy
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response 33 of 46:
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Nov 8 00:06 UTC 1999 |
the song is about baptism/suicide.
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orinoco
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response 34 of 46:
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Nov 8 03:27 UTC 1999 |
(?) (!)
I guess I'd never thought of seeing it as a suicide reference. But now that
you mention it, it could go either way. Hrm. I'll have to go back and listen
to them lyrics again.
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bruin
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response 35 of 46:
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Nov 8 14:14 UTC 1999 |
I believe the suicide message in the song "Take Me To The River" may relate
to Al Green's girlfriend, whose marriage proposal Green turned down,
committing suicide after throwing hot oatmeal onto Green's lap while he was
taking a bath.
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mcnally
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response 36 of 46:
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Nov 8 16:35 UTC 1999 |
He seems to get a lot of hot food thrown at him, doesn't he?
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orinoco
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response 37 of 46:
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Nov 8 21:31 UTC 1999 |
Either I'm missing a whole lot of references here, or the oatmeal part doesn't
show up in the song itself, no? :)
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gnat
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response 38 of 46:
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Nov 8 22:23 UTC 1999 |
That's GOTTA hurt!
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mcnally
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response 39 of 46:
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Nov 8 23:16 UTC 1999 |
Actually, the song is sung from the point of view *of* oatmeal.
The "drop me in the water" part is the oatmeal's suicidal impulse
to end it all..
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gnat
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response 40 of 46:
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Nov 9 02:16 UTC 1999 |
Um, OK.
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mcnally
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response 41 of 46:
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Nov 9 03:14 UTC 1999 |
not buying that, huh?
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happyboy
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response 42 of 46:
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Nov 12 02:08 UTC 1999 |
he performed the song before she threw hot grits
on him and killed herself, i believe, the event which
moved him away from secular music for many years,,,
i think he recorded a dubble album in tribute to
her before dissappearing into gospel music.
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orinoco
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response 43 of 46:
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Nov 29 21:10 UTC 1999 |
I got back from Thanksgiving and discovered the CDs I'd ordered a while back
- including 'Remain in Light" - in my mailbox. I'm liking it so far, but I
wonder whether it's the band or Eno's production that I'm liking: it sounds
(no all that surprisingly) like something off of "Bush of Ghosts," but also
enough like the other stuff I've heard that Eno's helped on. Hrm.
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mcnally
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response 44 of 46:
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Nov 29 22:05 UTC 1999 |
Sounds like now you'll need some pre- and post-Eno Talking Heads records
to compare against..
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scott
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response 45 of 46:
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Nov 30 00:54 UTC 1999 |
...and also whether or not Adrian Belew is doing guitar parts...
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orinoco
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response 46 of 46:
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Nov 30 02:21 UTC 1999 |
Oh, I'd half-forgotten Belew was on the album,. That explains some of the
weirder solos, I guess.
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