whatever bite this had in the late 70s has been lost over the course of time. today, this sounds like just about the most bland and simplistic elevator music you could possibly come up with, and produces visions of 50 year-old bourgeois liberals in expensive loafers doing a brainstorming session at google. talking heads have simply not aged well...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9CjnDufqeQ
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deathtokoalas
ugh. do you know how many posts i've deleted from people claiming i don't "get it"?
it's not that i don't get it.
it's just that it's incredibly boring.
i mean, if this is your idea of difficult music, you've got the bar set pretty low...
Lucius Albinus
'Gotta agree with you. I keep seeing this guys mentioned along side the greats of the 'punk' genre...and it's like: Really? These guys?
deathtokoalas
they were kind of just there in new york at the same time. i mean, this isn't punk rock, really - it's drawing very heavily on the prog flavour of mid to late 70s bowie. there's some tepid political commentary, but it's hardly at the same level of criticism. they were kind of more like the house disco band at cbgbs.
forty years later, it's hard to see why anybody wouldn't just listen to bowie...
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deathtokoalas
music critics need to engage with certain things they may not particularly enjoy. the talking heads overlap with a number of my interests: eno, belew, bowie, new york city in the late 70s. they have a place in existing music histories, and they've tended to generate mixed reviews. analyzing their output is highly relevant in a number of historical contexts, even if it's simply to suggest not to bother with them.
