Funky Friday - The Talking Heads?

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Funky Friday - The Talking Heads?

Funky Friday - The Talking Heads?

Posted over 2 years ago

I feel a special kinship with Mr. Byrne. We are both skinny and awkward looking. But he has a 1000 x's more rhythm than I ever will. I remember an interview around the time "Stop Making Sense" was re-released on DVD, the interviewer asked him what surprised him listening to the old stuff, he replied (paraphrased) that he was surprised just how funky they were back then.
So I submit to you a great track from one of their over looked and under rated albums "Remain in Light." The Track is "The Great Curve"I'll post the full on later.

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Rawkkiddoh says I feel a special kinship with Mr. Byrne. We are both skinny and awkward looking, that made me laugh out loud. Great track by the way

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mktackabery says I remember when I saw Stop Making Sense, I thought the Talking heads was the strangest thing I had ever seen in my life, but there was something about their sound, it just stuck in your head. Days later I could not get their music out of my head . . . bought the soundtrack and the rest was history I guess.

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Groon says My absolutely favorite track by the Talking Heads. By the end of the song there are so many things going on at once it's amazing.

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ivylander says Let Grandpa tell you a little story.... I was working as a reporter at a small newspaper in a college town (Penn State was the college) and doubling as the arts desk. Which meant getting in free to concerts under the guise of reviewing them. TH came to Penn State back then in support of "Fear Of Music" - now considered, I guess, the last album of their first phase, when they were still regarded as the whitest band in the world. After the concert, I was invited to a party among whose other guests were Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth. I got into a conversation with Chris about our favorite live albums, and he said without hesitation, "James Brown Live At The Apollo." That was clue number one. Clue number two came a little later, the subject of disco came up (there was a lot of disco hatin' going on back then, remember) and Chris said, "I love a lot of disco and don't have a lot of time for people who say they hate it. I think those people are essentially racists." This was a pretty unusual thing to say in '78 or '79 - everybody cool knew how lame disco was. In retrospect, it was clear that the Heads were getting ready to shed a skin....

Permalink posted 04/28/2007
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contrabandwidth says Great story, I'm sure Frantz's thinking was a bit a head of the curb. Those were the days before P.C. (which is good or bad considering what your opinion is on how it changed our language). But more so, I don't think we considered the socio-political implications of hating something like disco. We can now trace the rise of hip hop in inner cities to the poor economic conditions of the 70's and 80's, coupled with the removal of actual "hands on instruments" music programs in schools. This a lot of inner city kids to make music with found material by remixing of well known (and lesser known) melodies. Since hip hop owes a lot to disco, and disco was made by a lot of black artists we can (in hind sight) see how Frantz might have touched on an unseen bias at the time.
I find this similar to what David Byrne posted recently on his blog about some dinner conversation that touched on the infamous Dannish "Mohammed Cartoons." How it was more about racism than it was about free speech. I'd have to say I agree with Mr. Byrne in his arguement.
In hind sight, though everything is 20/20...

Permalink posted 04/28/2007