Dance. Dance. Dance.And not to any old beatEver notice how idea-free and lyrically simplistic most super-hot, fail-safe get-'em-moving dance tracks are? I mean, you can hardly help yourself from rump-shaking to C+C Music Factory's "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)," but seriously, it's just a series of short, obvious exhortations to a killer beat sequence.That's one of the reasons I r...
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Once Twice In A Lifetime(that's how I wanted the title to read) There was a great article in the Life & Arts Sunday paper (remember those??) yesterday. Arts/Culture reporter Ron Rollins expanded a plug for Tom Moon's new book "1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die" into a lament for the bygone days the local record store, and how much missed are the environs of musical discovery that were co...
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It's New Wave Wednesday and '80s Revival time. How better to celebrate than a date with the man in the big suit?
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One of my favorite songs by the Talking Heads is "Seen and Not Seen" off of their more-than-essential album Remain in Light. If you know the album at all, that might seem strange to you. After all, out of all the songs on the album, this is the least song-ish one on it. It has lyrics, but no singing. It has structure and rhythm, but does not follow the traditional song format. Without a do...
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Ex-Talking Heads mainman David Byrne plans to turn a landmark building in Manhattan into a giant musical instrument.State officials allowed Byrne to create a temporary installation in the Great Hall of the Battery Maritime Building, which is next to the Whitehall Ferry Terminal.??Battery Maritime Building, New York City??The "Playing the Building" art installation centers on the organ, which sp...
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Almost as exciting as the day I met Peter Hook. I have been a Talking Heads fan forever, just like New Order...so it actually started the day before he played a packed house at Wells Fargo Center in Santa Rosa CA. We met up with David's band during the day for a shoot and caught him on his bike ride through the city. Imagine yourself stopped in traffic...and David Byrne passes you by on a bi...
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Who am I? What a difficult question. There are only facts linked by my memory and these digital grains of music and media, a faint line of sand behind me. I was born and raised in Scottdale, a small town in southwestern Pennsylvania, surrounded by lots of family and places to explore, freedom and possibility, provincialism and a kind of redneck white trash vague rebelliousness. We said thi...
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Note: the following is the first of what may be a new series of posts, depending on how much I feel like continuing, wherein I chronicle how my life in some way relates to the various lyrics laid down by David Byrne in his various incarnations.I don't want to brag, but I consider myself a pretty educated guy. And yet for some reason I can not, for the life of me, figure out the burners on our ...
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When the Talking Heads _Speaking in Tongues_ first came out, I went to the record store and was among the lucky few who bought a limited edition vinyl of the album that was designed by none other than "Robert Rauschenberg":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rauschenberg.It was the prized album in my collection ... the vinyl itself was clear, and included several sheets of acetate upon which Ra...
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A little note for all you guys and girls who know how to fix things. In my spare time, something I've come upon a lot of recently, I found that I can make a bucket load of money as a small jobs handyman. I went to a local retirement community and tacked up a card saying that I was "...available to fix minor plumbing problems, install ceiling fans, rehang cabinet doors, put in new door knobs. Ca...
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ive watched the talking heads dvd 'stop making sense' probablalbalably 5 times in the past week. its just that good. with an ever-growing stage and energetic david byrne, the concert delivers hit after hit like some lunatic tai boxer. however, since it was filmed in 1984, no 'road to nowhere'... insert sad face here. but i cant complain. as by watching this, i realized that live versions of son...
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This is far more awesome than it has any right to be: Update 4.19.2009: A working embed... Balloon Trip: An Existential Journey @ Yahoo! Video
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Came across this great live version the other week of a classic Heads tune on another social site that starts with an M. Not myspace. "Mind" is a great tune off of the incomparable Fear of Music album, and I like this live version because it really brings out the funk and groove of the song.(Note: The tags have taken over--as I said, this is live, not the studio album. The live album, bootle...
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