Talking Heads
Remain in Light
2/10
Beth Orton
Central Reservation
4/10
David Crosby
If Only I Could Remember My Name
7/10
Def Leppard
Euphoria
2/10
Beck
Mellow Gold
2/10
Bad Company
Bad Company
6/10
Bob Dylan
Bringing it all back home
6/10
Aretha Franklin
Aretha Now
6/10
Carly Simon
No secrets
3/10
The Beatles
Help!
6/10
Rush
Permanent Waves
5/10
Leonard Cohen
Songs of love and hate
3/10
Crosby Stills & Nash
Crosby Stills & Nash
7/10
Frank Sinatra
Sings for Only the Lonely
5/10
Talk Talk
Spirit of Eden
5/10
Roxy Music
Country Life
3/10
Joe Jackson
Body and Soul
2/10
Madonna
Erotica
2/10
Violent Femmes
Violent Femmes
2/10
Metallica
Metallica (Black?)
6/10
Bob Dylan (Father to love-child
@BlueHammer85 )
Love and Theft
4/10
Derek and the Dominos
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
4/10
Talking Heads (
@BlueHammer85 are you paid on commission by these guys?) ;-)
Stop making sense (Live)
Here we go again..............
@RobMCFC I think your ears prick up at the same overproduction of sounds or effects that litters their music as mine.
In addition, I don't seem to be able to hone in on what the guy is really singing / yodelling / making noises about? Are we tone deaf to different things or am I just a bit off - on seconds thought, don't answer that ;-)
Surprisingly, I enjoyed this far more than listening to Remain in Light (which lets face it, I hated and given my time again it would have scored a 1).*
There is some ok stuff on this across 3-4 tracks, Slippery people is good - and I would say this is the perfect example of how they can be improved (yes yes, who am I to critique the almighty Talking Heads) by refining their output. Less is definitely more and strip away the overproduction and extremely busy wall of sound and it can be good.
In a parallel universe, I would like to see how the live version of Cross eyed and painless pans out after the first enjoyable minute of music. As I professed when someone posted in here right at the inception of the thread, I like the opening bit but once the change of pace is injected it's only the really the backing singers that I really like.
I don't doubt their ability, to be fair I don't doubt their creativity (again back to the over done sound effects, I just wonder whether this is an extension of that and / or that particular period of time), but as I have probably laboured to death with
@Bill Walker , regardless of their technical ability the overall output is and can be bettered by far inferior (technically) musicians.
I'm going 5/10 (again referring to previous scores) which is a huge swing from where I started with them circa 5 months ago.
I have to raise it though, I'm not sure why a lot are so set that this is THE live performance that everyone should be aspiring to. Who knows, I'm 35 and still learning.
* Some of my responses are potentially not as consistent as usual as I am now reviewing whilst in Greece on holiday - the sun is shining so how has a far greater platform than the usual drive to work et al.
Have we come across a more decisive act than Talking Heads? To be fair to them, I imagine they would love it.......... :-)