May 17, 2013 Playlist

"Remain In Light" by Talking Heads (1980)
Talking Heads  "Remain In Light"  1980 (USA)
Happy 60th birthday David Byrne, and happy 65th birthday Brian Eno! Byrne was the quirky lead singer, guitarist and songwriter of Talking Heads, and Brian Eno produced a string of their best albums from 1978-80. Remain In Light is in some ways the group's most iconic and well-loved album, though ironically it is also unlike any of their other albums. On the first three Heads albums, there is a creeping increase in the influence of funk music, but for this record they abandoned Western pop/rock almost entirely and went all out for African rhythms and song structures. Byrne even raps! (pretty cutting edge actually, since this was just after the dawn of hip-hop; the same year Blondie went to #1 with the goofy "Rapture" -- hey it was New Yawk baby). Though the music is far from primitive: soupy synths and effect-drenched keyboards over a sea of polyrhtyhms, as deconstructed by the masterful Eno, yields a sound that is still futuristic today. The dichotomy is also wonderfully captured in the "digital/tribal" masks worn by the quartet on the album's cover.
(N) = New Release
(R) = Listener Request

   
Artist Song Album Year (Label) Country
Bob Dylan
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
Blonde On Blonde 1966
USA
The Modern Lovers
I'm Straight
The Modern Lovers rec. 1972, rel. 1976
USA
Yes
Five Per Cent For Nothing
   / Long Distance Runaround
   / The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus)
Fragile 1972
UK
Eno
The True Wheel
Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) 1974
UK
 
 
Talking Heads
Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
Remain In Light
CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
1980
USA
Talking Heads
Cross-Eyed And Painless
Remain In Light
CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
1980
USA
Talking Heads
The Great Curve
Remain In Light
CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
1980
USA
Talking Heads
Once In A Lifetime (live)
Stop Making Sense 1984
USA
Brian Eno & David Byrne
Regiment
My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts 1981
UK/USA
   
 
Architectural Metaphor SPQREverything You Know Is Wrong (N)2013 (Architectural Metaphor)USA
Earthling Society The Eevator Does Not Stop At This Floor
Zodiak (N)2013 (Nasoni)UK
Ty Segall & White Fence TonguesHair (N)2012 (Drag City)USA
Meat Puppets One More DropRat Farm (N)2013 (Megaforce)USA
 
 
Alice Coltrane (R) (with Pharoah Sanders)
Shiva-Loka
Journey In Satchidananda
1970
USA
Pharoah Sanders (R)
Summun, Bukmun, Umyun
Summun, Bukmun, Umyun 1970
USA
John Coltrane
Harmonique
Coltrane Jazz
1961
USA
Miles Davis
Medley: Gemini / Double Image Live-Evil
1971
USA
The Stark Reality Bustin' Out Of Doors
Acting, Thinking, Feeling (N - reissue box set)rec. 1969 (2013 Now Again)USA
 
  
Rick Wakeman
Anne Of Cleves The Six Wives Of Henry VIII
1973
UK
Bill Bruford
Fainting In Coils One Of A Kind
1979
UK
Kraftwerk
Electrisches Roulette Kraftwerk 2
1971
Germany
Faust
Meadow Meal Faust
1971
Germany
 
 
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Gesang der Juenglinge Gesang der Juenglinge - Kontakte rec. 1956, stereo LP rel. 1968
Germany
 
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