Talking Heads or Blondie?

[Headbanger]

My god man, You included the video in the quote, Hitcher will smote thee down when he sees that.

As for Zodiac Mindwarp they were created as a joke band, A bunch of non-metalheads giving themselves silly names, adopting the ridicules look, and throwing every cliche they could into the project as a giant piss-take. The funny part was the album rocked and they had enough success that the lead singer has been trying to milk it ever since.

And Def Leppard are just total shit, If anyone invents a working time machine they should use it to go back in time and shoot those fucks before they went homo.

As for Rob Zombie, I can't get into it, Anyone that uses fake beats needs to be shot.

[Drunken Monkey]

... but they're a fairly mainstream pop act: Sure Heart of Glass, CAll me and (my favourite of theirs) Atomic are GREAT pop songs, but they're fairly mainstream in content lurve songs, with very conventional structure, chording, lyrical content etc. ...

In general I agree with your post, but Blondie should at least be credited with the first pop/rap fusion ("Rapture") track in 1981 - 5 years before the more commonly quoted Run DMC vs Aerosmith "Walk this way". They were also innovative, probably just not as innovative as TH.

[HenryDorsetCase]

As for Rob Zombie, I can't get into it, Anyone that uses fake beats needs to be shot.

"fake beats"? He uses a live drummer, always? Or are you talking about the last White Zombie record which he did all by himself (ahd which yielded "More Human than Human" among other works of genius?)

I actually bought his latest today, havent listened to it yet.

[RDjase]

In general I agree with your post, but Blondie should at least be credited with the first pop/rap fusion ("Rapture") track in 1981 - 5 years before the more commonly quoted Run DMC vs Aerosmith "Walk this way". They were also innovative, probably just not as innovative as TH.

Funny thing, we were at the Whangamomana last saturday arvo and Rapture was on the stereo . We came to decision helping rap into main stream Music wasnt a good idea

TH for me

"Stop making Sense" the movie is Awesome

[smoky]

The idea numb skulls is that we have a nice music thread and I don't have to do all the copy and paste huh? :-)

I don't think they get it dude

[smoky]

Nice...

[smoky]

no question she influenced this chick

[smoky]

sorry i typed in Dirty Harry instead of Debbie Harry

[Maha]

I like this from Debbie Harry.

[smoky]

[Indiana_Jones]

Favourite Talking Heads song is Once in a lifetime

Favourite Blondie song would be Atomic, I guess

-Indy

[smoky]

[Hitcher]

Favourite song?

I can play Psycho Killer on my uke.

Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa better

[Swoop]

I prefer to compare Blondie and The Eurythmics - The Eurythmics carried on with what Blondie started into the '80's....and Annie Lennox could hit the notes more accurately than Debbie Harry.

The lovely Annie.
A darned good concert at Western Springs, back in '87!

[HenryDorsetCase]

http://www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/i-love-tina-weymouth

I was at that Sweetwaters South festival at QE2 stadium. Pretenders and Simple Minds and TH (the stop making sense tour). Big suit and whatnot. It was great.

I busted out this album at the weekend: Damn its good: two distinct phases: 1977 to 1979 which is their early stuff, and 1981 Remain in Light tour. Shit yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nam..._Talking_Heads


Absolute killer version of Life During Wartime.

In fact I'm getting back to my early 80's stuff in a big way: Jesus and Mary Chain, Talking Heads, Echo and the Bunnymen, Shriekback, Public Image Ltd, Motorhead all getting a good seeing-to at present.

Ive grown older, Ive not grown up. I am looking forward to having the loudest stereo in the rest home, and blasting White Zombie and the Dead Kennedys and shouting "What, dear? I'm a bit deaf" to the comely young maiden who will be sponging my crevices, while I ogle her cleavage. .........