Talking Heads or Blondie?

[vifferman]

I am a major talking heads fan, and I consider their first four albums essential listening even now (TH 77, More Songs about Buildings and Food, Fear of Music, and Remain in Light).

Awwrrriiight!
Me too.

You didn't mention the David Byrne /Bryan Eno hookup.

[Big Dave]

Clem plays drums in my all time fantasy band.

Stop Making Sense is my Favourite Concert Film ever.

[Big Dave]

[Trudes]

I liked Talking Heads a lot when I was a kid, but like Blondie more now that I'm older. Fav Blondie songs.... Rapture, Call Me and Atomic.

[rapid van cleef]

Zodia Mindwarp and the Love reaction................I saw them in around 1983. Now thats a band! Anyone know the guitarist, Yan Cyrka?...........hes ok. you can't tell from his zodiac mindward stuff but hes a bit of a virtuoso..............almost as good as me!

[crazyhorse]

Blondie. I remember walking along the school corridors and we had our radio station blarring out her music......

oh, memories! Feels like it was just yesterday

[Coldrider]

you missed Joan Jett and the Runaways...

and Blackhearts, chicks broke new boundaries back then.

[Cloggy]

Blondie for me.
Best song in my opinion was "The Hardest Part"
Still love that song.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Awwrrriiight!
Me too.

You didn't mention the David Byrne /Bryan Eno hookup.

"My Life in the bush of ghosts" which had its genesis in the sessions for "MSABAF" which Eno produced. It is awesome to this day. snippets of found audio (the creepiest ones are on "Jezebel": so you hear voices and you are PO sessed") stonking beats = genius. (their one released last year "Everything that happens will happen today" is only OK by contrast.

I also lost a lot of my original post: must have timed out, but to answer the original post, my favourite TH song is "Life During Wartime" which for many many years was my favourite song of all time. Hard to imagine Blondie doing a song that starts "There's a van, and its loaded with weapons, packed up and ready to roll"

Even TH's later very commercially successful stuff is OK: the affro beat stuff and the radio friendly stuff is listenable still, unlike, say the Blondie rap crossover, and most of DH's solo career.

[HenryDorsetCase]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbuei9AIq9U[/youtube]

three piece TH: when they got Jerry on keyboards it really fattened up the sound.

[HenryDorsetCase]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MYp0VIbwZk

I dont like this as much as the early four piece versions: Adrien Belew on gittar makes it worthwhile though.

[HenryDorsetCase]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COlw9...om=PL&index=27

this is the album version.

"the sound of gunfire off in the distance, I'm gettin' used to it now"

[Skyryder]

Debbie harry vs Suzy Quatro vs Pat Benatar........ definitely an era

Now if the thread wss it was 'Giving Head'.........................Debbie all the way.................but its not..................so it's still Debbie.


Skyryder

[Coldrider]

Now if the thread wss it was 'Giving Head'.........................Debbie all the way.................but its not..................so it's still Debbie.


Skyryder

I thought any head was good head.......................................so i took what i could get........doh BTO

[HenryDorsetCase]

Both are destroyed by Zodiac Mindwarp and the love reaction.

fairly generic "pop with visuals that mark us out as original, daring and exotic" innit: very KISS-like, or Twisted Sister or any of those other generic awful bands of the day (say Def Leppard, or Judas Priest)*

I like Rob Zombie a lot because of his tongue in cheek humour: he does similar stuff to those guys but better. much better




*that should get a few going....