Talking Heads - Little Creatures
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Free Music Review: It's getting to be pop music . . .
Hit: 4 Stars
This is an interesting recording. The TH's had really moved beyond their edgy-ness, but still had a knack for writing cool songs such as "And She Was" & "Stay Up Late" in particular. In this, they're moving toward the mainstream. Some of these songs are a bit of a drag, but overall it rocks.Free Music Review: Great, fun music
Hit: 4 Stars
One of the better things to come out of the 80s. Although I have heard that this is not considered the best work the Talking Heads has ever done, it is intelligent enough to remain timeless, enjoyable enough to listen to anywhere, and sensible enough to speak to the everyday listener.
Give it a listen!
Free Music Review: MORE POPPY RETURN
Hit: 4 Stars
They returned in 1985 with this really catchy album.Probably their most accessible in terms of songs..half of the songs definitely sound like singles....Free Music Review: My Favorite Talking Heads CD.
Hit: 4 Stars
Good CD. Brings back memories of my college years in the 80's. The Talking Heads are a very unique band whose style compares with no other band.Free Music Review: Decent, but lacking an edge.
Hit: 3 Stars
After their debut album, the Talking Heads began building music of excess-- extra musicians, layered instrumental arrangement, polyrhythms, and so on, driven on by David Byrne's sort of all-accepting view of music and in part fueled by Brian Eno's production wizardry. After an album that was more electronic then organic ("Speaking in Tongues"), the Talking Heads did a complete about face with "Little Creatures", presenting an album of essentially stripped down pop music.
Now granted, stripped down pop is not a bad thing-- it's just that the band appears to have surrendered their edge along with their heavy production. While the music manages to reclaim a bit of that timeless quality that made the first four Talking Heads albums so great, the music is lacking. From my perspective, I suspect it's because it's a lot more restrained-- the instrumental arrangements are a lot less edgy and Byrne's vocals fall in a comfortable middle range tenor rather than his usual higher, tense vocal.
Truthfully, none of it is BAD-- it's all pretty enough pop music ("Perfect World"), and the reflections on children on sweet and often quite clever-- albeit goofy ("Creatures of Love", "Stay Up Late"), and certainly there's no question that opener "And She Was" was destined to be a hit-- it's a great piece with a fantastic hook and a great vocal harmony on the chorus. It's just that most of the pieces are pretty much undistinguished ("Walk it Down"), and the Talking Heads were never about undistinguished songs.
This album, along with the rest of the band's catalog, was just released in dualdisc format. The remastering makes that version far more desirable as it sounds fantastic and is worth the extra cost.
Trutfully, had a band other than Talking Heads put this out, I'd probably rate this higher, but the bar was set pretty high by "Fear of Music" and "Remain in Light".