Talking Heads - Talking Heads: Remain in Light
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Artist: Talking HeadsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Dual Disc, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2006-01-10
Music Label: Rhino
Soundtracks:
- Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
- Crosseyed and Painless
- The Great Curve
- Once in a Lifetime
- Houses in Motion
- Seen and Not Seen
- Listening Wind
- The Overload
- Fela's Riff [Unfinished Outtake][#][*]
- Unison [Unfinished Outtake][#][*]
- Double Groove [Unfinished Outtake][#][*]
- Right Start [Unfinished Outtake][#][*]
Free Music Notes for Talking Heads: Remain in Light
Free Music Review: REMAIN IN BRIGHTER LIGHT
Hit: 5 Stars
This has always been my favorite TALKING HEADS album, along with one of my favorite albums of all time. At the time this came out, I remember that most of us "punk-newwavers" were pretty amazed by their previous album FEAR OF MUSIC, and all the innovation and texture that was on that album. (Lyrics in Swahili, dense percussion, outrageous conceptual songs, etc.) It seemed that Eno and the Heads could go no further. But before REMAIN IN LIGHT was created, Eno and David Byrned did that MY LIFE IN THE BUSH OF GHOSTS album, where they investigated african rythyms, dense overlayed lyrics, and many other innovations that perhaps we take for granted now. Anyway, REMAIN IN LIGHT had the critics mouths hanging open. I remember in ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE, the review said that this album was so far ahead of its time, that the rest of the bands would take years to catch up. It was an accurate observation. In fact, this was as "arty" as the Heads ever got. Even tho the entire band is credited on each track, so is ENO. Apparently, the other Heads besides David Byrne, the head HEAD, felt that they were no longer a band for the people, or had become too esoteric, whatver. After this album, they moved back into a more direct, commercial sound with their next album, and Eno was not involved. So, that leaves us with this masterpiece of the NEW WAVE movement, and one of those great treasures that unfortunately, many people who didnt come up at that time, know not much about. After all, except for that cool cover that LIVING COLOR did from this album, not many bands followed this direction, except for the electronic bands. Maybe they felt it was too much like "ART ROCK". (except this is music, that hardly has more than one chord, or two, on any song.) The sad fact is, that this kind of music takes a lot of developement, and intellect, and education (they were all ex-art school students), and that is a path not taken by today's pop-punk bands, or computer generated mash ups, remixes, etc. If just as inspiration as to what is possible, this would be a fantastic album to study.
What is offered on this DUAL DISC is simply amazing. The Heads know that this is their best album, and they didnt want to disappoint. When they went to expand their mixes to 5.1, this was the first album they remixed. The reasoning is clear. So many layers and layers of sound lay buried in the old stereo mix, that hearing it for the first time in that 5.1 mix, is a revelation. The back speakers play the percussion parts, or sometimes four of the speakers will swirl the synth and guitar parts around your head, as in THE OVERLOAD. Even on the cheapest DVD home theater system, the sound and expanded clarity is astonding. Instruments are pulled out of the mix, that were only at best hinted at, when the old vinyl was spinning on the stereos. Plus, the regular stereo remastering has been greatly improved upon.
There are plenty of extras with this release, including four new studio outtakes, three of which have vocals. I dont mean to say lyrics. I suppose that an album with this much call and response, and triple layered vocal parts, etc, needed a lot of experimentation and trials, in order to find what it was that ENO and the Band were after. Now, these new songs are great to hear, and they are not demos, or early versions of other songs. They DO stand on their own, at least to me. (At the very least, they are as good as the "SONG" numbers from CATHERINE WHEEL, which the Talking Heads had incorperated into their live act.) The four new songs, help to deconstruct this recording and writing process. As far as I'm concerned, anything that helps to explain how this album came about, I want to hear.
Other extras include two live versions of the songs done on German TV, a booklet with the storyboard for the video of HOUSES IN MOTION. (One of the very first MTV videos that caught massive rotation, and helped to popularize this album.) ALso, there are David's hand written lyric drafts to two songs, one from the album and another that was not used, but perhaps were written for one of the unfinished instrumental with vocalizations. Again, fascinatning to study. IT shows how the lyrical ideas, of having three simultaneous vocal parts, came to be. Adrian Belew even puts a little quote in there, just in case you wanted to know the social impact this album had. It truely was the Sgt Pepper of the NEW WAVE generation. AND, if that were not enough, there are photos on the DVD side of the CD, so when you listen to the 5.1 mix, you can look at pictures as well.
I do want to address the negative remarks made about this edition. First, sure, some CD or DVD players cant play it. For those of you who don't hesitate to buy a new cell phone, so it can take photos, videos, surf the internet, text message, play MP3s, and cook dinner, I can't understand why you would NOT update your DVD player, if you have had it for 15 years, or your CD player. I would guess, that you would have to own an ancient DVD player, for this to be a problem. Also, what is the problem with the gatefold cover, instead of inserts in a CD plastic case? If you dont want the cover scratched up, buy those CD plastic slip covers. Problem solved, for 10 cents. (The real reason the industry is turning to this presentation of CDs, is to prevent cheap reproductions.) As for handling the CD/DVD, it takes no more care, than any CD. If you are hard on CDs, then copy the CD onto a CD-R, and carry that around with you. If it were on 2 CDs instead of just the one, people would have complained about the price. As for no lyrics, well, I'd rather have the reproductions of the original lyrical ideas. I think if you were to go to TALKING HEAD web sites, you could find lyrics. Personally, I think I have most of them memorized--they are not that hard to hear. So, should you update your old CD? I'm not sure about the other DUALDISC TALKING HEAD releases, but this one is well worth the money.
Talking Heads: Remain in Light Poster
Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. Warner.Way back in 1980, the original wave of Talking Heads fans were pleasantly stunned to hear Remain in Light, produced and co-written by Brian Eno, on which Byrne and company are joined by guitar god Adrian Belew, and funk legends Bernie Worrell (keyboards) and Steven Scales (percussion), among others, for a fuller, funkier sound nobody imagined they had in them. The first three songs are long, layered, full-body dance parties, with incessantly repeated phrases (musical and lyrical), and increasingly catchy melodic hooks that won't let go for days. "Once in a Lifetime" was the big hit, but the rockingest track is the third, "The Great Curve," after which the songs get more linear and subdued. It's still great stuff, right through to the especially Eno-like droner, "The Overload," but the second half is maybe better to sleep to than dance to. Which is fine: after the exuberance of the first three songs, you'll need a little nap. --Dan Leone
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