Talking Heads - Talking Heads: True Stories
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Artist: Talking HeadsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Dual Disc
CD Release Date: 2006-02-14
Music Label: Rhino
Soundtracks:
- Love for Sale
- Puzzlin' Evidence
- Hey No
- Papa Legba
- Wild Wild Life
- Radio Head
- Dream Operator
- People Like Us
- City of Dreams
- Wild Wild Life [Extended Mix][*]
- Papa Legba [Pops Staples Vocal Version][*]
- Radio Head [Tito Larriva Vocal Version][*]
Free Music Notes for Talking Heads: True Stories
Free Music Review: Significantly Under-Rated
Hit: 4 Stars
Variously described as punk rock, art rock, alternative rock, and new wave, The Talking Heads (David Byrne, Jerry Harrison, Chris Frantz, and Tina Weymouth) originally formed in 1974 and became one of many cutting-edge bands to emerge from New York's legendary CBGB'S, the proving ground of such diverse acts as Patti Smith, Blondie, Television, and Mink DeVille. By the late 1970s and early 1980s the band was critically lauded, extremely influential, and commercially profitable--but creative differences began to divide the members. The 1986 TRUE STORIES would be among the band's last recordings.
Fans of the band frequently savage TRUE STORIES as "not a real Talking Heads recording." There's some truth to this: it was essentially a David Byrne project, with songs written for the film of the same name. But that aside, much of the complaint seems to arise from the fact that the songs were written to serve a film rather than the band's more typical style. TRUE STORIES is not a stylistically cohesive release in the same sense as, say, SPEAKING IN TONGUES; it bounces from funky to country-inflected to bluesy. Certainly many of the cuts are more pop-inflected than what Talking Heads usually did. But that isn't to say that they do them badly.
TRUE STORIES contains a lot knock-outs. It opens with the fairly hard-rocker "Love For Sale," a commentary on consumerism and the television culture, as memorable and jolting as the best the band ever did. There follows a series of songs that range from Gospel hysteria to Voodoo chants to pop fun. But the real departure in style is the distinctly country-western edge that most of the selections seem to possess. It is perhaps most noticeable in "People Like Us" and "City of Dreams," both of which have a plantive quality evocative of open, empty spaces. It is also worth noting that while Talking Heads were always extremely witty and often ironic in terms of lyrics and music, the music for the film TRUE STORIES is flatly, overtly satirical--a fact that seems to escape most people who dislike this particular recording.
The "DualDisc" release has pluses and minuses. The CD side includes every cut from the original release as well as bonus tracks: an extended mix of "Wild, Wild Life" (which is not greatly inspired) and "Papa Legba" as performed by Pops Staples and "Radio Head" as performed by Tito Larriva in the actual film. The DVD side offers the original album in 5.1 surround sound, a photo gallery, and vides of "Wild Wild Life" and "Love For Sale." But frankly, the DualDisc format is a royal pain in the backside. It plays readily enough on most DVD players, on most computer systems, and my Bose accepts the CD side without complaint. But don't hold your breath on being able to get the CD side to play on the average boom box: it simply won't play.
GFT, Amazon Reviewer
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