Metamatic Forums Socialising The Green Room Talking Heads

I decided to start a seperate Heads topic, after the conversations about them and David Byrne, in the "What are you listening to?" thread.

An interesting band.

I discovered Talking Heads in 1999, when their classic concert film, Stop Making Sense was re-released in cinemas and on DVD.

I went to see it at the cinema, and everything I had read about it was true – it was almost like being at an actual gig, so much so, you wanted to applaud after each song. I bought it on DVD and CD soon after... one of the best live albums and concert films.

I don't have all the Talking Heads albums, but the ones I do have I like very much. Fabourites being the excellent Fear of Music, Speaking in Tongues and Remain In Light, which is a rather unusual album.

I really like a lot of Byrne's solo work too - though there are a few albums of his that I haven't heard – Grown Backwards, Lead Us Not Into Temptation, The Catherine Wheel, In Spite of Wishing and Wanting and Music for the Knee Plays which I had never even heard of, until Rob mentioned it in the other thread!

So there's still quite a lot of Byrne to discover. Personally my favourite albums of his are David Byrne and Feelings.

I'd like to see him live. He's certainy one of a kind.

Im a really big heads/byrne fan. I would highly reccomend his look into the eyeball album. Also thats brilliant is the live dvd live at the union chapel which came out in 2005 but was filmed 2002.

I'm sad to say was really disappointed with Look Into the Eyeball when it came out.

It's good, but nowhere near the same level as his previous two albums - for me anyway. The only track that had a lasting appeal was "Broken Things".

Thugh maybe it's time for another listen.

Grown Backwards got heaps of praise and good reviews... but from the bits I heard, it just isn't to my taste.

I'd like to see the Union Chapel DVD though... I've had my eye on it for some time.

Defently get the union chapel dvd its very good. Grown backwards has alot of strings on it though to be honest i need to give it another spin. His journal on his website is an interesting read although most of the time what hes is a bit above me.

HMV.co.uk say the title is deleted... I can still see a few on Amazon though, and I guess it's still available in well stocked shops. Might add it to my birthday wishlist!

The Union Chapel is excellent - well worth watching...

Rob

I've just been looking at it online - interesting setlist. Does David perform with a full band or is it solo?

David performs will a full band. There is also violin and strings.

Right! I'm off to Virgin and HMV tomorrow lunchtime!

Try borders as well.