Posted on 09/18/2020 6:48:34 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Classic 80s jam! Enjoy.
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James Brown is the godfather of soul.
Infantile, music and video. Don’t take it personally. Give us some nice music.....
I like it. Not exactly Beethoven but it sounds good on a Friday night.
Trivia: King Crimson’s virtuoso guitarist Adrian Belew contributed the riff. Probably his most recognizable piece of music.
Singer and bass player Tina Weymouth (also of the Talking Heads) is the daughter of a Navy Admiral.
Here is one of my favorites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF1AYHtE9o8
A guitar piece from Alistair Stewart and Chris Kyle, it is called “Cokes Song” about a friend that passed away many years ago.
I still play their albums as kind of a spiritual "comfort food" from my teen years. Many people knew them from a tour with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association back in the 70’s.
That Talking Head bassist.
I’ve always loved that song, or should I say, that performance. It’s more than lyrics being sung, it’s a montage of opposites that somehow fit together. The opening guitar has a short, catchy hook that pulls you in.
Some recordings have no practical use except to help create an atmosphere of fun, frivolity and lightness. A candy coated distraction, a ‘wanna-be-there’ type attraction.
I can suggest a thousand songs, none of which you would like, but that is OK, that is the nature of music, subjective appreciation, and life.
I always said Talking Heads = Tom Tom Club + Roxy Music - talent.
I introduced my kids to the live Youtube version of “Life During Wartime” during all this looting and rioting crap. They are obsessed.
Thanks for this! A fun piece that for me brings back memories of a particular place and time.
Sorry to perhaps bring a downer into the discussion, but at about 1:26 and 2:54 in the video the same image repeats - an aerial approach to Manhattan Island from the south, through the harbor, between the twin towers of the World Trade Center, then north toward the Empire State Building.
Seeing the towers as part of that fun, cartoon video - there’s an innocence to it - it’s heartbreaking.
B-52’s was another such group. Technically enjoyable; meaning they could actually sing and play their own instruments. Creatively brilliant in stylized presentation.
Rock Lobster, Love Shack and many more.
I agree...I think Private Idaho is genius.
Chris and Tina created some of the most sampled riffs in hip-hop.
Great song and a still fun to watch video! Thanks!
“She came from Planet Claire ....”
John Lennon compared Yoko’s vocal stylings to those of Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson as if they were of equal worth. He seemed to think that groups like the B-52’s would help the world understand how great Yoko was along. No, John, Kate and Cindy could carry a tune and stay on key even while shrieking. Yoko never could.
Tom Tom Club, B52’s. Great stuff from a era long ago. I think of people we used to hang and party with, so innocent and fun. Techno hippies.
Never in a million years would i have thought to compare Yoko’s “singing” to what the girls in B-52 were doing. It’s like comparing the harmonies of the most alluring Sirens to the dry throated shrieks of a Banshee.
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