Once in a Lifetime [Sire/Warner Bros./Rhino, 2003]Most pretentious objet de rock ever. Unique 5-x-17-inch design, suitable for storage with spare lumber, assures that the appreciations by Rick Moody, Mary Gaitskill, Maggie Estep, Dick Hebdige, Kyoichi Tsuzuki, and last but not least David Fricke will come loose if you dare read them. Illustrations include lovely water-colory thing of young teenager with severed penis. Fourth disc a DVD. Third disc loaded with True Stories and Naked, which I once thought overrated. I was wrong. They sucked. C
>>130464589Talking Heads honestly really sucked.
>>130464589>dude whose favorite album is the fucking New York Dolls debut thinks his opinion has any valueEwwwwwwww
>>130464589another group like U2 that Gen X has been trying to convince me for decades were geniuses
>>130464589Record labels stopped spending money on overly indulgent/pretentious box sets like since since the late 00s recession.
>has nothing to say>oh well i'll just talk about the packagingcuckgau
>>130465351Not the first time he's reviewed an album package/cover art instead of the album itself eg. Chicago Live at Carnegie Hall.
>>130465058COA
>>130465139Absolutely untrue, just look at Record Store Day exclusives
>>130465139>Record labels stopped spending money on overly indulgent/pretentious box sets like since since the late 00s recession.everything moved to streaming, you turd
at least up to and including Speaking in Tongues Talking Heads were one of the only new wave/post punk bands that properly rode the pop line well enough to still be catchy and radio friendly but also make some of the most interesting and room filling atmospheric tunes, take Once in a Lifetime for example, no hit song that tops charts would ever have vocals like that, very freeform and stream of consciousness poetic but it still manages to hold a good groove the whole time with strong hooks and then finally when the bridge hits its climactic, its historic, its unforgettable, and on Remain in Light that songs comes after 3 of the highest energy and most manic and original sounding songs of the era, Adrian Belew is owed a lot for these with his solos that sound like nobody else in that era o almost any era, when I inevitably finish my top guitar solos list I have no doubt he'll have at least 2 in the top 15
>>130465058both bands are geniuses for entirely different reasons and U2 could easily be left behind though Joshua Tree certainly has some immortal pop rock tunes, Talking Heads is god tier and I'd say Boomers had a huge role in their success, god what band in the 21st century has hit pop songs like them that still sound experimental, fresh, and cutting edge
>>130464931he's saying if TH just stuck to basic three chord punk rock then everything would be ok
Talking Heads ages like shit once you get older
>>130470744All post punk be like that though. At 17 it's like the most profound thing ever but at 21 you should have outgrown it.
>>130464931He digs The Fall so he's fine in my book as a reference but obviously i think by myself>>130465351Don't see the problem. There's different ways to make a comment, would you like a literal way of commentary? Don't get the irony when he decides to comment on the packaging maybe cause there's not much toos say about the shit music?
>>130464589>Most pretentious objet de rock everPublic Talking Heads Limited? Hello?
>>130472039>Don't see the problem.you wouldn't
