David Byrne = Raffi?
Posted on | January 31, 2005 at 12:58 pm | 1 Comment
So lately I’ve been listening on my iPod to The Name of this Band is Talking Heads, the first TH live album, which recently came out on CD for the first time. I don’t understand why it took so long to come out, seeing as how popular TH is and how good of a live album it is. I actually prefer it to Stop Making Sense (the album, not the movie). The CD release contains a lot of extra tracks and is the equivalent of about four (old time) albums worth of material, expanded from the original double album.
But anyway, what struck me listening to this is how childlike it sounds, especially on the tracks from the first two albums. It’s been a long time since I’ve heard those songs. I mean “childlike” in the sense of both being sung by a childlike adult and being something that children would appreciate. Heck, a lot of them would probably sound good on a children’s album. I think David Bryne should record a children’s album, if he hasn’t already. Listen to something like Don’t Worry About The Government and tell me that’s not the kind of thing little kids could get into. You might need to change the instrumentation a bit and the vocal stylings of Mr. Byrne are a little too out there at times, but I still think the kids would dig it.
Of course, I’m not a kid anymore and I don’t have any kids, so I could be very, very wrong. And though they could, I’m not sure the young ones should be singing along with Psycho Killer (which nevertheless sounds extremely tame these days).
Latre.
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January 31st, 2005 @ 6:56 pm
What I heard was that the record company didn’t want to release a double CD, but the band refused to let them remove any tracks. Impasse.
It finally came out about a month after I gave up and digitized my vinyl copy. Coincidence?
I agree that it’s better than Stop Making Sense, which is overproduced in a way that I find annoying when I’m not distracted by the (excellent) film.