Soft Cell – Memorbilia
Simple Minds – I Travel (remix)
Pete Shelley - Homosapien
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30.08.2008., subota
EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENs WILL HAPPEN TODAY...
...dAVIDA bYRNEA I bRIANa eNOA, jako podsjeća na drugi duet Briana Enoa s Johnom Caleom, perfektni Wrong Way Up (1990). Byrne i Eno kažu da sada rade elektronički gospel. Ne mogu se oteti dojmu i cinizmu da ljudi kad malo ostare, zvuk havajskih gitara i farfia orgulja u waltz ritmu vide kao vrhunski background za stremljenje mudrosti i miru. Byrne pisao txts, a Eno glazbu i uskoro kreću na turneju na kojoj će, tnxGod, svirati i Talking Heads standarde koje su zajedno proizveli i producirali od 1978-80. I na ETHWHT su , ali ipak slabije, vidljivi proplamsaji Headsa cca 1984., Little Creatures i sl. no s vremena na vrijeme, a i zbog karakterističnoga Byrneovog glasa i nekih manirizama, teško je ne pomisliti: "Talking Heads!".
Tina Weymouth, osoba koja je najviše pizdila zbog raspada Headsa davno je rekla "kako ih može zamisliti, kao dva starčića, slično odjevena, kako i dalje raspravljaju o mjuzi, a i Bowie se mota negdje unaokolo". Ženska intuicija, iako je u mnogim stvarima pogriješila što se dade pročitati iz njihove biografije.
CD, unatoč svemu, uopće nije loš i nadam se da će ih europski dio turneje dovesti u Zg. Byrnea sam gledao 2004-e u Tvornici i bilo je savršeno-čovjek još uvijek zna znanje. poslušajte na...
In a press handout that accompanied the original release of Pere Ubu's Cloudland, David Thomas quipped "We'd never been asked to write a pop record before. I guess it never occurred to anyone." Given the sonic Dadaism of much of Pere Ubu's work, what's most startling is not that it took so long for someone to suggest they make a pop record but that they were able to comply so successfully. Stephen Hague, who had previously worked with the Pet Shop Boys, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and New Order, produced these sessions, and Cloudland boasts a glossy surface that was unprecedented for Pere Ubu's work; the drums sounded crisp and tight, the songs included traditional melodies and melodic keyboard lines, Allen Ravenstine's noisy punctuations were pushed to the back of the mix, and the harmonies sounded as if they were performed by actual professionals. However, beneath the hipster friendly production, Cloudland remained a Pere Ubu record -- David Thomas' yelping vocal style was as unrestrained as ever, and while the tunes here lack the sharp angles of Pere Ubu's first era, the lateral sway of the melodies is still cheerfully off kilter. Lyrically, Cloudland finds Ubu moving cautiously from their passionate defense of the Midwest's industrial wastelands to a look at the broad plains that lurked elsewhere, as if they were looking for sunnier climes like many other denizens of the Rust Belt and finding many strange, troubling and wonderful things in their new surroundings. Ultimately, Cloudland showed that however much you dressed up Pere Ubu's music, their heart and soul would show through, and that is a very good thing. [In 2007, Mercury Records reissued Cloudland in a new remastered edition created with the input of the band. The new disc includes two non-LP B-sides, "Wine Dark Sparks" and "Bang the Drum," as well as a live BBC recording of "Bus Called Happiness" and alternate mixes of "Breath" and "Love Love Love." David Stubbs' liner notes describe the circumstances behind the making of the album as well as Thomas' lyrical themes on this material.]
Band koji je od punka došao do profinjenog post-punk art rocka koji smo obožavali, da bi na kraju postali ljigavi stadionski mastodontski brontosaurus sam sebi nejasan. No, evo jedna rijetkost, b-strana maxija Someone Somewhere in Summertime (1984):
1986e izdana NMEova kazeta s namjerom da izazove scenu djelomično je u tome i uspjela. Rickenbackerom proizvođeni jangle pop tih dana urodio je Wedding presentima i Primal scream u prvom redu, ali i drugima...
...1980., kad su bili krivo shvaćeni zbog nošenja vojničke odjeće-njima je to bila šala, a sljedbenici ozbiljno shvatili....
Kasnije su žalili za takvim nastupima pred dvjesto ljudi-mitomanija im skoro uništila karijeru, no vratili se početkom ovog desetljeća..
Iako ne nužno novovalni fenomen, ipak pokrenut od novovalca Boba Geldofa, nezaobilazan je događaj tih 80ih. Pomalo ljigav i pomalo prepatetičan te je pitanje koliko je to sve pomoglo jadnoj afričkoj djeci, opet dojmljiv - pogledajte samo ispunjeni Wembley, a i ne može se reći da nije bilo antologijskih nastupa koji su od nekih napravili svjetske zvijezde. Prošlo je 23 godine !! (13/7/1995)
Usput, znate li zašto Talking Heads nisu nastupili iako im je bilo nuđeno? Byrne je završavao film upitne kvalitete, True Stories, potpuno opčinjen njime. Tina Weymouth i društvo i danas žale. Vele, to je od Headsa moglo napraviti najveći band na svijetu. homesite
