Talking Heads - Remain In Light
ARTIST.....: Talking Heads
TITLE......: Remain In Light
LABEL......: Rhino Records
URL........: http://www.rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=76452
RIP DATE...: Oct-16-2006
STORE DATE.: Jan-10-2006
GENRE......: Rock
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 20,7 MB
Track Listing:
01 - Crosseyed And Painless 07:18
(Rockpop German TV Apperance 1980)
02 - Once In A Lifetime 05:35
(Rockpop German TV Apperance 1980)
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12:53 min
Release Notes:
The musical transition that seemed to have just begun with Fear of
Music came to fruition on Talking Heads' fourth album, Remain in
Light. "I Zimbra" and "Life During Wartime" from the earlier album
served as the blueprints for a disc on which the group explored
African polyrhythms on a series of driving groove tracks, over
which David Byrne chanted and sang his typically disconnected
lyrics. Remain in Light had more words than any previous Heads
record, but they counted for less than ever in the sweep of the
music. The album's single, "Once in a Lifetime," flopped upon
release, but over the years it became an audience favorite due to
a striking video, its inclusion in the band's 1984 concert film,
Stop Making Sense, and its second single release (in the live
version) because of its use in the 1986 movie Down and Out in
Beverly Hills, when it became a minor chart entry. Byrne sounded
typically uncomfortable in the verses ("And you may find yourself
in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife/And you may ask
yourself, well, how did I get here?"), which were undercut by the
reassuring chorus ("Letting the days go by"). Even without a
single, Remain in Light was a hit, indicating that Talking Heads
were connecting with an audience ready to follow their musical
evolution, and the album was so inventive and influential, it was
no wonder. As it turned out, however, it marked the end of one
aspect of the group's development and was their last new music for
three years. [In the fall of 2005, Talking Heads' catalog was
finally remastered and reissued as DualDiscs, containing a CD on
one side and a DVD with 5.1 mixes, along with bonus video
material, on the other. Initially, the DualDiscs were only
available as a box set, but in 2006, the albums were reissued
individually as digipacks (the box set contained all white jewel
cases). Remain in Light has four unfinished outtakes, and the fact
that they're not finished should come as no great surprise given
the way that the album was recorded from the rhythm tracks up, but
all four are excellent, dense rhythmic vamps highlighted by
"Fela's Riff," which is so tight there's no room for guide vocals,
and the intertwined, trippy "Double Groove" ("Right Start" mutated
into "Once in a Lifetime"). The DVD side contains Rockpop
appearances from 1980, but not any music videos.]