Love or Hate Reborn

**Marie Monday** · 11-16-2019, 01:31 PM

Frankly Mr. Shankly is silly but melodious and there is that one Johnny Marr jangle between a chorus and verse (before the 'fame fame fatal fame' part) which is one of the high points of the album

Trollheart · 11-16-2019, 09:35 PM

Right, **** it. I need a midway point between Love and Meh, so suck it. Orange is for Like.

Title: Talking Heads 77
Artist: Talking Heads
Genre: New Wave/Art Punk
Artist Reaction: Anything I’ve heard by them I like
Genre Reaction: n/a; I know who Talking Heads are so the genre is immaterial
Familiarity: Just the singles, and i think Little Creatures? Oh, and Stop Making Sense
Suggested by: Neapolitan

Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town: Breezy and upbeat from the off, with David Byrne’s falsetto taking centre stage, nice Caribbean feel thanks to the steel pan
New Feeling: Another boppy, uptempo number, again driven by Byrne’s somewhat manic vocal
Tentative Decisions: Kind of stilted, reminds me of Ric Ocasek’s work with The Cars (god rest his soul) with a nice rolling almost military drumbeat. Some pretty fine guitar work. And some cool piano too.
Happy Day: Like the organ in this, but I have to say (ducks) nothing has actually reached out and grabbed me about this so far. I like it, but sure I don’t love it. I’m not listening to this, Talking Heads’ debut, and thinking, why didn’t I hear this a long time ago? It’s good, but just that. So far.
Who Is It?: Quite funky this one. Can’t say a lot more about it to be honest.
No Compassion: Good rocky one here, interesting lyric. Like the guitar riff.
The Book I Read: More funky guitar here. The organ lines are very effective. Good, upbeat cheerful melody and again Byrne holds court over everything here.
Don’t Worry About the Government: Whimsical melody, given the lyrical matter. Piano sounds a little Supertramp-like.
First Week/Last Week… Carefree: There’s definitely a Latin influence in most of their music, quite evident in the rhythm here.
Psycho Killer: Ah well everyone knows this so I won’t attempt to write anything further about it.[
Pulled Up: Like the clanging guitar in this, reminds me a little of early Police, touches of The Jam there too. A pretty frenetic ending.

Conclusion: I doubt I’ll ever be a real Talking Heads fan. I like their singles and I can appreciate their place in music history, but while I liked this album I found it hard to pick out any reasons why it resonates with me, and realised it really doesn’t. It’s not that I don’t like it, I just can’t point to anything that might be so great about it. Definitely wasn’t bored, but wasn’t exactly entertained either. I’ll expect the hate mail to fill up my inbox so go right ahead.

So, Love or Hate? I can't Meh it, so it's getting a Like. Can't do any better than that. Hey! Watch where you're throwing that thing! That nearly hit me!

grindy · 11-17-2019, 03:04 AM

Don't want to be annoying but the text is really hard on the eyes if it's all colored. Any way to format just the title or something?

Trollheart · 11-17-2019, 06:07 AM

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Originally Posted by grindy

Don't want to be annoying but the text is really hard on the eyes if it's all colored. Any way to format just the title or something?

Done

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Originally Posted by elphenor

I'm interested in what you'd think of Remain in Light

Talking Heads are unassailable up to and including Stop Making Sense

That was on my original list for Classic Albums I Have Never Heard. I will look into it, just at the moment I'd prefer not to do two albums from the same artist, at least, not so soon after one another. I've been reliably informed that it's one of their best, all right.

grindy · 11-17-2019, 06:13 AM

Trollheart · 11-17-2019, 06:28 AM

One thing you have to admit, that is one ugly-ass cover! My poor eyes! Flourescent green on red? I'm sure they were making some clever point about this being all students could afford or something, but Jesus!

Neapolitan · 11-17-2019, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by grindy

Don't want to be annoying but the text is really hard on the eyes if it's all colored. Any way to format just the title or something?

Ah man, you're telling me I missed a giant orange review.

I'm pressed for time, so I'll just elect my next album request:
Tea & Symphony - Jo Sago

I've been listening to this quite often. And can't wait to hear what you don't think of it.

Trollheart · 11-19-2019, 11:14 AM

Title: Dreamclub
Artist: No Curfew Kids
Genre: Ambent/Drone/Experimental
Artist Reaction: n/a
Genre Reaction: Hard to say. Ambient is good, drone can be good. Experimental is always a crapshoot for me. Could be great, could be terrible, could be mystifying.
Familiarity: Zero though I’ve listened to MTR’s albums before
Suggested by: Who else?

Fill the Room With Light: Sounds kind of ambient with humming droning keyboard, getting louder and I guess that’s the percussion behind it? Short, as most of the tracks here seem to be, clocking in around the 1 or 2 minute mark. I guess I’d call that either a drone or an intro, as it was pretty much just the one chord held throughout the short track.
Dreamclub: Slowly building kind of hollow drumbeats with the melody building quietly up behind the beat, repetitive and I get the impression this, or most of it, will be instrumental? Pleasant enough, quite ambient again.
Squash: Harsher this time, seems to be a lot of feedback on synth and guitar, drums are very sparse and almost mechanical-sounding.
Huit: Slow, lush type synth with so far no percussion, low feedback or could be more sounds on the synth. I feel this may be a one-man project? Short again. The next track isn’t.
Squadron: One of only two tracks that go over the two-minute mark, this is six, and starts off with what sounds like a steam locomotive with a drone synth sounding a little like a church organ. I should hopefully be able to say a little more about this one as the other so far have been too short for me to formulate an opinion on them. Metallic, rolling sound effects possibly make the train sound like its going through a tunnel? Not sure: it’s called “Squadron” so I would have thought sounds of flight might have been more expected, but anyway. Kind of oriental little bell sounds, and we’re about halfway through. Some sort of riff being played now, almost like a siren or klaxon or something, or computer game music? Really hard to say what Tristan’s going for here, but it all sounds pretty well executed.
Untethered: Back to the short tracks, and they get progressively shorter for the next three. This is just over a minute, and has squarky synths (squarky? It’s a name I made up to describe those sort of squelching, honking sounds synth music sometimes make) with another possible link to computer gaming? Again it’s pretty repetitive, though that’s drone for you I guess. Some other sounds there too, so it’s well put together, just not a lot of it really.
All Time: This just barely edges the minute mark, and appears to be more computer game-style music, with loud percussion and electronic sound effects. Sort of gives me the idea of robots on a production line, perhaps getting ready to rebel against their cruel human masters?
Eyelash:And this doesn’t even get to the minute mark. A repeating tone, cutting on and off, with what sounds like drops of metal water hitting a wood floor. Huh? Yeah well, you try describing this. I’m doing the best I can.
Bright and Early: Another drone I guess, shimmering and humming but sort of not really doing a lot.
Devoid/devout: The last track is the longest, at seven minutes. Seems to have a basic riff going as it starts, mid-paced percussion, some form of melody running through it. Something like steam-driven cylinders or pistons, a lot of ticking percussion too. Kind of a staggered, staccato thing going on in the fourth minute. Fading away to nothing now and slipping back in on guitar, I think, with a sort of almost nursery-rhyme melody, possibly very (very) soft hummed vocal, though I could be imagining that.

Conclusion: Not really my thing, but I can see there was a lot of work put into this, and if it is Tristan on his own, that’s pretty impressive.

So, Love or Hate? I’ll stretch to giving this a Like.

Tristan_Geoff · 11-19-2019, 12:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trollheart

Title: Dreamclub
Artist: No Curfew Kids
Genre: Ambent/Drone/Experimental
Artist Reaction: n/a
Genre Reaction: Hard to say. Ambient is good, drone can be good. Experimental is always a crapshoot for me. Could be great, could be terrible, could be mystifying.
Familiarity: Zero though I’ve listened to MTR’s albums before
Suggested by: Who else?

Fill the Room With Light: Sounds kind of ambient with humming droning keyboard, getting louder and I guess that’s the percussion behind it? Short, as most of the tracks here seem to be, clocking in around the 1 or 2 minute mark. I guess I’d call that either a drone or an intro, as it was pretty much just the one chord held throughout the short track.
Dreamclub: Slowly building kind of hollow drumbeats with the melody building quietly up behind the beat, repetitive and I get the impression this, or most of it, will be instrumental? Pleasant enough, quite ambient again.
Squash: Harsher this time, seems to be a lot of feedback on synth and guitar, drums are very sparse and almost mechanical-sounding.
Huit: Slow, lush type synth with so far no percussion, low feedback or could be more sounds on the synth. I feel this may be a one-man project? Short again. The next track isn’t.
Squadron: One of only two tracks that go over the two-minute mark, this is six, and starts off with what sounds like a steam locomotive with a drone synth sounding a little like a church organ. I should hopefully be able to say a little more about this one as the other so far have been too short for me to formulate an opinion on them. Metallic, rolling sound effects possibly make the train sound like its going through a tunnel? Not sure: it’s called “Squadron” so I would have thought sounds of flight might have been more expected, but anyway. Kind of oriental little bell sounds, and we’re about halfway through. Some sort of riff being played now, almost like a siren or klaxon or something, or computer game music? Really hard to say what Tristan’s going for here, but it all sounds pretty well executed.
Untethered: Back to the short tracks, and they get progressively shorter for the next three. This is just over a minute, and has squarky synths (squarky? It’s a name I made up to describe those sort of squelching, honking sounds synth music sometimes make) with another possible link to computer gaming? Again it’s pretty repetitive, though that’s drone for you I guess. Some other sounds there too, so it’s well put together, just not a lot of it really.
All Time: This just barely edges the minute mark, and appears to be more computer game-style music, with loud percussion and electronic sound effects. Sort of gives me the idea of robots on a production line, perhaps getting ready to rebel against their cruel human masters?
Eyelash:And this doesn’t even get to the minute mark. A repeating tone, cutting on and off, with what sounds like drops of metal water hitting a wood floor. Huh? Yeah well, you try describing this. I’m doing the best I can.
Bright and Early: Another drone I guess, shimmering and humming but sort of not really doing a lot.
Devoid/devout: The last track is the longest, at seven minutes. Seems to have a basic riff going as it starts, mid-paced percussion, some form of melody running through it. Something like steam-driven cylinders or pistons, a lot of ticking percussion too. Kind of a staggered, staccato thing going on in the fourth minute. Fading away to nothing now and slipping back in on guitar, I think, with a sort of almost nursery-rhyme melody, possibly very (very) soft hummed vocal, though I could be imagining that.

Conclusion: Not really my thing, but I can see there was a lot of work put into this, and if it is Tristan on his own, that’s pretty impressive.

So, Love or Hate? I’ll stretch to giving this a Like.

Thank you

I really didn't expect you to like it but I liked how detailed you went into describing the synth sounds

Trollheart · 11-19-2019, 01:00 PM

Yeah, for what it is it's pretty cool. Is it just you doing all that as I suspected?

11-16-2019, 09:35 PM	#242 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,994	Right, ** it. I need a midway point between Love and Meh, so suck it. Orange is for Like. Title:** Talking Heads 77 Artist: Talking Heads Genre: New Wave/Art Punk Artist Reaction: Anything I’ve heard by them I like Genre Reaction: n/a; I know who Talking Heads are so the genre is immaterial Familiarity: Just the singles, and i think Little Creatures? Oh, and Stop Making Sense Suggested by: Neapolitan Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town: Breezy and upbeat from the off, with David Byrne’s falsetto taking centre stage, nice Caribbean feel thanks to the steel pan New Feeling: Another boppy, uptempo number, again driven by Byrne’s somewhat manic vocal Tentative Decisions: Kind of stilted, reminds me of Ric Ocasek’s work with The Cars (god rest his soul) with a nice rolling almost military drumbeat. Some pretty fine guitar work. And some cool piano too. Happy Day: Like the organ in this, but I have to say (ducks) nothing has actually reached out and grabbed me about this so far. I like it, but sure I don’t love it. I’m not listening to this, Talking Heads’ debut, and thinking, why didn’t I hear this a long time ago? It’s good, but just that. So far. Who Is It?: Quite funky this one. Can’t say a lot more about it to be honest. No Compassion: Good rocky one here, interesting lyric. Like the guitar riff. The Book I Read: More funky guitar here. The organ lines are very effective. Good, upbeat cheerful melody and again Byrne holds court over everything here. Don’t Worry About the Government: Whimsical melody, given the lyrical matter. Piano sounds a little Supertramp-like. First Week/Last Week… Carefree: There’s definitely a Latin influence in most of their music, quite evident in the rhythm here. Psycho Killer: Ah well everyone knows this so I won’t attempt to write anything further about it.[ Pulled Up: Like the clanging guitar in this, reminds me a little of early Police, touches of The Jam there too. A pretty frenetic ending. Conclusion: I doubt I’ll ever be a real Talking Heads fan. I like their singles and I can appreciate their place in music history, but while I liked this album I found it hard to pick out any reasons why it resonates with me, and realised it really doesn’t. It’s not that I don’t like it, I just can’t point to anything that might be so great about it. Definitely wasn’t bored, but wasn’t exactly entertained either. I’ll expect the hate mail to fill up my inbox so go right ahead. So, Love or Hate? I can't Meh it, so it's getting a Like. Can't do any better than that. Hey! Watch where you're throwing that thing! That nearly hit me! __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018 Last edited by Trollheart; 11-17-2019 at 06:05 AM.

11-17-2019, 03:04 AM	#243 (permalink)
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11-17-2019, 06:13 AM	#245 (permalink)
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11-17-2019, 06:28 AM	#246 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,994	One thing you have to admit, that is one ugly-ass cover! My poor eyes! Flourescent green on red? I'm sure they were making some clever point about this being all students could afford or something, but Jesus! __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

11-19-2019, 11:14 AM	#248 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,994	Title: Dreamclub Artist: No Curfew Kids Genre: Ambent/Drone/Experimental Artist Reaction: n/a Genre Reaction: Hard to say. Ambient is good, drone can be good. Experimental is always a crapshoot for me. Could be great, could be terrible, could be mystifying. Familiarity: Zero though I’ve listened to MTR’s albums before Suggested by: Who else? Fill the Room With Light: Sounds kind of ambient with humming droning keyboard, getting louder and I guess that’s the percussion behind it? Short, as most of the tracks here seem to be, clocking in around the 1 or 2 minute mark. I guess I’d call that either a drone or an intro, as it was pretty much just the one chord held throughout the short track. Dreamclub: Slowly building kind of hollow drumbeats with the melody building quietly up behind the beat, repetitive and I get the impression this, or most of it, will be instrumental? Pleasant enough, quite ambient again. Squash: Harsher this time, seems to be a lot of feedback on synth and guitar, drums are very sparse and almost mechanical-sounding. Huit: Slow, lush type synth with so far no percussion, low feedback or could be more sounds on the synth. I feel this may be a one-man project? Short again. The next track isn’t. Squadron: One of only two tracks that go over the two-minute mark, this is six, and starts off with what sounds like a steam locomotive with a drone synth sounding a little like a church organ. I should hopefully be able to say a little more about this one as the other so far have been too short for me to formulate an opinion on them. Metallic, rolling sound effects possibly make the train sound like its going through a tunnel? Not sure: it’s called “Squadron” so I would have thought sounds of flight might have been more expected, but anyway. Kind of oriental little bell sounds, and we’re about halfway through. Some sort of riff being played now, almost like a siren or klaxon or something, or computer game music? Really hard to say what Tristan’s going for here, but it all sounds pretty well executed. Untethered: Back to the short tracks, and they get progressively shorter for the next three. This is just over a minute, and has squarky synths (squarky? It’s a name I made up to describe those sort of squelching, honking sounds synth music sometimes make) with another possible link to computer gaming? Again it’s pretty repetitive, though that’s drone for you I guess. Some other sounds there too, so it’s well put together, just not a lot of it really. All Time: This just barely edges the minute mark, and appears to be more computer game-style music, with loud percussion and electronic sound effects. Sort of gives me the idea of robots on a production line, perhaps getting ready to rebel against their cruel human masters? Eyelash:And this doesn’t even get to the minute mark. A repeating tone, cutting on and off, with what sounds like drops of metal water hitting a wood floor. Huh? Yeah well, you try describing this. I’m doing the best I can. Bright and Early: Another drone I guess, shimmering and humming but sort of not really doing a lot. Devoid/devout: The last track is the longest, at seven minutes. Seems to have a basic riff going as it starts, mid-paced percussion, some form of melody running through it. Something like steam-driven cylinders or pistons, a lot of ticking percussion too. Kind of a staggered, staccato thing going on in the fourth minute. Fading away to nothing now and slipping back in on guitar, I think, with a sort of almost nursery-rhyme melody, possibly very (very) soft hummed vocal, though I could be imagining that. Conclusion: Not really my thing, but I can see there was a lot of work put into this, and if it is Tristan on his own, that’s pretty impressive. So, Love or Hate? I’ll stretch to giving this a Like. __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

11-19-2019, 01:00 PM	#250 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,994	Yeah, for what it is it's pretty cool. Is it just you doing all that as I suspected? __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018