Sam Frank:
quoted 1 line And he screwed up the Talking Heads. For that he will never be forgiven.
> And he screwed up the Talking Heads. For that he will never be forgiven.
Peter Hollo:
<Ha! What rot! Remain in Light is their best album.>
laerm:
<personally, i thought the talking heads were horrible until he got
involved.>
Just to review - Eno got involved with the Talking Heads long before
"Remain in Light" - he started working with them from their second LP "More
Songs About Buildings and Food" onwards - so if you purists are claiming
that their first LP "Talking Heads 77" was their only good one - well,
there are lots of reasons why a band's first record might be their only
good one - a quick burst of ideas/chemistry/synergy and then, boom,
careerism sets in. I recently put on "More Songs..." for the first time in
easily a decade and found myself thinking "Great rock band, too bad about
the singer."
<kinda like how roxy music instantly stank after he left. >
I'd argue that "Stranded" (their third and first post-Eno) was easily as
good as the first two - thereafter things dropped off a bit.
<bowie's best albums were done with him.>
Agreed but how do you fit the mere existence of U2 (or James) into this
model of supremacy?
Danny Freer:
<Were there any other people in the 70's that were doing stuff similar to
Eno's "Another Green World" and "Before And After Science"?>
I can't think of a lot of people doing stuff a lot like that but don't
forget the two LPs Eno did with Cluster, particularly the second called
"After the Heat" - also the third Wire LP "154" owes a lot (to my ears) to
that period of Eno. If you like the instrumental bits on those records,
you'll probably like most Cluster and related (Harmonia in particular)
releases.
<Or the "Healthy Colours I-IV" tracks on "The Essential Fripp & Eno", for
that
matter. I always liked those..>
Much of the output of Richard Pinhas's group Heldon would probably appeal
to Fripp and Eno fans.
Bob Bannister