... The second Heads album, produced in collaboration with former Roxy synth player Brian Eno, elaborated their familar obsessions, as its title, More Songs About Buildings And Food, mockingly suggested.
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...familar obsessions, as its title, More Songs About Buildings And Food, mockingly suggested.
Eno’s influence on the album was relatively subtle. He fed the sound of the band through his synthesiser, and then mixed the treated sound in with the original.
The result emphasised rather than altered the band’s style. Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz were developing into a powerful, funky rhythm section, and the overall sound ... ...its predecessor. The album also contained a surprise hit single, a cover of soul singer Al Green’s Take Me To The River. Sung with all the intensity Byrne could muster, the single entered the US Top Thirty, reaching number 26.
The Heads were a band that was clearly going places and were proving their ability to progress with each album.
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David Byrne certainly sang like a man possessed. The tension between the material and the spiritual, the Seen And Not Seen, to quote one of their song titles, lay at the heart of their music. The second Heads album, produced in collaboration with former Roxy synth player Brian Eno, elaborated their familar obsessions, as its title, More Songs About Buildings And Food, mockingly suggested.
Eno’s influence on the album was relatively subtle. He fed the sound of the band through his synthesiser, and then mixed the treated sound in with the original.
The result emphasised rather than altered the band’s style. Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz were developing into a powerful, funky rhythm section, and the overall sound of the record was a bigger, more confident version of its predecessor. The album also contained a surprise hit single, a cover of soul singer Al Green’s Take Me To The River. Sung with all the intensity Byrne could muster, the single entered the US Top Thirty, reaching number 26.
The Heads were a band that was clearly going places and were proving their ability to progress with each album.
Advantages: The funk, the style, the sound Disadvantages: None
TalkingHeads first started collaborating with Brian Eno on the 1978 album, MoreSongsAboutBuildings And Food. The working relationship was extended on the next LP, 1979?s Fear Of Music. The record also showed the band?s growing interest in funk and African music - although the band members disagreed over who introduced this element.
I Zimbra, a frantic, driving track with nonsense lyrics from a poem by Hugo Ball, featured a pair of African drummers, and King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp added some experimental noises at Eno?s invitation. Cities set Byrne?s familiar persona - the outsider surveying ordinary people going about their lives, to this new, energetic beat, while Life During Wartime - released as a single - was a description of urban tension written, according to Tina, ?from the point of view of a terrorist?; ?This ...
Advantages: The funk, the style, the sound Disadvantages: None
TalkingHeads first started collaborating with Brian Eno on the 1978 album, MoreSongsAboutBuildings And Food. The working relationship was extended on the next LP, 1979?s Fear Of Music. The record also showed the band?s growing interest in funk and African music - although the band members disagreed over who introduced this element.
I Zimbra, a frantic, driving track with nonsense lyrics from a poem by Hugo Ball, featured a pair of African drummers, and King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp added some experimental noises at Eno?s invitation. Cities set Byrne?s familiar persona - the outsider surveying ordinary people going about their lives, to this new, energetic beat, while Life During Wartime - released as a single - was a description of urban tension written, according to Tina, ?from the point of view of a terrorist?; ?This ...
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;The same old Blues” is song is introduced by some haunting electric piano playing by Steve Nye, which is the perfect foil for the guitar sound of Waddy Wachel and Neil Hubbard.
The next song is a self-penned track written for this album and would later appear on the B-side of the third single from this album; “When she walks in the Room” is also noteworthy for the appearance of Herbie Flowers who had appeared earlier on Lou Reed’s 1972 album “Transformer” playing string bass as well, this musician also played bass on David Bowie’s “Diamond Dogs" album in 1974.
The song that appears next on this album is another soul classic written by Al Green this time, “Take me to the River” was covered by the TalkingHeads in the same year on their album “Moresongsaboutbuildings ...
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Product details
Title
More Songs About Buildings And Food
Performer
Talking Heads
Genre
Rock & Pop
Sub Genre
New Wave
Release Date
01/1987
Recomended Retail Price
7.99 GBP
Original Release Year
1978
Label / Distributor
Sire / Cinram Logistics
Engineer
Rhett Davies
Producer
Brian Eno; Talking Heads
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
75992742528
Catalogue Number
7599274252
Additional notes
Album Notes
Also available with TALKING HEADS '77 on 1 cassette. Talking Heads: David Byrne (vocals, guitar, percussion); Jerry Harrison (guitar, keyboards, background vocals); Tina Weymouth (bass, background vocals); Chris Frantz (drums, percussion). Additional personnel: Brian Eno (various instruments, background vocals). Recorded at Compass Point Studio, New Providence, The Bahamas in March and April 1978. The Heads' second album found them building on the twitchy "new wave" sound they established with their debut while using that approach as a springboard for new lyrical and musical innovations. The band's sonic pallette is a bit wider here; the interplay between the guitars of David Byrne and Jerry Harrison is more fully developed here, are Harrison's keyboard contributions (he was, after all, strictly a keys man in the Modern Lovers, one of the Heads' primary influences). The band displays diversity with their first recorded cover tune, Al Green's "Take Me To The River," which they redefine with an ominous, supple sensuality. While Byrne still sounds like his nerves are being stretched to the breaking point, the band is a little looser here, as on the jumpy, Velvet Underground-ish "Thank You For Sending Me an Angel." Byrne's hyper-intellectualism is in full flower on BUILDINGS, from the gender politics lesson "The Girls Want to Be With the Girls" to the New York bohemian slant of "Artists Only," whose key phrase is "you can't see it till it's finished!"
Album Reviews
Uncut (p.82) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "It stitches together reggae, proto-math-rock noodling, Devo angularity and funk into a seamless, symmetrical and bizarrely sexy package..."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Thank You For Sending Me An Angel
2.
With Our Love
3.
Good Things
4.
Warning Sign
5.
Girls Want To Be With The Girls
6.
Found A Job
7.
Artists Only
8.
I'm Not In Love
9.
Stay Hungry
10.
Take Me To The River
11.
Big Country
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