Remixed - Talking Heads

Advantages: Some great songs
Disadvantages: Some weird stuff too !!

...I think Talking Heads' music varies from quite surreal, hippy-ish rubbish to completely wonderful, classic songs. This album is a compilation of fourteen tracks from 1977 to 1992 & I would say I usually prefer the older ones. Although I love their track Psycho killer, I actually prefer The Flying Pickets' version from some years ago ! I think Once In A Lifetime is my favourite track from this album. And She Was & Road To Nowhere are also good too & were both successful single releases for the group. Some of the tracks are ones I would fast forward over, but there are some classics in amongst them.... Read review

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Advantages: A few really good tracks, some De La Soul tunes you have never heard before
Disadvantages: The album has no flow, a few weak remixes

...B of the track off the 1996 album Stakes is High. Back in the mid to late 1990's it seemed like every rapper had to throw down and thump his own chest talking about how he was a true gangsta. Everyone had to have a nickname like Scarface. De La Soul saw this as self masturbatory and called them out with Itzsoweezee (It's so easy). "See them Cubans don't care what y'all n!gg*z do Colombians never ran with your crew Why you acting all spicy and sheisty The only Italians you knew was ices, n!gg*z price me" This remix is punchy, catchy and worth a listen. You will find a slow march coming from the bass and the snares keep a quick pace with the lyrics. Pos and Dove have the voice to pull in the anger. Yankee B, the Jamaican born New York rapper finishes the groove out with some fast paced rips. This is one remix that is actually... Read review

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Advantages: The Heads go pop
Disadvantages: Nothin'

...with this album is bring the mixing skills of the late Alex Sadkin who worked with Grace Jones and men known as the “Rhythm Twins” better known as Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare. With Mr Sadkin’s experience with reggae music he brought to the table a sense of pop music that paid off, for this is Talking Heads most commercial collection they ever released in my option. From the opening track of “Burning Down the House” that has been so badly covered in resent years as to make me cringe every time I hear it. To he wonderful song that is “This must be the Place (naïve melody)”, the album as a whole is just so easy to listen to, not to say that it falls into the “easy-listening” category, no far from it the words are as surreal as always. As with most of the bands output the lyrics... Read review

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