Blogcritics: Comments on Album of the day: Talking Heads - The Name of this Band Is . . .

Comment by SFC SKI

Sat, 4 Sep 2004 03:38:11 EDT

Great news, I enjoyed early Heads much more than later, and while I was happy that the entire Stop Making Sense soundtrack was finally realeased, I think you are right that this will be the superior Talking Heads live album. COuld a reunion tour be far behind? Probably, but if it happens I would be there.

Comment by Tom Johnson

Fri, 3 Sep 2004 16:29:55 EDT

That's an interesting take on the song, Rodney. I hadn't considered that before, but it fits very well. Now I have to go listen to hear judge for myself . . .

Comment by Rodney Welch

Fri, 3 Sep 2004 15:08:39 EDT

From my blog, earlier today: What I've been listening to: The Name of this Band is Talking Heads, the two-CD set of the 1978 live album of the same name, one of the few Heads discs I've never owned in one version or another, so it's a real feast -- or it would be, if I wasn't stuck on Track 13, Disc One: "Mind," from Fear of Music. Much better than the studio version, I think, far more impassioned, with David Byrne slurring and stretching the words -- "Religion won't change yeeeeeeeeewwwww" -- and making me think again what a curiously intense little love song this is; a song equal parts desire and frustration, the exact nature of which is left deliberately vague. When he sings "I need something to change your mind," you can't say for sure whether he wants to seduce an unseduceable girl or if this is about a couple at the end of their road -- stuck in their ways, in who they are, tired of each other, one yearning for the other to be the same but different, to take a quantum leap into being some surprising and spontaneous other being, and knowing, from the beginning, that only a miraculous something will do the trick. I don't know when I'll get around listening to the rest of the CD. I've played the song three times just writing this.

Comment by TOM LOFTUS

Fri, 3 Sep 2004 14:44:00 EDT

a great live compilation great to hear the extra tracks listening to disc 2 great to hear the early stuff giving an extra edge its a shame the broke up it would to hear then again!far surperior to "stop making sense"!!

Comment by Rodney Welch

Wed, 18 Aug 2004 09:27:03 EDT

This is great news -- I have everything the Heads did except this one, so I'm anxious to hear how it stacks up against Stop Making Sense, a great live disc which really captures the band in its moment.

Comment by Mark Saleski

Wed, 18 Aug 2004 09:20:19 EDT

all i can say is "IT'S ABOUT TIME!!!". i've got a nearly mint vinyl copy of this one, but i've only had it for a year or so (it took me that long to find a good one).