I was lucky enough to see Talking Heads twice, once in 1979 when they played an excellent edgy set in support of the magnificent Fear of Music album and then again at Sweetwaters South in Christchurch at what turned out to be their final full concert.
Naked is their often ignored final studio album. By that stage in their career their inventiveness was taken a bit too much for granted. This album shows how they could continue to grow and subvert and while on first listen it may sound like just an extension of what they were doing what strikes me every time I play it is how they traded African rhythms for South American and Carribean sounds and approaches while still sounding like Talking Heads. CLEVER.
Probably more aligned with the 70's and 80's Latin sounds of their adopted New York than their other albums.
Check out the first three tracks in particular - first impressions with opening track Blind is this is a bit of reworking off Remain in Light - but then the subtlety of the change in rhythms become more and more apparent and you realise it is really only the vocal treatments that are consistent. The pattern continues with Mr Jones , Totally Nude and finally for side one (Nothing But) Flowers. The same but different but brilliant!
Naked is their often ignored final studio album. By that stage in their career their inventiveness was taken a bit too much for granted. This album shows how they could continue to grow and subvert and while on first listen it may sound like just an extension of what they were doing what strikes me every time I play it is how they traded African rhythms for South American and Carribean sounds and approaches while still sounding like Talking Heads. CLEVER. Probably more aligned with the 70's and 80's Latin sounds of their adopted New York than their other albums.
Check out the first three tracks in particular - first impressions with opening track Blind is this is a bit of reworking off Remain in Light - but then the subtlety of the change in rhythms become more and more apparent and you realise it is really only the vocal treatments that are consistent. The pattern continues with Mr Jones , Totally Nude and finally for side one (Nothing But) Flowers. The same but different but brilliant!
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