Blackdog

'Fresh and carefree'; maybe you didn't catch the humor in these 2 terms, so 'ugly' and dirty... Honestly, they seem more like intellectuals to me, Arto and the lovely company you mentioned – what intrigues me is the fact that for some this record isn't that influential (and I'm logically referring to popular music, not to indie for hipsters), that's a real nonsense. ;)
P.S. - Sorry, but what do the Ramones have to do with the TH besides CBGB's?

No, damn it, no, no, NO!!!! And then there are still those who complain about the much-despised '80s; at least back then, the CRAP remained crap... today, on the other hand, everything is good, even a puppet like giustinotimberlacchi - who knows! If some paid hack, well-paid by his major, had the audacity to place him in a ranking of the best of 2006 ahead of 'Rather Ripped,' he is a true idiot. For sure, right?

Dear Easy, I'm not passing it to you (the ball): 1- In the discography of the Talking Heads, 'Remain in Light' represents the natural evolution of the musical themes already present in 'Fear of Music', a continuous flow from the first to the last track that has very little to do with being intellectual but rather shows how, even with a 'popular' approach (see, for example, 'Once in a Lifetime'), the percussive tribalism of mother Africa could reconnect with the psychedelia and funk of the new world (America)... and do you think those who first opened this unprecedented door of sounds before us seem so bourgeois? 2- The carefree and lighthearted Suicidal tendencies of Byrne and company... well, everyone has their own opinion, of course. 3- This album has definitely had more impact on rock in the last 20 years than Arto Lindsay and Feelies (with all due respect, eh), effectively opening the 'doors' to multicultural contamination between genres that seem distant and irreconcilable; like ethno, psychedelia, electronics, and the cut-and-paste of the '90s (ask Chemical Brothers or Beck for clarification..). If this isn't a masterpiece, RIL, favors for everyone!! :) P.S.- Burns, can you explain to me what the hell the Talking Heads did that goes 'beyond' this?!

DaveJon, you had the guts to give a pathetic 3 to 'Remain in Light'... come on.
This album is more seminal than Rocco Siffredi!!!

'Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet bulbs grow in my latest garden. Warm, warm, warm, warm, warm sun fingers wave in my latest garden- flowers dance their faces brave, come talk freely in the garden of my lady...'
Fucking aliens!! Mad and visionary, abstract and lucid in its programmatic decomposition of 'rock' orthodoxy into 'other' music, this monolith of the absurd overseen by Frank will be pure avant-garde even in 3012. Period.

P.S. - In New York they might be a bit bourgeois (like the Ramones...), but in London and surroundings, not to mention Manchester, they're really assholes! :)

I continue the little game 'sound + vision': let's see, 'Bauhaus-In the flat field' with Bosch, 'Velvet Underground-White light, white heat' I pair with the decadent and 'sick' figures of Schiele or the photos of the dominant great Diane Arbus, 'Beatles-Sgt Pepper' ideal for Magritte, 'Cure-Disintegration' and the haunting awareness of Munch...

Billy's voice, 'raspy' or not, is one of the reasons why I LOVE the Smashing.... if you want beautiful, polished, and sterile singing, listen to Celine Dion!

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Too many memories, more or less significant, tie me to this album released in that distant June '98 for me to judge it coldly and detached. It’s the most 'emotional' and painful work of Billy, James, and D’Arcy - with the acoustic ode of 'To Sheila', the tale in b\n of 'The tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete', the melancholic darkness of 'Shame', the heartbreaking melodrama of 'Tear', the pop nostalgia of 'Perfect', the sweet piano of 'Annie dog', the endless melody of 'Once upon a time' and Corgan's regret for his deceased mother in 'For Martha'.... No, I loved 'Adore' too much; its hidden nightmares, the tears, the blank pages of someone who has lost something and doesn't know how to start over, and those 17 final seconds of distant and suspended calm. It’s not a perfect album, but is life perfect? Beautiful review. The soundtrack of twilight.