MY FIRST TIME HEARING TALKING HEADS! REMAIN IN LIGHT-Full Album Reaction/Review

[@sushi_donut]

Next Talking Heads album gotta be "Speaking in Tongues (1983)". Sonically there was nothing like this at the time, and today David Byrne's label Luaka Bop continues to curate incredible artists. Goated taste, CavemanJack!! 😅

[@dickeymckay8289]

Luaka Bop rules.

[@DanHintz]

i think the next one should be Fear of Music, which I think is even better than the much-loved Remain in Light. Fear of Music is the album just before Remain in Light, and it is their best, for me.

[@montpunk]

i would recommend watching/listening to the stop making sense live movie. talking heads live is just another world.

[@doozythedoctor]

Daaaamn bro I can't believe you skipped over "THE WORLD MOVES ON A WOMAN'S HIPS!" in The Great Curve. It's an album highlight for me lmao it just comes out of nowhere

[@moonriverinc7896]

singing “once in a lifetime” to a cat just feels like the right thing to do

[@cavemanjack]

ahahahahah

[@dickeymckay8289]

Brian Eno was very co-responsible for the sound of this album. Which means it's time to check out some of David Byrne's non-Talking Heads collaborations with Eno! The experimental sound collage of 'My Life in the Bush of Ghosts' and the return to a sound more like this with their 'Everything That Happens Will Happen Today'. Which in my opinion almost sounds like an extension of Remain in Light. Eno is the icing on cake of this album, and I implore you to check out his stuff as well. Like 'Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy' or 'Here Come the Warm Jets'. It's gonna open a whole new world, and probably introduce you to the great Robert Fripp, if you haven't delved into King Crimson yet, that is. Keep working in this field. Plenty of great Byrne and Eno albums I would highly recommend checking out. 'Rei Momo' being another - David Byrne's latin sound inspired album. Also the Fripp and Eno collaborations are great too if you like the ambient stuff. Rock on newb!

[@TapestriMusic]

The King of limbs feels like radioheads version of this album. Remain in light is amazing

[@seyoumyuno]

I was just thinking this! the first half very “clickaty clackaty” dense sounds. Then the second half starts with the single, followed by backrooms music also Feral live sounds alot like Born Under Punches!

[@TapestriMusic]

@@seyoumyuno Yea! Rhythmic earcandy. Gets you into mild trance if you let it. Born under punches is my favorite TH song

[@normsmywimgman]

My favorite TH's album. Adrian Belew added a lot to the sound. I saw them at the Greek Theater doing these songs.

[@PowderedToastMan420]

The Bassist Tina Weymouth is iconic. ✌️

[@joopnoop9343]

Genius of Love alone makes her a legend

[@Riktoria82]

My dad introduced me to Talking Heads and I introduced him to Radiohead. Love to bond over music. ❤

[@cavemanjack]

that's so lovely

[@levilee207]

Seen and Not Seen does not get talked about enough. An amazing track with a very poignant message. One of my favorite tracks. The way it ends with "He wonders if he, too, may have made a similar mistake" leaves you with such an anxious and worried feeling; that it just stops there to leave you to wonder.

[@suzannereynolds8483]

Such a great track. One of the best on the album in my humble opinion.

[@MrBfg586]

Stewart Copeland (The Police drummer) did the music for Spyro The Dragon.

[@suzannereynolds8483]

Love this. Saw TH a few times in the 80s. But again American Utopia 3 times. But, this past Sat in NJ with Jerry Harrison and Adrian Belew. It was crazy good to see these legends. Amaazing night of music. Remain in Light is incredible, but so is '77 and Fear of Music. ❤

[@rayname908]

I saw the video for Once In A Lifetime and listened to it all the time. A few years later an art teacher had the album and I asked him to listen to it. He was a Vietnam vet and freaked out when I played him a Laurie Anderson song about a plane going down. the African tribal influences were influential on Peter Gabriel and Paul Simon

[@majormajormajortom]

I agree, I've always seen the connection between Radiohead and Talking Heads as more philosophical, as opposed to musically; just their ethos towards creativity and music and art, forging forward regardless what anyone else might think, making the music they want to make entirely outside of any expectations or trends. I can definitely see an influence there for Radiohead and their projects.

[@thecrye6798]

Radiohead got their name from a TH song.

[@Octavian7771]

As a person who was intensely into the underground and fringe music during the mid 70's thru early 80's, I can tell you that in the context of the music scene at the time, this LP was intensely groundbreaking, along with the previously released 'My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts' (an LP that has been rated as the most impactful in the history of modern music). It was an era when artists were stretching into uncharted territories.

[@nishoow]

YESS, i didn't expect this reaction ❤❤

[@stewscottcurran]

Love you're doing Talking Heads! Get Fear of Music on next!

[@antonoguer]

i really like your channel and i'm very glad u reacted to this piece, my favorite TH album as others have mentioned already i think this work heavily influenced radiohead's the king of limbs and other albums, talking heads kind of paved the way for a lot of music acts, you should really search for Atoms for Peace's Amok, another thom yorke project that is heavily influenced by talking heads a little extra: The song "Radio head" from talking heads comes from a literal translation of "Rádio cabeça", a brazilian expression created by Chico Buarque, a legendary MPB, bossa and samba composer. Byrne was really into brazilian music early in his career and chose this title after hearing Chico Buarque's "O Último Blues" from 1985. So in the end it's a brazilian name, and it makes me proud for my country lol

[@audr3yaudr3y]

such a good band yay!!! love seeing you react to this :)

[@audr3yaudr3y]

you should really do speaking in tongues by them (i’m sure you’ve got a long list but!! so good!!)

[@Johro66]

Man you need to watch the Stop Making Sense concert movie, it'll just blow you away, I mean, REALLY blow you away

[@cavemanjack]

super keen to check it out

[@angelicarodriguez5747]

Such a piece of art that album!

[@bryanforis1839]

In other parts of the world they never heard of them because they never sold but people would hear them in movies like down and out in Beverly Hills great music saw in concert great

[@frog2098]

One of, if not, my favourite albums and bands ever. Those first 4 songs are some of the best ever in my opinion

[@peytonwilliams3107]

Shoot, I’d even say the first 5. That FUNK on Houses In Motion cannot be denied.

[@sylvanm4216]

If you haven't listened to Fela Kuti, his music might give you some insight into where Talking Heads are coming from here, especially rhythmically. I'd recommend his 1975 album "Confusion" (which is just a single 25 minute song with the most extraordinary build-up I've ever heard). On Remain in Light, Talking Heads are using tape loops to kind of construct a high-tech version of Kuti's polyrhythmic funk.

[@TombHermance]

Nice job. This is a landmark album the band never surpassed.

[@PowderedToastMan420]

A gift from the 80's. ✌️

[@Motherload3000]

All 8 Talking Heads albums are worth listening to, even lead singer David Byrne’s solo work is amazing and absolutely no one has any reactions of David’s work

[@PresidentHotdog]

TAKE A LOOK AT THESE HANDS! Thom Yorke of The Radioheads picked Born Under Punches when he was interviewed for Desert Island Disks.

[@suzannereynolds8483]

Amaazing album from start to finish.

[@williamandres1042]

Great! I was not expecting this reaction, nice surprise. I know about them because of my favorite band, Radiohead, and I like them a lot, Talking Heads are amazing. You should react to their first album "Talking Heads: 77".

[@nirodha60]

The last track was inspired by a description of the band Joy Division that they had read, they created a sound that they thought was similar although none of them had heard any of their music!

[@pazuzu1]

that's crazy, it sounds pretty much exactly like a joy divison track. insane how a post punk band from the late 70s/early 80s had never heard them

[@Blank_Frank]

It does sound a bit like "I Remember Nothing", but Jerry & David ended with something that would bear much resemblance to another Manchester band from that era which is A Certain Ratio

[@jl4872]

Paul Simon’s Graceland and King Crimson’s Discipline are both early eighties examples of this very groove-based song structure. Also, all three (including Remain in Light) feature guitarist Adrian Belew. Dude Forrest Gumped through the best music of the decade

[@themadcow71]

So many bands were influenced by Talking Heads. Their live concert STOP MAKING SENSE is a one of a kine concert film that makes everyone that watches a super fan.

[@DanHintz]

it was highly anticipated at the time due to the brian eno production and the fact that the talking heads had expanded to a large group and had taken on nigerian fela kuti-style afrobeat inflections with the extra players. and the fact that adrian belew was now on guest lead guitar. it was much lauded at the time, but mainstream radio only played once in a lifetime. but it was seen as a big leap forward for the band, critics adored it, and quickly the record was recognized as one of the best of that decade, if not all-time.

[@FelizJesusbirth]

Great reaction! What I love about this album is how dense it starts with Born Under Punches and then it slowly makes it's way to The Overload. It's like going from the big bang to the heat death of the universe. Also, speaking of "The Overload", the band had apparently never heard Joy Division but had read about them in the music press - this was their attempt to write a Joy Division song without having heard them.

[@roelandrutgers]

Brian Eno produced this album and also did the music for the game Spore. On second listen I guess you said 'Spyro'. Ha ha. but nevertheless, Eno is the man. Do check out 'My Life In The Bush of Ghosts'. A sample based album avant la lettre from the same year made with the singer of this band. That weird sound you heard in 'Houses in Motion' was the late great Jon Hassell, who sent his trumpet through an array of filters, creating his distinctive Fourth World sound. He also made amazing albums with Brian Eno.

[@vonpicz]

AWESOME i love remain in light !!!!!!

[@KEWX]

I would love to see you react to "The Lamb as Effigy" by Sprain. It is (in my opnion) one of the most underrated albums last year.

[@freddraws]

You should watch the talking heads concert film " stop making sense" an incredible concert film that builds to an absolute crescendo 🎉

[@kurtfmoeller]

Favorite song: Listening Wind…not sure it’s the best but I am a sucker for mysterious melancholy sounds. Talking Heads was one of the few bands I was able to enjoy together with my dad…he was totally taken with the live video of Stop Making Sense. Might make for a cool reaction video if you keep going through Talking Heads

[@pazuzu1]

such a fantastic album, if you wanna do another talking heads album you absolutely have to do fear of music (1979), similar style but more varied and also very unique

[@rosamattisse4652]

Talking heads were never a stadium band. It was a smaller group of people who were into them. Definitely plenty of people thought they were weird. For me, this music moved me. Also, I was pretty much only listening to African music, and this fit right in. If you want to hear who a big influence for the TH was, listen to west African music of the 1970s.

[@TapestriMusic]

Yay! It's Cavemen heads!

[@cavemanjack]

hahahaha

[@isleofskye8073]

Please listen to king gizzard. You’ll acquire a lot of fans. Any of their albums

[@mateuseduardo7857]

Siamese Dream next, plsssssss

[@hanz_poop3610]

I’m sure I won’t be the first to tell you this, but you should do a big reaction to the talking head’s performance/film “stop making sense” you will not regret it at all

[@coreym0]

Please do a reaction to Talking Heads 'Stop Making Sense' concert movie (it's on youtube for free). It's the 40th anniversary and known as one of the best concert films of all time. Directed by Jonathan Demme ( who did Silence of the Lambs). Once in a Lifetime and Crosseyed and Painless are in the concert from this album. You would also maybe know Psycho Killer, but they switch up the sound on that one :)

[@letthebeatr0ck]

It used to be on youtube for free, but A24 bought the rights for it and now it's sadly not there anymore

[@joaquinbaume1291]

someone correct me if i'm wrong but this is not the remastered version right? i love how the original mix sounds, if it is the og then i'm glad Jack reacted to this version first

[@thecrye6798]

Radiohead even took their NAME from a TH song.

[@joopnoop9343]

If you want to hear another hugely influential album listen to Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division from 1979 it’s a masterpiece

[@pvolt7]

radiohead named themselves after the talking heads song "radio head" :D

[@rayname908]

Brian Who's first two albums and Adrian Belew influenced this album as much as the Talking Heads.

[@juanjoseclavijorojas9775]

reacts to another David Bowie album, Aladdin sane

[@zachc.9565]

My man you are listening to a downmix of Dolby Atmos. Makes it sound tinny and thin. I would have listened to a normal stereo version.

[@cavemanjack]

ahhh bummer didn't realise that, good pickup

[@tokilladaemon]

btw you're right that this was very weird and modern for the late 70s early 80s, there's a reason the genre's called new wave. devo, b52s and and echo and the bunnymen are some other great examples

[@tokilladaemon]

you can't go wrong with the heads, but defo listen to fear of music and speaking in tongues next!