On Aug 10, 11:07Â am, Raja
gmail.com> wrote:> On Aug 8, 10:59 pm, jean-yves hervé
cs.uri.edu> wrote:
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>>>> 10) I never understand why Talking Heads are supposed to be great.
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>>> You don't understand much music, so it shouldn't be hard for anyone to
>>> see why you don't understand anything beyond your pet bands.
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>> As much as it pains me to agree with the raja, I also think that Talking
>> Heads is one of the most overrated bands of all time. Â Besides a
>> particular demographics (basically, people who were in college in the
>> late 80s, give or take a couple of years) nobody gives a rat's ass about
>> them. Â They influenced no one, they were barely competent at their
>> instruments, and their music and lyrics, despite the band's
>> "intellectual" ambitions, were really nothing special.
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>> jyh.
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>> PS. Â Forgive me for this feel-good moment. Â As far as I can remember, my
>> first usenet post ever was a rant/hatchet job on Talking heads,
>> sometimes in 1989 I think. Â In fact I think that I mostly react to the
>> attitude of the groupies who seem to be under the impression that if you
>> don't like TH you probably don't "get it", as if there was that much to
>> "get" from their stuff.
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> Not just the talking heads, all these "alternative" bands (except
> those punk bands) appeal to the NERDS who think they are cool by
> listening to bands who cant sell shit because they MOSTLY SUCK.
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> Talking Heads  had a singer with the most fuckall voice imaginable.
> Once in a Lifetime is quite catchy and has a funny and nerdy video.
> But the rest of it is meh. Same old crap repeated over and over. If
> you have heard one Talking Heads song you have heard it all.
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> The songs truly suck too. They are hardly memorable and have crap
> melodies. There were bands like The Zombies, Â The Moody Blues etc who
> made some excellent melodies but they arent apparently cool enough for
> the NERDS.
Why do you always use "nerd" as a term of disparagement? The one
thing we know about you, based on your obsessive list-making, your
classic rock mania, and your fantasizing about unattainable celebrity
females, is that you are a nerd supreme. Why put down your tribe? Why
are you a self-loathing nerd? Or maybe you are just a geek, and this
is some bizarrely narrow geek vs. nerd warfare.
Rejecting musicians because they "cant [sic] sell shit" only
demonstrates that you are a fool. With respect to Talking Heads in
particular, the criticism isn't even accurate, since the Heads sold
many millions of records and had sold-out concert tours. With respect
to artists in general, the criticism is stupid and reveals a
McDonald's-eye view of the world. Mozart died a poor man. Van Gogh
didn't sell a single painting in his lifetime. According to the "Joy
Division" documentary that I watched recently, Ian Curtis earned a
total of 2,500 pounds in his entire life. His estate has earned a lot
more since 1980. Oh, and the excellent Curtis biopic, "Control,"
received a special award at Cannes. Where are the award-winning films
about Yes, by the way? Deep Purple?
Joe Ramirez
