by Talking Heads, 1985.
I love the album artwork on this.
The front cover is in naive/primitive style with cartoon aspects.
The back features the most amazing silky costumes, which I would love to wear!
This is the album after Stop Making Sense, the "groundbreaking" concert movie that Byrne and co released, featuring a huge band.
Musically, it is a reaction to the heavy, heavy electronic stuff they were seduced into by Mr B Eno (some of their best songs!) - the style is one of mature eclecticism, though with Tina and Chris still as the rhythm section (wonder what they're up to now?), there is still a groove to get you on your feet.
Highlights include "And She Was", "Television Man", the title track (country'n'western??) and "Road to Nowhere" (immortalised filmwise in the movie Young at Heart, which is a MUST SEE).
I have to say, the na na na chorus of Television Man is totally irresistable.
One of the special Talking Heads features which TV man explores also is metamorphic structure - a song begins as one thing, but has changed into something different by the end - unique (tho Muse sometimes do this too) (this structuring method is used to a greater extent on their last album, "Naked", and Byrne still uses it when he's not designing funky bike racks).
As many of you know, I have been culling my collection over the last year, and have lost a few Talking Heads albums.
This is not one of them....
9/10.
G.
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