Talking Heads - Remain in Light (w/ guest Alex Gomory)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2015

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Podcaster Alex Gomory, of the Riff n Ralk Music Tock podcast (riffnralk.com), joins Bill and Brian to discuss Talking Heads' Remain in Light (1980, Sire). The band's fourth release in as many years found them trying to work as a cohesive band and experimenting with both technology and world music. Utilizing loops and digital sounds, the band also focused on utilizing African polyrhythms, creating unique songs that were met with unanimous critical acclaim. Brian, Bill, and Alex discuss how Alex discovered the band in college, Fela Kuti, the odd sound the band makes while playing off each other, what it means when a terrorist is shown as a sympathetic character, and as always a track by track review!

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0:00.0	And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shop
0:21.1	And you may find yourself in another part of the world
0:25.4	And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
0:30.2	And you may find yourself in a beautiful house
0:33.7	With a beautiful wife
0:36.3	And you may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?
0:45.9	Hello, welcome to the great albums podcast. I'm Bell. And I'm Brian. And what we normally do here
0:51.9	every week is we take a different great album of music and we talk
0:56.6	about what makes it great.
0:58.4	We're going to talk about a little bit of our personal connections with the music and we're
1:03.0	going to talk a little bit about the production of the album.
1:05.7	And then we're going to get into a track-by-track review of the album, but we're not going to
1:10.4	do that alone.
1:11.7	We have a guest with us today. Joining us via Skype is Alex Gomori.
1:17.0	Hi, how's it going? Okay. How are you doing, Alex? I am doing fantastic. I am super excited to
1:22.4	talk about this album. Cool, we are too. It's definitely an interesting one to do. It's, Brian and I were saying just before we hit the call button to you that it's, you know, it feels like it's about time that we did a Talking Heads album. Because as you guys heard in the intro there, you heard a little bit of Talking Heads, and that's from their 1980 album remain in light.
1:46.5	Yeah, and, you know, when we're talking Talking Heads, there, up until, like, this album,
1:51.4	there is no wrong answer as to which Talking Heads album you could go down.
1:56.6	But this is, as we're going to get it to, this is my favorite Talking Heads album, and probably one of my favorite albums all around, I think, is just an absolutely brilliant album.
2:06.5	I can't wait to overly indulge on it.
2:09.5	Cool, cool.
2:10.4	So before we get into that a little bit, Alex, why don't you tell us about your own podcast?
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