Perfect album.

Album Rating: 5.0

Agreed.

Album Rating: 5.0

Preaching to the choir a bit, but yeah that's a fact.

Album Rating: 3.5

This is amazing but the influence of African music here is quite unmistakable

Album Rating: 5.0

That ''but'' makes it sound like that's a bad thing.

Album Rating: 3.5

No way. It came out wrong I guess. It's just not mentioned at all here which is a surprise

Album Rating: 5.0

Gotcha. It is what makes this album, totally.

"This is amazing but the influence of African music here is quite unmistakable
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Kind of redundant when talking about rock music.

Well, it is more so than most given the influence of afrobeat is present (Fela Kuti).

As a non specific statement it is redundant.

Eh, I think you’re grasping at straws there. To the extent that rock came from blues came from African American spirituals came from African music, sure, but I would say that by the time you got to blues you were already pretty far abstracted from any direct African influence.

Album Rating: 3.5

You can't compare the influence here to that on a regular rock record. Some of this sounds straight from an afrobeat record. The guitar and the drums especially

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah, think that's a bit of a stretch too Mr. Ghandhi Sir.

"any direct African influence."
Yes but indirect influence is still influence. Indirect influences are more present than direct influences.

"You can't compare the influence here to that on a regular rock record."
Sure, but Talking Heads still have more in common with music from America than music from Africa.

Fela (and Talking Heads) was heavily influenced by Miles Davis' fusion experiments. Is that an Davisian, an African or an American influence? It's hard to really pin down these influences to a single country given the globalisation of music.

Talking Heads were influenced by American Funk and Disco music more so than any African music or "world music".

Album Rating: 3.5

Is that an Davisian, an African or an American influence? It's hard to really pin down these influences to a single country given the globalisation of music.



This is a good point to be fair.

Ghandhi, you're just being pedantic. Everything you're saying is presupposed/backgrounded. There's nothing wrong with benkim's statement.

I am being pedantic, you are right. What country a piece of music is grounded in is a minor detail because music is a global conversation of ideas (e.g the back and forth influence of James Brown and Fela Kuti).

There is nothing wrong with what benkim said. But as a statement it doesn't say much because most music is influenced by African music.

Album Rating: 3.5

Talking Heads were influenced by American Funk and Disco music more so than any African music or "world music".





Disagree hard. A lof of the guitar riffs here are very much raw traditional African music guitar riffs

That's mainly Houses in Motion, Crosseyed and Painless and The Great Curve . The rest mainly owes to disco, funk, Eno and new wave. Especially the last three tracks. Overload could be a Joy Division song.

Album Rating: 5.0

i'm still waiting

Album Rating: 5.0

"This is amazing but the influence of African music here is quite unmistakable



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Kind of redundant when talking about rock music.