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YouTubeChris DeVille and I are arguing about who's the more important American rock band: Talking Heads or The Pixies.
Ross: Talking Heads
DeVille: The Pixies
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Pixies vs. Talking Heads
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brothermarcus
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Brian Eno/Talking Heads are more influential to the artists I like so I'll go with them. My answer might have been different back in the day when I was solely into grunge/alt-rock.
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lisathewaitress
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Nope. Pixies. They kind of led the way with the whole progressive/alternative quite verse, rockin' chorus, mind-blowing bridge thing.
Besides which, 2 of them are from Ohio.
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pixlfarmer
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David Byrne.
That is all.
Posted 3 years ago # -
enzo
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Talking Heads......hands down, no contest.
David Byrne is divine
Psycho Killler, Take Me To The River, Burning Down The House
The Tom Tom Club was formed by a former member and the Tom Tom Club was AWESOME...
I love the Pixies too, but the Talking Heads were hyper creative in film too. I think I love the Talking HEads because David Byrne and David Lynch seem similar in their peculiar and creative ways.
Also, look at all the people The Talking Heads inspired ( I could only think of Tom Tom Club so I had to look at Wikipedia)
Talking Heads have influenced a number of bands and have been referenced in a number of films:
The band Radiohead took their name from the Talking Heads song "Radio Head" from the 1986 album True Stories.[5][6]
Trent Reznor was inspired by the flipped and backwards lettering on the Remain In Light cover when designing the logo for his band Nine Inch Nails. He has also cited "Remain In Light" as one of his favorite albums of all time.[7]
U2 often performed a snippet of "Life During Wartime" during performances of "Discothèque".[8]
The jam band Phish covered the album Remain in Light in its entirety on Halloween 1996. Phish continued to cover "Crosseyed and Painless" throughout their career, including a 20+ minute version at the millennium concert at Big Cypress in the Everglades. Phish also covered the song "Cities" from the Fear of Music album, gaining heavy rotation in their set lists in 1997 and 1998. The cover appeared on Phish's live album Slip, Stitch & Pass.
The band Widespread Panic performs cover versions of "Life During Wartime", "Swamp", "Heaven", "City of Dreams" and "Papa Legba". Lead singer John Bell frequently raps pieces of "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)" during the song "Blight", an example of such can be heard on the Widespread Panic album Live In The Classic City. They also cover "City of Dreams" on their 2006 DVD Earth to Atlanta: Live at the Fox Theatre.
String Cheese Incident band member Kyle Hollingsworth, an avid Talking Heads fan, regularly covers "This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody)", as well as "What a Day That Was." The band has also covered "Life During Wartime" and "Burning Down the House".
"Making Flippy Floppy" is often played by jam band Umphrey's Mcgee.
The band are mentioned in the Edan song "Rock & Roll".
Living Colour covered "Memories Can't Wait" on their debut album.
Simply Red included a cover of "Heaven" on their 1985 album Picture Book.
Guster has a live recording of (Nothing But) Flowers on their live CD/DVD Guster On Ice.
In a US interview conducted for MTV in 1985, Kate Bush stated that she was a fan.[9]
The novel American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis opens with a page displaying a lyric from the song (Nothing But) Flowers ("And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention") and the protagonist later says Talking Heads is his favorite band.
UK indie-pop band The Ting Tings have regularly acknowledged Talking Heads and splinter group the Tom Tom Club as major a influence on their work.[citation needed]
Yonder Mountain String Band does a bluegrassy-jam cover of Girlfriend is Better.
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Cookie
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enzo wrote The band Radiohead took their name from the Talking Heads song "Radio Head" from the 1986 album True Stories.[5][6]
Trent Reznor was inspired by the flipped and backwards lettering on the Remain In Light cover when designing the logo for his band Nine Inch Nails. He has also cited "Remain In Light" as one of his favorite albums of all time.[7]
U2 often performed a snippet of "Life During Wartime" during performances of "Discothèque".[8]
The jam band Phish covered the album Remain in Light in its entirety on Halloween 1996. Phish continued to cover "Crosseyed and Painless" throughout their career, including a 20+ minute version at the millennium concert at Big Cypress in the Everglades. Phish also covered the song "Cities" from the Fear of Music album, gaining heavy rotation in their set lists in 1997 and 1998. The cover appeared on Phish's live album Slip, Stitch & Pass.
The band Widespread Panic performs cover versions of "Life During Wartime", "Swamp", "Heaven", "City of Dreams" and "Papa Legba". Lead singer John Bell frequently raps pieces of "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)" during the song "Blight", an example of such can be heard on the Widespread Panic album Live In The Classic City. They also cover "City of Dreams" on their 2006 DVD Earth to Atlanta: Live at the Fox Theatre.
String Cheese Incident band member Kyle Hollingsworth, an avid Talking Heads fan, regularly covers "This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody)", as well as "What a Day That Was." The band has also covered "Life During Wartime" and "Burning Down the House".
"Making Flippy Floppy" is often played by jam band Umphrey's Mcgee.
The band are mentioned in the Edan song "Rock & Roll".
Living Colour covered "Memories Can't Wait" on their debut album.
Simply Red included a cover of "Heaven" on their 1985 album Picture Book.
Guster has a live recording of (Nothing But) Flowers on their live CD/DVD Guster On Ice.
In a US interview conducted for MTV in 1985, Kate Bush stated that she was a fan.[9]
The novel American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis opens with a page displaying a lyric from the song (Nothing But) Flowers ("And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention") and the protagonist later says Talking Heads is his favorite band.
UK indie-pop band The Ting Tings have regularly acknowledged Talking Heads and splinter group the Tom Tom Club as major a influence on their work.[citation needed]
Yonder Mountain String Band does a bluegrassy-jam cover of Girlfriend is Better.
I submit this list as my argument for The Pixies being superior.
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michaelcoyote
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Cookie wrote
enzo wrote ...
I submit this list as my argument for The Pixies being superior.
Orthogonal to the question at hand... denied..
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LauraA
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finally an argument i can get into.
i think that both are equally important. these are two of my all time favorite bands. i think they both are forefathers for different types of music. i'll say pixies but only because i hate the new single from david byrne/brian eno.
and i met david byrne and he seems pretty egomanical.
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brothermarcus
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With Cookie's negative reaction to Enzo's list, I feel compelled to post the greatest Talking Head's cover evar...
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chaptal
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Cookie wrote
enzo wrote The band Radiohead took their name from the Talking Heads song "Radio Head" from the 1986 album True Stories.[5][6]
Trent Reznor was inspired by the flipped and backwards lettering on the Remain In Light cover when designing the logo for his band Nine Inch Nails. He has also cited "Remain In Light" as one of his favorite albums of all time.[7]
U2 often performed a snippet of "Life During Wartime" during performances of "Discothèque".[8]
The jam band Phish covered the album Remain in Light in its entirety on Halloween 1996. Phish continued to cover "Crosseyed and Painless" throughout their career, including a 20+ minute version at the millennium concert at Big Cypress in the Everglades. Phish also covered the song "Cities" from the Fear of Music album, gaining heavy rotation in their set lists in 1997 and 1998. The cover appeared on Phish's live album Slip, Stitch & Pass.
The band Widespread Panic performs cover versions of "Life During Wartime", "Swamp", "Heaven", "City of Dreams" and "Papa Legba". Lead singer John Bell frequently raps pieces of "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)" during the song "Blight", an example of such can be heard on the Widespread Panic album Live In The Classic City. They also cover "City of Dreams" on their 2006 DVD Earth to Atlanta: Live at the Fox Theatre.
String Cheese Incident band member Kyle Hollingsworth, an avid Talking Heads fan, regularly covers "This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody)", as well as "What a Day That Was." The band has also covered "Life During Wartime" and "Burning Down the House".
"Making Flippy Floppy" is often played by jam band Umphrey's Mcgee.
The band are mentioned in the Edan song "Rock & Roll".
Living Colour covered "Memories Can't Wait" on their debut album.
Simply Red included a cover of "Heaven" on their 1985 album Picture Book.
Guster has a live recording of (Nothing But) Flowers on their live CD/DVD Guster On Ice.
In a US interview conducted for MTV in 1985, Kate Bush stated that she was a fan.[9]
The novel American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis opens with a page displaying a lyric from the song (Nothing But) Flowers ("And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention") and the protagonist later says Talking Heads is his favorite band.
UK indie-pop band The Ting Tings have regularly acknowledged Talking Heads and splinter group the Tom Tom Club as major a influence on their work.[citation needed]
Yonder Mountain String Band does a bluegrassy-jam cover of Girlfriend is Better.
I submit this list as my argument for The Pixies being superior.
I'm not changing my vote!
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michaelcoyote
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After careful consideration I gotta say Talking Heads.. their late 70s, early 80s output is freaking amazing.. They crossed the bridges of experimental and alternative rock with funk and tied it all together in a sweet package.
At some point this weekend I'll have to go home and watch "Stop Making Sense"
That said I love me some Pixies (though I'm a little bit more of a post pixies frank black fan).
Thank you, that is all.
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John Ross
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I think the Talking Heads top The Pixies for five reasons:
1. The band was used as a springboard for the emergence of both Brian Eno and David Byrne as producers who would later work on some fantastic rock records.
2. Talking Heads paved the way for American New Wave and bridged the gap that, for decades, kept separate art rock and pop rock.
3. The band, along with Paul Simon and Peter Gabriel, engulfed global sounds and created a template for the world music explosion that happened during the '80s and early '90s.
4. Talking Heads were the best New York art band at the time when New York was defined by art bands.
5. As has been mentioned, Talking Heads were responsible for groundbreaking use of multimedia in musical performance. This was often copied later and, during their best run, resulted in Stop Making Sense, considered one of the best live albums/DVDs of all time.
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brothermarcus
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enzo wrote What is the picture or video? I cannot view at work.
Tom Jones & The Cardigans covering "Burning Down the House"
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