tAlKiNgHeAdS have been one of my favorites since I was a youngster & I wanted to see any other P fans want to give it up for them here as they enter the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame!
My fav Heads albums if I HAD to choose would be:
Remain In Light
More Songs about Buildings & Food
&
Speaking In Tongues
Fav songs:
Life During Wartime
The Lady Don't Mind
The Good Thing
Crosseyed & Painless
I'll stop there

Next to P, the Heads are one of my favorites. I've had the privilege of spending some time with David Byrne and he is a very intelligent, witty man with very little ego to speak of. I swear, I could spend hours talking with him. He's one of those people that makes you take note and think of things that you have never paid much attention to. I hate that they disbanded, but David's solo work is great.

Talking Heads were amazing, and Tom Tom Club were (and still ARE) very, very funky. I got to chat with Tina Weymouth when I was in college, and she's one of the most colorful people I've ever met - she's quite a chatty kathy, but everything that came out of her mouth was fascinating, and I didn't WANT her to shut up!! (FYI - that's Tina on the Gorillaz song..."get the cool shoeshine")

Can't wait to see the TH reunion on the Hall of Fame!

That is really funny Anx!
I got to talk to Tina before a TTC show here last year @ Bowery Ballroom. She WAS chatting it up!! It was so cool, cuz naturally at first I was nervious to be talking to her, but she was a lot of fun! At one point, Chris came over and said something to her like "ya know Tina we go on in a few minutes"! I told her that it was funny how she only had a couple of mins to go on & yet she was out on the balcony chatting w/us instead of being backstage or something & she replied: "yeah out here pretending I'm not nervious as heck"! It was great! Thanks for replying. TH have been a big part of my life along with P. I love em!

Damn straight, the Heads are cool. Ever heard "Blind"? It's a James Brown excursion. Their cover of Al Green's "Take Me To The River" dare I say surpasses the Rev.'s? I love Remain In Light. Bernie Worrell toured with them at least once. The Heads are Funk fans.

Isaac Hayes was also inducted. It's about F@#$&*^% TIME!

You may ask yourself...why am I such a Prince addict???...you may ask yourself...why do I spend 95% of my waking hours on the www.prince.org website???....you may ask yourself why am I paying $100 for the NPGMC membership???.....you say to myself...my God my last 5 musical purchases have been Styx and Journey CDs!!!!!

Congrats to David Byrne for their induction!!!!!

* Brother 9/15 aka CR3

Ooops I meant to say Congrats to David Byrne AND CO. on their induction!!!

Yes I am elated that Ike is finally getting his due. He is very underrated and underappreciated IMO!!!!!

* Brother 9/15 aka CR3

Bernie Worrell was reunited onstage for that performance. Hope y'all check it out for the WOO!

"make believe mambo" the irresistible song that the talentless ricky martin will never sing

“I Hate World Music”
by David Byrne

The New York Times,
October 3, 1999

I hate world music. That’s probably one of the perverse
reasons I have been asked to write about it. The term is
a catchall that commonly refers to non-Western music
of any and all sorts, popular music, traditional music and
even classical music. It’s a marketing as well as a
pseudomusical term — and a name for a bin in the record
store signifying stuff that doesn’t belong anywhere else
in the store. What’s in that bin ranges from the most
blatantly commercial music produced by a country, like
Hindi film music (the singer Asha Bhosle being the best
well known example), to the ultra-sophisticated,
super-cosmopolitan art-pop of Brazil (Caetano Veloso,
Tom Zé, Carlinhos Brown); from the somewhat bizarre
and surreal concept of a former Bulgarian state-run
folkloric choir being arranged by classically trained,
Soviet-era composers (Le Mystére des Voix Bulgares) to
Norteño songs from Texas and northern Mexico glorifying
the exploits of drug dealers (Los Tigres del Norte).
Albums by Selena, Ricky Martin and Los Del Rio (the
Macarena kings), artists who sell millions of records in
the United States alone, are racked next to field
recordings of Thai hill tribes. Equating apples and
oranges indeed. So, from a purely democratic
standpoint, one in which all music is equal, regardless of
sales and slickness of production, this is a musical
utopia.

So Why Am I Complaining?

In my experience, the use of the term world music is a
way of dismissing artists or their music as irrelevant to
one’s own life. It’s a way of relegating this “thing” into
the realm of something exotic and therefore cute, weird
but safe, because exotica is beautiful but irrelevant;
they are, by definition, not like us. Maybe that’s why I
hate the term. It groups everything and anything that
isn’t “us” into “them.” This grouping is a convenient way
of not seeing a band or artist as a creative individual,
albeit from a culture somewhat different from that seen
on American television. It’s a label for anything at all
that is not sung in English or anything that doesn’t fit
into the Anglo-Western pop universe this year. (So Ricky
Martin is allowed out of the world music ghetto — for a
while, anyway. Next year, who knows? If he makes a
plena record, he might have to go back to the salsa bins
and the Latin mom and pop record stores.) It’s a none
too subtle way of reasserting the hegemony of Western
pop culture. It ghettoizes most of the world’s music. A
bold and audacious move, White Man!

There is some terrific music being made all over the
world. In fact, there is more music, in sheer quantity,
currently defined as world music, than any other kind.
Not just kinds of music, but volume of recordings as well.
When we talk about world music we find ourselves
talking about 99 percent of the music on this planet. It
would be strange to imagine, as many multinational
corporations seem to, that Western pop holds the
copyright on musical creativity.

No, the fact is, Western pop is the fast food of music
and there is more exciting creative music making going
on outside the Western pop tradition than inside it.
There is so much incredible noise happening that we’ll
never exhaust it. For example, there are guitar bands in
Africa that can be, if you let them, as inspiring and
transporting as any kind of rock, pop, soul, funk or disco
you grew up with. And what is exciting for me is that
they have taken elements of global (Western?) music
apart, examined the pieces to see what might be of use
and then re-invented and reassembled the parts to their
own ends. Thus creating something entirely new. (Femi
Kuti gave a great show the other night that was part
Coltrane, part James Brown and all African, just like his
daddy, Fela Kuti, the great Nigerian musical mastermind.)

To restrict your listening to English-language pop is like
deciding to eat the same meal for the rest of your life.
The “no-surprise surprise,” as the Holiday Inn
advertisement claims, is reassuring, I guess, but lacks
kick. As ridiculous as they often sound, the conservative
critics of rock-and-roll, and more recently of techno and
rave, are not far off the mark. For at it’s best, music
truly is subversive and dangerous. Thank the gods.
Hearing the right piece of music at the right time of your
life can inspire a radical change, destructive personal
behavior or even fascist politics. Sometimes all at the
same time.

On the other hand, music can inspire love, religious
ecstasy, cathartic release, social bonding and a glimpse
of another dimension. A sense that there is another
time, another space and another, better, universe. It
can heal a broken heart, offer a shoulder to cry on and a
friend when no one else understands. There are times
when you want to be transported, to get your mind
around some stuff it never encountered before. And
what if the thing transporting you doesn’t come from
your neighborhood?

Brother915 said:

LoL..."Same as it ever was", eh Brother915??... 8)

The live version of "Girlfriend Is Better" always kicked my ass...

To Wellbeyond: SAME AS IT EVER WAAAAASSSSS!!!!!(LOL)

* Brother 9/15 aka CR3

Who are the "rock & roll hall of fame" people, and what's their angle? What does it cost, who are the members, and where does their money come from?

I feel like going into a rant, but I'll just leave it at that.