45 år på bagen: Talking Heads – Remain in light
9. november 2015
45 år er gået siden Talking Heads udsendte deres fjerde album. Og min kritikerdarling Robert Christgau giver den karakteren A i sin forbrugerguide og giver følgende rammende karakteristik af skiven:
Remain in Light [Sire, 1980]
In which David Byrne conquers his fear of music in a visionary Afrofunk synthesis–clear-eyed, detached, almost mystically optimistic. First side’s a long dance-groove more sinuous than any known DOR that climaxes in the middle with the uncontorted “Crosseyed and Painless” but begins at the beginning: when Byrne shouts out that “the world moves on a woman’s hips”–not exactly a new idea in rock and roll–it sounds as if he’s just discovered the secret of life for himself, which he probably has. Second side celebrates a young terrorist and recalls John Cale in his spookiest pregeopolitical mode but also begins at the beginning: with “Once in a Lifetime,” the greatest song Byrne will ever write. It’s about the secret of life, which even a woman’s hips can’t encompass.
“Once in a Lifetime”, den bedste sang Byrne nogensinde vil skrive. Så kan det vel næsten ikke siges bedre?!
