Remain In Light (Deluxe Version) by Talking Heads

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RLittledale--This Review's For You. I loved your review of this album. I don't know if you were listening to music in the 80s, but if you were I'm guessing it was bands lilke Twisted Sister and Quiet Riot--am I right? Also guessing that if you are a US citizen and voted, you voted for Trump. Just a hunch.

A Perfect Classic. Remain In Light is certainly 5 stars not just because it is an excellent album...it is about as near perfect as a rock album can get. I hesitate to use the term "rock" because it is so much more than that. With Brian Eno at the helm and great guest musicians like Adrian Belew, Talking Heads began their immortalization here. The songs are rhythmically complex and dynamic, the grooves funky, and the instrumentation masterfully layered, with Eno's electonic embellishments and production complimenting David Byrne's nerd-king vide to a T. Everyone knows Once In a Lifetime, but put your headphones on and take in all the different instrumental and vocal gyrations of Born Under Punches, the frenetic drive of The Great Curve, the plaintive vocals fronting the middle eastern feel of Listening Wind (a topical song now as it was in the early 1980s), the pure funk of Crosseyed and Painless. This album helped redefine pop music and paved the way for countless pop fusions to come. A must have.

Inspirational. Crosseyed and painless and House in Motion was played virtually everyday when I purchased my Fender Precision , The bass line are wack and are put on a Funkadelick plane. If you were tired of Rick James and the norm of the day you got on the Talking Heads spaceship. The bass player (Tina Weymouth) can play man.

Lame College Indie Avantgarbage. Sorry, but TH are hipster-avantgarde garbage. Byrne’s voice sounds as though he waiting for his Metamucil to kick in. He makes Geddy Lee sound like Frank Sinatra. The rest of the band play their instrument with the deft ability only witnessed in 8th grade jazz bands. Yeah, they are artists not musicians but art shouldn’t make you physically ill. Spare you ears the sonic torture… If only given the choice between New Kids On The Block and THs, I’d have to take NKOTB as the lesser of two evils.

A Genre Bending Funk-Rock Masterpiece. I am a funk music fan. I love the classic James Brown, Parliament-Funkadelic, Earth, Wind and Fire, and the Isley Brothers music from the 70's. The Talking Heads' 1980 release "Remain in Light" is an amazingly funky album that any true "Funkateer" or funk music fan will thoroughly enjoy. The polyrhythms and the electronic sound effects are reminiscent of classic P-Funk (in fact, Parliament-Funkadelic alums Bernie Worrell, Lynn Mabrey, and Dolette MacDonald would be featured prominently on subsequent Talking Heads recordings "Speaking in Tongues" and "Stop Making Sense"). "Remain in Light" features great dancefloor music but is perhaps best appreciated though a set of high quality headphones. Listen to "Born Under the Punches" or the album's best known song "Once in A Lifetime". David Byrne's vocals are simultanously passionate and withdrawn, paranoid yet assured. His rants would not be out of place on a Parliament album - philosophizing with Dr. Funkenstein and Sir Nose D'Voidoffunk. The other songs are just as remarkable. This album is the perfect merger of the funk and rock music of the period. Excellent!

Overload of Awesome. This is Talking Heads' best album. Their mixture of funk, rock, and Afro-beat is just mind-blowing. The first track is just an overload of awesome.

A CLASSIC. It stood the test of time

Still genius.. Complete, unadulterated genius. "Once In a Lifetime" of course, but get a few years under your belt in this life and the song hits home, hard. But "Seen and Not Seen" and "Listening Wind" are chilling, prescient pieces. Surely this is one of my ten desert island albums.

Kid A of the '80's. Talking Heads album "Remain In Light" is 1980's equal to Radiohead's "Kid A". Both are a little too short. Both have a sort of sonic freak out in their first song. "Born Under Punches" uses bleeps and bloops that sound like Pacman and understandably old computers. And "Everything In Its Right Place" has Yorke's voice mixed and remixed by Greenwood. "Once In A Lifetime" and "Houses In Motion" are 2 of Talking Heads' best songs.

Worth buying. My first music video that I have ever seen was Once in a Lifetime and I was blown away. The album has always been my favorite from the Talking Heads. I can never get enough listening to the whole album and it is worth getting the Deluxe Version.

The Best Talking Heads Record. This is the peak of the Talking Heads, and along with Bowie's Low and Gabriel (melt) one of the very best art rock recordings. Rich and still exciting to this day.

Among the best of alternative, among the best of all time.. This is the Talking Head's magnum opus, their absolute peak. "Remain in Light" could not have been a more perfect follow up to the phenomenal "Fear of Music", as everything has evolved into making this masterpiece. Some of the quirkiness has been sacrificed to make a more serious and deeper experience, but it can still be heard in songs like "Once in a Lifetime" and "Houses in Motion". The funky darkness is suffocating in its presence, and this is simply an album all music lovers should own and cherish.

Unique Beyond Imagination. This is one of the most startlingly "out there" yet strangely listenable releases to come out of popular music. I wish that more artists would experiment with African influences like this, and that Brian Eno would stay away from the likes of Coldplay for good! The primal grooves that Byrne and Co. create transcend any musical period. Songs like "The Great Curve" make me glad to feel alive. Plus, the bonus tracks are a WONDERFUL reason to buy this expanded edition - they're some of the best I've ever heard from any artist, and should have been included on the original album! A must-buy for any music fan!

Insane. This is so insanely good that it deserves 5 stars for side 1 alone --- even though side 2 isn't so great.

Legitimate Masterpiece. "Remain in Light" is a legit masterpiece, though it took me a while to warm up to it. The rhythms and sounds on this album, along with David Byrne's as-usual amazing stream-of-consciousness lyrics, create an incredible mood from the first track to the last.

5 stars relative to other Heads albums. Probably 4 stars relative to pretty much anything. Talking Heads are an acquired taste, to some extent - but "Remain in Light" is absolutely one of their top three. (The other two are "Speaking in Tongues" and the "Stop Making Sense" live tour disc.) The remastered album gives a bit more warmth and depth to the tracks, and the extras aren't all that fabulous, but RIL as an album remains one of the best ever done in the early 80s in general, and inarguably one of the best the Heads ever did. The album starts with "Born Under Punches", a superb opening - and from there it just gets better. The A side is filled with fascinating rhythm and vocal tracks; the B side is good, though they probably could have done without "The Overload". "Listening Wind" is relevant, and particularly creepy now, in a way that few pop songs composed 30 years ago are. You don't have to be an 80s freak to like this album. You don't need to be a fan of Talking Heads. All you really need is an appreciation of the kind of experiments pop was making in the early 80s, and a willingness to try something other than what eventually became the genres of metal; or goth; or emo. They were loosely classified as "alternative", but as a band, Talking Heads were a genre unto themselves. RIL is one of the two best they ever did in this range, and definitely one of the best anyone ever did in this range.

Vastly Improved Sound Quality. I bought these tracks about 6 months ago and the sound quality & volume was terribly low & muffled >> like someone pressing a thick pillow over the speakers. I just checked the samples again & it sounds like someone has fixed this problem. The tracks now have a thrilling three dimensional punch that rivals the best quality remasters on iTunes >> Great job on this timeless, landmark LP!!!!!

Desert Island Disk. The peak of the collaboration between the four members of the Talking Heads and producer Brian Eno. There are sounds on this album that are still innovative 28 years later. They truly started a new genre of music here, blending instruments, rhythmic patterns, and lyrically delivery in ways that influence a wide variety of artists to this day. The new master of this album, overseen by Jerry Harrison brings elements barely head before into sharper focus. Recommended to new and old fans.

Half great. I’m giving this album three stars because I hate the first three songs, on which I thought the band tried too hard to be clever, but I absolutely adore the last five songs. My three favorite songs are Houses In Motion, Seen and Not Seen (really love the words for this one) and The Listening Wind.

Best record ever.. The title says it all. The first time I heard this record, I was completely blown away, and I still am every time I listen to it (which is just about every day)! Every song is amazing, and the whole album flows great. They completely pushed the boundaries of their sound by experimenting with new sounds, but still managed to have a hit with "Once In A Lifetime." Something every music lover should own. Period.

Their Sgt. Pepper's. Remain in Light is the apotheosis (rock critic word) -- the farthest the Heads took their sound. Like the Beatles who returned to a more rock & roll sound after the Summer of Love, the Talking Heads eventually brought it all back home, but not until they explored a jungle of polyrhythmic big-band euphoria. It's one of those albums that while now 25 years old, still sounds ahead of its time. The hypnotic "Seen and Not Seen" by the way, is one of their all-time best little-known tracks.

" A Once In A Lifetime Achievement!". .."Art Students Gettin' Funky; Now!"..What a Way to Usher In The Energetic Eighties!-The Groovemastery of David Byrne & Company+The Calculated Coolness of Brian Eno=Defined The Eighties as: "Thinking Person's Dance Music!"-Borrowing Shamelessly from the James Brown "Cookbook of Funk"; "Remain In Light" Re-Defines that over-used '80's Term: "New Wave!"-Still Mind-Expanding & Booty-Shaking some 30 Years On!-"You Might Ask Yourself!"...by Grimmbo.

Magnificent. Love this album although I only came across it about 10 years ago. Eno's influence is apparent. In my opinion this is their stand out record. Great stuff!

Outstanding!. I always liked Talking Heads in high school (mid-late 1980s), at least the stuff I had heard on the radio and seen on MTV. Since iTunes, I've been getting whole albums, now that previewing is a reality. This is the fourth entire album of theirs that I've bought on iTunes - unbelievable. This has got to be one of their best (of course, I like everything of theirs that I've heard). Has anyone else noticed on the remastered version, that "Right Start (Unfinished Outtake)" sounds a lot like a template for "Once In A Lifetime"?

Roll over Lyle Lovett. My brother framed this album's cd booklet and put it above his toilet for a well-balanced decor. Goes to show that Talking Heads will always be above waste unless there is an earthquake.

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remains one of the best. Quite simply one of the best albums ever made,in it's original form.......interesting but unecessary extra tracks somehow detract from the stunning impact of the original 9 songs. If you don't have this album your collection is seriously lacking

Wayne. This is the worst album i ever bought.I remember being so dissapointed when i first played it. Sometimes music grows on you but this album just didnt.