Naked by Talking Heads

Pros: an amazingly rich, complex, tropical slice of musical heaven
Cons: occasionally heavy handed - not what everyone might expect from Talking Heads

Their album releasing career lasted for a paltry eleven years. Oh, but what a ride those ten years were. From their debut in 1977 to their swan song in 1988, Talking Heads offered up eight studio albums and re-invented themselves time and again, ...

Pros: Talkng Heads go out with a bang with a return to polyrhythmic multilayerd songs.
Cons: It was their last studio album.

Naked The final studio album by the Talking Heads, it is also one of their best albums, and much better than their almost pop sounding Little Creatures and True Stories. It marks a final return to the complex rhythmic structures and multi ...

Pros: The songs mix social consciousness with Byrne-being-weird quirkiness, and melody with experiment.
Cons: Apparently it has some, or the reviewers would've made you hear it by now.

I assume -- if wrongly, I apologize -- that you, as a visiting or full-time Epinions reader, have a good general idea who Talking Heads were. At minimum, you'd likely recognize them as the band behind "Once in a Lifetime" ("same as it ever was"), and...

Pros: Recommended with reservations; TH fans should have this in their collection to make it complete; Nerds and caffeine junkies (like wvg) will enjoy the tempo and delirium expressed on this album. ;-)
Cons: Some folks won't carefully consider the lyrical content because they think they were a 'weird' or 'nerdy' group; TH disbanded in 1991.

While talking with mshawpyle the other night, he said, 'You know October 4th is the Feast Day of Saint Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals.' Chagrined that I'd forgotten the importance of this day in history, I decided I would...

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Cons: Possibly boring

When the Talking Heads experimented with ethnic rhythms and textures on Remain in Light, it came across as fascinating, and a natural progression for them. When they once again decided to delve into African and Latin rhythms on Naked, it comes across as...