Hey “radical” political people, still talking crazy, still sitting on your asses, kiss kiss folks.
Burning Down the House / Talking Heads
I love the way the Heads took real music with guts but then robotized it, gave it Terminator bones. A lot of the music I really like all has that kind of sound to it. There’s some distance & maybe some menace. (Say New Order, Bob Marley, the Chili Peppers, LTJ Bukem, some of the newer dubstep stuff. That bubblegum sounding Pumped Up Kicks thing. Sweet Home Alabama has it, though the Lynyrd Skynyrd recordings definitely need a slower tempo, a haircut, and nicer shoes.) Like it’s played by an alien living intelligence system who is deeply into Earth-style popular music but allows its plans for world domination to spill over into the music a little bit.
Ok, in a sense I guess I called Bob Marley an alien robot. But it’s there, you can hear it. That distance.
