Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...predict which song from Fear of Music, the last Talking Heads album, best indicated where the group was going, I would have suggested "Life During Wartime," a periodic dance tune that is easily the biggest hit they've had (getting more play than "Psycho Killer" from the Talking Heads: '77 album). An entire album like that probably would have broken them into the big time. But art-rock groups do not always seek mainstream acceptance. The Talking Heads have instead followed the path started by "I Zimbra," a seemingly one-shot affair that got heavy play on disco stations because...
...this to be another white-group-seeks-its- Black-roots album, or was the most intellectual group in music today examining a purer form of rhythm and blues? This David Byrne and Brian Eno meet James Brown's godfather album is risky business; it is bound to alienate someone...
...what is the closing tune, "The Overload," doing on the album? Even Byrne calls it an anomaly. It is reminiscent of a funeral march but the critics have been comparing it to the latest posthumously popularized group Joy Division. It sounds to me like Eno's obsession, Ambient Music. In concept, Ambient Music attempts to create the ambience of listening to music without the music. In practice, it sounds like a kitchen with all the electric appliances on. The fact that Eno has released about ten albums in the last five years using a concept good for two albums...
Another time, the rooming group caught the attention of a Harvard policeman, who saw them running frantically across the Yard. When he stopped them, they had to tell him they were hysterical because they had seen a cockroach "big enough to saddle" in their room. "Somedays we just don't stop laughing," Gardiner says...
Mendelsohn, who will hand back the mid term papers tomorrow to the 60 students in his class will select a group of the essays, with student's permission to give the administration next week. "I don't think we, as scientists, can never be insensitive to the social needs that technology can cure for society," Mendelsohn said, adding "but we have to be careful when these needs are determined by commercial profit, and not by a broader view to social good...