OldSkoolKlein
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OK, I'm a little surprised that my choice hasn't come up yet;
STOP MAKING SENSE by TALKING HEADS.
In my opinion, the funny thing about this album is that the vinyl version has the WORST versions of the songs on the album. I have the LP, VHS tape, and a German DVD release.
The best versions of these songs is the set done for the film. They were taken from concerts at the Pantages Theatre somewhere in the U.S. The film was 1 concert, the LP was taken from others, and eventually the FULL concert was released on DVD with 4-5 extra tracks compared to the LP, whereas the film has 2 or 3 less than the dvd.
I'm happy to be corrected on the numbers, I just can't be bothered to Wikipedia it.
Watch the film. What a cool way to bring out the band; 5-6 songs to get them all out. And Cross Eyed and Painless still gives me the urge to permanently damage my hearing. And the synth solo in Making Flippy Floppy will really test the channel separation capabilities of your amp and speakers, or if you have a killer set of proper headphones (not the shit you hook up an iphone to). Go Bernie Worrell!
Just another nerdy bit I found at boingboing. This is the link for the story: http://boingboing.net/2009/10/08/stop-making-sense-25.html
This is supposedly how Jonathan Demme blended the material from the 3 concerts into 1:
Chris Spurgeon
I love the clever technique Jonathan Demme used to make this movie. What was that, you ask? Glad to tell you!
Demme shot the concert on three nights...one night with the cameras on the left, one with the cameras on the right, and once with them shooting from the center of the theater. He and David Byrne took pains to make sure the three shows looked as visually identical as possible (same songs, same clothes, same lighting changes at the same moments in the songs, etc.) They took extra care to make sure that each song was played at exactly the same tempo each night. (In a couple of shots in the movie you can see Talking Heads drummer Chris Franz holding a headphone speaker to his ear before starting a song. He was listening to a click track to make sure that he kicked off the number at the correct speed). **Note from O.S.Klein: You see this notably on the 3rd song on the movie, Thank you for sending me an Angel.**
All this gave Demme the ability to cut together three performances shot from three different camera angles to give the illusion of one continuous performance. Clever!
STOP MAKING SENSE by TALKING HEADS.
In my opinion, the funny thing about this album is that the vinyl version has the WORST versions of the songs on the album. I have the LP, VHS tape, and a German DVD release.
The best versions of these songs is the set done for the film. They were taken from concerts at the Pantages Theatre somewhere in the U.S. The film was 1 concert, the LP was taken from others, and eventually the FULL concert was released on DVD with 4-5 extra tracks compared to the LP, whereas the film has 2 or 3 less than the dvd.
I'm happy to be corrected on the numbers, I just can't be bothered to Wikipedia it.
Watch the film. What a cool way to bring out the band; 5-6 songs to get them all out. And Cross Eyed and Painless still gives me the urge to permanently damage my hearing. And the synth solo in Making Flippy Floppy will really test the channel separation capabilities of your amp and speakers, or if you have a killer set of proper headphones (not the shit you hook up an iphone to). Go Bernie Worrell!
Just another nerdy bit I found at boingboing. This is the link for the story: http://boingboing.net/2009/10/08/stop-making-sense-25.html
This is supposedly how Jonathan Demme blended the material from the 3 concerts into 1:
Chris Spurgeon
I love the clever technique Jonathan Demme used to make this movie. What was that, you ask? Glad to tell you!
Demme shot the concert on three nights...one night with the cameras on the left, one with the cameras on the right, and once with them shooting from the center of the theater. He and David Byrne took pains to make sure the three shows looked as visually identical as possible (same songs, same clothes, same lighting changes at the same moments in the songs, etc.) They took extra care to make sure that each song was played at exactly the same tempo each night. (In a couple of shots in the movie you can see Talking Heads drummer Chris Franz holding a headphone speaker to his ear before starting a song. He was listening to a click track to make sure that he kicked off the number at the correct speed). **Note from O.S.Klein: You see this notably on the 3rd song on the movie, Thank you for sending me an Angel.**
All this gave Demme the ability to cut together three performances shot from three different camera angles to give the illusion of one continuous performance. Clever!
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Reminded me of listening to Ricochet and getting woke up at the end by all the clapping.Completely forgot itss a live album
dO we dare mention Kraftwerk's Live album Minimum/maximum ?
