2024-05-17 23:24:15
Could 18, 2024
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A number of music stars have come collectively to ship a tribute album to Speaking Heads overlaying the titles of the legendary “Cease Making Sense”.
Forty years this 12 months for the reason that legendary album, backed by Jonathan Demme’s documentary, was revealed: the chance for an entire cohort of present artists and teams to pay tribute to the Speaking Heads by repeating piece by piece, and so as please!, the entire “Cease Making Sense”.
Clearly, this sort of enterprise seems to be like a Spanish inn the place the impressed rubs shoulders with the tasteless, the irreverent, even the insulting, the respectful homage.
Some folks additionally confuse deconstruction and destruction: that is particularly the case for Miley Cyrus screwing up “Psychokiller” with a Prince interval intro “Purple Rain” adopted by a Kylie Minogue type carousel chorus from the Inventory, Aitken and Waterman interval.
The great compromise is reached by Woman in Purple (“Girlfriend Is Higher”) and Lorde (“Take Me to the River”) who applicable these two items whereas respecting them.
Others are extra in the scrupulous homage: that is the case of Toro Y Moi for the duvet of “Genius of Love” by Tom Tom Membership, “This Should Be The Place” sung by Norah Jones with BadBadNotGood or “Burning Down The Home” by Paramore .
Some handle to imitate the inventive insanity of David Byrne: that is the case of Chicano Batman for “Crosseyed And Painless” or of El Mato a Policia Motorizado which covers “Slippery Folks” in Spanish, giving it a very completely different sound. Let’s transfer on to the cutesy “Heaven” delivered by The Nationwide which makes you miss the Merely Purple model. Lastly, le bon compromis est atteint par Woman in Purple (“Girlfriend Is Higher”) et Lorde (“Take Me to the River”) who applicable these two items whereas respecting them. Which makes… “sense”.
“Everybody’s Getting Concerned : A Tribute to Speaking Heads’ Cease Making Sense”
Composed by Speaking Heads
Carried out by a number of artists
Label: Metropolis Slang
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