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fc<p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/FortnightFridayMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FortnightFridayMusic</span></a><br>October 20 2023<br>The prompt is Under</p><p>Talking Heads, “Born Under Punches” from Remain In Light, 1980</p><p>I could write a novel about <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/TalkingHeads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TalkingHeads</span></a>’ “Born Under Punches,” a symphony about the album Remain in Light, but the world is hyper-aware of Talking Heads these days, with the re-release of the documentary film “Stop Making Sense” and its soundtrack, so let me just say: Has there ever been, and could there ever be, a more perfect way to open an album than that downbeat into <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/DavidByrnes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DavidByrnes</span></a>’ “AH!” It propels you into the album with such percussive force, you could coast through the whole side on its momentum, even if there weren’t much else to carry you. (THERE IS.) Yes, yes, <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/BrianEno" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BrianEno</span></a>, African influence, <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/polyrhythms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>polyrhythms</span></a> - the album is amazing, it's all been said - but that opening is perhaps the most charged one second of audio I’ve experienced. </p><p>“Don’t you miss it, don’t you miss it/Some of you people just about missed it” </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6T_X7MXg40" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=w6T_X7MXg4</span><span class="invisible">0</span></a></p>
v_chaud<p>My cassette wore out...good this is on youtube<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bPmfaVpo5o" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=5bPmfaVpo5o</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NenehCherry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NenehCherry</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/annielennox" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>annielennox</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SineadOconnor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SineadOconnor</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/IggyPop" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IggyPop</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/KDlang" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KDlang</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/U2" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>U2</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DavidByrnes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DavidByrnes</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TomWaits" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TomWaits</span></a></p>