now playing : 16 june

Talking Heads, Remain In Light, 1980

i don't know about other folks who were kicking the can around in 1980 but for me this album was what Kurtz said: "like being shot in the head with a diamond."

commentators on the music scene prattle on about David Byrne's abstracted lyrics and the intellectual at-arms-length-ness of the writing making the material inaccessible but for me those lyrics were a manifesto for a new way to see and be: it was 1980, i was shouldering my way through the halls of university and these guys with their brilliant poetry and funky neo-afro tunes and hacking guitar blasts made it seem very possible for the geeky guys to be cool too.

the world has moved on women's hips for me ever since.