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Music : Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
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Everything That Happens Will Happen Today by: David Byrne, Brian Eno List Price: £13.99 CD-Charts Price: £8.98 You Save: £5.01 (36%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 5060156653463 Label: Everything That Happens Manufacturer: Everything That Happens Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Everything That Happens Release Date: November 17, 2008 Studio: Everything That Happens Sales Rank: 260 Disc 1:
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 Rating:  - Everything That Happens Is Happening Somewhere Else (?)I have always been a fan of Eno and was a fan of Talking Heads from their first album and have a large collection of bother their albums, which I listen to a lot. So I was really excited about this release; the cover art suggests that this is not just a side project so my hopes were high. The liner notes from both Byrne and Eno sound very encouraging, so imagine then my disappointment when I put this on my CD player. This is just dull and bland and I say that as someone who loves Eno's ambient music as well as his early song based ablums. I think because Eno stuck (largely) to doing the music and Byrne stcuk (largely) to the lyrics they have somehow cancelled out eachothers energy and we are left wioth a lifeless bunch ... Read More: Rating:  - A few tracks short of being a classicThis album is so easy on the ears, a wonderfully enjoyable listen, full of a mixture of very immediate, catchy tracks and more experimental, chilled and near-ambient pieces all with lyrics which are unmistakably David Byrne. The first track, 'Home' is very nearly instantly familiar, possibly because it gets a little too close for comfort to Simon & Garfunkel's 'Homeward Bound', but just about retains enough originality to get away with it - it's an excellent track, regardless. Following on from it is the sauntering piece of laid-back gorgeousness, 'My Big Nurse', which features an instantly lovable melody. After the long, interesting - but flawed - 'I Feel My Stuff', we are treated to a piece of choral loveliness, 'Everything That ... Read More: Rating:  - Utterly infectiousI bought this a couple of weeks ago and have listened to almost nothing else since. Odd, since it is by no means a flawless album. It just happens to have half a dozen tracks that are so infectious you find yourself humming them after only one or two hearings. From the opening chords of the opening track, Home, you know you are in the company of two men of a certain age, comfortable in themselves, their lives and their talent. The song has the nerve to skate close to Simon and Garfunkel and still emerge as a distinctively Byrnian piece: 'Home, with the heighbours fighting/Home, always so exciting/Home, were my parents telling the truth?' It sets the tone for a determinedly upbeat, anthemic, collection: even Byrne's delight in dystopia and ... Read More: Rating: - Oh yes! And thank-you!I suppose I was expecting 'My Life in the Bush of Ghosts' part 2. Quite frankly, I'm relieved to say I didn't get it. I always found that album a bit too esoteric, a bit too intellectual. This couldn't really be more different. The cover notes say that Brian Eno was influenced by American Gospel, amongst other things. Well, maybe, but the point is, he wanted the music 'to be inviting, to offer the listener a place inside it'. David Byrne's unmistakeable vocals go a long way to making this album so accessible. On top of that, it is so full of tuneful tracks. It's not simple, though. Maybe at times it seems almost naïve, but the lyrics are really quite subversive. The first track - 'Home' - opens with a squidgy synth ... Read More: Rating: - A very fine collaborationI've followed Brian Eno since the first Roxy album and David Byrne since the first Talking Heads album. Only occasionally, but significantly, have they worked together. 'My life in the bush of ghosts' was their high point together, an album of revolutionary importance. Strangely, since I rate them individually so highly, I had few expectations of this album. I wondered how truly different it would be - would it be a rather predictable fusion? How great it has been to be so surprised. This is a really fine album. At times wistful, at times edgy and exciting, always lyrically and musically intriguing. Both BE and DB let go, creating something beyond what either could do on his own. And also beautiful. Beyond all, beautiful. A rich, very special album. |
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