Remain in Light
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Length | 40:10 | |||
Label | Sire | |||
Producer | Brian Eno | |||
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Remain in Light is the fourth
After the release of
Byrne struggled with
Remain in Light was acclaimed by critics, who praised its sonic experimentation, rhythmic innovations, and cohesive merging of disparate genres. The album peaked at number 19 on the US Billboard 200 and number 21 on the UK Albums Chart, and spawned the singles "Once in a Lifetime" and "Houses in Motion". It has been featured in several publications' lists of the best albums of the 1980s and of all time, and is often considered Talking Heads' magnum opus. In 2017, the Library of Congress deemed the album "culturally, historically, or artistically significant",[2] and selected it for preservation in the National Recording Registry.[3]
Background
In January 1980, the members of Talking Heads returned to New York City after the tours in support of their 1979 critically acclaimed third album, Fear of Music, and took time off to pursue personal interests. Singer David Byrne worked with Brian Eno, the record's producer, on an experimental album, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.[4] Keyboardist Jerry Harrison produced an album for soul singer Nona Hendryx at the Sigma Sound Studios branch in New York City; Hendryx and the studio were used during the Remain in Light recording on Harrison's advice.[5]
Drummer
Frantz and Weymouth ended their holiday by purchasing an apartment above Compass Point Studios in Nassau, the Bahamas, where Talking Heads had recorded its second album, More Songs About Buildings and Food.[5] Byrne joined the duo and Harrison there in early 1980.[7] The band members realized that it had been solely up to Byrne to craft songs even though they were performed as a quartet. They had tired of the notion of a singer leading a backup band; the ideal they aimed for, according to Byrne, was "sacrificing our egos for mutual cooperation".[8] Byrne also wanted to escape "the psychological paranoia and personal torment" he had been writing and feeling in New York.[9] Instead of writing music to Byrne's lyrics, Talking Heads performed instrumental jams, using the Fear of Music song "I Zimbra" as a starting point.[7]
Eno arrived in the Bahamas three weeks after Byrne. He was reluctant to work with the band again after collaborating on the previous two albums. He changed his mind after being excited by the instrumental demo tapes.
Recording and production
Recording sessions started at Compass Point Studios in July 1980. The album's creation required additional musicians, particularly percussionists.
Sections and instrumentals were recorded one at a time in a discontinuous process.[16] Loops played a key part at a time when computers could not yet adequately perform such functions. Talking Heads developed Remain in Light by recording jams, isolating the best parts, and learning to play them repetitively. The basic tracks focused wholly on rhythms and were all performed in a minimalist method using only one chord. Each section was recorded as a long loop to enable the creation of compositions through the positioning or merging of loops in different ways.[17] Byrne likened the process to modern sampling: "We were human samplers."[18]
After a few sessions in the Bahamas, engineer
The tracks made Byrne rethink his vocal style and he tried singing to the instrumental songs, but sounded "stilted". Few vocal sections were recorded in the Bahamas.
Byrne recorded all the tracks, as they were after Belew had performed on them, to a cassette and looked to Africa to break his writer's block. He realized that, when African musicians forget words, they often make up new ones. He used a portable tape recorder and tried to create
Music and lyrics
Remain in Light features
Byrne included a bibliography with the album press kit along with a statement that explained how the album was inspired by African
Like the other tracks, album opener "Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)" borrows from "preaching, shouting and ranting".[9] The expression "And the Heat Goes On", used in the title and repeated in the chorus, is based on a New York Post headline Eno read in the summer of 1980, while Byrne rewrote the song title "Don't Worry About the Government" from Talking Heads' debut album, Talking Heads: 77, into the lyric "Look at the hands of a government man".[25] Although the unorthodox guitar solo has often been credited to Adrian Belew, it was in fact performed by Byrne via the manipulation of the sample-and-hold function on a Lexicon Prime Time delay.[24]
The "rhythmical rant" in "Crosseyed and Painless"—"Facts are simple and facts are straight. Facts are lazy and facts are late"—is influenced by
Byrne has described the album's final mix as a "spiritual" piece of work, "joyous and ecstatic and yet it's serious"; he has pointed out that, in the end, there was "less Africanism in Remain in Light than we implied ... but the African ideas were far more important to get across than specific rhythms".
The first side contains the more rhythmic songs, "Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)", "Crosseyed and Painless", and "The Great Curve", which include long instrumental interludes.[50] "The Great Curve" contains extended guitar solos by Belew, the first contributions that he made during his day in the studio.[23] Despite their electronic qualities, they were developed and performed prior to Belew owning a guitar synthesizer, and were achieved by him playing his Fender Stratocaster through a Roland Jazz Chorus 120 amplifier plus four effects pedals (a Big Muff, an Alembic Strat-o-Blaster reverb unit, an unidentified equalizer and an Electric Mistress flanger).[24]
The second side features more introspective songs.
Packaging and title
Weymouth and Frantz conceived the cover art with the help of Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher
The rest of the artwork and the
Weymouth advised Kalman that she wanted simple
Talking Heads and Eno originally agreed to credit all songs in alphabetical order to "David Byrne, Brian Eno, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison and Tina Weymouth" after failing to devise an accurate formula for the split,[52] but the album was released with the label credit: "all songs written by David Byrne & Brian Eno (except "Houses In Motion" and 'The Overload", written by David Byrne, Brian Eno & Jerry Harrison)".[12] Frantz, Harrison, and Weymouth disputed the credits, especially for a process they had partly funded.[19] According to Weymouth, Byrne told Kalman to doctor the credits on Eno's advice.[47] Later editions credit all band members.[55] Frantz said, "we felt very burned by the credits dispute".[19]
Promotion and release
Brian Eno advised Talking Heads that the music on Remain in Light was too dense for a quartet to perform.
The expanded band's first appearance was on August 23, 1980, at the Heatwave festival in Canada in front of 70,000 people; Robert Hilburn of the Los Angeles Times called the band's new music a "rock-funk sound with dramatic, near show-stopping force".[57] On August 27, the expanded Talking Heads performed a showcase of tracks to an 8,000-person full house audience at the Wollman Rink as well as approximately another 10,000 seated on the grass outside the walls in New York City's Central Park.[58] The Canada and New York gigs were the only ones initially planned, but Sire Records decided to support the nine-member band on an extended tour.[4] After the promotional tour, the band went on hiatus for several years, leaving the individual members to pursue a variety of side projects.[45]
Remain in Light was released worldwide on October 8, 1980, and received its world premiere, airing in its entirety, on October 10 on WDFM.[59] According to writer David Sheppard, "it was received as a great cultural event as much as a vivid art-pop record."[39] Unusually, the album's press release included a bibliography submitted by Byrne and Eno citing books by Chernoff and others to provide context for how the songs were conceived. While the publicity shaped the album's critical reputation, not everybody was on board. “I didn't read those books,” said an incensed Weymouth.[60]
Remain in Light was certified Gold by the
Critical reception
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [64] |
Chicago Tribune | [65] |
Christgau's Record Guide | A[66] |
The Irish Times | [67] |
Mojo | [68] |
Pitchfork | 10/10[40] |
Rolling Stone | [69] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [70] |
Spin Alternative Record Guide | 10/10[71] |
Uncut | [72] |
The album attained widespread acclaim from media outlets.
AllMusic's William Ruhlmann wrote that Talking Heads' musical transition, first witnessed in Fear of Music, came to full fruition in Remain in Light: "Talking Heads were connecting with an audience ready to follow their musical evolution, and the album was so inventive and influential."[64] In the 1995 Spin Alternative Record Guide, Jeff Salamon praised Eno for reining in any excessive appropriations of African music.[71] In 2004, Slant Magazine's Barry Walsh labeled its results "simply magical" after the band turned rock music into a more global entity in terms of its musical and lyrical scope.[79] In a 2008 review, Sean Fennessey of Vibe concluded, "Talking Heads took African polyrhythms to NYC and made a return trip with elegant, alien post-punk in tow."[32]
Accolades and legacy
Remain in Light was named the best album of 1980 by Sounds, ahead of
"So they congregated in a Nassau studio with Brian Eno and created a record without precedent ... Both daringly experimental and pop-accessible, Remain in Light may be the Talking Heads' defining moment."[86]
—Pitchfork's Ryan Schreiber in 2002
In 1989, Rolling Stone named Remain in Light the fourth-best album of the 1980s.
The English band Radiohead credited Remain in Light as a major influence on their 2000 album Kid A.[99] The guitarist Jonny Greenwood had assumed Remain in Light was composed of loops, but later learnt from Harrison that Talking Heads had played the parts repetitively. Greenwood said: "It's played the same exact thing for five minutes, which is really interesting. And that's why it's not exhausting to listen to because you're not hearing the same piece of music over and over again. You're hearing it slightly different every time. There's a lesson there."[100]
In 2018, the Beninese singer Angélique Kidjo released a song-for-song cover of Remain in Light (produced by Jeff Bhasker and released on his Kravenworks label). She described herself as a longtime fan of the song "Once in a Lifetime" and wanting to pay tribute to the album by emphasizing its inspiration from African music.[101][102]
In 2022, Harrison and Belew united for three concert dates in honor of the album's 40th anniversary, where they played all of Remain in Light plus several more Talking Heads songs. In 2023 they expanded the project to a full North American tour.[103][104]
Track listing
All lyrics are written by David Byrne, except "Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)" and "Crosseyed and Painless", written by David Byrne and Brian Eno; all music is composed by Byrne, Eno, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison and Tina Weymouth
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)" | 5:49 |
2. | "Crosseyed and Painless" | 4:48 |
3. | "The Great Curve" | 6:28 |
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Once in a Lifetime" | 4:19 |
2. | "Houses in Motion" | 4:33 |
3. | "Seen and Not Seen" | 3:25 |
4. | "Listening Wind" | 4:43 |
5. | "The Overload" | 6:25 |
Personnel
Those involved in the making of Remain in Light were:[50][51][55]
Talking Heads
- David Byrne – lead vocals, keyboards, guitars, bass, percussion, vocal arrangements
- Jerry Harrison – keyboards, guitars, percussion, backing vocals
- Tina Weymouth – keyboards, bass, percussion, backing vocals
- Chris Frantz – keyboards, drums, percussion, backing vocals
Additional musicians
- Brian Eno – keyboards, guitars, bass, percussion, backing vocals, vocal arrangements
- Adrian Belew – guitars, Roland guitar synthesizer
- Robert Palmer – percussion
- José Rossy – percussion
- Jon Hassell – trumpets, horns
- Nona Hendryx – backing vocals
Production
- Brian Eno – producer, mixing
- Dave Jerden – engineer, mixing
- David Byrne – mixing
- John Potoker – additional engineer, mixing
- Rhett Davies – additional engineer
- Jack Nuber – additional engineer
- Steven Stanley – additional engineer
- Kendall Stubbs – additional engineer
- Greg Calbi – mastering at Sterling Sound (New York City, New York)
- Tina Weymouth – cover art
- Chris Frantz – cover art
- Walter Bender – cover art assistant
- Scott Fisher – cover art assistant
- Tibor Kalman – artwork
- Carol Bokuniewics – artwork
- MIT Architecture Machine Group – computer rendering
Charts
Chart (1980/81) | Peak position |
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Australia (Kent Music Report)[105] | 25 |
Canadian Albums Chart[106] | 6 |
] | 8 |
Norwegian Albums Chart[107][dead link] | 28 |
Swedish Albums Chart[107][dead link] | 26 |
UK Albums Chart[108] | 21 |
US Billboard 200[4] | 19 |
Chart (2023) | Peak position |
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Croatian International Albums (HDU)[109] | 10 |
Hungarian Physical Albums (MAHASZ)[110] | 23 |
Chart (1981) | Position |
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US Billboard 200[111] | 87 |
Certifications and sales
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Canada (Music Canada)[112] | Gold | 50,000^ |
United Kingdom (BPI)[113] | Gold | 100,000‡ |
United States (RIAA)[114] | Gold | 500,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
See also
- Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
- Live Phish Volume 15
- Remain in Light, Angélique Kidjo's track-by-track reimagination of the album
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Further reading
- Wilcox, Tyler (October 3, 2016). "Talking Heads' Road to Remain in Light". Pitchfork.
External links
- Remain in Light (Adobe Flash) at Radio3Net (streamed copy where licensed)
- Remain in Light 2023 Tour with Jerry Harrison and Adrian Belew
- Remain in Light at Discogs (list of releases)