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...Eno: Mr. Experimental Music. The wunderkind of the music world's intelligentsia, Brian Eno had appeared with the early Roxy Music, Robert Fripp, Phil Manzanera and with his own solo efforts, and has amassed an awesome catalog of art-rock. He has produced the last two Talking Heads albums and was, for all practical purposes, another member of the band. But now on the new album he is given credit for everything except wrapping the albums in cellophane. Are the Talking Heads to become just another Eno subsidiary...
...tell that the original members of the band--Byrne, guitarist and keyboard player Jerry Harrison (late of Harvard), Bassist Tina Weymouth and Drummer Chris Frantz--met in art school. They're joined on this album by Adrian Belew, Jose Rossy, Jon Hassel, Nona Hendryx and the omnipresent Eno. Robert Palmer is among the many given credit for percussion but he probably just hit a bottle with a spoon on one song...
Fortunately, this album has not followed the path of the Bowie-Eno collaborations, which allowed Eno's synthesizers, loops and feedbacks to dictate the tone. Instead, the Heads have chosen their own tone, and the tone is funk. People knew things were up with the band when they toured this summer with Parliament-Funkadelic's horn section, and then it was announced that Byrne and Eno would release an album based on African tribal songs called My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts (whose release has since been blocked by legal difficulties...
...persona" on each album to amuse his audience. This kind of analysis, aside from its off-hand assumption that a popular musician always changes for commercial and not for evolutionary reasons, also treats with bland ignorance the musical development of Bowie's last three albums. With Brian Eno's aid. Bowie built a triptych of immense proportions, charting sonic territories for a new generation of musicians to populace. Atop this musical canvas he has now added Scary Monsters like a vision of the Last Judgment, with synthesized demons crawling from between every...
THIS LATEST ALBUM from the author of "Changes" should convince even the most skeptical that Bowie is governed by more than just restlessness--that there is synthesis as well as contradiction in his progress. Scary Monsters miraculously harnesses the techniques Bowie picked up from Eno--how to layer musical textures, how to manipulate odd rhythms--to a murky vision of a world without order or hope. Bowie last peered into this world on Diamond Dogs, where more conventional music illustrated a post-apocalyptic desolation. Diamond Dogs was a desperate album, the kind you might not want to listen to unless...