Week of 8/29/2010 - I Need Something To Change Your Mind

Oops - a few podcasts have gone bye without me posting a write-up and links onto this blog, and I apologize. This week's podcast is waiting for you right here.

This week's podcast features "Mind" by Talking Heads, off of their "Fear of Music" CD. Fear of Music received favorable reviews from critics. Praise centered on its unconventional rhythms and front man David Byrne's lyrical performances. The record is often considered one of the best Talking Heads releases. It has been featured in several publications' lists of the best albums of all time. Channel 4 named the record at number 76 in its 2005 countdown of The 100 Greatest Albums. In 2006, it was remastered and reissued with four bonus tracks. It also remains as one my all-time favorite albums.

Greetings to our friends from the north! This weeks' podcast opens with Rational Youth, a Canadian band originally formed in 1981 in Montreal, Quebec, by synthesizer wizards Tracy Howe and Bill Vorn, both of whom idolized the German synthpop pioneers Kraftwerk. "Holiday in Bangkok" is the first track to greet you. Get this weeks' podcast here.

This week's podcast feature bands like The Police, FGTH, Thomas Leer, Talking Heads - and a bunch more. Check out the entire track listing here:

This weeks' track listing:

1. Rational Youth - Holiday in Bankok

2. Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasuredome  

3. Mi-Sex - It Only Hurts When I'm Laughing

4. Was (Not Was) - Dad, I'm in Jail

5. King - Alone Without You

6. Boys Don't Cry - I Wanna Be A Cowboy 

7. The Police - So Lonely

8. Talking Heads - Mind

9. Big Audio Dynamite - B.A.D.

10. Thomas Leer - Searcher

11. B-52s - 52 Girls 

12. Art of Noise - Beatbox (Unique, Original version)

13. Arcadia - Goodbye is Forever (12" mix)

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