Words with a "D" This Time
Posted on January 31st, 2008 in Uncategorized | 6 Comments »
In honor of Henry Allen (see below), I post this old video of King Crimson playing their brilliantly Dada-esque song, “Elephant Talk.” Incredible guitar playing by Adrian Belew and Robert Fripp (seated), with Tony Levinâwhom I met once at Levon Helm’s barn in Woodstock, which was coolâon that weird bass.
Not to everyone’s taste, probably, but an amazing song.
6 Responses
1/31/2008 2:49 pm
It’s good to see stuff like this, because it reminds us exactly of the dreck that pop music had become and what punk rock was rebelling against. And thank goodness for that.
1/31/2008 3:04 pm
Good hipster-y line, but way off base. No one would ever have called KC “pop,” and in any case, this album was released in 1981, which is really post-punk.
Try listening to the song a couple times and you’ll find it’s actually pretty catchy, and there’s not a punk band that could come close to the musicianship. (Sid Vicious would probably just have looked at that stick bass and thrown it somewhere, which you may or may not approve of.)
And for what it’s worth, I could easily imagine this song or something like it on a PIL record.
Of course, in the realm of music, this is very much each to his own….
1/31/2008 10:46 pm
Wait - this came out before Stop Making Sense? Now I know where that Big Suit came from! (And for that matter, who David Byrne has been channelling all these years.)
1/31/2008 11:40 pm
One word: VAMPIRE WEEKEND FOREVER!
2/1/2024 6:03 am
Those are three words.
2/1/2024 7:34 am
Is Vampire Weekend really any good? They sound just like a middling college band, from what I’ve heard….