I just bought 'My Life in the Bush of Ghosts' and haven't heard it yet.

Screaming Lord Byron

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Tue Dec-02-03 02:49 PM
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I just bought 'My Life in the Bush of Ghosts' and haven't heard it yet.

So, before I listen to it, I'd better ruin my listening experience by asking DUers if they like it.

Well do ya, punks?

p.s. It's that David Byrne / Brian Eno record from 1981

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bif

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Tue Dec-02-03 02:51 PM
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1. I had a tape of it way back and loved it.

I playd the crap outta it. A friend just burned a copy for me so now I have it on cd. Haven't listened to it yet so I can't tell you how well it's held up over the years.

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supernova

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Tue Dec-02-03 02:53 PM
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2. Thank you

yet another title to add to my growing list of CDs to buy. :thumbsup: No, I haven't heard it.

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Terran

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Tue Dec-02-03 02:54 PM
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3. It's wonderful

But get ready for some "difficult" music, as Laurie Anderson once said.

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Screaming Lord Byron

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Tue Dec-02-03 02:56 PM
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4. That's all right, I love difficult music.

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Tue Dec-02-03 02:56 PM
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6. apt description (been awhile since I listened to it)

I seem to remember liking 'America is Waiting' and the exorcism song......I think the title was 'Spirit of Jezebel' (something like that).

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Terran

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Tue Dec-02-03 03:04 PM
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8. "The Jezebel Spirit"

That one you can actually dance to. And "America Is Waiting" is creepy as hell in a right-wing fundie sort of way, very appropriate for these days.

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bif

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Tue Dec-02-03 02:56 PM
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5. Lots of sampled sounds

Edited on Tue Dec-02-03 02:57 PM by bif

mixed with original rhythms and music. A couple of cool sounds are of a female singer from the Middle East and a preacher. Cool stuff. I thought it was pretty accessible back in the early 80s.

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parasim

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Tue Dec-02-03 03:01 PM
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7. Love it!

That is definitely one of my desert island picks.

also, quite good is David Byrne's The Catherine Wheel. Very much in the same vein as My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. (Eno's on that one as well)

Tasty rhythms galore...

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Tue Dec-02-03 03:08 PM
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9. great

When Byrne was still in avant-garde mode.
sounds quite a bit like portions of Remain in Light.
From the same time period you should also check out Jerry Harrison's "Red and the Black" (if you can find it). Remain in Light is kind of a combination of the two or the two both have elements present in Remain in Light.

Here's a review of both of them
http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/cd/review.asp?aid=41524

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Screaming Lord Byron

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Tue Dec-02-03 03:09 PM
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10. Yeah, I'm a huge fan of Remain in Light. n/t

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ProfessorGAC

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Tue Dec-02-03 03:30 PM
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12. Not Sure I Concur

I don't think it sounds like Remain in Light very much. It's much more spacious and ambient with less rhythmic interplay. "Remain" has lots of polyrhythmic stuff going on, while rhythm is de-emphasized on "Ghosts".

The overall production value is similar, i suppose, but they're VERY different in mood.
The Professor

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Tue Dec-02-03 03:39 PM
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13. I wasn't clear

Edited on Tue Dec-02-03 03:43 PM by 56kid

That's actually kind of what I meant. Ghosts has the spaciousness and ambience, Red and the Black has the intense rhythm and another form of space. Put the two together and it wouldn't be that far from Remain in Light.

without going and listening I kind of remember that last song on Remain in Light -- the Overload as being the closest to My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.

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ProfessorGAC

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Tue Dec-02-03 03:55 PM
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15. Ignore This Mistaken Post

Edited on Tue Dec-02-03 03:56 PM by ProfessorGAC

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ProfessorGAC

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Tue Dec-02-03 03:55 PM
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16. Now, I Concur

BTW: Your name wouldn't mean you were born in '56 would it? If so, we're both from the same vintage.
The professor

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Tue Dec-02-03 04:05 PM
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17. 56

that's what it means. Halloween '56, right around the time of the demise of the Hungarian Revolution.

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ProfessorGAC

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Tue Dec-02-03 04:09 PM
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18. That Makes Me About 40 Days Older Than You

Sept '56 here. Same age, within 6 weeks, and same taste in music.

Pretty cool!
The Professor

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ProfessorGAC

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Tue Dec-02-03 03:28 PM
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11. FANTASTIC!

A truly great collaborative work by two visionaries. I had that on cassette and played until the tape stretched to badly to play correctly anymore.

Never replaced it on CD. Probably should.
The Professor

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sweetheart

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Tue Dec-02-03 03:43 PM
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14. got it downstairs...

the track "america is waiting" is used in the film "wall street".

The music tribe that Brian Eno travells with is pretty consistent for great tunes... Robert Fripp... King Crimson, talking heads.. tomtom club... all fun.

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Tue Dec-02-03 04:13 PM
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19. "The Forest"

Edited on Tue Dec-02-03 04:14 PM by m-jean03

by David Byrne set the mood for my life for about a year, when I was going to school, studying geography, in this little town in eastern oregon with some neat abandoned industry to explore and not much else to do. It was so spooky & cool... Is "bush of ghosts" anything like "the forest"?

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