- Audio CD (Sep 2 2003)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: EMI Music Canada
- ASIN: B000059XNQ
- Other Editions: Audio CD
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (62 customer reviews)
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Track Listings
| 1. U.B. Jesus |
| 2. The Revolution |
| 3. The Great Intoxication |
| 4. Like Humans Do |
| 5. Broken Things |
| 6. The Accident |
| 7. Desconocido Soy (with NRU from Cafe Tacuba) |
| 8. Neighborhood |
| 9. Smile |
| 10. The Moment Of Conception |
| 11. Walk On Water |
| 12. Everyone's In Love With You |
Product Description
From Amazon.co.uk
Former Talking Heads vocalist Byrne says he wantedLooking into the Eyeball, his first album since 1997's Feelings, to make people "dance and cry" while not being "pretentious art pop". Thankfully, Look Into The Eyeball transcends its duff name and convincingly achieves these twin aims. Byrne has often been accused over the years of a cerebral estrangement from his music, an arty aloofness, but here he patently engages fully with the timbre and flow of these frequently luscious tunes. The exotic, semi-salsa rhythms of the likes of "The Moment Of Conception" and "Desconcido Soy", which he sings in Spanish, recall Byrne's ethnic/world music experimentations of the late 1980s which informed the Rei Momo album. "On Like Humans Do" and "Neighborhood" he's once again the arch existentialist, one eyebrow firmly raised in the midst of musical abandonment. Yet the album's standout track is the one that spawns its title; the fatalistic, tragic-comic "The Great Intoxication", all-shrugging half-beats and warm, humane insights. Look Into The Eyeball is a funny, sharp, self-aware album, and a fantastic return by a major and valued figure. --Ian Gittins
Chronique amazon.fr
Des ex-Talking Heads, David Byrne, le multi-cartes touche-à-tout (chanteur, guitariste, cinéaste, producteur !) est certainement le plus créatif. Depuis la séparation du groupe culte new-yorkais, chacun des membres vaque à ses occupations, le couple Weymouth-Frantz avec Tom Tom Club, et Byrne, depuis le génial Rei Momo en 1989, dans des contrées qui installent des passerelles entre les genres et tissent d'improbables ramifications fortement inspirées par les stratégies obliques de Brian Eno : ou de la salsa de Willie Colon et Johnny Pacheco à Morcheeba en passant par le Brésil de Tom Zé assaisonné d'une pointe növö à la Devo. Look Into The Eyeball est fidèle à ces étonnantes convictions esthétiques qui transforment ce qui pourrait n'être qu'obscures expérimentations d'iconoclaste intello en jouissive machine à faire la fête. Définitivement pop jusque dans ses choix les plus pointus, David Byrne demeure un des grands originaux des XXe et XXIe siècles. Avec une ferveur non démentie et une curiosité tous azimuts qu'il a le don de savoir partager. --Hervé Comte
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4.0 out of 5 stars
It's kinda like love, but a better emotion,
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This review is from: Look Into The Eyeball (Audio CD)
This album is wonderous. It gets a little tiresome at points, but the high points reach very, very high. U.B. Jesus is an absolutely phenominal song. Go and buy.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Brain Music,
By A Customer
This review is from: Look Into The Eyeball (Audio CD)
thinking words set to music--just discovered--am buying--metre-great-
4.0 out of 5 stars
Still wonderfully wierd,
By elvistcob@lvcm.com (Las Vegas, NV) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Look Into The Eyeball (Audio CD)
Funny how one bad listening can cause you to drift away from an artist. I was a big Talking Heads fan, and liked his solo albums "Rio Momo" and "Uh-Oh". Then I heard the 1994 self-titled "David Byrne", didn't think much of it, and didn't pick up anything new from him for awhile. Gee, I'm glad I picked up "Look Into The Eyeball" because David Byrne is now back on the "looking forward to the next release" status. The hair is a little (well, a lot) grayer, and this type of music doesn't seem to make it into the charts, but this is delightful listening. I see Mr. Byrne is still interested in Latin-based rhythms, and the material sounds fresh. Add the "wonderfully weird" lyrics and you have an album with a lot of danceable tracks, or an album for sitting and careful listening. When you can figure out what he's talking about, he's funny; when you can't, he's just fun. Welcome back, Dave.
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