David Byrne - Look Into the Eyeball
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Artist: David ByrneEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-05-14
Music Label: Virgin Records Us
Soundtracks:
- U.B. Jesus
- The Revolution
- The Great Intoxication
- Like Humans Do
- Broken Things
- The Accident
- Desconocido Soy (with NRU from Cafe Tacuba)
- Neighborhood
- Smile
- The Moment Of Conception
- Walk On Water
- Everyone's In Love With You
Music reviews of Look Into the Eyeball
Music Review: An example for all aging rock stars to follow...
Rating: 5 Stars
David Byrne built heavily on his previous release "Feelings" and topped it in many ways on "Look Into The Eyeball". This album contains solid material throughout and is probably Byrne's most consistent solo album. Its range spans the breadth of "Feelings", but without that album's somewhat forced eclecticism. One could call "Look Into The Eyeball" "Feelings Improved" (not to knock "Feelings", because it was also a great album). Whereas "Feelings" represented a major improvement over Byrne's self-titled 1994 album, "Look Into The Eyeball" represents yet another leap forward. The lesson here: Byrne seems to be improving with age. Or, at the very least, age has not affected Byrne's output whatsoever.
This album ranges from danceable to beautiful to toungue in cheek to happy to disturbing to funny. "U.B. Jesus" is funny, profound, disturbing, and danceable: "Jesus can kill 'ya if you don't get along." The song explores the contemporary phenomenon of making Jesus "cool" and "hip" and the impossibility of living up to the standards set by him: "Maybe I'm gonna fry in Hell, but I feel good when I burn myself." Danceable, funny, and disturbing all in one song. "The Revolution" and "The Accident" are amongst Byrne's most beautiful songs. "The Great Intoxication" and "The Moment of Conception" amongst his most driving. Byrne also finally sings a song completely in Español: "Desconocido Soy" (or "Unknown I am"). Lastly, we all know people such as the subject of "Everyone's In Love With You"; basically, someone who just attracts people for incomprehensible reasons. Byrne runs the gamut of his usual themes on this album, and even adds a few new ones to the mix.
Will this remain Byrne's final album released by Luaka Bop? Hard to say. Byrne no longer runs the label, and his 2004 release, "Grown Backwards" was released on Nonesuch. Time will tell.
Probably the most surprising thing about "Look Into the Eyeball" is the stark contrast between it and its successor. No clues exist anywhere as to the direction Byrne took on "Grown Backwards" three years later (though some were present on "Lead Us Not Into Temptation" from 2003). Both albums give testament to Byrne's musical diversity, ability, and inventiveness. Check them both out.
Description of Look Into the Eyeball
Japanese edition of his 2001 studio album includes one bonustrack, 'Empire'. 13 tracks in all.Since disbanding the Talking Heads many years back, David Byrne has charted a singular course in the pop world. He has delved deeply into the worlds of both Brazilian and African music, while never losing touch with his art-school rock roots. With the release of Look into the Eyeball Byrne once again delivers a seamless blend of the musical forms that inspire him, with his trademark wry humor and keen sense of detail. While Byrne may never write the great heartbreaking standard, there is something quite moving about his droll observations on modern life. In songs like "Smile" and "The Revolution" (both of which feature beautiful string arrangements) one senses a genuine sadness, whereas perhaps in the old Talking Heads days one would feel only that they were lucky to be in on some prankster's intellectual joke. So what we have here is a mature artist at the height of his powers adding yet another classic to his already prodigious canon. --Ike Bolton
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