Remain in Light is the fourth studio album by American New Wave band
Talking Heads, released on 8 October 1980 on Sire Records. It was
recorded at locations in the Bahamas and the United States between July
and August 1980 and was produced by the quartet's long-time
collaborator Brian Eno. The album entered the Billboard 200 in the US
at number 19 and peaked at number 21 on the UK Albums Chart. Two
singles were released from Remain in Light: "Once in a Lifetime" and
"Houses in Motion". The record was certified Gold in the US and in
Canada during the 1980s. The members of Talking Heads wanted to make an
album that dispelled notions of frontman and chief lyricist David Byrne
leading a back-up band. They decided to experiment with African
polyrhythms and, with Eno, recorded the instrumental tracks as a series
of samples and loops, a novel idea at the time. Remain in Light was
widely acclaimed by critics. Praise centered on its cohesive merging of
disparate genres and sonic experimentation. The record has featured in
several publications' lists of the best albums of the 1980s and the
best albums of all time.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
43 BC:
Cicero, widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose
stylists, was assassinated.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero>
1724:
In Toruń, Royal Prussia, Polish authorities executed the city's mayor
and nine other Lutheran officials following tensions between
Protestants and Catholics.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumult_of_Thorn_%28Toru%C5%84%29>
1787:
Delaware became the first U.S. state to ratify the United States
Constitution.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware>
1815:
Michel Ney, Marshal of France, was executed by a firing squad near
Paris' Jardin du Luxembourg for supporting Napoleon Bonaparte.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Ney>
1972:
The crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft took the photograph "The Blue
Marble" , the first clear image of an illuminated face of Earth, on
their way to the Moon.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Marble>
1988:
An earthquake with a moment magnitude of 6.9 struck the Spitak region
of Armenia, then part of the Soviet Union, killing at least 25,000
people.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Spitak_earthquake>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
animadversion (n):
A criticism; a critical remark
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/animadversion>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the
sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy;
only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
--Willa Cather
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