Talking Heads/David Byrne Appreciation Thread

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There's one for Lou Reed, Kurt Cobain, the Dead, why shouldn't there be one for Talking Heads, one of the most influential bands of the last 35 years?

Favorite songs, albums, memorable shows you attended, pictures, anything related to Talking Heads or David Byrne that you want to share.

My favorite album is Remain in Light, favorite song is This Must Be the Place, and i saw David Byrne play live in New York and it was one of the best shows I've ever been to, he was in a dress, it was great =D
 
PB really loves them. they are okay. i like being drunk and dancing to 'burning down the house'. also those two tom tom club songs are pretty g.
 
not much of a response here. i'll cunt this bitch up like i did the velvet underground thread. hopefully ken will come in here and call me a fag.

this phish show is a top 5 concert experience of my life. another halloween "costume" show where they played remain in light.

Thursday, 10/31/1996
The Omni, Atlanta, GA
Soundcheck: Overload

Set 1: Sanity > Highway to Hell > Down with Disease > You Enjoy Myself, Prince Caspian > Reba, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird[1] > Character Zero, The Star Spangled Banner

Set 2: Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)[2] > Crosseyed and Painless[2], The Great Curve[2], Once in a Lifetime[2] > Houses in Motion[3] -> Seen and Not Seen[4] -> Listening Wind[2] > The Overload[2]

Set 3: Brother[5], Also Sprach Zarathustra[5] > Maze[5], Simple[6] -> Swept Away[5] > Steep[5] > Jesus Just Left Chicago[7] > Suzy Greenberg[8]

Encore: Frankenstein[9]
 
er, well i think it's lame that david byrne thinks atlanta is racist/segregated because only black people worked in the hotel he staid at. he also says it sucks for biking. which it does, i can't disagree with him there. cyclists die like flies here.
 
"everything that happens will happen today" is a really awesome album for later solo stuff. it was good to see him and brian eno back together.

pumped for the new album coming out this fall with st. vincent.
 
oh, and ken, he's playing chastain with st vincent in august or september. i'm thinking about going to that one.
 
i'm also a big Bernie Worrell fan, and he was a big part of creating that psychadelic talking heads experience that you're talking about.
 
The Brian eno/David byrne album my life in the bush of ghosts is really good also.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-U2nKMGTHY

This track "Qu'ran" was excluded from later re-releases of the album without comment. However, in an interview for Pitchfork Media about the 2006 reissue, Byrne said:
“ Way back when the record first came out, in 1981, it might have been '82, we got a request from an Islamic organization in London, and they said, 'We consider this blasphemy that you put grooves to the chanting of the Holy Book.' And we thought, 'Okay, in deference to somebody's religion, we'll take it off.' You could probably argue for and against monkeying with something like that. But I think we were certainly feeling very cautious about this whole thing. We made a big effort to try and clear all the voices, and make sure everybody was okay with everything. Because we thought, 'We're going to get accused of all kinds of things, and so we want to cover our asses as best we can.' So I think in that sense we reacted maybe with more caution than we had to. But that's the way it was."
 
i kind of want to change my answer. i am now of the opinion that the talking heads/david byrne are very good. we had a death, and PB and i spent a long time cleaning out his house. one night when we were there, we had a few drinks and PB played "The Knee Plays" by David Byrne and it was such a perfect combination of surreal and strange and touching a dead mans things and tumbling around, i just couldn't get over it. so i took all of the talking heads tapes from the house. one of them is so soft grunge i can't even stand it, the one that's white and has this must be the place on it, there are little stars and hearts and shit, right there on the tape! i've played that tape a lot. i understand why 'in the future' is an important song. i also love 'tree' a lot. but really my favourite is "road to nowhere". it's like the most punk rock of all the songs so i think that's why i like it so much but i also like the part about the city. you know, because #TheCityIsOurChurch and all of that. david byrne should have given into the angst and really made that song as scary and fascist as it had the potential to be. in the right hands that song could give children nightmares. the drums already are anthemic and marching down your throat but more, more more! that lull in his voice is very devilish and very good. also good accordion. very rare, a good accordion.

would you like to come along? of course i would mr. byrne! i'll help you sing this song, yes, it's all right!
 
A top band for me. My favorite albums are '77 and Little Creatures.

I caught David Byrne playing on the Everything that Will Happen Will Happen Today tour. It was an impressive show, overall. But I got into a protracted fight w/ my girlfriend over whether his inviting audience members on stage to dance during "Once in A Lifetime" was truly an impromptu and inspired move, or if they were plants. Conspiracy theories abound.
 
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best line ever heard about the Talking Heads was from the critic Robert Christgau, who described "Once in a Lifetime" as a a song "...about the secret of life."

Funny memories of when Stop Making Sense came out, my father who used to be a dairy farmer loved them and there's nothing quite like walking into a barn with a bunch of shitkickers smoking homegrown, milking cows, and singing along to Burning Down the House. Suckit etards, that's a fucking rave;)
 
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