Talking Heads was one of those bands that I never had any real interest in.
I mean, I saw their videos on MTV and heard them on WXRT, and they were fine, ok I guess.
Read about them in Rolling Stone, knew some of their albums were in top "whatever" lists, etc.
Never bought or listened to any of their albums in full. Didn't care enough.

Til last week.

I was at a Best Buy trying to buy a TV that they had just run out of, so I got a rain check
and then I started looking thru the music section. For the last few years, I have gotten my music
thru itunes, emusic, library, friends, torrents, etc. So it was somewhat remarkable (for me at least)
to actually be in a store and shop for cds. When I was younger, that's all I ever did with my money.
For some reason, I stumbled upon Talking Heads and said what the hell.

Started with Remain In Light - a Dualdisc. CD on one side and 5.1 Audio DVD on the other.
WOW. This record came out in 1980, so as I listened, I wondered aloud what the fuck had I
been missing for almost 30 years. Eno's production, the rhythms, the arrangements, etc.
How could music that is so old, sound so new?
Because it was the first time I ever sat down and actually listened to it.

Today, I bought the Speaking In Tongues Dualdisc.
Digging it.

I'm sure a lot of you music fans have had similar experiences.
Bands you've always been aware of, but never cared.
Then something changed your mind......

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yeah they were great stuff man. don't ever feel bad for joining late. at least you've joined.

I hear their live album's great but I don't know its name. I have their single CD best of & it's very very good.

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Fear of Music and Little Creatures are next on the list.

Hope the same Best Buy has the Dualdiscs.

Once In A Lifetime and This Must Be the PLace in surround sound
are sublime, just to give 2 examples.

I'm 34, and I'm a Talking Heads convert.
What took me so long?

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Stop Making Sense

Great film, too, directed by Jonathan Demme

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what SP said. "stop making sense" is brilliant.

you may find yourself, living in a shot gun shack...

Never listened to them...played Rock Band 2..."Psycho Killer" is my favorite song to do vocals on the game...something about that song really fits my girly falsetto...

that song is effin hard, i did it on expert level and i sucked. i had forgotten a lot of the words and stuff, so since then i've been listening to the song more. it wasn't one of my favorite TH songs...

I found myself intrigued one day, reading that Beatles and Beach Boys were competing in terms of music quality. Eg., Sgt Peppers was inspired by Pet Sounds. Looking into it, I became a big Brian Wilson fan; post-beach and car songs. You trace Eno's influences, and Wilson's there too.

Anyway: always loved Talking Heads. Their sound is not dated, and sounds as fresh now as it did then. Glad to see we have a convert.

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it's actually one of the few songs I can pass on expert vocals...actually, now that I think about it, it might be the only song I can pass on expert on all four instruments...just played drums today...close to gold starring it actually...

and "pet sounds" was wilson's answer to "rubber soul". '66-'67, great fuckin time in music...




my best effort was getting 95% on expert for dylan's "tangled up in blue". still don't know why that song is included on that game but i love it.

What's amazing to me is, he's still working and touring. Who would have thought it? Last album on the Rolling Stone's best of list. We should do so well in our 60s.

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Talking Heads - Making Flippy Floppy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVTyPZWm8Xg

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

Talking Heads is one of my top ten bands of all time. Great stuff -- I pretty much love it all. I used to request Psycho Killer during the phone in segment at our local rock station in college -- they said it was too edgy and they couldn't play it, so they would acquiesce to Burning Down The House instead.

This was one of their last songs -- love the song and really love the video (Sax & Violins):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LkVzcPALVU

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

This is a great song too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzvIo-RU9v8&NR=1 (What a Day That Was)

There are too many to list... you've got me on a TH youtube catalog trip right now.

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

I, too, am a huge fan of Talking Heads: More Songs About Buildings and Food, Fear of Music, and Remain in Light are all, in my opinion, fantastic CDs. The Name of this Band is Talking Heads is a great live CD, too--I prefer it to Stop Making Sense, actually, but that's mostly because it has the great song, "Don't Worry About the Government" on it.

In any event, "Memories Can't Wait," "The Big Country," and "Cities" are three of my all-time favorite songs.

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maybe it's just me...and it likely is but while all of my bandmates loved Stop Making Sense I did not like it, excepting the first song, which I thought was brilliant (tape loops, etc). The rest of it was too synth for my liking, and 80's too. I hate the 80's.

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Won't start a new thread, but along the same lines as my OP.
TELEVISION MARQUEE MOON.
Wow.

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