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Talking Heads – Once in a Lifetime
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In this song, producer Brian Eno and Talking Heads frontman David Byrne are at the apogee of whatever it is they do (Byrne claims he was just riffing on some Southern preacher).
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Talking Heads – Road to Nowhere
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Road to Nowhere is a rock song written by David Byrne for the 1985 Talking Heads album Little Creatures. It also appeared on Best of Talking Heads, Sand in the Vaseline: Popular
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Talking Heads – Burning Down the House
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“Burning Down The House” is a song by the American new wave band, Talking Heads. It was released in July 1983 on their fifth studio album, Speaking in Tongues. Chris Frantz said
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Talking Heads – Making Flippy Floppy
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Despite some of the seemingly frivolous turns of phrase in this song and throughout Speaking in Tongues, the wariness of the frightening world that we have come to expect Talking
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Talking Heads – The Big Country
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The Talking Heads are flying over an unnamed suburb in flyover country. Singer David Byrne catalogues the supposed appeals of living there, and stoutly rejects them all. Call him
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Talking Heads – And She Was
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The second single from Little Creatures, “And She Was” reached #54 on the US Pop Chart in November 1985. It was a top 40 hit in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, The Netherlands and
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Talking Heads – Crosseyed and Painless
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The second track off of Talking Heads' 1980 classic addresses the idea of losing identity, and not sure how to regain it back.
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Talking Heads – Life During Wartime
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[Verse 1] / Heard of a van that is loaded with weapons / Packed up and ready to go / Heard of some gravesites out by the highway / A place where nobody knows / The sound of gunfire
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Talking Heads – Heaven
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One of the most recognizable tracks from the Talking Heads 1979 album Fear of Music, “Heaven” was also performed at the 1984 Stop Making Sense concert that many see as the peak of
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Talking Heads – Swamp
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Kicking off side two of Speaking in Tongues, “Swamp” follows a slightly different structure than the other songs on the album. Songs such as “Making Flippy Floppy”, “Girlfriend is
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Talking Heads – Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
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The song addresses the public paranoia that followed the Watergate Scandal. Byrne studied the straight speech of John Dean’s Watergate testimony and tried to apply it to his
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Northlane – Talking Heads
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[Verse 1] / Tiptoe through the ruins of my mind / Desolation in disguise / I've been locked out of my thoughts for a long time / The rusted gates deteriorate / Do my insecurities
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Talking Heads – (Nothing But) Flowers
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The 5th track off Talking Heads' 1988 album Naked was the second single from the album, released after “Blind”, and it peaked at number 79 on the UK singles chart.
Written by
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Talking Heads – The Great Curve
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The song is a noisy yet hypnotic piece with an
ultra-fast driving riff along with afrobeat inspired bongos and harmonizing horns, the chorus has multiple singers creating a complex
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Talking Heads – Listening Wind
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Listening Wind, from the 1980 album Remain In Light, tells the story of a foreign terrorist, Mojique, who carries out a bombing of American colonialists.
The controversial subject
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Talking Heads – Drugs
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After taking some drugs, the character’s mind begins to jump all over the place.
An early (late 1978) working version of this song, titled “Electricity”, appears on the live album
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Talking Heads – Slippery People
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[Verse 1] / What about the time you were rollin' over / Fall on your face, you must be having fun / Walk lightly, think of a time / You'd best believe this thing is real / Put away
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Talking Heads – Cities
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[Verse 1] / Think of London, small city / It's dark, dark in the daytime / People sleep, sleep in the daytime / If they want to, if they want to / [Pre-Chorus] / I'm checking 'em
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Talking Heads – Stay Hungry
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I think we can signify our love now / Ooh, girl, you can initiate an impulse of love / Stay hungry, stay hungry, stay hungry / Move a muscle, move a muscle, move a muscle / Make a
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black midi – Talking Heads
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[Verse 1: Geordie Greep] / I call this one the disappearing tongue / Some nights it's off, some nights it's on / When it goes with a twist, it comes off / Put it in a vase and pass
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Talking Heads – Houses in Motion
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[Verse 1] / For a long time I felt without style or grace / Wearing shoes with no socks in cold weather / I knew my heart was in the right place / I knew I'd be able to do these
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Talking Heads – Air
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“Air” could be a metaphoric analog word to “love” in this song. It seems so harmless and beautiful, yet it can “get rough” or leave you without “protection” (and obviously “break
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Talking Heads – Radio Head
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“Radio Head” can be thought of as a companion piece to “Television Man” from the preceding album, Little Creatures. Where “Television Man” examined the relationship one has with TV
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Talking Heads – Electric Guitar
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[Intro] / Electric guitar is run over / By a car on the highway / [Pre-Chorus 1] / This is a crime against the state / This is the meaning of life / [Chrous 1] / Tune this electric
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Talking Heads – Moon Rocks
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Flying saucers, levitation / Yo! I could do that / Gettin' ready for heavy duty / Go on, give it a chance / Give it a chance, give it a chance / I saw your hair start to curl / So
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Talking Heads – Animals
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This song is a satire of the paranoid, self-righteous worrywart that’s always looking to find a scapegoat for their problems.
Byrne dons this disposition and aims his suspicious
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Talking Heads – Wild Wild Life
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[Verse 1] / I'm wearing fur pajamas / I ride a hot potato / It’s tickling my fancy / Speak up, I can't hear you / [Chorus 1] / Here on this mountain top, oh-oh-oh / I got some wild
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Talking Heads – Seen and Not Seen
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In this standout track from Talking Heads' 1980 Remain In Light LP, David Byrne performs a spoken-word style poem over an instrumental created by the rest of the band
The poem
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Talking Heads – No Compassion
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The 6th track on Talking Heads eponymous debut album from 1977.
“No Compassion” is a commentary/criticism of people complaining about their problems and not doing anything about
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Talking Heads – Love → Building on Fire
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“Love → Building On Fire” was the first single ever released by the Talking Heads, recorded even before guitarist Jerry Harrison joined the band.
The arrow in the title could be
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Talking Heads – The Overload
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“The Overload” is Talking Heads' attempt to create a song in the signature style of Joy Division. The catch? None of the band had ever actually heard Joy Division; the song was
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Talking Heads – Unison
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[Refrain] / Ooh, water in a well fell down / Ooh, water in a well fell down / Ooh, water in a well fell down / Ooh, water in a well fell down / Ooh, water in a well fell down / Ooh
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Talking Heads – I'm Not in Love
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[Intro] / Okay! / [Verse 1] / Pretty! / What is brand new? It's not what I think of you / You'll touch me in a minute, but that's not what I want to do / We are two strangers, we
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Talking Heads – New Feeling
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It's not yesterday anymore / I go visiting, I talk loud / I try to make myself clear / In front of a face that's nearer / Than it's ever been before / Not this close before
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Talking Heads – Perfect World
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Percussion in this track is made by Naná Vasconcelos.
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Talking Heads – Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town
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The message of the song is fairly obvious: when love comes to town, everyone stops being productive. People don’t go to work, pilots can’t fly, ship captains stay on land, brokers
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Talking Heads – I Zimbra
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The song’s lyrics are an adaptation of Dadaist Hugo Ball’s poem “Gadji beri bimba.”
This song features Brian Eno (performing one of the many backing vocals), and the guitar
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