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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 – Seen and Not Seen Samples
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Talking Heads – Seen and Not Seen Samples
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Phish – Seen and Not Seen
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He would see faces in movies, on T.V., in magazines, and in books.... / He thought that some of these faces might be right for him....And / Through the years, by keeing an ideal
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Angélique Kidjo – Seen and Not Seen
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[Intro] / [?] / [Verse 1] / He would see faces in movies, on TV, in magazines, and in books / He thought that some of these faces might be right for him / And through the years
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Spacehog – One Of These Days Samples
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The Wolfgang Press – Christianity Samples
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Depeche Mode – Walking in My Shoes [Anandamidic Mix] Samples
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Talking Heads – Burning Down the House (Live) [2023 Remaster]
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[Intro: Chris Frantz] / Who got a match? / Come on / [Verse 1] / Watch out, you might get what you're after / Cool, babies, strange, but not a stranger / I'm an ordinary guy
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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 – 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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Shittyoldshirt – We both knew i wasn't enough Samples
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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 – 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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Datarock – True Stories
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The lyrics of “True Stories” are composed almost entirely of Talking Heads song titles, as a tribute to the new wave band.
The song’s title is also derived from the Heads' seventh
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Talking Heads – Burning Down the House (alternate version)
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[Verse 1] / Ah / Watch out, you might get what you're after / Cool, babies! Strange but not a stranger / I'm an ordinary guy / Burning down the house / [Verse 2] / Hold tight, wait
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Spacehog – One Of These Days
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One of these days is like a Christmas in April / One of these days is like a time in a rush / One of these days is like a disco on death row / When the music I s over, save the
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The Wolfgang Press – Christianity
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[Intro] / When the walls of Christianity begin to shake / When my life is in the balance, neither peace nor morals wake / Telling me my life is easy, debauched and thirdly heaven
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Talking Heads – Take Me to the River
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The new wave band Talking Heads covered this song, originally done by Al Green, in 1978 and it reached #26 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US. “We played it live in the studio
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Talking Heads – Burning Down the House (Razormaid!)
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Watch out / You might get what you're after / Cool babies / Strange but not a stranger / I'm an ordinary guy / Burning down the house / Here's your ticket, pack your bag / Time for
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Talking Heads – Burning Down the House (Live)
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[Intro: Chris Frantz] / Who got a match? / [Verse 1] / Ah / Watch out / You might get what you're after / Cool, babies! / Strange but not a stranger / I'm an ordinary guy / Burning
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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 – Found a Job
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“Found A Job” is all about not letting your creativity go to waste.
It starts out with a couple talking about how there’s nothing on TV. David Byrne points out that we’ve seen
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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 – Take Me To The River [The Name of This Band is Talking Heads]
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[Verse 1] / I don't know why I love her like I do / All the changes you put me through / Take my money, my cigarettes / I haven't seen the worst of it yet / [Pre-Chorus] / I wanna
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Dave Matthews Band – Burning down the house - live in rio
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Watch out / You might get what you're after / Cool babies / Strange but not a stranger / I'm an ordinary guy / Burning down the house / Hold tight / Wait 'till the party is over
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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Seen Enough
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[Verse 1] / I lost my innocence over intolerance / All the indignities heaped on the black man / We went to church, they all prayed for the white man / The cops and the preachers
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Talking Heads – Road to Nowhere (early version)
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Well, we know where we're going, but we don't know where we've been / And we know what we're knowing, but we can't say what we've seen / And we're not little children, and we know
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Talking Heads – Creatures of Love
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David Byrne rarely addressed sex, love, or affection in Talking Heads songs before some on Little Creatures. From their conception, Talking Heads sought to present a view of the
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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 – Take Me to the River (Live) [2023 Remaster]
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[Chorus] / Take me to the river / Drop me in the water / Take me to the river / Drop me in the water, water / [Verse 1] / Don't know why I love her like I do / All the trouble you
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Pigeonhed – Battle Flag
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[VERSE 1] / I said hallelujah to the sixteen loyal fans / You'll get down on your muthafuckin' knees / And it's time for your sickness again / Come on and tell me what you need now
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