 Genius Meanings
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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 – Found a Job (Live)
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[Verse 1] / "Damn that television, what a bad picture!" / "Don't get upset, it's not a major disaster" / "There's nothing on tonight," he said, "I don't know what's the matter
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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 – 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 – Television Man
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David Byrne often analyzes the complex role of television in his own life and in society through his lyrics. In “Found a Job” he tells the story of a couple that channeled their
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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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Dirty Heads – Vacation
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“Vacation” is the fourth song on Dirty Heads album “Swim Team.” It is a song inspiring people to live their lives like they are on vacation. The song is meant to motive people to
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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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"Weird Al" Yankovic – Dog Eat Dog
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This is a parody in the style of Talking Heads, particularly the songs “Stay Up Late” and “Once in a Lifetime”.
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Talking Heads – Girlfriend Is Better
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“Girlfriend is Better” is a song by the American New Wave band Talking Heads. It appeared on their fifth album, “Speaking in Tongues”. It peaked at #21 in New Zealand, #59 in
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Drake – Look What You've Done
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Drake gives a legitimately touching tribute to his mother, Sandi, his grandmother, Evelyn, and his uncle, Steve, in this Take Care highlight.
The low-key vibe set the song apart
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Drake – Know Yourself
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Drake first used the phrase “know yourself” in “Jodeci Freestyle” – a single released in the lead-up to his album Nothing Was The Same. On the album, the phrase is also referenced
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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 – The Girls Want to Be with the Girls
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[Verse 1] / Girls don't want to play like that / Just want to talk to the boys / Just want to do what's in their hearts / And the girls want to be with the girls / [Chorus] / And
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Talking Heads – With Our Love
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[Verse 1] / It's just a look / And it makes the boys quiver / Yes, it's the look / And now they remember / [Pre-Chorus 1] / Had they forgotten / What this all means? / I think they
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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 – 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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Project Pat (Ft. La Chat & Three 6 Mafia) – Chickenhead
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Seminal dirty-south classic from ‘01; also appears on DJ /Rupture’s Gold Teeth Thief mixtape that jumpstarted the cross-genre mashup trend and paved the way for both Diplo and
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Talking Heads – Don't Worry About the Government
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The modern world has been built and arranged to make humans as comfortable as possible. Byrne here is talking from the point of someone who has become absorbed by this lifestyle
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Kevin Gates (Ft. August Alsina) – I Don't Get Tired
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Kevin hustles relentlessly as he works to achieve success in his life, and this track is clearly a testament to that. He grinds around the clock, takes no breaks and doesn’t need
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The Smiths – Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
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This is a typical Morrissey song about a person who is upset or depressed, and doesn’t want to waste any more time on thoughtless people. It was released as a single backed with “
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Tear Da Club Up Thugs (Ft. Juicy J) – Slob on My Knob
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Although it originally appeared on Tear Da Club Up Thugs' 1999 album CrazyNDaLazDayz, “Slob On My Knob” is essentially a Juicy J solo song as he raps both verses and produced the
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Fumez The Engineer & Block 6 (Ft. Lucii, TzGwala & Young A6) – Block 6 x Fumez the Engineer - Plugged in Freestyle
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Block 6, hailing from Catford, South East London, appeared on Fumez’s Plugged In platform on September 2nd 2020 before the release of their Day of the Dead EP on Halloween the same
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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 – 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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Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five (Ft. Duke Bootee & Grandmaster Melle Mel) – The Message
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Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s “The Message” may not have been the origin of conscious-rap in the early ‘80s, but it took the idea, ran away with it, married it, had
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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 – (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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Drake (Ft. J. Cole) – First Person Shooter
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[Part I] / [Intro: J. Cole & Adonis] / (Pew, pew-pew) / First-person shooter mode, we turnin' your song to a funeral / To them niggas that say they wan' off us, you better be
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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 – Psycho Killer
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One of the best-known Talking Heads songs, “Psycho Killer” was the second single from the 1977 album Talking Heads: 77, peaking at #92 on the Billboard Hot 100.
It is the first
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Joey Bada$$ (Ft. Capital STEEZ) – Survival Tactics
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Joey BADA$$ uses the instrumental for “Survival Tactics” by Styles of Beyond Prod. Vin Skully.
Joey borrows a lot of different flows from older artists (to compliment the old boom
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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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Vance Joy – Riptide
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The intro and first single to Vance Joy’s debut EP God Loves You When You’re Dancing was a critical and commercial success. Critics praised its clever lyrics filled with pop
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The Fools – Psycho Chicken
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What began with a friend of frontman Mike Girard clucking like a chicken over the Talking Heads song “Psycho Killer” at a bar soon became a four-track basement recording that was
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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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