Talking Heads' More Songs About Buildings and Food Poll

huh, it's funny, did some research on "the good thing" and it turns out david byrne's lyrics were inspired by old chinese communist party literature. i remember doing some research on authoritarianism in america, and found surveys and sociological papers that found that america was the most culturally authoritarian-leaning of the 1st world industrial nations, to an off-the-charts degree, in total contradiction of our own view as an individualistic culture, even before the bush/911 years.

guess it was a "happy" accident byrne's cribbing of authoritarian literature sounds so incredibly american. links up pretty well with this thread: Silicon Valley Techno-Utopianism weird how we might have more in common with communist china than france or england.

I always thought there was a whiff of Japanese "happy corporate family" culture to lyrics like "The Good Thing" and "Don't Worry About the Government."

Ha! Musically, the verses Radiohead's 'Anyone Can Play Guitar' is identical to the verses of 'Warning Sign', except that Radiohead slowed it down.

This fuckin album.

Not even sure what I would have voted for. Maybe I'm Not In Love. Or The Big Country. But really the whole thing is pretty perfect.

Today, "The Good Thing."

his album is super-economic. no mucking about