POO!: Talking Heads

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I'm going with "I'm Not In Love" because it rocks, it's funky, and it's on my favorite Heads album, edging out "Life During Wartime" (Stop Making Sense version - Bernie Worrell triumphant) and "This Must Be The Place" which provokes the most nostalgia.

― J Blount, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

New suburbanites in CBGB's answers here!

― J Blount, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Psycho Killer" -- love the way it starts Stop Making Sense.

― Tim DiGravina, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know if I've ever mentioned that Talking Heads are my favorite band ever, and "Born Under Punches" is my favorite piece of music ever.

But I'd like to make that clear now. It's perfect. Wonderful. OH GOD I LOVE THAT SONG!!@OHGOHDEDD!~

WHY? Because that's my funk. That's what it sounds like when I dance, and what it sounds like when I sing. Even if it just looks like I'm just flailing and screaming. Furthermore, I've never heard anything like it, and to my knowledge, nothing like it exists. **If you know of anything at all that remotely resembles the high this song gives me, SEND IT MY WAY.

― Keiko, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Love Goes To A Building On Fire". Cause I'll never forget how confused and thrilled I was by that single when I first heard it. It wasn't at all what I was expecting. I thought they'd be it'd be much more dour. Or like Elliot Murphy or something. Thank God it wasn't.

― Arthur, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Once in A Lifetime from Stop Making Sense.
They hit that chord, both the keybaords. You know which one Im talking about. And the camera shows David, Tina and I forget the other keyboardists name, but it shows them all rising up in time from slumped over positions. There has not been a finer 10 seconds in cinema or music as far as Im concerned.

― Mr Noodles, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i believe that other keyboard player is bernie worrell

― chaki, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

BORN UNDER PUNCHES

― tyler, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Seen And Not Seen"

― Paul, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Found a Job," though I'll be damned if I've ever been able to put it on a mixtape, since NOTHING sounds as good in front of it as "The Girls Want to Be with the Girls"

― M Matos, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"The Great Curve" because the world moves on a woman's hips.

Remain in Light still sounds very fresh, considering it is old enough to buy beer.

― earlnash, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This Must Be the Place for the sake of quality. Wild Life just for fun.

― paul, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Another vote for "Found a Job". "The Big Country" for when I'm in a dave q sort of mood.

― dave q, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Good try everybody, however the correct answer is clearly 'Dont Worry about the Government'

― Alexander Blair, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"life during wartime"

If only for the 'running on the spot' dance

― john-paul, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Born Under Punches", because it sounds like what'd be playing on the jukebox in Purgatory.

― Ess Kay, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Born Under Punches" followed by "Cities."

Hard question.

― Andy K, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"The Book I Read".

― Vic Funk, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

another vote for B.U.P.

― Keith McD, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Born Under Punches"

me too.

― J, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Gotta be "Once in a Lifetime" ... I don't understand the BUP votes. I can't even remember this song.

Other classic from RIL : "Listening Wind"

― phil, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A toss-up between the studio version of "Life During Wartime" (never thought they captured it live) and "Lifetime Piling Up".

― Alex in NYC, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Phil, GO LISTEN NOW!

So much love for the Heads here, we should invade the CoD thread on them. (as an aside, last nite when I went to look for it, there were exactly 666 CoD's in the archive, tho that's changed now)

― Keiko, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"This Must Be The Place"

― A Nairn, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't believe nobody has mentioned "Nothing But Flowers". Byrne's voice just climbs and falls in that song like some kinda vocal falcon. The beat is amazing as well, the Heads were the guitar band you could always dance to.

― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

crikey a tricky one this - have a huge soft spot for ANYTHING on "true stories" as it was the first record of their's i heard - probably "city of dreams" i guess - BUT i guess a tie up between "(nothing but) flowers" which is just a gorgeous GORGEOUS record and hugely emotionally important in my life, and "i zimbra" because i do not and *WILL* not dance but that song - by crikey yes! - makes me dance

probably "i zimbra"

― commonswings, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

And that's Johnny Marr on "Nothing But Flowers" as well... if memory serves correct.

― Tim DiGravina, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Native Melody; SMS vers, with viuals.

― JM, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The sum total of "The Great Curve" and "Once In A Lifetime" - although really *anything* on Remain In Light will do.

― Tim, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The only two TH records I ever liked were Fear of Music and Remain In Light, both of which have to be listened to complete(ly) as integrated albums.

At a pinch, however, The Overload.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't pull a track off Remain In Light - but I can pick Fear Of Music apart, Marcello notwithstanding. So "Mind" it is - new wave never sounded so desolate.

― Tom, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Matos is OTM about "Found A Job". But "The Great Curve" runs it a close second.

― Jeff W, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Swamp"- love that chorus

― Joe, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This really is a tough call, but I'll jump on the "This Must Be the Place" bandwagon. What an odd mood for a song.

― Vinnie, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two weeks pass...

>"Found a Job," though I'll be damned if I've ever been able to put >it on a mixtape, since NOTHING sounds as good in front of it as "The >Girls Want to Be with the Girls"

‘Found a Job’ is that song which starts with the ‘DAMN – THAT - TELEVISION!’ line, right? Abso-Fucking-Lutely right with that observation about it sounding at its best in line with ‘Girls want to be with the Girls’.... God, I feel like someone else has finally articulated one of my secret thoughts from 1978...

I don’t know about the track gaps on any CD re-issues, but on the original LP just after the last note of ‘Girls…’ I always found myself silently counting ‘1-2-3-4’ continuing the tempo of ‘Girls..’, and the inter-track gap was JUST right to go SLAMMING straight into that 1st line...

Favourite song – probably ‘Once In A Lifetime’: I can still recall hearing J.Peel playing it for the first time, and that fantastic burbling/shimmering synth sound grabbing me by the ears...

BUP pushes it a mighty close second though !

― Ray Manston, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Found a Job", followed by "Crosseyed & Painless" - 'Stop Making Sense' versions ... ohh my! Once again, .. you can dance .. if .. you .. want to.

― Dave225, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The correct answer is CLEARLY "I Zimbra".

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I like the intro to Road To Nowhere, the whole acapella bit. Just the thought of that being done on stage really makes me smile...

That said, Psycho Killer will always have a special place in my heart for the time I listened to it on my laptop speakers. My laptop speakers cannot do bass, and as such it felt like quite the radical re-listening...

― Mr Swygart, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

MAKING FLIPPY FLOPPY (stop making sense).

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)

air

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Pulled Up

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 11:38 (twenty-one years ago)

another good one, stewart.

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

"Born Under Punches" fifth'd (or six'd). the slow vocals under the repetitive "the beat goes on", the frenetic percussion, the fade out then *pop* it's back again. love it.

― my name is john. i reside in chicago. (frankE), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

This is tough. Can't go wrong with Once In A Lifetime, or Life During Wartime, or I'm Not In Love. But for the sake of diversity, I'll go with...

No Compassion

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

"Life During Wartime"

This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco,
This ain’t no fooling around
This ain’t no mudd club, or CBGBs,
I ain’t got time for that now.

― Confounded (Confounded), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

Where is the love for "And She Was"?

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

I'll represent for late Heads, puffin: "Nothing But Flowers."

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

This might as well be POO orgasm. I can't do it, but I can suggest that a case could be made for the following songs, somehow completely neglected on this thread: "Girls Want To Be With The Girls", "Houses In Motion", and "Road to Motherfucking Nowhere".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

Okay, not completely neglected. I am really good at reading threads before posting to them.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

Air

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

It also depends a lot on what one is looking for out of the song. When not in the mood for twitchy future funk, but, rather, weepy sentimentality, it is hard to top either "This Must Be The Place" or "Mommy, Daddy, You and I".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

I'm really glad to see all the love for "Born Under Punches," I thought I was the only one.

― matlewis (matlewis), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

I always thought it would be "Pulled Up" but this morning "Naked" hit me like a bomb.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

"Memories Can't Wait," The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads version.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

Where is the love for... anything off "Speaking in Tongues"? (Other than "This Must Be the Place")

I guess maybe the melodies on that album aren't as hot, but the rhythms sure are.

― Confounded (Confounded), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

I'm very fond of "Girlfriend is Better". However, my POO would either be "The Good Thing" or this live version of "Life During Wartime" I have from Boston in early 1979.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

Sugar on My Tongue

― Aaron A., Tuesday, 16 August 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

I became very fond of "Girlfriend is Better" this morning, when it was on Radio 6 when I woke up. I don't think I used to like that song, but it was great this morning. I'll need to dig it out.

As for one, maybe "Stay Hungry".

― KeefW (kmw), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

I Zimbra for sure.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

i love "This Must be the Place (Naive Melody)". esp. the delicate guitar plucking, and how he's almost yelling half the time. and th lyrics

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

Fuck, I forgot "I'm Not in Love"! That's even better than the two I mentioned! But I'll stick with "The Good Thing" as it seems to be vastly underrated.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 23:42 (twenty years ago)

I love 'Heaven'. The lyrics make me smile.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 01:15 (twenty years ago)

when I said "Naked"
there, I meant "Totally Nude"
(I've said that before)

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 01:47 (twenty years ago)

To be different: "Drugs", bitches...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 01:55 (twenty years ago)

"memories can wait"

― strng hlkngtn, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 01:57 (twenty years ago)

Word, Strongo...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 02:04 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and decidedly NOT the version by Living Colour...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 02:04 (twenty years ago)

today I'm thinking "found a job". especially the strings that come in over the ending.

― haitch has some respect for artists (haitch), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 03:19 (twenty years ago)

Another vote for "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)"

― Burr (Burr), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 03:36 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

an impossible question but today all I see is little dots... especially in Rome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOiDdXwdLH8

― that's not my post, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 06:28 (fifteen years ago)

If it were Pick Only One that didn't come out officialy under the name Talking Heads then it'd be this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIYSLr6AKiQ

― piscesx, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 14:38 (fifteen years ago)

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