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Happy birthday to a man that I have much creative respect for - David Byrne.

Taaaalking Heaaaads…

10 By Talking Heads - A Good Starting Point

In response to this completely valid list, ten of my favorite Talking Heads tracks for you to listen to if you’re not familiar with… the greatest band that has ever existed ;)

Talking Heads – The Book I Read
Talking Heads – The Girl Wants To Be With The Girls
Talking Heads – Found A Job - 2005 Remastered LP Version
Talking Heads – Cities
Talking Heads – The Great Curve
Talking Heads – This Must Be The Place - Live LP Version
Talking Heads – The Lady Don’t Mind - 2005 Remastered LP Version
Talking Heads – Dream Operator
Talking Heads – Totally Nude
Talking Heads – Road To Nowhere - 2005 Remastered LP Version

Talking Heads talking with Dick Clark (by sydferret)

Dick Clark, you will be missed. Thank you for bringing a lot of great music to the public consciousness.

Tom Tom Club is prepping new five-song EP, featuring remake of Pinker Tones track

I’ve been sitting on this news for a while. Glad it’s finally publicly announced so I can write about it!! So excited!

This robot with David Byrne’s voice is one of the creepiest fucking things I’ve seen in a while.

Love Goes to Buildings on Fire — Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever

 If you are now making and playing the kind of music that is expanding the range of the possible in ways that might one day be consequential, you are probably in Bushwick. And you are probably embroidering on an idea or an approach developed to the west, across the East River, 35 years ago.

I got this promotional e-mail today regarding a new Talking Heads DVD set from David Byrne:

Hi,

Though it may not seem it, this little project took years to pull together. I had seen much of this footage, and realized there might be an interesting video timeline of the various manifestations Talking Heads went through. But, tracking down all of the owners of these bits of footage and followed by getting the rights of the material was another matter. Some of the early clips were obviously not commercial—the sound and image can be a little rough in those—but you can see the extremely stripped down version of the band playing at CBGB in those days. These bits and pieces of footage coming together into a cohesive chronology morphed into something very different and impossible to predict.

This was very much a live band—at least until the late 80s. The initial recordings emerged out of what we played live, what worked in that context and how we refined our skills playing together. For a lot of musicians in the digital era this is not always the case. These days, the record often comes first and then how it is staged comes later. The Lester Bangs essay is also very much part of this time. Other than some very specific references, it holds up amazingly well as a passionate and idiosyncratic piece of writing. There’s a reason a lot of writers continue to hold him up as a role model (though I hope they bypass some of the substance abuse). Though his piece is in the form of a record review, it is in truth a beautiful existential rant—and I am proud to be in some way associated with it. Come to think of it, maybe many of these songs are partly something else in disguise as well?

With each iteration of Chronology, you can pretty plainly see what came before as well as a hint of what was to come—all easy to spot in retrospect, of course. There are some fashion don’ts as well as some prescient looks—but what you really get is a sense of how tight this band was. Of course, there is more footage to be found from these sources but I thought to myself, “How many versions of the same songs can one view?” I think the sampler approach gives the viewer a sense of the musical and performative changes we were going through, but without the possibly tedious repetition.

DBNYC

…  could Byrne come off as more of a pretentious asshole?  I don’t want Talking Heads to ever reunite because I want the rest of the members to be spared David Byrne’s immense bullshit.  Happy Thanksgiving.

(via Cool Dad Raising Daughter On Media That Will Put Her Entirely Out Of Touch With Her Generation | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source)

Like the article - LOVE the picture.

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dunford:

I met David Byrne! Manhattan, June 2011.

Great photo of Mr Musical influence of mine!