I love T-Heads... back in the seventies all my friends thought I had gone crazy...Sorry, fellas, but enough of Styx and Foreigner for awhile, I'm listening to this.
I saw the remastered Stop Making Sense last week and now I’m obsessed with the Tom Tom Club! It only took me 2 decade of loving Talking Heads to discover them.
Had no idea this happened... was really under the impression that the Hall of Fame show was their only performance after they had essentially stopped playing live after stop making sense tour.
This song is actually instructions to a golden dawn style ritual magick , ritual. Crowley and the rest did this with something called TATAWAS These were different geometric symbols you would meditate on and visualize going through the symbols to that symbols world on the " astral plane ". There you would get a message or skill or intuition to bring back. They were painted in " flashing colours ", ( sort of neon) so that if you stared intently without blinking the image would exhibit a strobe effect, putting you in a trance. Some other of their songs have magick themes. Sub- Oceania