absolutely favourite song when it was released. woolworth's sold out, preventing me from switching the price label to one i could afford. thank goodness for those gurand c90 tapes. ....oh and thanks for the effort on the EQ :)
Jerry was so much more self-assured than the other three. Tina was and is an utterly beatific marvel of humanity. It's amazing that this doc is pre-massive fame etc. They were already such a buzz. I still marvel how they were so goddamned funky, despite being SO white 😂 even pre-Bernie Worrell
I remember those days very well, because I first got hooked on Talking Heads in the early '80s as the opening act for the Ramones at club CBGB. I really like the way Tina gets wound up and bounces across the stage with her bass guitar! It reminds me a lot of Nancy Wilson of Heart, in that when she gets wound up, she literally bounces across the stage while playing the guitar...
Love the stage lights they used for a few years. That bright white light. Gave such an other worldly, transcendentally clinical vibe. Resonated really well with their sound.
23:25 - I know the Kurt Vile of today, but who is the one he’s referring to and wanting to write spooky melodies like his? Googled the name and could just fine the current Vile. Is it spelled different?
@@davidhoward4715 $7.00 in a nice 2000 seat music hall. B52's first album and Fear of Music was released a month earlier in August by the Talking Heads.
When the past was ambitiously singing about what was then a terrible present and realizing now from this once-considered- the-unknowable future that it was a Golden Age of American creative genius that has never been surpassed and will never come again.
Clearly there are some people on this planet who were meant to be creative. And some of them take things like music and words and feelings, and use some kind of sorcery to turn them into stuff that's wondrous strange. David's whole "gibberish" technique described and heard here is very cool. I had no idea musicians did things like that, but he is not your average artist. It still amazes me that the music of this band, in the 1980s, became mainstream fare, because they were so cult and esoteric and off the beaten path. But, naturally, cream rises to the top, doesn't it? Talking Heads made some good tunes.
Interesting. The final version, which I recall being played on radio and MTV, was better for me ... that opening bit with a handful of voices singing a capella, that was special.
