I really do love this video. I learned about "Crosseyed and Painless" from this, which has recently helped me through a lot of my anxieties. Yesterday I saw Stop Making Sense in a theater, and although i got there late, it really did help with loosening me up after a kinda rough day. It really is a celebration of life through music that is just an undeniable fucking jam.
These are great videos. This one in particular suffers from audio level issues, but the analysis is solid as is the editing. I just subscribed hoping that this channel gets some more exposure from the algorithm. The low view count honestly surprises me. Best of luck.
This has to be the most underrated channel that deserves to be Bigger that I have ever found all before 400 subs I now get to take this journey as a fan with you
I remember as a kid, reading the lyrics to this song and orating it like a preacher to my dad as we'd sing it in the car going up to the Blue Mountains or Oberon together. It's funny knowing that's what Byrne was going for when he wrote one of my favorite songs of all time. Love your videos mate! You're one of the most underappreciated YTers I've come across thusfar!
Weymouth and Franz had discussed having a session/touring guitarist singer become their lead- they would "vote out" Dave if they could get Jerry's help, and replace David Byrne with Adrian Belew... they approached Adrian, and he simply asked if they were nuts. He saw Byrne as being the rare next-level creative you dreamt of working with. Belew had started with Frank Zappa, and saw some of the same focus and greatness of vision. he left after that, (working with Bowie, then Robert Fripp in King Crimson) and the rhythm section had the choice of more of the same, or likely journeyman bands,... at least Byrne jammed more, allowed them to flex within the group, and actively promoted their side project TomTom Club... he was diagnosed later in life as having Asperger's, which explains a lot of the social disaffection they complained about.
Good retrospective video. I hope that you continue to make these good videos about good music videos. From when I first heard this song on KROQ in Los Angeles and then on MTV in the early 1980s I've felt that the lyrics and video have a pretty deep meaning. "What have I done?!" really cuts into the heart of my teenage fears of not going on to waste my life on a mindless track which I would regret. There are plenty of other great songs with somewhat similar themes and I can't determine how much that has influenced the course of my life but I would say probably a pretty high amount, and I am glad for that.
It's a great song with a great video. Weird Al on his Al TV show was fixated on the arm movement during the 'Same as it ever was' part of the video and to this day when that part comes up, I also do that movement. It's timeless. It's the same as it ever was.
Some of us who had access to MTV and HBO's Video Jukebox nonetheless first saw this video on SCTV's 1982 season 4 episode 18 "Midnight Video Special." It was paired with The Plastics' "Top Secret Man" which somehow did not achieve the same renown.
I'm glad you brought up the video's appearance on SCTV. There were still many places that didn't have cable back then (I'm looking at you, backwards-thinking Sacramento City Council of the early 1980's!) nor was pretty much every family subscribing to it yet. I can't prove it but I've always felt good ol' Gerry Todd (Rick Moranis) deserved a lot of credit for getting a lot more people interested in Talking Heads.
Plastics were a brilliant band that unfortunately got touted as a "Japanese B-52s" when they were far more hard-edged than that. There's a live video of them playing at Hurrah that demonstrates this well: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RTatYfqJRo0.html
