Take Me to the River - Talking Heads | College Students' FIRST TIME REACTION! 

The only thing that could have been better for you guys is if you had lived it like a lot of us did, but we're just glad to see you appreciating it the way we did back in the day. Happy New Year!

Al Green loved it too.

I absolutely love the original. The Talking Heads version is fantastic too. Same thing with The Staple Singers cover of Life During Wartime. Both versions are great. It's rare where I like both versions around the same. I usually prefer one much more than the other.

I had no idea it was a cover. This is why I like reading the comments.

It’s a rare thing that a cover is as good or better than an excellent original. This is an example. 📻🙂

Delbert McClinton has great bluesy version.

Agreed! Tina is an amazing bass player. I love, love Slippery People and (Nothing But) Flowers.

Adding Psycho Killer to this list.

@@pocketleopard they reacted that song, but it was not the good studio version. see it here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-myB_MRX6SVA.html

@@surlechapeau ty, will chk it out

@@pocketleopard They've already done Psycho Killer.

@@pocketleopard you're welcome

I'm approaching 78 Quickly! Still digging David Byrne's moves ...

Well put.

We were very lucky! ❤

Although they are very good either you have not been exposed to some of the greatest bands from The U.S.A. Or are very young. Bands like CHICAGO, STYX, KANSAS, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band, Tom Petty and The Heartbeakers, Blood, Sweat and Tears, The Eagles, and so many more I would put over The Talking Heads who had a handful of good tunes. I would put them in my top 300.

I’m 53. American, and a huge music fan and musician. I’d take the Talking Heads over any of those bands you mentioned. By a lot! Though I loved Styx back in 7th/8th grade.

@@adamp2029 I’m 69, so obviously I am wiser than everyone. And I think there is no accounting for taste. So I will turn the other cheek and say we all would come up with different top fives. And none of us would be wrong.

@@Mr05Chuck love this comment!

I suppose if I were to rank my 5 favorites, it would go: 1. Steely Dan 2. R.E.M. 3. Wilco 4. Elliott Smith 5. Tom Waits Though my top 5 from anywhere would have Steely Dan (still at #1) as my sole American entry.

Well put, Aileen. ✌💜

I was about to try and say the same thing! We know the songs but to watch someone here for 1st time is such a joy!

@@alansmith7626 Great minds😎

Absolutely!

Very well put! Exactly how I've felt about Andy and Alex the last two years I've followed them! Thank you!

Yeah, my brothers and I were listening to Ted Nugent, Styx, Bad Company...then my brother picked up a copy of the Sex Pistols "Never Mind the Bollocks" from the cut-out bin at Camelot in our local mall. Our minds were blown. Talking Heads, Elvis Costello, B-52s soon followed...

I fall into the same category. My sisters were older and huge into Classic Rock. My friend let me borrow his soundtrack to Repo Man 1985 and my mind was blown. I started to listen to the USF college radio new wave/ punk radio show around the end of 1985 and I was hooked.

Same here. I was 17 when I saw them do this live on SNL and it literally changed everything for me musically.

Hey, @John H! Happy Friday!

Never "The Talking Heads" no definite article required.

I saw that tour also. One of the best shows I saw in the 80's.

It’s what turned me on to them

Great song. Great album (“Fear of Music”).

I love Cities and love that album.

@@marktait2371 Phish does a mean cover of Crosseyed and Painless, as well. In 1996, the Remain in Light album was their “musical costume” for Halloween. It was badass. They absolutely slayed The Great Curve.

You understand their interpretation without fist hearing the Reverend AL Green. Many of your stylistic comments on the performance were there in Green's original. Both versions in heavy rotation in my play lists

I think Psycho Killer was their breakout song.

@@tjj300 This was their first to crack the Top 40

In the New York area, they were on the rock station HEAVY since their first single in 77, since they were considered a hometown band.

@@themoviedealers My hometown market. Psycho Killer got a lot of airplay before they went national.

“In”

yeh ed agree i have the expanded rhino 2 cd version has the entire 81 show as you probably already know sense ok also have original double vinly so glad heads agreed to work with rhino to compile all the music on 2cds good liner notes by andy zax and mag. reviews

I don't remember the original (Al Green) being on the radio but I do remember Syl Johnson's version being played - it was his beggest hit. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3ToXgLs5Kgo.html

@@cazgerald9471 Thanks. I really wasn’t familiar with the history of the song other than it was an Al Green song. I guess I always thought it was one of his early songs from back in the 60s, and I didn’t know it because I was too young in the 60s and radio had forgotten it. I just looked at the song’s Wikipedia entry, and I was wrong. I didn’t know it was only 4 years old at the time the Heads released it and I’d never, to my knowledge, heard the Syl Johnson version. Johnson’s single reached #48 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1975, and #7 on the U.S. Billboard R&B chart. It wasn’t released as a Green single. Apparently, the record company, Hi Records, did not release Green's track as a single, but instead passed the song to his labelmate, Syl Johnson. Of course, when it first came out, I thought it was just a great and different sounding (especially the vocals) song by this new band the Talking Heads. I’m not sure when I learned it was an Al Green song. Thanks to you and A&A for inspiring me to learn the history.

@@moniphil I looked it up too. I didn't really know Syl Johnson's name, but when I listened that's definitely the version I remember being played on the radio.

All three are on the channel! Woohoo!

I’ve heard him interviewed talking about being on the spectrum (autistic).

What was the name of the movie that featured "Life during Wartime"? I vaguely remember it was about the New York club scene and a young girl... I saw it onece back in the late 80's if I remember correctly.

The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads is one of the best live albums of all time, in my opinion. Especially the expanded version, which has 33 tracks.

@@DoubtfulCertainties same doubtful i have the expanded rhino cd also 2002 just pulled out today discussing with other viewer good liner notes mag reviews and the sound quality really good especially for 20 year old cd plus one hny

@Steve Robinson, That movie was called “Time Square”, from 1980. I too saw it once but just looked it up. I remembered some song called Damn Dog. It has a pretty eclectic soundtrack.

@@brianalbee7195 Thanks.

Yep, true. This fantastic song is not written by Al Green alone: Lyrics: Al Green - Composers/Music: Al Green *and* Mabon Lewis "Teenie" Hodges. At the Royal Studios in Memphis, where I was recording with him and his two brothers Charles and Leroy, Teenie told me the story of the song from a to z, just six months before he died. So sad.

Now if they'd only hit the Replacements!

He DID write it.

@@kevinphinney932 Exactly - definitive.

I hope your recovery is smooth and fast!

Congratulations on surviving such a treacherous health event. May the rest of your life be peaceful and joyful.

I accidentally ended up in the movie/documentary. (All audience had to sign waivers at the door.)