Tom Tom Club - Genius Of Love (Official Music Video) [4K] 

Every year I want to re-watch that that movie IGN 10/10

WHAT?????

@@332spicelord Yep, look it up. They also created Max Headroom too.

Wait really?!

Woah! that's good to know

Great info.

Wow. No idea it had been used that many times! Excuse me while I go listen to them all -

Doc D (Logic) also used this song on the title track for his album "Planetory Destruction", feat. Big Lenbo.

DJ Clue - That’s the Way (Mase, Foxxy Brown, Fabolous)

Most recent is "Big Energy" by Latto.

Frank Zappa had such a great taste in music and art

ThisIs ReadyMade love Frank. He should be here to document current events.

Please be wary when mentioning frank

rodney shackles why

Cause Zappa likes hip hop 👌

Too true my friends

hell no

@@yanikotavov385yeah, actually. 80s funky strings and synths have had a resurgence in recent years

@@Yeedo420 80s metal however - hasn't.

This is like 1981

Superb fun fact!

I heard somewhere that this is the most sampled song in history. Think it was a talking heads documentary. ..

@@theshadowknows6969 Yup, this is my first time hearing the original

This is also the only song by a Talking Heads member to reach #1!

It was Tina Weymouth *and* Chris Frantz’s side project

No.......................m

Because for a couple of decades, pop music has been eating itself.

Be sure to be obnoxious and bump it extra-loud when driving through your neighborhood lol. I don’t think anyone would mind 🤩👍🏼💖💖💖💖

Dude, I'm 52, and no, it really could not. it's still fresh in a way, but it doesn't sound like contemporary stuff at all

Play with???It destroys today's "musuck!"🧐😤🤬

They cut out the bit about cocaine

It kinda gives me that Sally Cruikshank vibe

@@EsmeMarion yeah like Quasi At The Quackadero.

Yes definitely drugs lol!

More Like Schoolhouse Rock

Roller skake or Ice Skates?

@@NormAppletonroller skates of course

you were 20 when this came out, bloody nonce

Same ! Except 53 lol

@@NormAppleton roller skates

Don't forget Oingo Boingo

Before the internet ate the recording industry for breakfast, and it still had some money to publish creativity. Now they're afraid of anything but autotuned clones.

Tina Weymouth from the Talking Heads was also a member of the Tom Tom Club.

Chris Franz and Tina Weymouth of the Talking Heads' started this group.

no you don’t

Yes, Tina and Chris.

Tina Weymouth actually wrote most of the music for the talking heads, and if you listen to Tom Tom club, you can actually tell she was the musical driving Force in talking heads

@@StinkFinger2023 lol. no.

Yes a little craziness involved in the animation great side job song by a couple crazy heads Lol

@Bradley Daniels Assigning any special significance to any one particular member of Talking Heads completely ignores and spits on how every member of that band was completely integral to the sound, and they would not have worked as a band without each other. David Byrne’s voice and a lot of his own ideas on how to communicate what the band was verbally _saying,_ as well as his ideas about stage performance in general, was *just* as important as Tina’s writing and impeccable bass. There can be no whole without all the parts.

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Crying on a train reading this! Sorry for your loss

Sorry for our Loss She is in a Far Better Place than we are/

🕊❤ RIP

Your mum had great taste in music and sounds like a cool mum 😊

The animated art work is priceless.

You should check out Peter Gabriel sledgehammer, king gizzard and the lizard wizard - the River for some funky and ultra ultra creative animation

⁠@@ElectricPhantasmagoriaI’ve seen Sledgehammer tons of times before, but i’ll have to check out The River!

Peso pluma ohhhh yes

Psychedelic visuals

This is on dddance party

My Sentiments Exactly - Well Done!

👏👏👏

Song was right on time.

@@2010Gullwing😊

a genius of love

Its the couple that did the Mario Bros movie from the 90s. No joke.

Tina's sister, Laura Weymouth, is one of the artists in the credits for the ink and paint work.

@@hipsterelephant2660 and Max Headroom, their true claim to fame.

@@rommix0 Holy shit are you serious? The absolute sociopaths who made that ridiculous Super Mario Bros movie, one of my favorite movies of all time, are the same people who made this video and Max Headroom? WOW. What a career.

lost ages searching for it

That’s hilarious haha. I just barely made it lol

I would never have found it if it wasn't in Always Sunny. This song had vibes even before it became a meme word

damn right lol

.. Due to its catchy nature yet seemingly unrelated and obtuse song title

Mayyyy

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The ONLY time when that way overused word Masterpiece is warranted

@@nataliecovers__ ok

@@CalifornianCuttlefish haha not toward you just I see it used on every generic song because it's become the popular thing to say

@@nataliecovers__ Oh ok

​@@nataliecovers__ true

Or may be Adult Swim

Pete Harris expected*

You would lol

@RipMudafuka69 MLG that's what he's saying

Yeah this looks very late 80s-early 90s

It is probably the music they wanted to make outside of serious punk and rock

@@tonyfan3 it's a new era that the music going

You like it because you have good taste in music lol

Probably because you find it kooky, upbeat and clever.

i didn't exist back then but i love this song!

Crazy cause it's a White chick singing

Hispanic parties too! Chicago & Cali🙏

@@jimgonewild909when it’s real, it’s real, no matter

@@joevega5477 Yeah still huge in Cali.

@@joevega5477 Yessir 👍👊🏾

Who is they? I think most people who know music are well aware Fantasy was sampled.

I remember tripping out, when I heard that Dreamlover sampled a hip hop song! I was alive for it’s original release. It was years before I knew about it! 😂

Hearing the chorus of the song used in Fantasy came to me as a big surprise

Big Energy remix they sample this again with Mariah Carey..

In Latto's case, I think she really did sample it because of Mariah. Her song "Big Energy" has the line "I can be your fantasy" in it and she also said she idolized Mariah growing up. Strangely enough, she initially denied the Mariah reference at first saying that she had never heard of "Fantasy" before, but now Mariah is on the remix edition so Idk what was going on there.

Ooh like that part whoo

Check it out, Bohannon, Bohannon, Bohannon!

Lachaim.

Sir its JAAAMMEEESS BROWWWNNNN

WHO NEEDS TO THINK WHEN YOUR FEET JUST GOO (BOHANNON BOHANNON BOHANNON BOHANNON)

MC's Fantasy is a bop though...

@@anthonyanuforo6089 Return of the Mack is a bop too.

@@anthonyanuforo6089YUP

Mariah did it justice

Erick Sermon chopped tf outta this joint

Haha, hadn't realized that there were version without the cocaine verse.

@@MortenK65 This was the Radio version's lyrics.

Hiiiiii!!!!❤

Hi

Hi

Hi

Hi :3

and Dennis watching them !

@@nacholalin The YT algorhythm is wonderful sometimes

You couldnt be more right my friend!

The Gang Of Four !

@@davidellis5141 5

yes

*drinks green paint*

Came for this. Also, its 2020 and if you're reading thIs from the past, RUUUUUNNNNNN!!!!

Time to squash some beefs!

@@txoutlawent.6515 May I offer you an egg in this time of trouble?

Well that's just frat boy sad

​@@NormAppleton Because of the 'implication'...

Do we got beef?

Which episode?

@@LibertyArtDesigns S12 E10 "Dennis' Double Life" Played near the end of the episode while they dance at the bar :)

Bloodybeibi Latin Boyfriend

all these years, i thought it was "lucky boyfriend". oops.

Brandon Redmond lol thats okay😊😉 Btw its Cuse me while i kiss the sky Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze.. Not " kiss this guy".😊

@@DDios-ih9de thanks! Yeah, I knew that one. Good lookin' out!

Bloodybeibi congratulations, you can hear

Gosh ur so mf blessed

I like your Pythonesque profile picture.

That must have been an interesting experience

I remember rollerskating to this . 14 with all my friends 💓💓

@@Teebiscuit12345 I like your use of alliteration. :)

She did

Knock it off, Hip Hop was already well-established in the 1970s

@@NatTurner328 LOL No Kidding But private Party's in Black neighbourhoods homes did not make it known This song was one of the first White Groups to attempt it and helped get it popular. I'm a musicologist and was former vinyl Night club DJ in London, New York and Montreal What have you Done?

Mariah Carey's great sample of the song in "Fantasy" in 1995 made it a retro hut once again!

@@WilliamHBaird-eq2hp You just moved the goalpost from “she created the hip hop sound” to “her white privilege helped introduce it to the masses”. So which one is it? That’s why we should have gatekept hip hop from non-black outsiders. You made an entire career from appropriating our culture and now you’re attributing another outsider to its creation? You’re a joke and you lack self-awareness. “William H Baird”, what’s wrong, daddy stopped paying your college tuition when he realized you suck at math so you had to take away what little space they let black people have to eat and feed their families? Literally the worst kind of person.

Oh God, is that how old I am?

​@@addambelmont3050ro😢 😅

I came here bcuz of that

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AND Frank! Very talented; gone too soon!

Exactly why I am here...paused the Zappa interview to watch it. Once it started I instantly remembered it. Zappa was a genius.

@@diehappydie me as well lol

That bought me here, and I agree.

On high With God the Lord yes

Nah, this song and music video came in 1981. But Rugrats probably did get inspired by it tho.

@@sappyshamp3751 thats what the person just said...

@@bogglemeister4204 Lmao!!! Hahaha!

It got a second life in 1995 with Mariah Carey's "Fantasy."

i thought it was james town

3087 shit I'm sure I've heard Fry,Leela and Bender rocking out to this classic on the Planet Express

Under appreciated? One of the most well loved, repeatedly sampled songs of all time? Ok...

@@KrashyKharma maybe OP meant the sampling artists get more attention than the Tom Tom Club

"under-appreciated" is a straight-up lie, come on dude.

Genius of Love didn't get nearly enough radio airplay at the time, in my opinion, which may have just been where I lived. I managed to get it on a blank tape, though, so I could play it as much as I wanted to- and between songs, too, so no DJ chatter over the beginning or the end!! 😃

this is literally one of the most iconic tracks of all time lmfao you guys really don't know what underrated means

Condolences 😢. He had good taste ❤

Sorry to hear that. How old are you, out of curiosity?

@@Jean-PaulMichell That is mathematics: The son of Ernest beserra was 34 in 1980, this year he would have been 34 + 44 = 78 years. Ernest beserra is the father, let us believe he was a young father of 20 years, so he is now 98 years old.

@@michael46 Yeah I didn't want to sound rude by saying his story was highly doubtful, but 98 (and that's on the conservative end)? Me thinks it stretches the bounds of credulity. But who knows.....

@@michael46 'Genius of Love was released in 1981. So, his son could not have heard this song. I think 1980 was his birth date and he died in 2014. He was probably on mobile when he typed that and something got auto corrected wrong.

He might get his ideas from Ralph’s

I was just thinking that

Some of his songs actually are inspired by a band called The Residents

@@paper4732 That explains SOOOO much!!! I used to listen to a LOT of Residents before Jack Stauber.

I don't really see how this reminds you of jack stauber

Same as it ever was 🎶

This song is new for me and I'm in love.

I agree!

That's rite!

It remains consistent

@dandanthetaximan Full screening it does not make it HD. Learn to HD my friend.

its better low-fi dawg

It's a shame people can't enjoy videos if they are not in hd.

It would be great to see the animation remastered in HD

@Jimmy Jazz it is awesome. Still wish it was in HD.

I agree. My uncle used to download older songs for me back when I was 17 and I loved playing them over and over, listened to this constantly in 2003 and it took me back. Don't know exactly what it is, but the song has that affect.

And it’s the original uncut version

He still is the godfather of soul y'all!

Pax Gethen they changed up the lyrics a bit for that performance

Ooooooooo yeesssss

Yes :)

mooskles

@Stand:「Catch the Rainbow」 Master:「Blackmore」 GRAND DAD

Yis

I'm crying 🤣😂

Not really

2:43 Rest in peace JAAAAAMMMMEESSS BRAAAAAHHHWWNNN!!!

Twenty years, almost twenty one and *hard* same. I’ve been a fan of Talking Heads for years, too!

FUN?

@@paigek.5736 fun Nasty fun

same lol

Same

Isn't Sagutoyas a.....y'know..........PDF FILE???

Nickelodeon started in 1977.

Nickelodeon was called Pinwheel in 1977.

Try watching “Mississippi Queen” from regular show 😮‍💨

Four wheels and a toe stopper. None of that Rollerblade crap.

I hate that this version takes out the best line of this song

@@bluejolt7821 "Fun nasty Fun"

+ Bluejolt Here's the missing section of the song: All the weekend Boyfriend was missing I surely miss him The way he'd hold me in his warm arms We went insane when we took cocaine I think you can see now why this wasn't included in the music video that would have played on MTV & broadcast TV music shows.

Steve Rogers wait, what?! That’s brilliant songwriting!

@@bluegreenwoodtiger i do agree

This version doesn’t include the verse with first Bohannon line, & features the James Brown part after the second Bohannon line

All wrong but nice try! 🙄

❤❤❤ thank you

@@Terry-Hesticle infinite cycle of decay and rebirth, definitely weird!

What does the recording method have to do with it? There are plenty of songs far older than this that were recorded on tape that are iconic and legendary…

Actually tape is a far more reliable storage medium than say, a hard drive, or a DAT or a CD. If computers were invented 100 years ago, would you today be able to read 100 year old audio files? Let alone access a 100 year old hard drive? Most hard drives have a life span of 20 years max. Tape can be stored indefinitely without corrupting itself and can, and probably always will be able to be played back, even in the future. And forget about the cloud! That's just renting someone elses server space, which is stored on a disk as well.

@@egglady ​ ...and nobody said there wasn't. You misinterpreted what i was saying & thought i was talking negatively. I wasn't. It's just that its difficult and RARE to find a song recorded in any part of our history since we have had this technology (1860) have we had any recording come back 2 full generations later (40 years) & become widely popular again on its own original recording. Other times it has come close the recording was either remastered or re-recorded using new musicians/singers. But Genius of Love is still the last of the last recorded using analog tape before studios could afford to upgrade metal/digital tape. You could always tell which artist used the older technology because you could hear a slight "hiss" from the tape playing. It was never enough to be bothersome because when music was sold in 1981 on vinyl or tape the quality diminished even further from the manufacturing process so... you never heard the hiss. But you also could never experience what it "really" sounded like either that day in the studio. Not until 1979 when the first songs were recorded digitally. But nobody else could hear that recording than the owner of that master digital recording either. Until 1982 when Sony Ltd of Japan took RCA's Laser Video Disc technology they had been working on since the 1960s to replace stylus needles used in phonographs or turntables into digital readers which could read without interruption from scratches on a vinyl 33 or 45rpm record, or a tape, read the recording -just the recoding- without excess noise or hiss. But this was not inexpensive research & development. Simple audio sales was not enough. RCA bet on selling movies to consumers on records the size of albums for around $60 each plus their video players were around $1,500 ($3,600 today). The VCR was less expensive, much lower in quality, but... it could record & RCA ignored inventing the #1 reason people bought a less advanced product... to see themselves on television. Its also the #1 selling point of a phone today as well. ANYWAYS.... through all that time I cant think of any artists recording who has come back 40 years later as a hit, again, than this band, a part of "Talking Heads" whose song "Genius of Love" was at the time in 1981 achieved gold status & was bigger than anything else Talking Heads had done up to that time. And... they almost never recorded or wrote it. Ok, Now I have to finish the sad story about RCA. RCA began producing the first radios & equipment for stations which played the fragile 78 rpm records wealthier Americans played at home on their Victrola's, (the first record players) between radio programs & also included new songs creating new sales. RCA bought Victor & became an empire by producing the first radios, car radios (before Ford GM or Chrysler) and sold record players, invented the much higher quality 45 RPM & to top it off sold the first television sets, they also owned all of NBC by 1930. The practicality was the Laser Disc would offer superior sound quality to play recordings but it wasn't cheap to manufacture. RCA bet the company on the Laser Disc & player spending an unprecedented BILLION dollars at the time ($10-bil today) for a single technology & take it to market. Nobody had ever done that. Banks would never lend that amount on a risk. It didn't even cost Apple or IBM to bring the PC or BigMac to market that amount. Thats a staggering amount of money to put into R& D and to have your product fail started the beginning of the end for RCA. Another RCA discovery was the Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) -which worked great for the astronauts going to the moon & for RCA to sell for clocks, watches, early mainframe computers & calculators & voltmeters. But they totally missed turning the LCD into the flat screen TV or PC Monitor. Japan turned both inventions of RCA the LCD screen into a TV screen for every laptop tablet & smartphone out there & the Laser Disc went to the compact disc which eventually turned into a simple download today. RCA was bought for $6.2 billion in 1985 from General Electric who also were the company who created them for the sole purpose of buying out Marconi's radio invention because he refused to sell it to Thomas Edison who owned General Electric. The failure of RCA would be comparable to the failure of Apple 50 years from now. It just seems unimaginable. But there isn't a single person who hasn't been effected. RCA gave us what George Westinghouse, Thomas Edison, & Nikola Tesla couldn't either, but each dreamed about. Westinghouse had a 20% share in RCA, GE a 50% share.

@@vidarnilsson816 i have some doubt about your claim to tape, but research points to you been accurate & i still dont buy it, lol. Unless it is magnetic tape. Invented in 1928 which wasn't used successfully as a way for storage until after the video tape recorder around 1950 & today is the most used. But it is still metal paint sprayed onto a plastic film tape & plastics worse enemy is UV light. Light is the only thing oil has no immunity from because oil has only known total darkness. There was no need to protect itself from light. Its one reason why 99% of the oil in a spill eventually vanishes. Because sunshine is the only thing in nature which it has no defense from. Same as your outdoor plastic furniture, it becomes brittle & its not from cold & heat which breaks up the molecular structure it is sunshine which does faster & quicker damage. Same with cars or planes who use composites. Sunshine will eat up a cars paint which is why a special proprietary paint is used on stealth bombers & Boeings 787. If not & flown in sunshine they would quickly lose structure integrity. By the way... the hardrive on voyager-1 is 24 years old by now & functions fine running on Windows-95 billions of miles away. While the Earth has an atmosphere & environment which can attack anything we make to record or build simply from plate techtonics or weather alone. There is one place it can last almost forever & guaranteed billions of years to keep every record we make & that is our MOON. Left undisturbed just like Voyager 1 & 2.

yeah i thought that was a bummer as well

It's the single version.

I know right? Beautiful song. Godbless ❤

James dancing his ass off

Literally what I just did! Haha

It the most sampled song ever

😂😂😂 bruh I just seen that thanks to you

Tiago F. Ikr that’s crazy!!

it's like a remake

Lots of songs sample this track its nasty by grandmaster flash and genius of rap by jockey and hyde

And I hate her for that.

@@mirrorneurongirl not true. tom tom club gave permission and they also got writing credits. who would say no to mariah carey.

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literally just Big Energy by Latto

if it re-released in 2023 there probably has to be funny cats for it to really take off

@@randomlittleidotwhat about the funny dog🗿

LOL🤣

That's effin hilarious. Mariah Carey was like, what 11 years old when this came out. She was barely even alive. Lol

Ahahahaha.

mariah carey copied them lol

But did mariah copy the beat? Or did she just asked for permition?