I had arch lyrics once.
I also think the music scene changed/regressed as their creative output declined. Add to that an aging fanbase whom i assume bought less and less recordings. A 1-2-3 shot that is hard to recover from.
“Stop Making Sense” is an outstanding film.
I saw this band Halloween night 1977
I thought Jerry Harrison was the talented one.
In high school (early ‘80s), I knew a man who had managed a club in NYC, and he talked to me about some of the up and comers who had later made it. He had wrongly predicted that Deborah Harry would be dead of an OD before she hit 35. However, I had asked him if these crazy Punk and New Wave acts took themselves seriously, or if it was just schyick. He told me, in all seriousness, “it’s just schtick ... except for The Talking Heads.”
[While he used to come off as odd and distant, in the last two decades he has radiated nothing but warmth, positivity and charm. “He’s like Mr Rogers now,” Frantz said, with a laugh. “It’s true that his public image has changed. But friends of mine assure me that he hasn’t. I think he probably just decided that he could catch more bees with honey.”]
I will never understand why some folks called them punk, they were all art school types
Remain in light was that lp and that was due t eno
Fear of Music is their best album, IMO.
So in other words, he's a typical Democrat. Got it.
I liked Genius of Love, more than the usual group’s output.
That was such a fun, creative and musically tight piece of work. Incredibly unique. Just hearing that lead in guitar brings it all back even now. I’m sure David Byrne would turn his nose up at this piece, because he had no direct influence on it.
Very talented.
Genius of Love by Tom Tom Club was a great tune and a huge hit. So they did alright without Byrne. Off the top of my head I can’t think of any of his solo hit songs
Facts are simple and facts are straight
Facts are lazy and facts are late
Facts all come with points of view
Facts don’t do what I want them to
Facts just twist the truth around
Facts are living turned inside out
Facts are getting the best of them
Facts are nothing on the face of things
Facts don’t stain the furniture
Facts go out and slam the door
Facts are written all over your face
Facts continue to change their shape
Oh boy. Yet another tell-all memoir by yet another ex-member of a once-famous band who’s still cranky because *someone else* was the famous one in that band, and who seems utterly unaware that without that famous someone else *he* would now be just another obscure footnote in music history.
Go take some Geritol and lighten up, Mr. Frantz.
The Tubes and Talking Heads. Lots of talent, for sure. Toward the top of slide into nihilsm.
Guess there won’t be a reunion tour.
I think I’ve read that the other three are up for it but Bryne doesn’t want to do it.
I like a number of their songs.
That said, I don’t like many more of their songs.
For those that haven’t heard it, The Talking Heads ‘Life During Wartime’ live version is a “must-hear”.