What I recall about him is being envious of his former coworkers success. To of his former musicians (David was their Boss) had a side project near the last few years of Talking Head. At one point, about 1980, they released a song.
In certain areas of the country, it became an enormously popular dance club song: “Genius of Love”.’They called their new group the Tom Tom Club.
This near-throw-away song became a much bigger hit than any of David B.’s complex songs ever did. He never called them up to share the joy of that hit. He barely ever acknowledged it at all.
But wait, there’s more!
In 1995, Mariah Carey sampled the song, weaving some of her own lyrics and harmonies around in what became called “Fantasy”. So this pair began raking in a small percent of those royalties too. It was absolutely a great song to listen to and to dance to.
“Genius of Love”
A great, great tune! This was the first music video I ever saw, so happy it was a great one.
They are making BANK with this old tune. It’s being sampled in some big hit song (not Mariah, it’s something newer) and it’s in some TV ad too now.
That groovy riff = $$$$$
The Tom Tom club had great dance songs. David Lynch seems like he would be utterly exhausting & not much fun to be around.
Other than celebrating cocaine, it's a cute song:
But much bigger than any of David Byrne's? No way in hail. Never heard of the song or the TomTom Club here on the east coast.; but can sing along with many of David Byrne's songs without having really paid any attention. He was played a lot on radio. His stuff just might not have been dance club, nose candy music.