Talking Heads
Talking Heads
Talking Heads
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earlier.[13]
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HISTORY
1983 saw the release of Speaking in Tongues, a commercial breakthrough that produced the bands only American Top 10 hit, "Burning Down the House".[32] Once
Talking Heads perform at El Mocambo in Ontario, Canada; pic- again, a striking video was inescapable owing to its heavy
tured: Harrison (left) and Byrne.
rotation on MTV.[33] The following tour was documented
in Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense, which generThe Eno-Talking Heads experimentation continued with ated another live album of the same name.[34] The tour in
1979s Fear of Music, which irted with the darker support of Speaking in Tongues was their last.[35]
stylings of post-punk rock, mixed with white funkadelia
and subliminal references to the geopolitical instability of I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a
houselove is kind of big. I have written a love song,
the late 1970s.[18] Music journalist Simon Reynolds cited
Fear of Music as representing the Eno-Talking Heads col- though. In this lm, I sing it to a lamp.
laboration at its most mutually fruitful and equitable.[19] David Byrne, interviewing himself in Stop Making
The single "Life During Wartime" produced the catch- Sense[36]
phrase, This ain't no party, this ain't no disco.[20] The
song refers to the Mudd Club and CBGB, two popular Three more albums followed: 1985s Little Creatures
New York nightclubs of the time.[21]
(which featured the hit singles "And She Was" and "Road
1980s Remain in Light was heavily inuenced by the
afrobeat of Nigerian bandleader Fela Kuti, to whose
music Eno had introduced the band. It explored West
African polyrhythms, weaving these together with Arabic music from North Africa, disco funk, and found
voices.[22] These combinations foreshadowed Byrnes
later interest in world music.[23] In order to perform these
more complex arrangements, the band toured with an
expanded group that included Adrian Belew and Bernie
Worrell, among others, rst at the Heatwave festival in
to Nowhere"),[37] 1986s True Stories (Talking Heads covering all the soundtrack songs of Byrnes musical comedy lm, in which the band also appeared),[38] and 1988s
Naked. Little Creatures oered a much more American
pop-rock sound as opposed to previous eorts.[39] Similar in genre, True Stories hatched one of the groups most
successful hits, "Wild Wild Life", and the accordiondriven track Radio Head which became the etymon of
the band of the same name.[40] Naked explored politics,
sex, and death, and showed heavy African inuence with
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After the bands break-up, Frantz, Harrison, and Weymouth released an album as The Heads and Frantz and Weymouth have
continued in Tom Tom Club. The trio are pictured here at SXSW
in 2010
REFERENCES
The band played Life During Wartime, Psycho Killer collection include David Byrne, Keith Haring, Sue Coe,
and Burning Down the House together on March 18, and Robert Rauschenberg.[66]
2002, at the ceremony of their induction into the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame.[51] However, reuniting for a concert tour is unlikely. David Byrne states: We did have a 3 Discography
lot of bad blood go down. Thats one reason, and another
is that musically we're just miles apart.[52] Weymouth,
Main article: Talking Heads discography
however, has been critical of Byrne, describing him as a
[52]
man incapable of returning friendship and saying that
he doesn't love her, Frantz, and Harrison.[9]
Talking Heads: 77 (1977)
In the 2011 update of Rolling Stone 's 100 Greatest
More Songs About Buildings and Food (1978)
Artists of All Time, the band was ranked at No. 100.[53]
Fear of Music (1979)
Inuence
4 References
[1] Talking Heads Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, retrieved
November 23, 2008
[2] Encyclopdia Britannica, Inc. - Talking Heads
[3] http://www.npr.org/assets/music/THChronology_
LBangsEssay.pdf
[4] Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. Talking Heads - Biography.
AllMusic. Retrieved April 27, 2014.
[5] http://rockhall.com/exhibits/
500-songs-that-shaped-rock-and/
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What the Songs Look Like: Contemporary Artists Inter- [11] Greene, Andy. Flashback: Talking Heads Perform 'Psycho Killer' at CBGB in 1975. Rolling Stone. Retrieved
pret Talking Heads Songs is a visual art book published
April 23, 2014.
in 1987 by Harper & Row. It comprises full page artworks by over fty contemporary artists, each matched [12] Ruhlmann, William. Talking Heads 77. AllMusic. Retrieved April 23, 2014.
to a specic Talking Heads song. Artists featured in the
[42] Ruhlmann, William. Tom Tom Club | Biography. Allmusic. Retrieved April 27, 2014.
[43] Christensen, Thor (May 22, 1990). Harrison starts to
nd own voice. The Milwaukee Journal.
[44] Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. No Talking Just Head - The
Heads. Allmusic. Retrieved May 1, 2014.
[45] Levine, Robert (June 26, 1997). Byrne-ing Down the
House. Rolling Stone. DavidByrne.com. Retrieved October 31, 2009.
[46] Jerry Harrison | Credits. Allmusic. Retrieved May 1,
2014.
[47] Clarke, John. Rockers Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth
Talk Marriage. Rolling Stone. Retrieved May 1, 2014.
[48] Ruhlmann, William. Tom Tom Club - Biography. Allmusic. Retrieved May 4, 2014.
[49] Tom Tom Club - Awards. Allmusic. Retrieved May 4,
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[50] Greenberg, Rudi (June 2, 2011). Geniuses of Survival:
Tom Tom Club, at Rams Head On Stage. Washington
Post. Retrieved May 4, 2014.
[51] Greene, Andy. 23 October 2012. Rolling Stone. Retrieved May 4, 2014.
[52] Blackman, Guy (February 6, 2005). Byrning down the
house. The Age (Australia). Retrieved October 3, 2009.
[53] 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Rolling Stone. Rolling
Stone. 2011. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
[54] allmusic.com Retrieved 5-7-2015
Further reading
David Bowman, This Must Be the Place: The Adventures of Talking Heads in the Twentieth Century
(New York: HarperCollins, 2001). ISBN 0-38097846-6.
David Byrne, How Music Works (San Francisco:
McSweeneys, 2012). ISBN 1-936365-53-7.
David Gans, Talking Heads (New York: Avon
Books, 1985). ISBN 0-380-89954-X.
Krista Reese, The Name of This Book is Talking
Heads (London: Proteus Books, 1982). ISBN 086276-057-7.
Talking Heads and Frank Olinsky, What the Songs
Look Like: Contemporary Artists Interpret Talking
Heads Songs (New York: Harper & Row, 1987).
ISBN 0-06-096205-4.
EXTERNAL LINKS
6 External links
Ocial website
Ocial Facebook page
Talking Headlines- a Talking Heads fan site.
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