I'd be honored if some David Byrne & Talking Heads fans would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal performance of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE (re-interpreted as a ballad) on my YT channel in tribute to one of the most unique & iconic bands of the late 70s/early 80s era. Raw acoustic with no digital editing. Thanks and peace.
@Kingy B "educated liberal". Ironic you say that. Whats your education level? You call scottish people "scott's". They are scots, you moron. Stop talking about "educated" people while using an apostrophe to express a plural. Where did yoy get YOUR education? I bet you spell apples like *apple's* too. Fricken genius you are...lol
My grandma wanted this song at her funeral. I still don't understand why, but it has a special place in my heart. Love you, grandma Cathy. Although we've never met, I still love you :)
The song isn't about arson, it's about destroying something that is holding you back. Or being set free from something. So I think it's quite fitting. Either way your grandma had great taste in music ❤
I retired in 2019. My speech to my collegues/friends ended with Burning Down the House playing while I danced my way out the library door and into retirement... lovely moment for me. Great song
When I first heard this song…I was so amazed by some of the lyrics that I can understand….But this GUY on the drums is killing it…I still love this song…Window’s down VOLUME UP HIGH…👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
My mom is 80 and dad is 90 ! When I played this song they will get up and dance to this song! My whole family love this song! Still listening Oct 30, 2023!!
I was at a rural convenience store yesterday, standing in the checkout line when this song came on over the store speakers. I could see everyone in the store begin to silently, secretly tap their feet and dance. Hard NOT to dance to that incredible beat. Awesome! Thank you David Byrne!
This is one of many songs I'm glad to hear on the radio at work. Always puts everyone in a great mood and I absolutely jam out everytime so I'm sure that's interesting to see lmal
Funny story. When this song came out on MTV my dad was at a party and this song came on. So he ran up close to the tv and he starts dancing and singing the lyrics word for word. He turns around mid song and everyone at the party has stopped and is staring at him. My dad says, “What’s the matter?” Someone asks, “You can understand what he’s saying?”
I carried my dad out of the church on his funeral as we left for the crematorium with this song playing. Memories of the very early 80s dancing round the living room together blasting Talking Heads every Saturday morning whilst my mum was at work. I couldn’t have been much older than 4 years old but it’s still imprinted in my brain. For me there wasn’t a more fitting song.
sheer brilliance, a band ahead of its time, classic, timeless and still relevant, it doesn't get much better than early Talking Heads on early MTV in the early 80s
Mom always told me I would dance in my crib like crazy whenever this song and Peter Gabriels Sledgehammer came on the radio. Even as a toddler I had impeccable taste.
Dave did covers on sledgehammer and burning down the house and it's absolutely perfection Edit: by dave I mean dave matthews band I forgot not everyone knows dave matthews lol
@OneDeadPixel563 I was a band nerd in High School in the 90s. I myself am all too familiar with DMB. Edit: David Byrne covered Peter Gabriel's "I don't remember" and made the original sound like the auditory equivalent of sun dried dogshit. And I love Peter Gabriel.
Almost done reading "How Music Works" by David Byrne. He does an incredible in-depth job of explaining the history of music, why it sounded and was composed the way it was throughout time and all the outside factors that have shaped music and how it is heard. I highly recommend it.
LYRICS: Watch out you might get what you're after Boom babies strange but not a stranger I'm an ordinary guy Burning down the house Hold tight wait till the party's over Hold tight We're in for nasty weather There has got to be a way Burning down the house Here's your ticket pack your bag Time for jumpin' overboard The transportation is here Close enough but not too far Maybe you know where you are Fightin' fire with fire All wet! Hey you might need a raincoat Shakedown! Dreams walkin' in broad daylite Three hun-dred six-ty five de-grees Burning down the house It was once upon a place sometimes I listen to myself Gonna come in first place People on their way to work and baby what did you except Gonna burst into flame My house! Is out of the ordinary That's right! Don't wanna hurt nobody Some things sure can sweep me off my feet Burning down the house No visible means of support and you have not seen nothin' yet Everything's stuck together And I don't know what you expect starring into the TV set Fighting fire with fire
i agree mtv was music television now it's just bs. They went so down hill that when Prince died a cnn news anchor even said mtv is actually playing music today for Prince. That's just sad to me
These guys captured the look, sound and feeling of what was termed "New Wave" back in the early 80's, they appealed to many regardless of the ethnic background. They were not a hair band, rap group or Punk. They were 100% orginal!
I used to listen to this song on my little portable cassette player in a little nipa hut in Tangub City, Philippines when I was a peace Corps Volunteer there (1982 - 1984). This song ROCKS!
David Byrne's American Utopia was a stellar treat, if you can catch it on a second (rumored) run. My parents saw Talking Heads years before I was born; I got to dance to this song a year ago with my dad. Wild. Byrne has and is a gift!
@@JoshuaTootell That's OK. But I've seen Jimi live. Hell, I've seen Benny Goodman live (he played with the Tulsa Philhanonic). So, trust me here, ya ain't old yet.
True story. I am at a gigantic New Jersey nightclub as big as a football field, there's a thousand young people stoned to the gills, Panama Red just made a "your ripped" entrance, it's Friday night, the bars are huge everyone is happy, and lit they could all get lucky. I and a cute girl wandered away to an empty stage. STUNNED ! ! ! David Byrne comes out by himself, with only an acoustic guitar all alone , he starts playing great, we dance our brains out. No one came over. NO ONE ! It was as fantastic as it was bewildering. He finished his set and said "Thank you. " to us . And left. Not headlined ??? No marquee out front. We didn't know there was going to be entertainment ? It was an unbelievable experience of fun, and thanks, and greatness. Best wishes. "Never give up", sometimes you "too" will get extraordinarily lucky.
This video used to scare me when I was kid. Talking heads were so strange. I remember being freaked out by the guys face at the end. I also used to think if this song played my house would blow up lol.
The end is hilarious. I remember this video used to scare the crap out of my younger sister when it would come on MTV (which of course I naturally encouraged). Looking back, it is pretty bizarre all around.
I guess I was just weird from the beginning because I loved all of their videos as a kid. His face on the road did sort of mesmerize me & simultaneously freak me out though. It’s honestly more odd you thought your house would blow up due to playing a song, sounds like some of the thoughts I’ve had due to OCD.
This incredible concoction of a band created masterpiece after masterpiece, made the 80's that magnificent time it was and always will be !! Thank you always Talking Heads 💜
I was a teenager in the 80s. I still listen to the music daily! Best decade ever! Nothing will ever come close to matching this decade. I also have SiriusXM 80s on 8 in my car. Never ever gets old!
I agree. The 1980s was best decade ever. Everyone knows this. So many songs from the 80s survived the test of time and I am constantly reading comments on how songs written back then are just as relevant now. The ripple effect that decade had is simply unmatched.
It’s June 2023. This song is FORTY YEARS OLD, and is as fun to listen to as it was in 1983-perhaps even more so. But think about 1983. In 1983, could you even stand to listen to the music that had been popular in 1943?! NNNNNOPE! What a difference a few decades makes.
Ha ha I never thought about that! You’re totally right. I couldn’t imagine listening to 1940s music in the 80s. But today in 2024 this song and so many of the Talking Heads songs are still completely awesome.
Dennis Ouellette I have an addiction for watching it recently, like I genuinely have watched it in full 40 times in the last 8 weeks. Mesmerising, legendary, perfection from start to finish.
PURE ENERGY...that concert! I mean his backups are sooo bad ass neither one breaks even a drop of sweat the entire time...nd' they both were just NON' STOP! Man...ur' one lucky human to have set thyn' eyes on such an Awesomely Awesome show...Jealous! Deff before there time, indeed! First time I heard them was on Night Tracks at 3:00 am...was blown away!
Wow, David, out of all of Talking Heads' songs this one is my favourite. I'm so glad that you guys were able to put your differences aside for one night and perform at the Rock n Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony.
@@MichaelClark-uw7ex I didn't say that they didn't deserve to be in the hall. I said it's good that they put their differences aside so that they could perform together for the first time in a long time.
@@CelesteKTheNewWaveRevue Absolutely, i agree the Heads deserve their accolades and it is great that they reunited for the ceremony. Sorry I did n't come across that way, i am in agreement with you.
Yes! I wondered why this is so great. It must be the combination of party track and eerieness. As if, by the beginning, there's a party in that house, then it literally burns down and the protagonist is haunted by it. "My god, what have I done?"
I remember when this video debuted. Most people thought it was weird. I just remember thinking how creative it was and how cool it was that they were using the technology to its limits at the time.
I taped videos off of MTV all the time, and have over 75 tapes---transferring them over to DVD. This video is on quite a few of them. Great song and video. (Jan Griffiths).
When artists still had something to say. The messages in all these songs are so clear. Nowadays i don't even understand the words they use and i am sure it's better that way
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I want a projector so I can beam an image of David Byrne's face onto the side of my house.
Same
The lord has come
Same
❤
byrning down the house
David Byrne is a creative genius and was way ahead of his time.
I'd be honored if some David Byrne & Talking Heads fans would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal performance of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE (re-interpreted as a ballad) on my YT channel in tribute to one of the most unique & iconic bands of the late 70s/early 80s era. Raw acoustic with no digital editing. Thanks and peace.
Listen to Pop Musik by M (4 years before this)...
@Kingy B ok boomer
@Kingy B "educated liberal". Ironic you say that. Whats your education level? You call scottish people "scott's". They are scots, you moron. Stop talking about "educated" people while using an apostrophe to express a plural. Where did yoy get YOUR education? I bet you spell apples like *apple's* too. Fricken genius you are...lol
I think we're still ahead of whatever time he was meant for
My grandma wanted this song at her funeral. I still don't understand why, but it has a special place in my heart. Love you, grandma Cathy. Although we've never met, I still love you :)
Grandma had great music taste is all 😊
she has a great taste!
The song isn't about arson, it's about destroying something that is holding you back. Or being set free from something. So I think it's quite fitting. Either way your grandma had great taste in music ❤
Truly the best 59 ! Still listening to this the best times of my life
May she rest with Christ ❤
I retired in 2019. My speech to my collegues/friends ended with Burning Down the House playing while I danced my way out the library door and into retirement... lovely moment for me. Great song
........and a great exit!
One of the greatest videos and songs from the 80's. I don't care how old you are, when that beat hits something on your body will move.
Alicia, you are right about that, i agree with you 🎸 🎧 🎶
And I can't dance for shit 🤣🤣
@@rickabodcrane2062 🤣🤣🤣
my lungs
I dunno, it's a little weird
When I first heard this song…I was so amazed by some of the lyrics that I can understand….But this GUY on the drums is killing it…I still love this song…Window’s down VOLUME UP HIGH…👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
Those two drum breaks have been kicking my ass for YEARS.
California 🔥
I listen to this every morning when i check the Weather Report.
Probably my favorite jojo reference i've seen in this comment section
Only ELECTRIC AVENUE is on the level of coolness with this song
@@worsethanhitlerpt.2539 By Eddie Grant?
Do you mean the jazz fusion band?
Subtle, Nice one. 👍
I didn’t know about this song until I listened to the Paramore cover, but now I’m glad it exists!!!
Welcome to the family!!
I'm discovering Talking Heads now as well! Hope you're having a great time
Thank! They are really good so far!
didn't know there was a Paramore cover - will have to check it out
Same!!!!
Me and the bois chilling in a room filled with 100% pure oxygen
That sounds explosive.
LIGHT A JOINT
Lucky you. Don’t light a match. You’ll be burning down the house 🔥🤣👍❤️✌️
I like your spelling of “bois” 😉
This joke was *[MADE IN HEAVEN]*
My mom is 80 and dad is 90 ! When I played this song they will get up and dance to this song! My whole family love this song! Still listening Oct 30, 2023!!
Check out paramore covering this song
😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄
I love your story!!🎉🎉❤
They know good music when they hear it.
Don't burn it-- David Byrne it.
Awesome music from a band that wasnt afraid to make fun of itself. This allowed them to make awesome genuine music. we are all the better for it.
I'm 538 years old, and I still rock out to this song! My great great great great great grandchildren love Talking Heads, as well.
AH AH AH !!!!...
🎉🎉🎉🎉 paaaaahhhty time bizzys!!!!
538 y.o? Wow 😮😮😮😮
You and me both old timer
😂🔥✌🏼🙋🏻♀️
I was at a rural convenience store yesterday, standing in the checkout line when this song came on over the store speakers.
I could see everyone in the store begin to silently, secretly tap their feet and dance.
Hard NOT to dance to that incredible beat.
Awesome!
Thank you David Byrne!
Love it when i'm in the grocery store and that happens!
I would prolly throat-punch anyone who didnt start to boogie a little when this song comes on a PA system
This is one of many songs I'm glad to hear on the radio at work. Always puts everyone in a great mood and I absolutely jam out everytime so I'm sure that's interesting to see lmal
Great story.🤗
Funny story. When this song came out on MTV my dad was at a party and this song came on. So he ran up close to the tv and he starts dancing and singing the lyrics word for word. He turns around mid song and everyone at the party has stopped and is staring at him. My dad says, “What’s the matter?” Someone asks, “You can understand what he’s saying?”
😂😂😂💀💀 bro that got me geeked
Awesome Dad power 😎
😂🤣😂🤘
I just heard myself say, ohhhh THAT’s what they are saying. Mb: keeper of the misheard lyrics trophy from “revenge of the nerds” til now. 🙄😂
Funny
I carried my dad out of the church on his funeral as we left for the crematorium with this song playing. Memories of the very early 80s dancing round the living room together blasting Talking Heads every Saturday morning whilst my mum was at work. I couldn’t have been much older than 4 years old but it’s still imprinted in my brain. For me there wasn’t a more fitting song.
*Burning Down The House* -- David Byrne=GENIUS! 🎶🎸
I still crank this song to 11 whenever I hear on the radio.
The drums are epic.
My player goes till 10. You lucky dog yours goes to 11!
@@jefferyhoeschenhoeschen5767 It's an old Spinal Tap joke where their amps really did have an 11.
Rock on.
Dude the drums are next level. I’m listening with headphones on and DAMN
@@eroddy2513 Love listening to this through my 100 amp stereo on my studio head phones.
The epic sound of a set of concert toms played in accompaniment with the drummer’s normal drumming in the song.
sheer brilliance, a band ahead of its time, classic, timeless and still relevant, it doesn't get much better than early Talking Heads on early MTV in the early 80s
Totally agree
I'll catch up on all ov the early ones x
The talking heads
And
Devo
@@candimulligan5701 q0qqqqqqq
I am just remembering a kid who walks chilly on a prision
Why is David Byrne so great? I absolutely love Talking Heads and David Byrne.
It takes me back to my high school days was17, Im52now still love
Because hes Scottish 😉👍🏴
Still rocking this gem in 2024 🎸
For sure!
You bet your a$$!
Me’ ❤
US 2025.
SOMETHING REMINDED ME , soooo …. Pump it up and remember the BIG 80s … yup .
My god... This song is 100% pure oxygen... I mean... Gold...
Completly from another reality, you know
Luca is best Berserk girl
Absolutely, yes!! x3
Hey do you know what the weather report is?
Hmm.. what a wonderful world we live in.
EMPORIO!!!!!!
David Byrning Down The House. It only took me 37 years to catch that.
Fuck...just fuck. I didn't clock that. Thank you for saving me from 37 years.
Shit! Why the frock didn’t I think of that?
only good
I'm 47 and apparently oblivious.
Ok gents I’m lost?
This song gives me pure oxygen
Really cool effects for the 80s being the best decade to grow up in. Pop and Metal music. Also a really good song.
Power song, gets the party started. Anything touched by David Byrne's musical genius turns to pure gold.
*Pure oxygen
My favorite performance from David Byrne was when he said "it's Byrnin' time" and Byrned down all those houses
That moment has been Byrned into my mind.
He's just slacking
My God, you made that joke funny.
Genius!
Legend
TIME TO FEEL IT WITH
O X Y G E N S
pure oxygen even
@@krasorx definitely over 40% saturation.
@@connor6994 a 100% oxygen
This is a horrible song and JoJo is a horrible manga. There's also nothing on my tongue that makes me say the opposite of what I mean.
Saw Talking Heads in concert at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta. We were dancing on the seats and in the aisles. And a wonderful time was had by all.
They have such an awesome drummer.
This song never gets old 2023 ❤️
2024 very soon merry Christmas
Unfortunately I do.
Get old that is
Did he say burning down the mouse? Turn it up ma I can't hear...
Loved this song as a kid and even more as an adult!
This song was so big when it came out
Now I got my grandkids loving him C/O 87
Only born 25 years after it came out, love it though, better than any modern shit😂
@@SkiRacingOz I agree
Ive played this song live but never could get a bass player to play it. Its just 3 notes you assholes!!!!
That kid's such a little emperor, ayo
Byrne: Let’s burn down a house for the video
We can’t do that
A projector will do
XD
CGI costs too much, a projector with fire should do
Byrne really wanted to burn down a house for the video? Dude was a genius.
A projector ok that was funny
@@jonathanalpart7812 i mean, who doesn't want to do that or am i just weird?
Pure oxygen
Lethally good!
Is that a motherfucking jojo reference
jack bang that’s so funny!!!
@@seanmignon4229 Lethal enough to stop a crazy priest!!!!
Mom always told me I would dance in my crib like crazy whenever this song and Peter Gabriels Sledgehammer came on the radio. Even as a toddler I had impeccable taste.
extremely based
baby based
Dave did covers on sledgehammer and burning down the house and it's absolutely perfection
Edit: by dave I mean dave matthews band I forgot not everyone knows dave matthews lol
@OneDeadPixel563 I was a band nerd in High School in the 90s. I myself am all too familiar with DMB. Edit: David Byrne covered Peter Gabriel's "I don't remember" and made the original sound like the auditory equivalent of sun dried dogshit. And I love Peter Gabriel.
Yes great songs, I remember in 1983, when I was 17😁
Almost done reading "How Music Works" by David Byrne. He does an incredible in-depth job of explaining the history of music, why it sounded and was composed the way it was throughout time and all the outside factors that have shaped music and how it is heard. I highly recommend it.
THANK YOU
@@kirabeetz7199 Ditto
LYRICS:
Watch out you might get what you're after
Boom babies strange but not a stranger
I'm an ordinary guy
Burning down the house
Hold tight wait till the party's over
Hold tight We're in for nasty weather
There has got to be a way
Burning down the house
Here's your ticket pack your bag
Time for jumpin' overboard
The transportation is here
Close enough but not too far
Maybe you know where you are
Fightin' fire with fire
All wet! Hey you might need a raincoat
Shakedown! Dreams walkin' in broad daylite
Three hun-dred six-ty five de-grees
Burning down the house
It was once upon a place
sometimes I listen to myself
Gonna come in first place
People on their way to work and baby what did you except
Gonna burst into flame
My house! Is out of the ordinary
That's right! Don't wanna hurt nobody
Some things sure can
sweep me off my feet
Burning down the house
No visible means of support and you have not seen nothin' yet
Everything's stuck together
And I don't know what you expect starring into the TV set
Fighting fire with fire
@Twyla P . You're welcome.
Embrace burning down the house.
Freedom awaits.
@@TheCrazyChameleon it’s a stand =>
😘 Love this song.
One of my favorites. 80 go 80s go!!!!!
Love talking heads. Specially sycho killer
The "babies", they are cool... but yeah, thanks for the lyrics, always nifty to have them around in the comments :)
I would have never guessed lmao
One of the best existential bands since the Moody Blues...
Life is weirdness and they provide the tunes and lyrics to celebrate it!
For real. I find myself replaying songs by the Moody Blues over and over again
Life's Bizarre
This song was made in 1983 and I was fourteen years old. I miss when MTV was good 😊 know how to appreciate good music 🎵
i agree mtv was music television now it's just bs. They went so down hill that when Prince died a cnn news anchor even said mtv is actually playing music today for Prince. That's just sad to me
I was 9
I’m was 22.Gilbert.
Black American.age 52.was 11 in '83.... hooked on MTV classic rock!!! Dam I miss that era!!!
Same age here - and I miss that I never got to see the talking heads tour.
David Byrne is a musical genius.
Everybody gangsta until David starts to eat the road
OrdinaryOG😅🌿💞
*sniff the road
You sure those aren't lines going up his nose?
He's Pac Man
what is he, ancap?
These guys captured the look, sound and feeling of what was termed "New Wave" back in the early 80's, they appealed to many regardless of the ethnic background. They were not a hair band, rap group or Punk.
They were 100% orginal!
Rap group, lol
@@1barranco
Rap is Crapp! ....
They were early pioneers of hip hop, yo.. You no what I'm sayin cuh?
Sounds superb cruising on the highway!
An 11 year old Chicago Cubs fan saved the Universe. Cheers to that.
When my son was three he loved dancing around the living room laughing and waving his hands in the air
Was it to this song or did you just wanna tell a nice story to a bunch of random people going through the comments 😂😂😂?
Ok..
@justarandomtroll I dont think so, but reminds me of a kid who lives in a prison in which is mom died, I think his name was Emporio tho
This song is almost 40 years old and still freking amazing
I used to listen to this song on my little portable cassette player in a little nipa hut in Tangub City, Philippines when I was a peace Corps Volunteer there (1982 - 1984). This song ROCKS!
One of my most favorite songs of the 80's. Thanks for posting this.
Talking Heads are sorely missed. Saw them many a time, once at the Armadillo with the B-52's opening. Joy, joy, joy.
We're old
David Byrne's American Utopia was a stellar treat, if you can catch it on a second (rumored) run. My parents saw Talking Heads years before I was born; I got to dance to this song a year ago with my dad. Wild. Byrne has and is a gift!
@@JoshuaTootell That's OK. But I've seen Jimi live. Hell, I've seen Benny Goodman live (he played with the Tulsa Philhanonic). So, trust me here, ya ain't old yet.
The B-52's were my introduction to Talking Heads. Listening to the "Mesopotamia" album so much as a child helped in that regard.
David Byrne tours and plays some of his old stuff; I've seen him 3 times in the last few years
That Walking Dead scene was so fun. Loved the season 10 finale !!
Songs I would play if I were in Palisades California right now
I came here for this comment.
Heartbreaking for the people, yet truly ironic and has humor
I was 6 yrs old bouncing around my house singing this. Wish I could of experienced it live.
Those were the aewesomeist time my friend
I remember in 83was17im52now still love
7 year old me used to do the Once In A Lifetime arm-chopping thing when the video came on.
Will always be a classic! I remember when this came out and I always loved the drumming.
This was big hit when it came out. I remember it for sure
These guys need to be inducted into the hall of fame. They were like the pioneers of weirdness .
Them and Devo
Talking Heads are already in the Hall Of Fame in 2002
Inducted 15 years ago, Bra.
Clover
Blivet
Along with DEVO.
True story. I am at a gigantic New Jersey nightclub as big as a football field, there's a thousand young people stoned to the gills, Panama Red just made a "your ripped" entrance, it's Friday night, the bars are huge everyone is happy, and lit they could all get lucky. I and a cute girl wandered away to an empty stage. STUNNED ! ! ! David Byrne comes out by himself, with only an acoustic guitar all alone , he starts playing great, we dance our brains out. No one came over. NO ONE ! It was as fantastic as it was bewildering. He finished his set and said "Thank you. " to us . And left. Not headlined ??? No marquee out front. We didn't know there was going to be entertainment ?
It was an unbelievable experience of fun, and thanks, and greatness. Best wishes. "Never give up", sometimes you "too" will get extraordinarily lucky.
Thats so random. Sounds like one of the best nights of your life
One of the great classics and I was alive to witness it!
It was our ticket and we packed our bags.We deserved it.
This video used to scare me when I was kid. Talking heads were so strange. I remember being freaked out by the guys face at the end. I also used to think if this song played my house would blow up lol.
The end is hilarious. I remember this video used to scare the crap out of my younger sister when it would come on MTV (which of course I naturally encouraged). Looking back, it is pretty bizarre all around.
I guess I was just weird from the beginning because I loved all of their videos as a kid. His face on the road did sort of mesmerize me & simultaneously freak me out though. It’s honestly more odd you thought your house would blow up due to playing a song, sounds like some of the thoughts I’ve had due to OCD.
I always thought that the music and videos were strange.
When the song played on MTV I would think of Jason from Friday the 13th
I'd laugh but I was terrified of Mister Roboto as a kid.
Watching them live on The Late Show, with Colbert.
Still rockin' after all these years. 👏👏👍
that liberal dumbass colbert is a disgrace to late night tv late great johnny carson rolling over in his grave smh✌️
Always loved this video. Especially the kid playing David Byrne. Lol
The ending minute of this song is the best thing Talking Heads have done.
Somehow the frozen fixated stare of David cruising down the road seems to work perfectly with that drum beat.
😧
The ''passing zone'' stripes seemed to have a ''thing'' for DB's gaping mouth although that surely was purely unintentional.
The lines seem to be going up David’s nose….
Someone brought that vision up years ago lol
i see you're a man of culture
This song is gonna blow up in a few years.
Edit: Stone Ocean is now confirmed. I now await the JoJo fans.
Or turn inside out...
It did!
Enjoy your comment section before they come
@@alifarhat16 were already herw
Crap here
Totally underrated drummer. Listen to that riff at the end, killer.
I read this comment right at the same point in song, you are fucking spot on,
Yeah dude is dope. Hes also married to the base player. Always thought that was cool. They're still together
Not ever too old for TALKING HEADS!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
This incredible concoction of a band created masterpiece after masterpiece, made the 80's that magnificent time it was and always will be !! Thank you always Talking Heads 💜
1983
I remember being a little kid Early elementary days and this video was so abstract but had a timeless vibe ... And 40 yrs later 👍💯
I was a teenager in the 80s. I still listen to the music daily! Best decade ever! Nothing will ever come close to matching this decade. I also have SiriusXM 80s on 8 in my car. Never ever gets old!
I agree. The 1980s was best decade ever. Everyone knows this. So many songs from the 80s survived the test of time and I am constantly reading comments on how songs written back then are just as relevant now. The ripple effect that decade had is simply unmatched.
@@neilsmith3249 Actually I hear the 70s are and that the 80s are close behind !!! That's why most of us listen to both decades. 😉🙋🏻♀️
Talking heads are 🔥 absolute dynamite
This was the song my wife and I danced to at out wedding (my selection, of course).
What fun!
A nerd so nerdy he's beyond cool. David Byrne is a GOD!!
My future ex husband lol... he would get me lol jk
Nerd is the coolest thing about bryne
Those first few guitar notes fill me with such nostalgia for senior high school, class of '83!
I’m eleven and so glad my dad introduced me to this type of music !
This looks like a once in a lifetime experience, i guess you could call it a golden experience
*GIORNO PLAYS PIANO WHILE PUCCI RESETS UNIVERSE*
wait did they referenced once in a lifetime in jjba?
@@m308 No but talking heads have been used before
Btw its Gold Experience not golden
A comment that references both jojo and the talking heads themselves, now that’s what I’m talking about
Talk about synchronicity. Driving in the country with my Dad and this is blasting. Then me as a kid points out the window at a house blazing.
Omg! That's insane!
Me sitting in a ghost room eating a Mars bar that passes straight through me.
is that a jojo reference????
Yes
😅😅
Drinking that orange juice that went through me.
One of the best songs ever made!
This song has some AWESOME drum work in it. David Byrne is highly educated he holds several degrees in several fields of study.
ITS STILL BANGIN'!!!!Classic material!!! We need more like this
Absoulutley i totally agree with u friend!😉😉
I agree I remember in83was 17 Im52now still love
One of my favorite songs. Timeless
The best memories of my teenage years ❤
It’s June 2023. This song is FORTY YEARS OLD, and is as fun to listen to as it was in 1983-perhaps even more so.
But think about 1983. In 1983, could you even stand to listen to the music that had been popular in 1943?! NNNNNOPE!
What a difference a few decades makes.
Ha ha I never thought about that! You’re totally right. I couldn’t imagine listening to 1940s music in the 80s. But today in 2024 this song and so many of the Talking Heads songs are still completely awesome.
if you were born in the 20s or 30s you probably would love it in 83
i feel like the guy from "13 going on 30" when i play this at home haha great song!
This is the best song when my friend and I are making a bonfire in the middle of the woods
sameeee, I remember this movie moment every time
Lol
"Dreams walking in broad daylight" is one of the best lyrics ever.
It's beautiful
Stop making sense tour is still the best concert I ever attended. Have a great day David!
Dennis Ouellette I have an addiction for watching it recently, like I genuinely have watched it in full 40 times in the last 8 weeks. Mesmerising, legendary, perfection from start to finish.
Dennis Ouellette I'm so jealous, what a show, I'd give anything for a time machine there. Greatest live performance I've ever see, on video
Stop making people jealous! 😊👈✌❤
PURE ENERGY...that concert! I mean his backups are sooo bad ass neither one breaks even a drop of sweat the entire time...nd' they both were just NON' STOP! Man...ur' one lucky human to have set thyn' eyes on such an Awesomely Awesome show...Jealous! Deff before there time, indeed! First time I heard them was on Night Tracks at 3:00 am...was blown away!
One of the best videos and songs ever! It's perfect '80's!
David Byrne is a LEGEND. So many timeless classics
@small earth I meant David Byrne as an artist. Have you not heard his solo stuff
@small earth actually I was commenting about David Byrne 🤣🤣
Wow, David, out of all of Talking Heads' songs this one is my favourite. I'm so glad that you guys were able to put your differences aside for one night and perform at the Rock n Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony.
I agree I remember in85was 18 Im52now still love this song and group ❤️.
@@lisaparsons2544 I was 9 in 1985 and now I'm 42. :) This is a really great song. :)
I'm 61 , I remember when this came out, the Heads deserve to be in the hall.
@@MichaelClark-uw7ex I didn't say that they didn't deserve to be in the hall. I said it's good that they put their differences aside so that they could perform together for the first time in a long time.
@@CelesteKTheNewWaveRevue Absolutely, i agree the Heads deserve their accolades and it is great that they reunited for the ceremony. Sorry I did n't come across that way, i am in agreement with you.
One of the most haunting songs from the 80's.
Yes! I wondered why this is so great. It must be the combination of party track and eerieness. As if, by the beginning, there's a party in that house, then it literally burns down and the protagonist is haunted by it. "My god, what have I done?"
Love how they focus on a typical home that us bb boomers grew up in. Cool song.
I thought the same. 😊
This song makes me want to live in a ghost room
yes
shut up
Inside of a prison
And sleep inside a piano
With 100% oxygen
there is certainly never any lack of creativity with Talking Heads
They don’t make music like this anymore = absolute legends
David Byrne was born in my hometown & I pass his old house a lot. But I didn't know he was Scottish until 2015. ❤️✌🏼🎶🏴
Looeeerve this song, cannot sit still. I reckon Talking Heads was the 80's answer to psychedelic music.
I remember when this video debuted. Most people thought it was weird. I just remember thinking how creative it was and how cool it was that they were using the technology to its limits at the time.
Yep just a projector on wall.of a house was futuristic. Genius
I miss the days of old MTV with 120 minutes. Sadly I remember watching MTV when it first aired!
@@meowmeowmeowser6349 That's not a sad thing!
I taped videos off of MTV all the time, and have over 75 tapes---transferring them over to DVD. This video is on quite a few of them. Great song and video. (Jan Griffiths).
I always felt like the ending sequence was representing lines of coke going up his nose.. It was the 80s after all..
Man so much happened when this song dropped in 1983.
When artists still had something to say. The messages in all these songs are so clear. Nowadays i don't even understand the words they use and i am sure it's better that way
They're Soo WEIRD!!? I love it!
Weird but cool as FUCK!😉😉i
I remember in83was 17 Im52now still love this song has great music in it .
Merryoldsole
They are not "weird" they are Creative.
Today's world is so dull and massified.
No houses were harmed in the making of this song.
My house.... out of the ordinary
Got harmed
LOL
ronjon83
Very witty!
@Hotcup18' we're onthe waaaaaaaaay!!🎇🎇
Hotcup18' Are there any dead gay black priests?
Me and the boys when we find a projector at goodwill.
Me and the boys when we wanna burn down a house.
lol i’m sure..
Had the exact same thought. Then do a mad Byrne Out
Best comment for this video. Period.
Me and the boys achieving heaven
no words,just vibes.....and dancing,lots of dancing....