Saw them at a wild-ass Halloween party in the gym of an art college in '77. They played essentially the first album. They were new to everyone--I don't think I'd ever heard of them--and the crowd LOVED them. Great experience.
Same here. Except it was 78 and I saw them at a club in Toronto. I'd never heard their music before those 2 nights. I ended up with quite a few TH albums over the years.
Not only is this a great band or general pop music history documentary, it's also a great socio-cultural snapshot of what it was like to live in America as the '70s were coming to an end and we were approaching the dawning of the '80s!
I'd be honored if some 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. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Thanks and everyone stay safe.
It's easy to forget how innovative and even radical the Heads were in the late 70s and early 80s. They were like REM in wanting to diverge from the status quo and make their own sound, consciously diverging from the formula that sells albums and singles on FM radio. And in so doing built a huge fan base. Thanks for posting. A real blast from the past.
@@guywoodhouse4684 ..someone is musically begoated.... But that's ok, it just shows how much you really understand what's up here. Only us that are musically begoated can see that🤘
@@crapple009 hate to open myself up to the same criticism but I couldn’t agree more with the brow beaten guy. But I’m gonna blame it on myself - I probably just “don’t get” REM or Phish - I’m sure they are good bands but definitely not on my playlist
Hmm. To paraphrase John Lennon responding to being asked if Ringo was the best drummer in the world, Tina is not the best bassist in TH. She couldn't play the instrument at all when she joined the band, she just happened to be Chris Franz's girlfriend. I'm a very poor bassist but I can play TH riffs because they are kept simple to accommodate Tina
@@atakd Three's so much more to being a musician than being technically gifted. There were kids I went to school with that could play Hendrix when they were nine. But where did they end up? I find many incredible musicians really dull. Tina's bass lines are simple and clear. Some of them have motown roots. They drive the rhythm which is what the bass is supposed to do. They are part of what makes Talking Heads unique. It's also her choice of basses and amps and her fingers which are part of the Talking Heads sound. She can also sing and play the bass really well which is NOT easy.
@@brianfergus839They were best when they created wholly in the studio and brought their creations to the stage in any form. Their best albums, not design to the performed as only a 4 piece, demonstrate that they were best in that capacity. Remain in Light and Speaking in Tongues are clearly their best and more influential albums. Not geared to be for them 4 only no matter what you want others to believe.
Massive Talking Heads fan, from the UK and i have never seen that before. That was utterly tremendous. Great stuff - and then they released Remain in Light - WOW. Just WOW
Wonderful footage here. Really awesome to see them at this time of their career, still going at it out of a loft in NYC. Historic in my opinion. Thank you for sharing.
Garreth Boland I believe that loft/rehearsal space was a spare wing of Tina’s older brother’s loft in Long Island City. Yann Weymouth was, at the time, an architect with I. M. Pei and had done much of the design work on the Mellon Wing of The National Gallery.
In chrus’ book that loft had heat, the first one near CBGB did not, In life during wartime I see david’s breath it’s so cold in that room leading me to think this maybe is the first loft(though much nicer than he describes in the book so maybe it is Yann’s Nextdoor place ?) just a guess
I was lucky enough to see them three times in Chicago in late 70s. I could sing along with every tune. What a great music time that was. Saw David Johansen three times, too.
Tavy@ when i first seen there stop makeing sense concert in 1985 a year after it came out. I remember saying to myself and to my pals the next day "that is by far the best music AND concert i have ever seen and heard. No one even comes close to that concert. Its in a leauge of its own" And 35 year later it still is. Talking heads is just sheer class. Genius and then some!!! Its a pity they didnt play on going into the 1990s. I was disappionted they didnt. They had alot more to give! 'stop makeing sense' is my favourite talking heads album. 'more songs about buildings and food' is my second. And 'Little Creatures' is my third.
I saw them in OKC w TomTom Club as the opener. It has always been one of the mist memorable shows I've ever seen. When TH did once in a lifetime Byrne ran around the entire zoo ampitheater dinging the tune. I wish I could see this show again being older . Btw punk was in full swing in OKC there were numerous peeps there w blue,pink etc hair w safety pins through their skin on their face. Even one guy in a full suit w a powder puff face and yellow hair. It was a event for sure.
Great documentary! Back when the Heads were together. There was something joyous about their music! One of the best groups ever! I love seeing the NY hipsters in the crowd trying to decide if they should like this band or not. Are they hip enough? Do they pass the test? Ok, They decided they were cool enough. Now I found out Byrne has Aspergers syndrome which explains a lot about his detached view of the world and some of the lyrics and even his strange stage persona at times. Now it makes total sense although at the time I was perplexed. Stop Making Sense! Exactly! Same as it ever was!
640 TAG Nice to read someone else articulating my own feelings. They just stand out for me, too, as the pinnacle of the greatest movement in ‘rock’. Some called it New Wave, some Punk (late-punk surely, if you listen to the Stooges, or MC-5) but it was when the music became the absolute art-form it could be. I haven’t yet seen anyone to rank alongside TH. To be 16,17,18, as I was when their first albums emerged felt like witnessing the next Renaissance, and Byrne was easily it’s Da Vinci or Buonarroti. I’m glad to say my son is now wearing a ‘Fear of Music’ T-shirt to university, and it feels like it at least had lasting reverberations. But to be young then was very heaven...
Jerry was so much more self-assured than the other three. Tina was and is an utterly beatific marvel of humanity. It's amazing that this doc is pre-massive fame etc. They were already such a buzz. I still marvel how they were so goddamned funky, despite being SO white 😂 even pre-Bernie Worrell
Saw them in '79, in Leicester's De Montford Hall. Their Talking Heads '77 & Fear of Music were hardly off my deck. Even took a few photos that weren't too shabby. Nice to re-visit Fear of Music. A classic album. Great to have a documentary of a band with something to say.
@@davidhoward4715 $7.00 in a nice 2000 seat music hall. B52's first album and Fear of Music was released a month earlier in August by the Talking Heads.
Weymouth, Frantz and Byrne first played under the name The Artistics. They had an idea of “combining conceptual and performance art with popular music (their sound earned them the nickname The Autistics).” Then a friend suggested the name “Talking Heads” lifted from the TV Guide-which appealed as it had no genre defining angle. Dressed in button down shirts, sensible shoes and corduroy in amongst the ripped T-shirts, leather jackets of New York’s punk clubs, Talking Heads was a vision of the future, belonging to no genre or scene, ultimately. This became more than evident through the eight studio albums the band produced between 1977 and 1988. Fear of Music was Talking Heads’ third studio album-a powerful rich and diverse record that was rightly voted album of the year by the NME in 1979. It was also the bridge between More Songs About Buildings and Food (1978) and the gold standard of Remain in Light (1980). A necessary footnote-The South Bank Show has produced many of the greatest arts documentaries of the past five decades-all of which has been under the editorship of producer and presenter Melvyn Bragg, who has been the single most important figure in the dissemination of great artistic culture to all-long may this tradition continue.
Fascinating insights. A band that wanted to appear like joe normal, no rockstar personas, etc. and yet produced some of the most unique one of a kind type music ever.
They wanted to appear "normal" for the irony. Their music presents so-called "normality" as anything but normal. Most of their best loved songs are satires of "normality".
Saw them at the Greek in Berkeley - one of the best rock shows ever. Loved them since their first days back east - where I grew up. All great artists / musicians. Jerry Harrison from The Modern Lovers too. All these years later and all the great times are coming back to me.
One of my favorite bands. I identify with their originality. Thank you Talking Heads for making my life happier with your music and artistic expressions. BTW Jerry is never talked about much, but he is doing awesome things in the San Francisco Bay Area. FYI, Red Crow Equity...crow-funding investments. This is a great video. Thanks Ross Hudson for posting this documentary!:)
Tavy@ the early stuff is brillllliant. The 1978 'more songs about buildings and food' is 1 of the best albums i have ever heard, it is awe some. And iam 46 so in a way it was before my time, so yes that means they were ahead of there time! When i heard 'road to nowhere' i thought now this is class, it was so diffrent from all the 1980s music at that time so i bought the album 'little creatures' with road to nowhere on it. Then when i heard 'stop makeing sense' from 1983 i thinck i have watched it a thousand times and it keeps getting bettttter! After that i bought ALL there albums, they are in a leauge of there own no doubt. Its hard to believe a group like that never got a number 1 album or single. A remember 'road to nowhere' peaked at number 6 in the uk charts and alot of people thought it was a certain to reach number 1 even people that whernt really fans? Sadly it never made it. There was so many great tunes that year and it was really hard to get to number 1 then. A believe jenniffer rushs 'The Power of Love' kept it of number 1 becouse it peaked at number 1 for about 9 weeks a thinck, wich was unheard of then but it was a great song. If it didnt stay for at number 1 for that long a believe 'road to nowhere' would of made it. After 'Little Creatures' wich is there biggest selling album a thinck the band whernt as good after that with there next 2 albums 'True Stories' 1986. And 'Naked' in 1988 but david byrne and talking heads you were a genious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When the past was ambitiously singing about what was then a terrible present and realizing now from this once-considered- the-unknowable future that it was a Golden Age of American creative genius that has never been surpassed and will never come again.
I like how the NY Hipsters were looking at them and trying to decide if they were cool or hip enough to follow. Once they decided they were cool, success was assured. Because the Heads had so many quirky, catchy pop songs. And Psycho Killer was the anchor. That first big hit song that every new band needs to make it big.
Love the stage lights they used for a few years. That bright white light. Gave such an other worldly, transcendentally clinical vibe. Resonated really well with their sound.
to hear the bandmates interviewed u can hear their thoughtfullness and intelligence..hearing david byrne u can tell the genius..hes just on a level above most ppl..me included..thx to whomever produced this and who posted..an excellent snippet of the heads in their heyday...
My first experience with TH music was 2 nights at a club in Toronto in 78. I'd never heard any of their music before that. I went cuz a friend recommended them. I ended up with quite a few TH records over the years. Always preferred them as a 4 piece tho. Also, the Byrne-Eno collaboration, My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts was a real mind warp.
Thanks , just found this and am loving it. David Byrne is genius. He was Talking Heads. I saw The Heads when JH, CF and TW tried to 'recreate' the band . Catastrophic, I did give them credit for getting up on stage and humiliating themselves mind you. I took a younger friend to see the show, they simply did not believe the band was made of most of the Talking Heads. Just look at the post TH output of all four and tell me with a straight face who the real musical and performance artist is. Byrne's American Utopia show was equal to his RIL tour with Jones, McDonald, Belew, Worrell et al. Music and live performance redefined before your eyes. One of the great American artists of the 20th (and now seemingly the 21st) century.
Thanks for posting. I'd never heard of this documentary before. Very interesting point in time for them when they still had a foot in the ooze from which they were formed. I love seeing the germ of a band, and this doc shows it. Later interviews try too hard to explain, to deal with the cognitive dissonance between past and present. When you're there, it isn't necessary.
Have a copy of that book. It is a brilliant assessment of the evolution of music in terms of how it has been created since roughly the Enlightenment period. The idea is that the music has always been made to fit the venue being presented in. Which makes total f'ucking sense If you think about it..
Saw them at Barbarellas in Birmingham on the same tour - astonishing double bill! Many years later I saw David solo in Fort Worth, TX - the best gig I have ever been to. Not many creative forces can last that long.
I remember those days very well, because I first got hooked on Talking Heads in the early '80s as the opening act for the Ramones at club CBGB. I really like the way Tina gets wound up and bounces across the stage with her bass guitar! It reminds me a lot of Nancy Wilson of Heart, in that when she gets wound up, she literally bounces across the stage while playing the guitar...
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Thank god for people who feel the need to document things
@reality check thank you for the reality check, reality check
@reality check yeah lol
Hahahahaha.....yess!! Agree in full! Thank U 🙏
And thank god for the BBC, which gives people money to document things.
Agree!
David’s social awkwardness is such a part of his charm man. This band was literally made up of 4 musical geniuses.
autism*
No…it’s not…just ask his ex band mates.
He's said he has "mild" Asperger's. Explains a lot.
@@petersokol1603 Literally said he's on the spectrum do your research.
He's on the spectrum and it is obvious. Morality, honesty a very dramatic artistic streak that not your average musician has.
Saw them at a wild-ass Halloween party in the gym of an art college in '77. They played essentially the first album. They were new to everyone--I don't think I'd ever heard of them--and the crowd LOVED them. Great experience.
Did you record it on Instagram?
@@Matheus16905 sick burn dude
So jealous.
Same here. Except it was 78 and I saw them at a club in Toronto. I'd never heard their music before those 2 nights. I ended up with quite a few TH albums over the years.
Oh to go back to that night in a Time Machine 🚀
David Byrne.... yet another gift to the world from little 'ol Scotland.
What's the other one?
@@zachbos5108 Angus Young..... :¬)
@@g2macs Indeed! And Malcolm, Bon Scott and lots of other things of course haha
@@zachbos5108 Irn-Bru
@@zachbos5108Jim Kerr, Annie Lennox.
"The Ramones have to wear those leather jackets every time they go out." LOL Being a rocker was a tough life in those days.
I think “Thank you...we’re er...Yep, Yep.” Is almost as good as “does anyone have any questions?” as a sign off.
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lmaoo i laughed my ass off, had to rewind so many times
they are more influential than most people realize nowadays
Not only is this a great band or general pop music history documentary, it's also a great socio-cultural snapshot of what it was like to live in America as the '70s were coming to an end and we were approaching the dawning of the '80s!
looks terrible
@@bluebellbeatnik4945:Well, I didn't say that the resulting portrait was a pretty one
Talent is the ability to hit the target that everybody can see. Genius hits the target that nobody realized existed. Talking Heads=genius.
Meirion Owen way ahead of their time!
Amen
Totally right !
:-) *
I'd be honored if some 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. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Thanks and everyone stay safe.
This is why RUclips is great, what a fabulous doc ;)
What a amazing addition Jerry Harrison was, and how amazing it is to see David progress and learn he has a amazing voice.
“Different people have different ideas”. I vaguely remember those days. Life was better when we respected each other enough to listen.
Speaking in 1979 Byrne says “people getting so worked up about how their coffee is made”. Wait till he finds out what happens next
I know, right? These days we've got people getting worked up about how coffee is made!
Same as it ever was...
Once in a lifetime ! Talking Heads
He must have been talking about the United States, because in 1979 no-one in the UK cared at all how their coffee was made, famously so!
one of the greatest bands of all time
What is really appreciated is that they are intelligent and witty. Not a given in that business.
It's easy to forget how innovative and even radical the Heads were in the late 70s and early 80s. They were like REM in wanting to diverge from the status quo and make their own sound, consciously diverging from the formula that sells albums and singles on FM radio. And in so doing built a huge fan base. Thanks for posting. A real blast from the past.
mentioning posers like REM in the same breath as talking heads is like mentioning phish when talking about the grateful dead. just wrong.
@@guywoodhouse4684 ..someone is musically begoated....
But that's ok, it just shows how much you really understand what's up here. Only us that are musically begoated can see that🤘
@guy woodhouse Such a subjective guy.
@@crapple009 hate to open myself up to the same criticism but I couldn’t agree more with the brow beaten guy.
But I’m gonna blame it on myself - I probably just “don’t get” REM or Phish - I’m sure they are good bands but definitely not on my playlist
@@brianfergus839 If it makes you happy, then it's all good.
I love Tina Weymouth! Underrated bass player.
Not underrated by anyone who knows.
Hell, I’m an underrated commenter and breakfast eater, yet I can live just fine with that.
I don't think she breaks the top 10, but definitely in the top 50.
Hmm. To paraphrase John Lennon responding to being asked if Ringo was the best drummer in the world, Tina is not the best bassist in TH. She couldn't play the instrument at all when she joined the band, she just happened to be Chris Franz's girlfriend. I'm a very poor bassist but I can play TH riffs because they are kept simple to accommodate Tina
@@atakd Three's so much more to being a musician than being technically gifted. There were kids I went to school with that could play Hendrix when they were nine. But where did they end up? I find many incredible musicians really dull. Tina's bass lines are simple and clear. Some of them have motown roots. They drive the rhythm which is what the bass is supposed to do. They are part of what makes Talking Heads unique. It's also her choice of basses and amps and her fingers which are part of the Talking Heads sound. She can also sing and play the bass really well which is NOT easy.
‘Air’ is epic in this fine film.
Air is one great tune
God, they were such a great band. A fantastic gift from a fantastic era that is long gone and not coming back.
"I'm glad we don't have to dress up when we play" David Byrne dresses in a big suit
They were best as a four piece.
I think that was designed for one song and one show in particular
"I'm glad we don't have to dress up in uniforms every day."
@@brianfergus839They were best when they created wholly in the studio and brought their creations to the stage in any form. Their best albums, not design to the performed as only a 4 piece, demonstrate that they were best in that capacity. Remain in Light and Speaking in Tongues are clearly their best and more influential albums. Not geared to be for them 4 only no matter what you want others to believe.
@@cactaceous “More Songs About Buildings and Food”, and “Fear of Music” are clearly their ‘best and most influential records’.
SO far ahead of their time that it is scary and almost a miracle they eventually got the appreciation they deserve!
Honestly, I really have to appreciate Fear of Music. It’s the album that got me into Talking Heads, even making them my favorite band. 🖤💚🖤💚
Holy cow! Western New York!! Looks like home. Wasn't expecting to see Buffalo in this Talking Heads video. I like this.
the lighting in these interviews is superb.
Makes it look very modern
@@Elias-no9fy or post-modern
This is GOLD for Talking Heads fans!!!!
Excellent! Perhaps the best version of Psycho Killer I've ever heard
Massive Talking Heads fan, from the UK and i have never seen that before. That was utterly tremendous. Great stuff - and then they released Remain in Light - WOW. Just WOW
Wonderful footage here. Really awesome to see them at this time of their career, still going at it out of a loft in NYC. Historic in my opinion. Thank you for sharing.
Garreth Boland
I believe that loft/rehearsal space was a spare wing of Tina’s older brother’s loft in Long Island City. Yann Weymouth was, at the time, an architect with I. M. Pei and had done much of the design work on the Mellon Wing of The National Gallery.
In chrus’ book that loft had heat, the first one near CBGB did not, In life during wartime I see david’s breath it’s so cold in that room leading me to think this maybe is the first loft(though much nicer than he describes in the book so maybe it is Yann’s Nextdoor place ?) just a guess
buncha super supernerds! love them.
I was lucky enough to see them three times in Chicago in late 70s. I could sing along with every tune. What a great music time that was. Saw David Johansen three times, too.
Tavy@ when i first seen there stop makeing sense concert in 1985 a year after it came out. I remember saying to myself and to my pals the next day "that is by far the best music AND concert i have ever seen and heard. No one even comes close to that concert. Its in a leauge of its own" And 35 year later it still is. Talking heads is just sheer class. Genius and then some!!! Its a pity they didnt play on going into the 1990s. I was disappionted they didnt. They had alot more to give! 'stop makeing sense' is my favourite talking heads album. 'more songs about buildings and food' is my second. And 'Little Creatures' is my third.
I'm just discovering the music of Talking Heads and I find this. Awesome
How did I get here?
Pure talent, David, pure bloody talent.
"That's not my beautiful car."
❤
Jerry Harrison is my favorite producer, he has a unique sound where it almost sounds like an album is live.
they will deffinitely be remembered in music history
I saw them in OKC w TomTom Club as the opener. It has always been one of the mist memorable shows I've ever seen. When TH did once in a lifetime Byrne ran around the entire zoo ampitheater dinging the tune. I wish I could see this show again being older . Btw punk was in full swing in OKC there were numerous peeps there w blue,pink etc hair w safety pins through their skin on their face. Even one guy in a full suit w a powder puff face and yellow hair. It was a event for sure.
Great documentary! Back when the Heads were together. There was something joyous about their music! One of the best groups ever!
I love seeing the NY hipsters in the crowd trying to decide if they should like this band or not. Are they hip enough? Do they pass the test? Ok, They decided they were cool enough.
Now I found out Byrne has Aspergers syndrome which explains a lot about his detached view of the world and some of the lyrics and even his strange stage persona at times. Now it makes total sense although at the time I was perplexed. Stop Making Sense! Exactly! Same as it ever was!
Imagine this on ITV these days. Or anywhere on Brit TV. My favourite all time band at their very best moment.
640 TAG Nice to read someone else articulating my own feelings. They just stand out for me, too, as the pinnacle of the greatest movement in ‘rock’. Some called it New Wave, some Punk (late-punk surely, if you listen to the Stooges, or MC-5) but it was when the music became the absolute art-form it could be. I haven’t yet seen anyone to rank alongside TH.
To be 16,17,18, as I was when their first albums emerged felt like witnessing the next Renaissance, and Byrne was easily it’s Da Vinci or Buonarroti.
I’m glad to say my son is now wearing a ‘Fear of Music’ T-shirt to university, and it feels like it at least had lasting reverberations.
But to be young then was very heaven...
Dear Suburbia, thanks for being there for us when we need you...
Ha ha. If we paid you, would you live there?
@@mrseal662Yeah, I disagree. Lived in the suburbs. Lived in a city. It depends in people’s personalities.
Jerry was so much more self-assured than the other three. Tina was and is an utterly beatific marvel of humanity. It's amazing that this doc is pre-massive fame etc. They were already such a buzz. I still marvel how they were so goddamned funky, despite being SO white 😂 even pre-Bernie Worrell
This is one of the best things I have seen about my favorite band. Thanks for sharing
Saw them in '79, in Leicester's De Montford Hall. Their Talking Heads '77 & Fear of Music were hardly off my deck. Even took a few photos that weren't too shabby. Nice to re-visit Fear of Music. A classic album. Great to have a documentary of a band with something to say.
Life during wartime is one of my favorite songs of theirs, along with stay up late, burning down the house and take me to the river
I did not expect all this western New York footage. 🥰
Downtown Buffalo!
Saw B52's open for Talking Heads in Houston on Sept.11,1979. GREAT SHOW.
Wow!
@@davidhoward4715 $7.00 in a nice 2000 seat music hall. B52's first album and Fear of Music was released a month earlier in August by the Talking Heads.
just finished the Chris Frantz book and was thinking I need some stuff I haven't seen and boom, here it is. amazing!
Thanks for Bringing this to RUclips
Weymouth, Frantz and Byrne first played under the name The Artistics. They had an idea
of “combining conceptual and performance art with popular music (their
sound earned them the nickname The Autistics).” Then a friend suggested
the name “Talking Heads” lifted from the TV Guide-which appealed as it
had no genre defining angle. Dressed in button down shirts, sensible
shoes and corduroy in amongst the ripped T-shirts, leather jackets of
New York’s punk clubs, Talking Heads was a vision of the future,
belonging to no genre or scene, ultimately. This became more than
evident through the eight studio albums the band produced between 1977
and 1988.
Fear of Music
was Talking Heads’ third studio album-a powerful rich and diverse
record that was rightly voted album of the year by the NME in 1979. It
was also the bridge between More Songs About Buildings and Food (1978) and the gold standard of Remain in Light (1980).
A necessary footnote-The South Bank Show has produced many
of the greatest arts documentaries of the past five decades-all of which
has been under the editorship of producer and presenter Melvyn Bragg,
who has been the single most important figure in the dissemination of
great artistic culture to all-long may this tradition continue.
>their sound earned them the nickname The Autistics
lmfao. what is this from? i need more
Always nice to know some history of the groups evolution. Thanks.
but before they hooked up with Byrne they were the Tom Tom Club, no? I saw them in the Village way back in the 70's
FITZIEBLUE Tina and Chris put together Tom Tom Club later.
Thanks bot.
so glad this is up there aren't many interviews from the fear of music era talking heads
Fascinating insights. A band that wanted to appear like joe normal, no rockstar personas, etc. and yet produced some of the most unique one of a kind type music ever.
They wanted to appear "normal" for the irony. Their music presents so-called "normality" as anything but normal. Most of their best loved songs are satires of "normality".
@@leonardodic3po607 how could I disagree with somebody with such a cool username! :)
"I was the drummer, a glorified manual labourer."
They seem so innocent and pure. I'm surprised looking back and seeing this.
What a great documentary! Styled exactly like the band, with unpretentious, flat beauty, and during the year I first saw them live!
Saw them at the Greek in Berkeley - one of the best rock shows ever. Loved them since their first days back east - where I grew up. All great artists / musicians. Jerry Harrison from The Modern Lovers too. All these years later and all the great times are coming back to me.
Used to hum Life During Wartime while skating to high school, especially the part about burning all my notebooks...
One of my favorite bands. I identify with their originality. Thank you Talking Heads for making my life happier with your music and artistic expressions. BTW Jerry is never talked about much, but he is doing awesome things in the San Francisco Bay Area. FYI, Red Crow Equity...crow-funding investments. This is a great video. Thanks Ross Hudson for posting this documentary!:)
Ophirex....NPR Planet Money episode 951
Tavy@ the early stuff is brillllliant. The 1978 'more songs about buildings and food' is 1 of the best albums i have ever heard, it is awe some. And iam 46 so in a way it was before my time, so yes that means they were ahead of there time! When i heard 'road to nowhere' i thought now this is class, it was so diffrent from all the 1980s music at that time so i bought the album 'little creatures' with road to nowhere on it. Then when i heard 'stop makeing sense' from 1983 i thinck i have watched it a thousand times and it keeps getting bettttter! After that i bought ALL there albums, they are in a leauge of there own no doubt. Its hard to believe a group like that never got a number 1 album or single. A remember 'road to nowhere' peaked at number 6 in the uk charts and alot of people thought it was a certain to reach number 1 even people that whernt really fans? Sadly it never made it. There was so many great tunes that year and it was really hard to get to number 1 then. A believe jenniffer rushs 'The Power of Love' kept it of number 1 becouse it peaked at number 1 for about 9 weeks a thinck, wich was unheard of then but it was a great song. If it didnt stay for at number 1 for that long a believe 'road to nowhere' would of made it. After 'Little Creatures' wich is there biggest selling album a thinck the band whernt as good after that with there next 2 albums 'True Stories' 1986. And 'Naked' in 1988 but david byrne and talking heads you were a genious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Knowledge of David's aspergers is the cement and avenue that starts making sense...
Always loved this band. Watching this old documentary made me remember how much.
When the past was ambitiously singing about what was then a terrible present and realizing now from this once-considered- the-unknowable future that it was a Golden Age of American creative genius that has never been surpassed and will never come again.
Wonderful doco, thanks for uploading it. What a great band they were.
No problem :)
doco?
Love hearing about their process. Such a unique sound its fascinating!
Thank you. I did not see this when I was a young Talking Heads fan.
😷Another band that I utilized for emotional survival, thank you.
You and me both…
I like how the NY Hipsters were looking at them and trying to decide if they were cool or hip enough to follow. Once they decided they were cool, success was assured.
Because the Heads had so many quirky, catchy pop songs. And Psycho Killer was the anchor. That first big hit song that every new band needs to make it big.
Love the stage lights they used for a few years. That bright white light. Gave such an other worldly, transcendentally clinical vibe. Resonated really well with their sound.
Oh man what a find. Never knew this existed. Been a massive heads fan for decades.
Listening to the big country i feel nostalgic, depressing but nostalgic in a good way
THANK YOU VERY MUUUUUUCH 🗣🗣🗣🗣
"congratulations, so what do you plan on doing after high school" 14:31
I've not seen this before. 1979 was the year I discovered them. Thanks for this!
I'm new to this band. Got introduced through Annie Clark of St. Vincent. But as soon as I saw David Byrne writing left-handed, it all made sense^^
to hear the bandmates interviewed u can hear their thoughtfullness and intelligence..hearing david byrne u can tell the genius..hes just on a level above most ppl..me included..thx to whomever produced this and who posted..an excellent snippet of the heads in their heyday...
What a gem, really enjoyed this!
My first experience with TH music was 2 nights at a club in Toronto in 78. I'd never heard any of their music before that. I went cuz a friend recommended them. I ended up with quite a few TH records over the years. Always preferred them as a 4 piece tho. Also, the Byrne-Eno collaboration, My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts was a real mind warp.
Thanks , just found this and am loving it.
David Byrne is genius. He was Talking Heads. I saw The Heads when JH, CF and TW tried to 'recreate' the band . Catastrophic, I did give them credit for getting up on stage and humiliating themselves mind you. I took a younger friend to see the show, they simply did not believe the band was made of most of the Talking Heads. Just look at the post TH output of all four and tell me with a straight face who the real musical and performance artist is. Byrne's American Utopia show was equal to his RIL tour with Jones, McDonald, Belew, Worrell et al. Music and live performance redefined before your eyes. One of the great American artists of the 20th (and now seemingly the 21st) century.
david is so cute omg
1979 - that was the year I saw them play live at Roskilde Festival, Denmark.
Kurt Weill
Thanks for uploading this! Loved Talking Heads all my life and this gave me new insight.
Great to see this again. I’ve not seen it since it was first broadcast.
And you watched it with your one, giant eyeball!
Thanks for posting. I'd never heard of this documentary before. Very interesting point in time for them when they still had a foot in the ooze from which they were formed. I love seeing the germ of a band, and this doc shows it. Later interviews try too hard to explain, to deal with the cognitive dissonance between past and present. When you're there, it isn't necessary.
40 years ago, crazy...
I considered myself a huge TH fan before seeing this, Now I'm Thru The Roof....
This ole music keeps me on top,like Blondie,Ramones,and lots of others,from a tide where tghedre in truth came a new wawe.
Great film ! thx for posting, and no member of the Talking Heads is underrated....!
I just wanted this video to keep going for another hour or so...
Talking Heads in New York in 1979 is about as cool as it could ever get.
This is a time capsule thank you ! 💜
amazing band of all times
thanks DB and TK for making me see, listen and understand "How Music Works"
Have a copy of that book. It is a brilliant assessment of the evolution of music in terms of how it has been created since roughly the Enlightenment period. The idea is that the music has always been made to fit the venue being presented in. Which makes total f'ucking sense If you think about it..
david byrne is such a beautiful human being. his mind is brilliant, and he's adorable
read Franz's book
@@michaelwright8748 no thanks
@@michaelwright8748 he and weymouth have lost all credibility with the shit theyve said about people (especially david) over the years
Kudos to whoever took and compiled the footage of Lewiston, NY. A place where I grew up. Great shots. Captured it well; along with wny in general.
One of my all time favorite groups-very smart and cool 😎
Fantastic doc - thank you so much!
Glad you liked it
I saw The Talking Heads , with the Ramones the year before this, in London.
The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads
Saw them at Barbarellas in Birmingham on the same tour - astonishing double bill! Many years later I saw David solo in Fort Worth, TX - the best gig I have ever been to. Not many creative forces can last that long.
u mean 2 years before; 1977
Have always appreciated the Talking Heads- David with his blank 1,000 yd. stare while performing, and Tina has always been just naturally sexy!!
I remember those days very well, because I first got hooked on Talking Heads in the early '80s as the opening act for the Ramones at club CBGB. I really like the way Tina gets wound up and bounces across the stage with her bass guitar! It reminds me a lot of Nancy Wilson of Heart, in that when she gets wound up, she literally bounces across the stage while playing the guitar...
Wow that is a gem of a doco. Thx so much for uploading.
This was a most splendid watch, thx for upping
No worries :)
What A wonderful * documentary :-) Thank you so much Ross Hudson for taking the time to share * Sending well wishes from Scotland