Talking Heads | Air | 1979
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- Опубликовано: 19 сен 2024
- On the 3rd of August 1979, one of my favorite albums was released, Talking Heads "Fear of Music". This video synchs footage from the 1979 South Bank Show Documentary on Talking Heads, to Air from the Fear of Music album.
Much of the Fear of Music album was recorded at Chris Frantz's and Tina Weymouth's apartment. On April 22 and May 6, 1979, a mobile recording van, manned by a sound engineering crew, parked outside Chris and Tina’s apartment, and ran cables through their loft window. On these two days, Talking Heads recorded the basic tracks for the album, with Brian Eno co-producing.
I was curious to know if the apartment where the band rehearse in the 1979 The South Bank Show Documentary on Talking Heads, is the same one they recorded Fear of Music. In 2019, I asked Chris Frantz:
• Nacho: Hi Chris, the Southbank Show documentary, shot in August 1979, I believe. Is it where the album was recorded; Tina and yours apartment?
• Chris: “Yes. This is the loft where Tina and I lived and the band rehearsed at 9-01 44th Drive in Long Island City New York. We recorded FEAR OF MUSIC there using the Record Plant Mobile.”
• Nacho: I assumed that was so, thanks for confirming, Chris. I guess you must have had very tolerant neighbors?
• Chris: Yes we did.
This is my third (and final) video edited from the brilliant 1979 Talking Heads Southbank Show documentary. Everything about the doc is great - the intelligent interviews, the lighting and photography, and especially the footage of the band playing live and in rehearsal.
In the documentary, the performance of Air is incomplete and moreover, most of the music is obscured by talking. Since the band are rehearsing a track from Fear of Music, in the very same space they recorded it just a few months prior, this video just had to happen… And the intro is a tribute to Chris and Tina’s very tolerant neighbors!
Thanks for watching, I hope you dig it!
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Credits
Video Source:
The South Bank Show Documentary on Talking Heads | Season 3, Episode 4 | Shot in August 1979 | Produced and Directed by Geoff Dunlop | Edited by Tony Webb | Broadcast on 23 December 1979
Audio Source:
Talking Heads | Air | from the album Fear of Music | Produced by Brian Eno and Talking Heads | Released 3 August 1979
Talking Heads | Air (Rehearsal) | The South Bank Show Documentary on Talking Heads | Mixed by Frank Gallagher
Musicians:
David Byrne | Vocals, guitar
Chris Frantz | Drums
Tina Weymouth | Bass
Jerry Harrison | Guitar, vocals
The Sweetbreaths | Backing vocals
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This song is everything that made Talking Heads great-- surreal and vaguely sinister, with a riveting outro.
Tina’s bassline is immense !
Tina troll right on queue.
Right? First thought man.
6 "thumbs down" are people who've never had experience with air.
Agreed. Fear Of Music is one of the best albums ever.
oddly on-point during these days of Covid-19.
YEP....some people don't know Shit about AIR........Pets by PORNO FOR PYROS is another great COVID song
I don't know about "Pets," or which side of the fence you are on but I interpret the lyrics of "Air" as the perspective of a hypochondriac or germaphobe. I've read David Byrne has shown symptoms of autism and even schizophrenia, both conditions known for (but not necessarily defined by) irrational thoughts, attitudes, and fears.
I guess from that angle, I agree
Wonderful! Has it really been 40 years? I remember getting together with my friends to smoke up and listen to the new Talking Heads album as soon as we got our hands on it! Hanging on every note...
The Eno is very strong on this album.
YEP.....hard to believe 40 years.........this song features Tina's two sisters as back-up singers - the sisters called themselves the Sweetbreaths then......this song was basically the beginning of the Tom Tom Club
The Eno is *always* strong
yes - damn it
@@rebjiii I knew Tina’s sisters sang backup on this track, and performed on theTom Tom Club album, but had no idea they had named themselves The Sweetbreaths. Fascinating, thank you.
Air by Talking Heads & Pets by Porno for Pyro's are my 2 favorite pandemic songs. Happy new year. Good riddance to 2021.....2020 was was a brutal year. The feckless Biden regime found ways to make 2021 even worse. Let's go Brandon!!
Tina you deserved to be treated like the queen by the boys.
That bassline is the quintessence of the Heads
I had the pleasure of seeing this band on tour promoting this album. The crowd went nuts over "I Zimbra".
Fabuleuse. Talking Heads are splendid, Tina Weymouth especially. I think David Byrne succeeded in writing haunting melodies...
"Where is the protection that I needed? / Air can hurt you too." Thanks for posting this.
Saw this tour in santa cruz, what a show. B-52s opened. Memories
THAT BASS! MY GOD!
Not bad considering Tina is playing a cheapie Fender Musicmaster student bass. Love the heart shaped tuners on this version. Ibanez used them on the Blazer bass in the late 70’s
really??????
@@andyronayne7947 I always thought it was the Mustang, you're correct. I think those are tapewounds maybe LaBellas she's using, I'm told the pickups are literally Strats.
"Once in a Lifetime" has always been my favorite Talking Heads song. Since I really started listening this song however, I'm absolutely in doubt about my favorite. I think it's such a masterpiece.
I,well,remember,buying,this.GREAT,restoration.Can,you,do,Heaven.If,there,are,any,Visuals
Played Fear of Music loads back in the day and, like all great music, the songs still sound as good as they ever did. Love the solo at the end of this great song.
i was fourteen, it was 1979! and now i-wanna-go-back-in-time~
I dont underatand how anyone can dislike this, so luch effort without asking anything in return, thanks nacho, love your vids ♥️
Love this. Could be my fav Heads album. Wonderful footage.
Yes Mark. It's hard to choose between Fear and Remain. Buildings is a beauty too. I do love the album titles greatly. Some hidden meanings in them all
2020, coronavirus, the world in crisis, air can hurt you too, aaaaiiir!
very fitting for today....some people dont' know shit about AIR
@@rebjiii to be fair to them, they never had experience
YEP.....its the perfect PANDEMIC song
Be careful if you get packaging with those air bubbles. Never pop em because most come from China. 😣
The Nacho Effect ❤
Takes you back to that space and time with a 5th dimensional view!
Excellent as always Nacho. Love this album and song.
Three cheers for Chris's and Tina's neighbors. Jolly good sports! They may remain nameless but history should recognize what they inadvertently helped contribute to music. 😘
Air can hurt you you too. Especially if you live on another planet!
So glad I read the description beforehand so I could rly appreciate your ingenious editing of the doc footage! Amazing work, thank u so much for putting this together!
Scotland’s finest. 🏴
Always loved Talking Heads for their simplicity in their lyrics and things that are mundane but important at the same time.. What can I say? its the Air!
Thank you Nacho for another great video. I hadn't heard this song in a long time and had forgotten how great it was. It's pretty cool that you actually talked to Chris Frantz to confirm details about its recording. Thanks again, I love your channel.
Excellent video indeed. Loved The Heads at the time of this album. Yes, huge Eno influence. They were magnificent live. I love the album title Fear of Music. At least one hidden message in there.
As if we were there! Thank you!
Fantastic NACHO.. THX..
It brings back 'Memories'. Seeing David here is wonderful. Saw him a few months ago on his solo tour. A real iconic band. Thanks a lot Nacho
Still haunting after all these years....even more so now....
Nachooooo!!!!! You rock!!!!
Wow,Nacho- all the great& rare Bowie footage,& now Talkin'heads2- you're awesome,nu Tn. subscriber Dargo Mike.
Te quiero Nacho, gracias.
Never seen this before. I'm 2 parts bewildered and 2 parts smiling like a bastard. Thanks OP.
I live in SF. Today, the skies was red and no sun all day. Air....................................
Thanks so much, great to see this! Fear of music is indeed a very special album.
Always a nice surprise to see what you come up with...!
Love the little advertising coda you added to it.
I just discovered this tonight. What a gift from the past.
Thank you, Nacho!
Fantastic. Nice vid for my 40th this week 🎂
Marvelous!
Tina rockin the Fender Musicmaster Bass!
your videos are always unquestionably extraordinary
Lu Vi thank you for saying that, I really appreciate it xo
I could not have said otherwise! .. all your videos are masterpieces, and a paradise of hearing! ... you are the best in the field @@NachoVideo
Thank you ! What a treasure to the fans
Lovely quality air Nacho
I often think about how easy videos like this could just be lost to time, and what all ready has been lost that we don’t even know about
This is not a video from way back when. I only put it together a couple of years ago.
Another gem you have given us once again Nacho. Thanks man !
Never saw this music video before: thought I'd seen them all. Discovered the album in '81, just after getting hooked on Remain in Light. David says he was inspired by Kurt Weill, but achieved a sound more like Ben Burtt's Forbidden Planet. Great find, even if the flying saucer is missing. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for commenting. You never saw this video before, because it didn’t exist until I made it a few years ago. It’s been assembled from fragments originating in a 1979 TH documentary.
@@NachoVideo Well and wisely edited. I used footage from The Lady Don't Mind video (among others) when making one for The Overload, so recognised the studio, if not the footage.
Wat blijft dit schandalig goed. Deze album heeft voor mij veel betekend toen ik die voor 't eerst hoorde.
This is art!
wow...excellent.
Brilliant
..Brilliaint.....
You’re just missing out on all the fun (9/4/79)
Fear Of Music is very likely my favorite album. But there's so great songs on other albums too, it's just that for me personally, FOM happens to have the largest amount of "HECK YES, aight let's listen to this song for 300 times in a row"-level songs.
Wow, a video. Haven't heard this song for 40 years.
Tina positively owns that bass.
The Great Canadian Smokeout June 2023 brought me here.
this whole Corona Virus fear led me here... worry about the air!
some people dont know shit about AIR
horror...horror...such unique song
Such a unique band!
David's like the Sheldon Cooper of music!
This hurt me a little bit..
I wonder if his mother had him tested? (TBBT reference)
No, all Scots go that way when they migrate to the USA...😢
on point as always. Thank you. Classic period of a class band. Great song and you can audibly hear Eno pushing their limits :)
mit5400 thank you.
An amazing period for Eno collaborations. To name a few:
Jan / Feb 78 Devo Are We Not Men?
March / April 78 T Heads More Songs
September / 78 Bowie Lodger
April May / 79 T Heads Fear of Music
@@NachoVideo except I don't rate Lodger. Not in my top Bowie Albums.
@@NachoVideo all 4 are monumental albums. I love Lodger as Adrian Belew is superb. He received Guitar Player Magazine award as The World's Premier Electric Guitarist. I had just seen Bowie's stunning 78 show with Adrian setting the world on fire. Lodger is unique.
Doug BM me too. Red Sails and Look Back in Anger, are superb, IMO. 3 or 4 others are good too. And then there are tracks in it, I don’t like at all. Certainly not a top Bowie album.
Danny Miles agree with you on the tour, Danny. Tho unfortunately I didn’t see the show myself.
Been singing this in my head a lot over the past 3 years. I can’t imagine why 🙄🤷♂️ 😷😂🤡🌎 .. Great Version!
A shame the focus on the band ended at the best moment - the epic, tortured guitar solo. Oh well...
Thank you for including the FOM radio commercial!
Thanks Nacho Video.
Sommer 1981 oder 82 mit dem VW Bus von Deutschland über Frankreich, Spanien, Portugal und wieder zurück. 5000 km oder so. Talking Heads 'Fear Of Music' und das erste Album Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. Und Schwarzer Marokkaner 🙂
Thanks for posting this👍
This song started going through my head the other day
I think about this song every time I look in the mirror
Very contemporary today.
love this video version, thanks for sharing
Great!!😄😄
Ahh, Tina Weymouth here reminds me that Tom McCann shoes were all the rage this year...
Mark Andresen : Yes those were the happening shoes 👞 I’m done 😂
Amazing job editing, I find these collages very well done and inspiring
There's 2/3 of the Tom Tom Club's singers!
Wenisimoooo
Muy buen video nacho, excelente calidad.
Wow! You created that video of Air. A beautiful piece of work. Fear of Music is one of my favourite albums - definitely Talking Heads best - I would love to see more videos of songs from it. The footage from Chris and Tina's apartment is priceless. OMG how cool they all are in that super cool loft space. I am just reading Remain in Love so its great to see the apartment. Do you have any more footage of the soace and TH from this time - 1979 - their peak in my opinion? Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Nacho, You are the nazz!
Cool as hell this one is.
Pretty sure that’s Tina’s sister 'breathing sweet' here, please correct me if I’m mistaken.
Bonus points for being able to ask Chris to confirm the address, btw.
Thanks for all you do for us!
Indeed it was her sister.
.......then came Covid 19 and we worried about the Air
does he say "I'd been listening to a lot of Kurt Vile"
He means Kurt Weill (pronounced like “Vile”), a German musical theatre composer from the early 20th century.
@@orwellson thank you for that
@@orwellson I was so confused by this and was combing the comments for an explanation, lol. Thank you!
"Talking Heads have a new album - it's called "Fear of Music'"
i invite you to check out my ukulele version of Air
ruclips.net/video/Snb-Vqqw4oE/видео.html
if u never say this band live uve missed out
🖤
Is David playing Jerry’s black strat from Stop Making Sense?
Here’s Neneh Cherry at 5:48 telling she used to live in the same building and that, of all the musicians that rehearsed there, Arthur Russell included, Talking Heads were the loudest of them all: ruclips.net/video/0Alv6XQzYHs/видео.html
A very brilliant re-edit of the TH South Bank Show's bits and bobs into an excellent video for "Air". Tacking on the "Fear of Music" radio ad at the end was especially inspired.
As for the South Bank doc, it really is a great way to get to know the band at that time, and see glimpses into what they would become. I also noticed how Warholian DB's conversational style was, almost a studied banality with a hint of folksie charm. Was that a post NYC affect or was it his pre-established persona.
ruclips.net/video/ig38LXSaerE/видео.html
this song features Tina's two sisters as back-up singers - Tina's sisters called themselves the Sweetbreaths then......this song was basically the start of the Tom Tom Club
5 thumbs down - wtf - one is too many!
Air give me some air
How many people watching this in 2020, with a mask on?
Why is the dog at 3:20 being dropped from a window?
Because the house was burning down?
@@christwinam2103 Ohhhhh, I see now. Thanks.
Who does he mention at 0:17 ?
Who does David Byrne mention at the beginning? Sounds like he says Kurt Vile but considering he was born in 1980, I'm guessing that's not right, haha.
Logan Slone Kurt Weill
@@NachoVideo thank you!
Tina''
who was the young lady singing with tina??
One of her sisters
0:17 what did he mention he was listening to?
Edwin Montesinos Kurt Weill
Sounds like he said : Kurt Vile
@@dianal.5223 That's what I heard the first time :p
Whats the name of this talking heads song.?
Air
What kind of vinyl was he listening to?
Kurt Weill
Im not sure if this is what you were asking about but I’m pretty sure during the documentary that this comes from that they actually put on the fear of music record (that they had literally just released) because they were trying to learn all of their parts to play live at their upcoming tour. You can see the fear of music record sleeve leaning up against the bookcase next to the record player.