The brilliance of The Talking Heads Stop Making Sense

Pure fucking joy Emanating from the stage the entire performance

I watch this film once a year. Never gets old.

I was tripping the first time I saw it. WOW.

You may find yourself living in a shotgun shack😘

It’s on quello

I could live without Tina’s crab walk. However, this is the greatest live male performance in history!

This big suit and the red hat he puts on during take me to the river takes on a whole new meaning in this day and age

You can’t beat this

brian eno's greatest achievement

Ugh - I will never get The Talking Heads. The “music” pains my ears. I don’t care if it’s smart - it sounds like crap.

This performance is brilliance r10! Not a fan other than this specific performance

R10 is worse than Melania

The infectious "Cities" should have made it into the movie/onto the album. But that doesn't take away from its perfection.

Talking Heads.

Talking Heads.

The name of this band is Talking Heads.

Never say "THE Talking Heads"

Always say "Talking Heads."

I saw the show live at Forest Hills.

Jealous?

this AIN'T NO PARTY!

Of what, r15? Your liver spots? Your Sciatica?

seeing the show

It's too bad that their split was so acrimonious. Do they still hate each other after all of these years?

If you haven't seen it yet, watch the "Test Pattern" episode of Documentary Now which is a parody of sorts of the band and their documentary.

Tina and David will certainly never work together again

[quote]brian eno's greatest achievement

I love this movie, but Brian Eno had nothing to do with it.

I saw that concert twice live! An amazing pair of nights, one of my favorite music concerts ever.

R21, Brian Eno made the band entirely out of whole cloth. He produced nearly everything they did. When he helped them form they didn’t known the first thing about playing their instruments, they were all design majors in college.

Suspect you're trolling, but Eno collaborated with them on three albums from 1978-80. He had nothing to do with them forming, this tour/film, or the album it was supporting (Speaking in Tongues). You might as well say he invented David Bowie.

He had everything to do with them forming. And yes, he inventing David Bowie too.

They’re all still healthy and relatively young(ish), it’s a shame they seem like they won’t work together again. That would be an epic reunion tour.

They tried it and it didn’t work out.

David Byrne continues to do all kinds of music projects that have nothing to do with Brian Eno. His podcast mixes are fun.

I like the idea of Talking Heads but I don't really care for their music. And I love the music of Brian Eno and other eclectic artists like Laurie Anderson and all of Mike Patton's bands and collaborations, but not Talking Heads.

Byrne and Weymouth both seem like pieces of work - from reading different bio's of the band.

Yes, both difficult artistes

I saw this at a midnight showing when I was in college. My friend and I decided to go see it on a lark. Neither of us was particularly a fan of Talking Heads. But we thought it would be a fun film to watch because of David Byrne's quirkiness. And "Burning Down the House" was all over the radio and MTV at the time. By the end of the film, I was a fan. When we walked out of the theater, it had started snowing. A light dusting coated the cars and the parking lot. Thirty-five years later, I still remember the feeling of that moment.

A bit much.

Away from Talking Head Tina (and Chris) have made consistently better music than David.

Talking Heads are one of my favourite bands, but solo David Byrne is boring as shit.

I love "red MOmo"

Doesn't Byrne have a touch of the Asp?

Nope, just weird

I just FF’d myself and not in a good way 😰

The unofficial theme song for half of DL's threads:

[quote]Doesn't Byrne have a touch of the Asp?

Yep.

Here's the entire Demme film. It's very fun how song by song they added band members onstage.

I’m truly delighted

Always bugged me that Heaven in Stop Making Sense shows only David and Tina onstage but there are backing vocals on the track and no one on stage singing them.

(Yes I know they could be off-stage, but it's still odd...)

Showbiz

The brilliance of Once in a Lifetime

YES! The best! It never ever gets old. Brilliant!

[quote] I saw the show live at Forest Hills. Jealous?

Not really. I met the whole band and have the movie poster signed by them.

Especially not really; I smoked a bowl with Jerry at Nell's.