http://www.youtube.com/v/dE-mxVxFXLg
― Here is a tasty coconut. Sorry for my earlier harshness. (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link
hmm dunno why that didn't embed correctly...?
it is amazing
― Here is a tasty coconut. Sorry for my earlier harshness. (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i love it.
also great, from 2 years previous:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JswceATzBHU
for anyone who cares the whole never-repeated-and-unavailable-on-dvd-or-vhs film 'once in a lifetime' made for channel 4 UK telly is also up on You Tube in full. from user http://www.youtube.com/user/33threekings
much as i love them i never quite understand how they got so big so fast, like i mean WEMBLEY big.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 20:58 (fourteen years ago) link
whoah totally don't recognize that song - was there ever a studio version of that?
― Here is a tasty coconut. Sorry for my earlier harshness. (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 21:01 (fourteen years ago) link
It's on The Catherine Wheel, which you should really buy, Shakey; it's Byrne's best solo album. The home of "Big Business" and "What A Day That Was."
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
The old-fashioned way: each album outsold its predecessor, until they scored a top ten single in 1983 and boom.
oh right! shit I have been on a huge Byrne/TH kick lately and completely forgot to dig that one up - thx for the reminder
― Here is a tasty coconut. Sorry for my earlier harshness. (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 21:32 (fourteen years ago) link
this is my favourite movie i own. i think i've almost wept whilst watching it at points. it's when you realise that there are 9 people playing the most awesomahj, funkiest, tightest, most powerful music of the 80s AND dancing choreographically AND singing AND probably all high on all kinds of chalky substances. The bit when Byrne takes off and runs full pelt round the stage during the breakdown of (I think it's "Life During Wartime"), and just manages to get back and catch his breath before the big finale. The bit where he looks like Dracula waking up in "Swamp". The incredible mic-stand tricks. The jerky dance during "Psycho Killer". Fucking "Cross-Eyed And Painless".
Lots of people tell me that it's a flawed film because, I don't know, they say parts of it might be dubbed or edited. I don't listen to em.
― village idiot (dog latin), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
btw, piscesx whatever you linked to, it wasn't "Once In A Lifetime", it was some house music
― village idiot (dog latin), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 21:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Lots of people tell me that it's a flawed film because, I don't know, they say parts of it might be dubbed or edited.
So how are other films made then?
this is my favourite movie i own. i think i've almost wept whilst watching it at points. it's when you realise that there are 9 people playing the most awesomahj, funkiest, tightest, most powerful music of the 80s AND dancing choreographically AND singing AND probably all high on all kinds of chalky substances.
I won't say it's my favorite movie, but when it's on it feels like my favorite movie.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
it's definitely one of my favorite live movies.
even though it contains legwarmers
― Here is a tasty coconut. Sorry for my earlier harshness. (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
dog latin, the doc clips are in that users videos. scroll down.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 22:08 (fourteen years ago) link
― village idiot (dog latin), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 22:37 (29 minutes ago) Bookmark
no that's the user who has the movie. u gotta search his files in the bit that says 'search' on the right then they all come up neatly. or alternatively just search Talking Heads Wembley on You Tube.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 22:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Getting ready to see this at a free screening in a city park amphitheater!
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 15 August 2014 01:20 (nine years ago) link
have the best time! seeing this at the bagdad, dancing in the aisles and down at the front etc, was a high point of my portland tenure. unspeakably beautiful movie.
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 15 August 2014 01:39 (nine years ago) link
Best film of '84.
I saw this for the hundredth time 11 years ago at a beach screening. People took their shoes off and danced on the sand.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 August 2014 01:41 (nine years ago) link
It was wonderful! The venue also hosts live music fairly often (the Lowrider Band--aka 4/5s of the surviving members of War--is appearing tomorrow) so got the audio pumped through a full concert P.A. which is really the only way to fly with something like this.
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 15 August 2014 04:05 (nine years ago) link
would love to see it through a concert PA, sounds amazing.
the Laserdisc is meant to have the best version of the soundtrack. anyone ever hear that?
― piscesx, Friday, 15 August 2014 08:08 (nine years ago) link
any uk screenings we know of?
― 3kDk (dog latin), Friday, 15 August 2014 09:50 (nine years ago) link
seems Leeds is the only one so far. check this
The Victoria Hall’s normal stall seating will be replaced with new festival-style seating especially for the occasion, to create a relaxed and celebratory atmosphere, and there will be a range of drinks from different vendors to choose from. Once in a Lifetime will feature the UK Premiere of a brand new digital print of the legendary Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense (1984)
http://www.leedsfilm.com/news/liff28-presents-lifetime/
― piscesx, Friday, 15 August 2014 10:29 (nine years ago) link
sounds absolutely lovely although Leeds is a bit of a trek from where I'm standing. Hopefully they'll do something a bit further down south.
― 3kDk (dog latin), Friday, 15 August 2014 10:33 (nine years ago) link
They've been screening this at SIFF Uptown in Seattle. Wife and I took a friend of ours to see it for the first time. Took about four songs until everyone was clapping and hollering, though the TTC sure put a temporary stop to things. Seeing this through a concert PA must be a revelation.
I would love to see a double feature with True Stories.
― Ryan, Friday, 15 August 2014 18:08 (nine years ago) link
rewatched last night
big suit was not as big as i thought
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 20:50 (seven years ago) link
DB apologises for wearing blackface in the self-interview on the DVD
https://www.stereogum.com/2096802/david-byrne-blackface-apology-stop-making-sense-promo-video/news/
I wonder what the clip was actually used for. EPKs? Maybe broadcast on MTV one night? I know I’d never heard of the clip before the DVD reissue of the film in the late 90s.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 22:56 (three years ago) link
If the suit still fits… This year, we’re bringing Jonathan Demme’s groundbreaking 1984 Talking Heads concert film STOP MAKING SENSE (newly remastered in 4K!) back to theaters worldwide. #StopMakingSense2023 pic.twitter.com/Kh2Nevaf2X— A24 (@A24) March 16, 2023
― city worker, Thursday, 16 March 2023 15:25 (one year ago) link