Talking Heads

In the late 1990s, Weymouth even reportedly called several old friends in the middle of the night to tell them that Byrne had a “baby penis.”

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Andy Partridge has since claimed in a tweet that it was he, not Weymouth, who made these calls.

on "Morning Joe" yesterday Donald Trump in his call-in segment admitted to doing it iirc

btw while googling for that link i found that the Rolling Stone review of Little Creatures says Byrne "cackles with delight in appreciation of a sleeping baby's penis"

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/little-creatures-19850815

maybe he stole that baby's penis. maybe that's what Tina meant.

Reunion rumors...

i was wondering if something was going to happen at that benefit for bernie worrell last month. i think jerry harrison and david byrne were present.

I am as confused as anyone that that link heads to this one: http://en.mediamass.net/people/talking-heads/new-album.html

Which has on it this:

UPDATE 04/05/2016 : This story seems to be false. (read more)

Which links to this:

http://en.mediamass.net/blog/mediamass-project

Which states this:

The website mediamass.net is the medium of our satire to expose with humour, exaggeration and ridicule the contemporary mass production and mass consumption that we observe.

Also it will not only mock the producers (mainstream media, journalists) as it is common when questioning and criticizing mass media, but also the consumers as one cannot exist without the other. Sensationalism, lack of verification of information, ethics and standards issues are only symptoms of the actual social and economic order. This is particularly obvious when observing the role of social networking sites in spreading rumours.

Our ‘People’ section
Our website is very new (launched back at the end of October 2012) and still under construction. The ‘People’ section the only active one.

The concept is to select the most typical, representative and recurrent articles across Gossip magazines and to make them available for all the celebrities in our database. The ‘People’ section is a humorous parody of Gossip magazines, all stories are obviously not true.

Thus thousands of celebrities, Bill Gates in USA, Zhang Ziyi in China, Ranbir Kapoor in India, etc. all have a dog called “Spinee” recovering from successful surgery.

We won’t change the world, but at least we'll laugh trying.

Our project is still in its early stages. If you have any questions, comments or ideas or want to join the team please feel free to contact us.

Is this clickbait posing as satire?

http://www.snopes.com/2016/01/14/fake-news-sites/

This is really cool...

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0h..ADOTysST5cQ1h5k1axMTu0La?dl=0

Nothing there ...

did they break up

This ain't no dropbox

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0hhketqtmuob7me/AADOTysST5cQ1h5k1axMTu0La

Apologies, try this.

pre-Jerry, whoa, 75 or 76?

Cool from an archival perspective. tbqh if I'd seen that band, I would have said, "hmm, interesting," but I would not have been transfixed, nor would I have been able to foresee the lush riches to come.

this is awesome, thanks for sharing Maresn3st. its even in stereo! i think theres a clip from this on that "Chronology" DVD, but never seen the whole thing.

Whoa! Thanks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNZHGrDRb9E

Love that. Belew has stupid pants and Tina may have been the coolest person on the planet

entire band reuniting for the first time in however many years at TIFF with a Q&A moderated by Spike Lee

this will be a mess, I must be there

I should be clear, they're not performing, unless them pretending to get along at the Q&A is a performance in itself

they're performing their affinity

This ain't no party

no time for lovey dovey

We got computers

when was the last time they appeared together, the rock & roll hall of fame?

I don't blame Byrne. Frantz-Weymouth have been dicks, provoking him into reacting. Harrison still has a relationship with him.

Frantzmouth

ChrisTina

James Brown

Byrne vetoed extremely lucrative offers to reunite after the RnR HoF thing. I thought Chris' book was a bit more biting than I would have guessed, but I seriously doubt this Q and A will be anything other than polite.

I don't understand why Talking Heads, Field Mice, and other bands like that don't reunite. Just shut-up for 6 months, do a big tour, make bazillions of dollars and stop struggling to put out increasingly poor music in your old age. Just take the money and relax. It's infuriating. They have the ability to make tens of millions within a year, but they have to be ego maniacs.

...

the plot of Sing 3

Just take the money and relax.

Seems like they all have money and are relaxing.

Since none of us know more than what the members of Talking Heads have said publicly, it’s likely there’s other issues at play. We’re not entitled to know what those issues are any more than we’re entitled to a reunion of people who personally dislike each other and/or otherwise wouldn’t enjoy said reunion.

On the one hand, I'd love to see a reunion tour.

On the other hand, it would probably be sad and uninspired. I'd be thinking the whole time of the chance I passed up in high school (ca. 1982) to see them at Red Rocks.

yeah as much as i'd love to shell out $200+ to sit at an arena and watch 4 people in their 70s some of whom hate each other sleepwalk through the greatest hits i'm fine with them choosing not to do that

backstage? more like still not talking heads

I don’t remember the context, but I’d gone my entire life assuming that Wordy was a send-up of Crosseyed, and a kind of cruel bit of idk “intellect shaming”, that much of that TTC album was made from a place of intense bitterness about Remain In Light

And then I saw a more-recent (90s? 00s?) interview where Weymouth was talking in measured and palpably rehearsed terms about how the lyrical genesis for Wordy came when she was walking down the beach and just contemplating “words” as a concept, and it felt so… remediary? Like she was trying to “oh, no, how silly of you all to think I was making fun of David” at that moment.

It could just be all my own interpretations and projections but I didn’t like it! and if Byrne is not-so-desirous about a reunion, combined with that Heads stuff, I’m not at all surprised I guess

i don't get the impression that byrne was totally innocent or anything but frantz & weymouth have been so publicly vicious regarding him for decades that i can hardly blame him for not wanting anything to do with them, especially when he seems comfortable enough with his solo career

i'd absolutely go see a reunion show but i wouldn't really have much in the way of expectations and the r&r hof set 20 years ago was pretty dire.

A year or two back I saw Harrison/Belew perform Remain In Light en totale (with Turkuaz filling in for the rest of the band) and it was wayyyyy better than anticipated. Adrian is such an absolute godhead, an absolute thrilling musician to watch. Harrison sang so much that it made me reconsider that a lot of the vocals on RIM seem to be a blend of David/Jerry/Eno layered on top of each other. He was not just aping the songs, he really was singing them as if they were his songs (nb: I never saw TH in their peak artistic period).

Yeah I literally texted earlier tonight that I felt that Belew’s stint with TH was the finest collab in his long career of fine collabs

I would add "Genius Of Love" to the above which seems fair.

Unless Byrne finds out he's lost all of his money in a Ponzi scheme, I doubt a reunion will ever happen.

The idea that The Field Mice could make bazillions of dollars by reforming is entertaining.

Inner sleeve of the Heads' album is fun
https://i.discogs.com/4w_sjLhgdJ9erjyaA7UIwh791ErRPtgEisEzbVOwfMk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:592/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM4NzY3/OS0xNDg1Nzk4MDcw/LTg4NzAuanBlZw.jpeg

Cover connection
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/718hsTLSqlL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg

Wow that is ugly

Lol JiC

yea I've heard that Harrison/Belew show ruled and from the clips i've seen it's way better than any TH reunion would be