Talking Heads

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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.

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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

https://variety.com/2023/music/news/david-byrne-regrets-talking-heads-split-little-tyrant-1235698801/?fbclid=IwAR1P0_hmGNzXS0mZZxGd1lOx3yelv3iGZTX0MyKDPQ_Ie7y-N0cLDglR92k

“I think [the end] wasn’t handled well,” he concluded. “It was kind of ugly.”

The other members of the group — cofounders Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth (who are married) and keyboardist-guitarist Jerry Harrison — have spoken out often about Byrne’s behavior; Frantz in particular took several shots at him in the 2020 memoir “Remain in Love.” He has long said that he read in a newspaper that Byrne had decided to leave the band, after nearly 20 years and eight albums.

Byrne says now, “I have regrets on how that was handled. I don’t think I did it in the best way, but I think it was kind of inevitable that would happen anyway,” he says. “We have a cordial relationship now. We’re sort of in touch, but we don’t hang out together.”

I feel like Byrne has delivered more than his fair share of mea culpas at this point...

"Mistakes were made"

I mean it's not like someone was murdered

i feel like frantz/weymouth have always been like "david sucks, we hate him! why won't he reunite the band???"

they should put together a documentary though.

I've always thought Tina was cool af, since their first appearance on SNL. Chris, on the other hand, seems like a dolt.

over the last 5 years byrne's career seems to be about as big as its ever been post-TH, even without the acrimony its hard to imagine he'd want to spend his remaining summers plodding through "take me to the river" at festival gigs.

the rrhof performance was the final nail in the coffin for me with that stuff, it was really terrible, i wouldnt leave the house to see the 20-years-older version of that band doing the same songs.

I've always thought Tina was cool af, since their first appearance on SNL. Chris, on the other hand, seems like a dolt.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux)

She's cool af when addressing anything unrelated to David Byrne, at which point she's unendurable.