Sequel is That's Us/Wild Combination
― Tim F, Thursday, 4 April 2013 13:55 (ten years ago) link
yeah the Rauschenberg sleeve always looks like someone's been smoking near it for 2 decades whenever i've seen it.
oh and by the way, if you fancy a This Must Be The Place T shirt, it's a bargain at £125
http://www.oki-ni.com/accessories/undercover-men-s-this-must-be-the-place-print-t-shirt-und1629blu.html
― piscesx, Thursday, 4 April 2013 14:30 (ten years ago) link
I have the Raucshenberg edition as well and can confirm the plastic is yellowed and not that user friendly. Still cool to have. Pull Up The Roots almost got my vote.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 4 April 2013 14:35 (ten years ago) link
Lots of copies on Discogs. Even the sealed copies say the case has yellowed. http://www.discogs.com/sell/list?release_id=1443184&ev=rb
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 4 April 2013 14:42 (ten years ago) link
nothing is better than this- wait a minute
― all false moves (Hunt3r), Thursday, 4 April 2013 14:45 (ten years ago) link
Generational issue! Can't get my head around the retcon that "This Must Be The Place" is THE SONG off this record -- in fact THE SONG is "Burning Down The House." They didn't even put "Place" on the Stop Making Sense soundtrack, is how highly they esteemed it! (SiT tracks there = Swamp, Slippery People, Girlfriend Is Better, House.)
There is much to be said for "This Must Be The Place," of course, but "Burning Down The House," played in a dark room, sounds like the reason Talking Heads were put on Earth.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 4 April 2013 14:46 (ten years ago) link
well, at the time bdth was like a generational pop megasingle. in my world, tmbtp was that supercool song that later showed up in wall street.
― all false moves (Hunt3r), Thursday, 4 April 2013 14:48 (ten years ago) link
Voted for "Making Flippy Floppy." Love the synth riffs going flippy floppy over the chorus and that eerie-beautiful outro.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 April 2013 14:50 (ten years ago) link
mmm, i'm stuck between girlfriend and making flippy floppy.
― all false moves (Hunt3r), Thursday, 4 April 2013 14:51 (ten years ago) link
in my world, tmbtp was that supercool song that later showed up in wall street.
saw that movie when it came out and had no memory of "this must be the place" being in it -- on the other hand, I think "Down And Out In Beverly Hills" might have been where I first heard "Once In a Lifetime."
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 4 April 2013 15:01 (ten years ago) link
there were 50,000 made i recall Byrne saying in that '84 Letterman interview, so like a mass market 'limited edition'.
it was also replicated on CD for the Japanese issue of the '06 remasters apparently.
― piscesx, Thursday, 4 April 2013 15:03 (ten years ago) link
we had the whole debate about how on earth TMBTP has become so ubiquitous on this threadTalking Heads
at some length.
― piscesx, Thursday, 4 April 2013 15:08 (ten years ago) link
Burning Down THe House and TMBTP are like the two worst tracks on here. I'm torn between the others though - love it when TH go a bit reggae on Pull Up The Roots and I Get Wild Wild Gravity.
― pssstttt, Hey you (dog latin), Thursday, 4 April 2013 15:13 (ten years ago) link
"Burning Down The House" now playing in the coffeeshop where I sit, I stand by my judgment
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 4 April 2013 15:14 (ten years ago) link
2. Making Flippy Floppy3. Girlfriend Is Better4. Slippery People5. I Get Wild/Wild Gravity6. Swamp8. Pull Up the Roots
Arrrgh - it's impossible, I love all these songs!!!
― pssstttt, Hey you (dog latin), Thursday, 4 April 2013 15:15 (ten years ago) link
Went for Pull Up The Roots cos it prob won't get enough appreciation. It's got that slightly spooky vibe they nailed on The Great Curve
― pssstttt, Hey you (dog latin), Thursday, 4 April 2013 15:17 (ten years ago) link
This album is incredible. Trusted my first instinct and went with "Slippery People".
― cwkiii, Thursday, 4 April 2013 16:07 (ten years ago) link
Burning Down THe House Moon Rocks and TMBTP are like the two worst tracks on here.
― cwkiii, Thursday, 4 April 2013 16:11 (ten years ago) link
bypassing tmbtp (which is my fave but not by as huge a margin as it might win by here or has won by elsewhere) voted for 'slippery people' purely for the stop making sense version. tbh i have no idea the last time i listened to this album, if i'm ever in the mood for this era i always go right for stop making sense.
― balls, Thursday, 4 April 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link
i kinda hope we someday do a tracks poll of Talking Heads/associate acts, if only because "Genius of Love" has a fighting chance of being #1
― the drummer for gay Daddy Yankee (some dude), Thursday, 4 April 2013 16:20 (ten years ago) link
mm no question.
― piscesx, Thursday, 4 April 2013 16:28 (ten years ago) link
I've never heard "This Must Be the Place" outside of this record. Voted "Girlfriend".
― The Reverend, Thursday, 4 April 2013 18:34 (ten years ago) link
it's one of the talking heads songs i hear on oldies radio, along w/ (in rough order of frequency) 'burning down the house', 'psycho killer', 'take me to the river', 'and she was', 'once in a lifetime', 'life during wartime', and (good lord why) 'wild wild life'. i used to hear 'nothing but flowers', 'girlfriend is better', and 'stay up late' also on this aaa station but it went talk radio last fall. slot tmbtp before 'life during wartime'.
― balls, Thursday, 4 April 2013 19:14 (ten years ago) link
During their nineties exile I heard Take Me to the River and the eighties singles (And She Was, Wild wild Life) most.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 April 2013 19:17 (ten years ago) link
i can't imagine ever hearing "This Must" on any radio station as much as "Life During Wartime." or, for that matter, "Stay Up Late."
― the drummer for gay Daddy Yankee (some dude), Thursday, 4 April 2013 19:21 (ten years ago) link
yeah tbh i probably hear 'life during wartime' more esp since i hear both fom and sms versions.
― balls, Thursday, 4 April 2013 19:25 (ten years ago) link
in a weird way this album is worse than Remain in Light while on the whole having better songs
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 4 April 2013 19:31 (ten years ago) link
can you explain?
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 April 2013 19:32 (ten years ago) link
i can sorta weirdly buy that argument, thing the more 'proper songs' aspect of speaking in tongues is part of why it's a worse album (trend only even more accelerated w/ following albums, though nostalgia and howard finster probably makes me fonder of little creatures than speaking in tongues).
― balls, Thursday, 4 April 2013 19:36 (ten years ago) link
think rather than thing
the loss of Eno is really felt in the generally flatter/thinner production, but Byrne compensates by demonstrating a more developed mastery of conventional song structures and well-deployed vocal melodies. A majority of the songs on SiT have more memorable choruses and sing-along-able call and response bits than those on RiL, but RiL on the whole SOUNDS better.
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 4 April 2013 19:42 (ten years ago) link
This is about the only record in my collection where my favourite song is aligned w/ the most popular. TMBTP is just a really fucking great song in any context. My Rauschenberg vinyl is maybe the most annoying record in my collection. Admittedly it was a little beat up when I found it but I can never get it to resemble the thing of beauty I want it to.
― Oblique Strategies, Thursday, 4 April 2013 20:22 (ten years ago) link
the SIT tracks sound influenced by 12"s and early eighties R&B.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 April 2013 20:23 (ten years ago) link
I think "Once in a Lifetime" and "Burning Down the House" are the only Heads songs I've heard on oldies radio.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 4 April 2013 20:30 (ten years ago) link
I feel like Shakey's post ignores that their previous records were more song-oriented than RIL too.
Like Byrne was already writing great song-qua-songs.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 4 April 2013 20:32 (ten years ago) link
not denying that, just saying he was getting better. agree that RiL (and to a lesser extent Fear of Music) are sort of detours from the pop song format
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 4 April 2013 20:39 (ten years ago) link
This is a really bad album. I listened to it the other day and I couldn't stand any of it. I really loved it when I was younger, though... :(
― afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 4 April 2013 20:39 (ten years ago) link
girlfriend is better
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 4 April 2013 20:42 (ten years ago) link
its weird that the SMS versions of all of these are all better
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 4 April 2013 20:44 (ten years ago) link
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, April 4, 2013 4:42 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
remain in light is better
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 April 2013 20:45 (ten years ago) link
This is Talking Heads' 'Brighten the Corners', isn't it?
― pssstttt, Hey you (dog latin), Thursday, 4 April 2013 22:49 (ten years ago) link
First heard Swamp via Risky Business, yet somehow never connected the song with the movie title for all these years. Strange oversight. I'd probably vote for Burning Down The House if I hadn't heard it so many times, but will stick with Swamp.
― dlp9001, Thursday, 4 April 2013 23:01 (ten years ago) link
should point out that "Burning Down The House" sounded damn strange for a top ten pop hit in '83: all that space punctuated with bursts of instruments.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 April 2013 23:05 (ten years ago) link
i always wondered about Risky Business, which only came out 3 months after Speaking -- i thought maybe the screenplay had had some other working title that was later named after the lyric, but i guess it was just a total coincidence that they already had the movie's title when the phrase was used prominently in a recent hit album they could use on the soundtrack?
― the drummer for gay Daddy Yankee (some dude), Thursday, 4 April 2013 23:20 (ten years ago) link
Swamp was in The King Of Comedy too iirc? Before it was anywhere else too I think.
― piscesx, Thursday, 4 April 2013 23:21 (ten years ago) link
Not that weird considering that the Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads versions are better than the album cuts too
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 5 April 2013 01:04 (ten years ago) link
In the continuing Great-American-Songbook-ization of "This Must Be the Place," husband-and-wife cabaret stars John Pizzarelli & Jessica Molaskey's recent show opens with a duet/medley of "TMBTP" and the Beatles' "Two of Us."
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 5 April 2013 02:58 (ten years ago) link
I voted 'slippery people,' but pretty much love 91% of this album.
― nicky lo-fi, Friday, 5 April 2013 11:03 (ten years ago) link
Was never a huge fan of this band but I can never turn off "Burning Down The House" when it comes on. One of the most aggressively weird-sounding singles of its time.
― ARE YOU HIRING A NANNY OR A SHAMAN (Phil D.), Friday, 5 April 2013 11:22 (ten years ago) link
otm
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 01:32 (ten years ago) link
wow, that is a lot of votes. every song got a vote, yeah!
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 01:33 (ten years ago) link
"Swamp" is in Risky Business, which is also a lyric in the song, and I've always wondered about that.
― cougars and sneezers (Eazy), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 02:06 (ten years ago) link
this must be the landslide
― some dude, Wednesday, April 3, 2013 10:14 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― some dude, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 02:14 (ten years ago) link
fuck, pull up the roots is fun. it's like byrne fronting tom tom club.
― life is good (Hunt3r), Friday, 12 April 2013 19:53 (ten years ago) link
I got asked to play "This Must Be the Place" at a party the other night. I'm quite sure it wouldn't have happened if not for this thread, you know.
― sandra dayo connor (The Reverend), Friday, 12 April 2013 21:23 (ten years ago) link
I've always loved 'Moon Rocks.' It's elfin' great. Can't believe it fell behind 'Swamp.'
― afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 12 April 2018 01:18 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JFAA5dEup0
Early version of "The Lady Don't Mind" recorded during the SiT sessions.
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 12 April 2018 03:05 (five years ago) link
Pull up the roots is my fave
― Droni Mitchell (Ross), Thursday, 12 April 2018 04:27 (five years ago) link
^ my people
― brand new universal harvester (dog latin), Thursday, 12 April 2018 07:41 (five years ago) link
moon rocks has grown on me a bit. music-wise it sounds most like tom tom club
― brand new universal harvester (dog latin), Thursday, 12 April 2018 07:42 (five years ago) link
Goddamn this album is incredible
Also, Pull Up The Roots
― Davey D, Friday, 13 April 2018 02:21 (five years ago) link
"I Get Wild" needs more luv
It's amazing
― pssstttt, Hey you (dog latin), Sunday, April 7, 2013 1:18 PM (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^this
― that's not my post, Friday, 13 April 2018 03:13 (five years ago) link
pull up the roots deserved more love in this poll, and moon rocks especially. moon rocks fukken rules. the three song end of album sequence it kicks off is among my favorites in music
― i really like that!! (z_tbd), Thursday, 24 August 2023 23:36 (seven months ago) link
I agree. Pull Up The Roots is very high up in my favourite TH songs
― Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Friday, 25 August 2023 00:00 (seven months ago) link
If we're just going off a song-for-song basis, this is clearly the best TH album too. RIL might be a bit more daring but it has fillery moments whereas Tongues is just bangers beginning to end
― Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Friday, 25 August 2023 00:03 (seven months ago) link
This album is the soundtrack to the summer I graduated from high school. It didn't grab me immediately like the others did, but it's a grower.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 25 August 2023 00:05 (seven months ago) link
Y'all are mad.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 August 2023 00:06 (seven months ago) link
"Pull Up the Roots," "Moon Rocks," "I Get Wild" -- instant skippable.
Will still rep for I Get Wild like 5 years again during the last thread revive. Great album.
― that's not my post, Friday, 25 August 2023 00:08 (seven months ago) link
^ago
xxp Hard disagree, Alfred. Those are all solid tracks.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 25 August 2023 00:08 (seven months ago) link
TMBTP the clear and deserving winner. The Stop Making Sense version is even better.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 25 August 2023 00:09 (seven months ago) link
Pull Up The Roots SLAYS
― Davey D, Friday, 25 August 2023 00:10 (seven months ago) link
controp: I've never found TMBTP very exciting.
― peace, man, Friday, 25 August 2023 00:11 (seven months ago) link
I asked my guitar teacher, who has a really good grasp of music theory and whatnot, why This Must Be the Place pops out for everyone as the sentimental favorite, and he observed it's the only track on the album that isn't more or less blues-based.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 25 August 2023 00:12 (seven months ago) link
Well, and it's Weymouth on guitar strumming the same couple notes for five minutes
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 August 2023 00:13 (seven months ago) link
― that's not my post,
Cool bass line.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 August 2023 00:14 (seven months ago) link
It's Byrne's vocals on that song that do it for me. "When you're standing here beside me/I love the passing of time/Never for money, always for love/Cover up and say goodnight, say goodnight" is pure magic.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 25 August 2023 00:17 (seven months ago) link
Also "And you love me till my heart stops/Love me till I'm dead" is such a surprising couplet from David Byrne.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 25 August 2023 00:20 (seven months ago) link
Pull Up The Roots is fantastic. Not sure if it’s a remix I like best or the original but what a song.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 25 August 2023 00:21 (seven months ago) link
Listening to this album rn. I keep expecting the "Whoaaa!" In "Swamp."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 25 August 2023 03:34 (seven months ago) link