Talking Heads- Classic or Dud?

Very nice

Wow, love the Born Under Punches. Less said about her Once in a Lifetime the better.

Yeah, agree. That's really good. I'm really curious to hear her version of "Houses in Motion," kinda not too optimistic about "Listening Wind," which really won't benefit from a big voice.

I always liked this one:

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

Wow, love the Born Under Punches. Less said about her Once in a Lifetime the better.

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u r hi af. her version fuckin slaps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRxxt53yFBs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcGUXNRV-NI

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9Xi2AdpEDU

sure?

i saw this latest tour, it was quite good

that video misses how great the lighting design was, definitely see this in a theater hall if you can

Seeing him Friday, seen him before but still looking forward to it.

Great documentary about the London scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwCCfWiYk2s

Yo global tell me more about the tour

i will be seeing his tour too

it was staged like a field show/halftime marching band show, tightly choreographed, extremely minimal staging- no amps, no gear. at least 4 percussionists, byrne said it was like the most ambitious thing he'd done since SMS although that could have been hyperbole. expect 7-8 talking heads classics but no variation from night to night. personally i thought the lighting was one of the most impressive parts. i dunno, just a pro knocking it out of the park basically. people smoked weed near us and upset my mom, who i took for mother's day haha

Thanks global and you sound like a nice person

I saw him maybe... nine years ago? and that show was incredibly choreographed, as many dancers as musicians, moving amongst them, sitting the musicians in office chairs & wheeling them round as they played etc

I saw him on that tour (Songs of Byrne and Eno) too. Fantastic show. It was a seated show but soon enough everybody was out of their seats and dancing. Great setlist.

Strange Overtones
I Zimbra
One Fine Day
Help Me Somebody
Houses in Motion
My Big Nurse
My Big Hands (Fall Through the Cracks)
Heaven
Wanted for Life
Life Is Long
Crosseyed and Painless
Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
Once in a Lifetime
Life During Wartime
I Feel My Stuff

Encore:
Take Me to the River
The Great Curve

Encore 2:
Air
Burning Down the House

Encore 3:
Everything That Happens

urgh fck off setlist spoilz

No worries, this was from the 2009 show. Considered comparing it to a recent show but refrained, at your service :)

Going to see him in London, hope he doesn't play Lazy but everything else I've glimpsed from that Chile concert I'm excited about.

I saw him on the eno tour and his voice blew me away.
Regret missing the vincent tour

I hope he brings out Rocky & Diesel and plays a 15-minute version

vincent tour was great!

Nice Niels!

The live YouTube clips from that tour ripped

Saw this in Portland a few days ago

One of the most memorable concerts I've ever attended, joyous and life-affirming at every possible moment

Byrne's voice is a marvel, he's singing better than ever

Lighting is unreal

Go see it

and a few lucky(?!) punters got to peep this while he was in town:

https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2018/05/29/20188583/david-byrne-sang-a-prince-song-at-a-portland-karaoke-bar-over-the-weekend

One of the coolest shows I've seen in years.

Saw it last night and agree. ^^ Considering going back for a second time tomorrow night.

‪Full-on peak-80s conceptual concert, Stop Making Sense Pt. 2 and holding its own against the original, with pt. 1’s Robert Wilson influence replaced by Ivo Van Hove’s.‬

Does away with any traditional band-on-stage setup, instead being both carefully choreographed and playing all over a giant empty space with no grounded instruments.

I likened it to a neo-futurist drumline.

Friday tickets were going for $45 on StubHub, and tonight’s are $95-$400, so I think word has gotten out about how exceptional this is. On par with Stop Making Sense, United States Love — those 80s epics.

I'm in Chicago for work training thing tomorrow said fuck it and shelled out $150 for a ticket, orchestra pit seat looks like I'll be really close (printed face value is $125 doesn't feel too bad) got it from a local broker through Vivid Seats app which seemed to have better prices than Stub Hub but had to go pick it up physically at office

^^ good move imo, plz report back

I am a moron for not going to see this

My first thought after seeing it Friday was that if I had time I would have totally seen it again the next (two) nights.

goddamn, can attest nothing anyone has said is hyperbole.. maybe the most creative staging and choreography I've ever seen. band is just incredible. Byrne's voice and energy level is like the mid 80s, what a show!

You guys have convinced me to buy tickets to this show’s L.A. date!

do it!

really wish i'd heard all this praise before he came through the pnw!

*sees he's coming to dallas in....fuck thats a long time*

Ok, got tix for the SF show. The Oakland shows are already sold out.

Clay otm

well, he did announce the tour by calling it his most ambitious since SMS ...

ok you guys convinced me to get tickets to the forest hills stadium show. 35 years since we last saw him there!

Benjamin Clementine (of the Mercury Prize and Benjamin Clementine - I Tell A Fly (!!!!!) ) opened and baffled and/or failed to distract the Chicago audience.

There was no introduction, and I hadn't bought the Byrne tickets, so thought it was the first song or two of the Byrne show itself. And in a way threw the audience a "difficult" curveball (Tune-Yards may do the same when they open later shows).

Just missed his show here, fuck man

According to Andy Zax, the producer of Talking Heads' Once in a Lifetime box set, the band has an enormous cache of completed songs that Byrne is continuing
to withhold.

Does it say why he’s withholding them? (Like Lucille Bluth, does he “get off on being withholding”?)

I know that he would maybe know, but imo that seems unlikely. First, the band released their stuff at a pretty good clip, and it's not like those albums were bursting with material, even as contemporaries were eventually releasing double and triple albums. Even then, say it was an artistic decision to keep things short, there have been a couple of sets of reissues - Sand in the Vaseline and that Once in a Lifetime boxed set, plus that other boxed set - where unreleased songs might have popped up, but the bonus stuff was pretty scant or just sketches. Googling around, there seem to be maybe a couple of tracks they played live but never put on an album, but I'd be shocked if there were tons of unreleased things that were never played live, never put on a reissue, and escaped being bootlegged.

I've always wondered if Byrne and Bowie had any sort of relationship. Longtime New Yorkers, smart, friends of Eno, arty and erudite ... you'd think they'd be fast friends.