"A Million Reasons" is terrific, GTF out!
― a neon light ablaze in this green smoky haze (morrisp), Monday, 22 October 2018 17:06 (five years ago) link
here in Wisconsin "Bang on the Drum" is by far his most popular song but for other reasons. I don't know if I've ever actually heard it on the radio. "I Saw the Light", on the other hand...
― frogbs, Monday, 22 October 2018 17:11 (five years ago) link
bang on the drum was all over tv in carnival cruise ads for at least a decade
― voodoo chili, Monday, 22 October 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
I thought it was an afternoon drive time staple. The whistle blows, you punch the clock, you get in your Chevy and roar down the highway smackin the console to that funky beat ol Todd is throwin down.
― a butt, at which the shaft of ridicule is daily glanced (Old Lunch), Monday, 22 October 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
I don't know if they've been mentioned already but Public Enemy biggest song on Spotify is "Harder Than You Think"... I don't even know that song !And their biggest hit is "Give It Up" apparently.
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 09:02 (five years ago) link
A bit like Tricky - the only thing I ever heard on the radio was "Black Steel"
― Mark G, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 11:09 (five years ago) link
Still, it did lead to http://freakytrigger.co.uk/hate/2000/07/black-steel-in-the-hour-of-chaos/ which is probably the best thing, ever.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 11:10 (five years ago) link
I guess The Grateful Dead are too obvious for something like this? "Friend of the Devil" and "Casey Jones" both have a lot more Spotify streams than "Touch of Grey" (their only top 40 hit).
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 13:10 (five years ago) link
Those two songs were already FM radio mainstays by the time Touch of Grey came out
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 13:44 (five years ago) link
Yeah, and they’re probably included in a lot of default Spotify playlists.
― a neon light ablaze in this green smoky haze (morrisp), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 14:09 (five years ago) link
Certainly, the concept of a 'hit' is a lot more slippery back then - songs like "Under My Thumb" and "Stairway to Heaven" were massive hits, even though they never charted.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 14:55 (five years ago) link
see nearly every Hendrix radio staple
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 15:10 (five years ago) link
Still, it did lead to http://freakytrigger.co.uk/hate/2000/07/black-steel-in-the-hour-of-chaos/
it's not addressed to Mr Thaws, The Other Day, 1995
― Teasing The Big Myth (sic), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
http://freakytrigger.co.uk/hate/2000/07/black-steel-in-the-hour-of-chaos/
Roffle. This is hilarious and OTM. Fuck that song.
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 12 November 2018 19:58 (five years ago) link
take it to imgur, buddy
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 12 November 2018 20:12 (five years ago) link
yeah, gaga is one of those where songs from 2008 got bought on iTunes, not streamed on spotify. but bear in mind that spotify's ranking algorithm includes some recency/hotness special sauce, not just raw play count - if you dig in it looks like this:Million Reasons 259mBad Romance 250mPoker Face 249mThe Cure (??) 233mApplause 187mTelephone 182mJust Dance 159mBorn This Way 130mDo What U Want 117mPaparazzi 101m
Million Reasons 259mBad Romance 250mPoker Face 249mThe Cure (??) 233mApplause 187mTelephone 182mJust Dance 159mBorn This Way 130mDo What U Want 117mPaparazzi 101m
couple things: 1) "Shallow" from A Star is Born now has 130 million Spotify plays! 2) how do you get those raw counts? and where can I get the iTunes numbers? 3) if we factor in Youtube counts we get another picture and probably we should since Youtube is actually the #1 music streaming service?
Bad Romance 982mPoker Face 554mAlejandro 347mApplause 321mJudas 313mTelephone 301m
― niels, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 11:27 (five years ago) link
in spotify, you hover the cursor over the little "cell phone reception bars" icon next to any track.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 13:24 (five years ago) link
aah I see
but then you kind of have to know what you're looking for, there's no way to sort by most plays?
― niels, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 14:18 (five years ago) link
nope, not that i know of.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 16:20 (five years ago) link
the more popular tracks have more bars
― twin sinema (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 17:15 (five years ago) link
NRBQ's "Magnet" has 2 million spins, ten times as much as the next most popular NRBQ songs.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 22:54 (five years ago) link
Motley Crue's Kickstart My Heart has 100 million plays, which is nearly twice as any as Dr. Feelgood and Girls, Girls, Girls. Both charted in the top 10, while Kickstart peaked at #27.
― we're far from the challops now (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 23:10 (five years ago) link
That’s weird. I’m going to guess it’s video game related.
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Thursday, 21 February 2019 18:18 (five years ago) link
i haven't checked the numbers, this is purely anecdotal/my perception, but it feels like "naive melody (this must be the place)" has become a signature talking heads song over the past ... 10 years? overtaking stuff like "psycho killer" or "burning down the house" as one of the big talking heads songs. i heard it at a major league baseball game a couple of weeks ago.
― na (NA), Friday, 26 April 2019 15:28 (five years ago) link
"home is where i want to be but i guess i'm already there"--a literal description of hitting in baseball.
― mourning joe (voodoo chili), Friday, 26 April 2019 15:30 (five years ago) link
It is their Number 2 song on Spotify, above Once in a Life and BDTH, but below Psycho Killer. wtf
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Friday, 26 April 2019 15:30 (five years ago) link
it's a great song so maybe it's just been a slow burn
genuine lol at voodoo chili's comment
― na (NA), Friday, 26 April 2019 15:31 (five years ago) link
voodoo chili, also consider that "It's like butter" is a really succinct description of margarine.
― Pontius Pilates (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 26 April 2019 15:38 (five years ago) link
Earth, Wind & Fire's "September" seems the epitome of this.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Friday, 26 April 2019 15:39 (five years ago) link
TMBTP is also a fairly popular wedding song.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 26 April 2019 15:41 (five years ago) link
xxp i can't believe it
― mourning joe (voodoo chili), Friday, 26 April 2019 15:41 (five years ago) link
of course it's a popular wedding song, who can be unmoved by the romantic memory of david byrne dancing with a floor lamp
― na (NA), Friday, 26 April 2019 15:43 (five years ago) link
when i got into talking heads TMBTP was the one song, aside from once in a lifetime and road to nowhere, that i recognized from having heard it on the radio as a kid.
― visiting, Friday, 26 April 2019 16:04 (five years ago) link
this is def one of the bigger shifts and weirder ones to someone like me who knew "burning down the house" from references in FoxTrot comics before i ever heard of the band. certainly knew that one and "take me to the river" and "and she was" and even "wild wild life" long before TMBTP or Psycho Killer.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Friday, 26 April 2019 17:00 (five years ago) link
I posted this 6 years ago in a Talking Heads "Speaking in Tongues" Poll thread: 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."
It was the first dance for me and my wife Olive Oyl.
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 27 April 2019 04:06 (five years ago) link
Well blow me down
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 27 April 2019 05:14 (five years ago) link
From a UK perspective the three most recognisable Talking Heads songs (as in, recognisable to people who haven't heard of I Zimbra or whatever) are Once In A Lifetime, Psycho Killer and Road To Nowhere. Probably because they were either hits (PS & RTN) or the early breakthrough song (PK). This Must Be The Place etc kind of deeper cuts, relatively speaking.
― Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Saturday, 27 April 2019 08:28 (five years ago) link
It was on Shawn Colvin's covers album in 1994, and some versions out there resemble hers more than the Heads's.
― Pontius Pilates (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 27 April 2019 10:51 (five years ago) link
Once In A Lifetime, Psycho Killer and Road To Nowhere
These + "Burning Down the House" were the ones I always thought of as their biggest songs.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Saturday, 27 April 2019 12:37 (five years ago) link
I've been amazed at how big a radio/Muzak staple "And She Was" has become.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 27 April 2019 12:38 (five years ago) link
“Nothing But Flowers” felt inescapable at the time but really hasn’t entered the radio canon
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Saturday, 27 April 2019 13:42 (five years ago) link
the new yorker on this must be the place in 2012:
Thirty years old this year, the song has slowly but surely embedded itself in the American songbook. You can’t walk into a good bar between Williamsburg and Silver Lake without an even shot that it will come on the stereo in some iteration. Lately, it’s been covered by Arcade Fire, MGMT, and the jam band The String Cheese Incident, among others. There are books named for it. Hip brides march down the aisle to it. It’s quoted in mawkish editorials. And last year, “This Must Be the Place” was made into a movie.
― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 27 April 2019 14:13 (five years ago) link
― mourning joe (voodoo chili), Friday, April 26, 2019 8:30 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
posts like this are why i love ilx
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 27 April 2019 14:19 (five years ago) link
I remember being a Talking Heads fan and not being really aware of TMBTL being "a great song" and having it slowly introduce itself to me. Wasn't there a second theatrical release of Stop Making Sense around 2003 or something?
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 27 April 2019 14:46 (five years ago) link
This thread is funny also, Trainspotting really was that soundtrack I guess!
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 27 April 2019 14:48 (five years ago) link
My wife fell in love with TMBTP after hearing an Iron & Wine cover of it
― jaymc, Saturday, 27 April 2019 14:52 (five years ago) link
Huh, the earliest cover of it, aside from Shawn Colvin in 1994, was Arcade Fire in 2005. I absolutely introduced that song to Win
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 27 April 2019 15:03 (five years ago) link
I played it at a wedding two weeks ago.
― Pontius Pilates (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 27 April 2019 15:13 (five years ago) link
Sean Hayes: https://youtu.be/2xiHWKdNZto
This version is notable for how committed the guitar player is to replicating all the keyboard bits exactly. I just wanna tell him "dude, relax, it's not a sacred relic."
― Pontius Pilates (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 27 April 2019 15:24 (five years ago) link
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, April 27, 2019 9:19 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
<3
― mourning joe (voodoo chili), Saturday, 27 April 2019 16:06 (five years ago) link