Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense, a promotional copy sent to us by Sire Records in 1984. Printed on the back are the credits and an FAQ about the live documentary: ‘Why Stop Making Sense? Why a movie? Why tour?’
Also included are notes to performers, with stills from the shows.
There are other notes too: work, travel, money, the future and space.
Life on Earth, living with other people, the space people, world travel, money, in the future, work, growing up.
i really really love this picture because everyone else is looking at tina and chris's beautiful baby son except for jerry who seems to be making an active effort to slay
Released as a single 46 years ago
Talking Heads – Psycho Killer
2 years after appearing in
CBGB, June 20, 1975
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38 years ago
Talking Heads’ bassist, Tina Weymouth, from the August 1985 issue of Vogue.
Photo by Oliverio Toscani
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Tina Weymouth
Have you heard of Walt Disco?
If you haven't, and new wave, post punk, or other music from the 80s appeals to you, you've got to!
They've got such massive stage presence, even when thanks to lockdowns, the best they could make of a live performance was in a recording studio for BBC Introducing Scotland. But!! They put on a hell of show for 6 people and a choir trapped in a little soundproof room.
Their music is also an absolutely banging queer party and I'm going.
Bonus: comments on their videos have compared them to everyone in the 80s from the Cure to Adam and the Ants and David Bowie, from "a male Le Tigre" to "goth Talking Heads".
Either way, they're great and released their first album Young, Hard and Handsome (yep, name taken from a vintage porno), and it's on Bandcamp.
Don't mind me, I'll just be in my corner, headbanging to this and Appreciating.
David Byrne strikes me as the sort of guy who owns a Kindle (the paperwhite kind, not the screen kind, which he'd say "defeats the purpose of it really") or three