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What is your favorite Talking Heads song?

Once in a Lifetime. No question.

I do love everything they ever recorded. Born Under Punches is obviously a favorite (if you listened to the TH cover fight). I Zimbra is excellent live. Pulled Up, This Must Be the Place (found a new love for that after Lunkhead covered it). Great band!
We should note that Adrian Belew has played with Talking Heads, Zappa, and David Bowie, all mentioned in the Daily Roll Calls so far.

No great surprises from me - a mainstream top 5 - Psycho Killer, probably, (for that bass-line). Don't Worry about the Government. Nothing but Flowers. Once in a Lifetime. Road to Nowhere.

j$

I concur with Road to Nowhere. If I'm not mistaken, that was used in "Little Monsters" with Howie Mandel and the Savage brothers.

-jd0

Here's another one with just way too many viable choices. I think my personal favorite is "Nothing But Flowers." It might be a different song if you ask me on a different day.

Gonna have to agree with "Once in a Lifetime", but I'm not all that well-versed in Talking Heads. Not sure why not. Downloading and converting new songs from youtube... Can we count non-TH stuff that David Byrne is in? Because "The People Tree" by N.A.S.A. is most excellent. It features a rap battle between a man and God.

I really need to hear more Talking Heads. I can't say I know that many of their songs (One in a Lifetime, Burning Down the House, Psycho Killer) but I've liked them all.

Honorable mention to "This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)" and "Once in a Lifetime". And I have to give a mention, however blasphemous it may be to Talking Heads fans, to "Damage I've Done".

My favorite is "Lifetime Piling Up".

Life During Wartime.


THIS AIN'T NO PARTY.
THIS AIN'T NO DISCO.

JB

I only know their big hits. I'll have to go back and check out albums. They're hits are unbelievable. "Psycho Killer" is always stuck in my head. But my favorite so far is "Once in a Lifetime". There's something surreal and poignant about it that moves me.

I was almost exclusively way into prog rock throughout high school. Then in 1988 I got dragged to a screening of Stop Making Sense and it changed my life - instead of hypercomplex, pretentious music with perplexing time signature changes and ostentatious and/or self-indulgent themes, there was some geek in beige slacks onstage yawping into the microphone and flapping his arms around. Somehow I loved all of the music in Stop Making Sense, and I loved the performance... it helped me realize that I shouldn't be loyal to bands or to genres, and instead I should just enjoy whatever I enjoy. It seems like a no-brainer now, but at the time it was a revelation. For me, Stop Making Sense was instrumental in that change in perspective and it improved my overall experience music immeasurably.

But now my favorite Talking Heads song is Albatross's version of "Cities". Does that count?

http://home.comcast.net/~mrebo/music/al ... cities.mp3

Niveous wrote:What is your favorite Talking Heads song?

Huzzah!! Finally another good one!

Too hard to pick:
Born Under the Punches?
Life During Wartime?
Pulled Up?
Girlfriend is Better?
Houses in Motion?

I'm a gonna go:
Cross-eyed and Painless

glennny wrote:Once in a Lifetime. No question.

I do love everything they ever recorded. Born Under Punches is obviously a favorite (if you listened to the TH cover fight). I Zimbra is excellent live. Pulled Up, This Must Be the Place (found a new love for that after Lunkhead covered it). Great band!
We should note that Adrian Belew has played with Talking Heads, Zappa, and David Bowie, all mentioned in the Daily Roll Calls so far.

In the big Venn Diagram of world music - I think this could be our only overlap glennny!!

In the big Venn Diagram of world music - I think this could be our only overlap glennny!!

I find it hard to believe that you could do the amazing cover of Village Green Preservation Society that you did, and not love the Kinks like I do. I bet we both love the Jam too. I bet there's plenty of stuff we converge on , we've stumbled on some divergence over the years like I just don't get the Clash and I love Jethro Tull. Just more proof that we are different people.

I missed some of these DRCs.
"This Must Be The Place" from their Talking in Tongues album is not only my favorite Talking Heads song, it might just be the best alternative song of the "new wave" artpop genre. But for an over all album, I pick Fear the Music. So many great songs packed into? onto that album.

And She Was

Probably "Once in a Lifetime" - it is amazing.
But there are a lot of great choices...
-bill