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| Talking Heads – This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I agree with the few who are looking at the subversive angle. Certainly, we've come to expect this angle from TH. You can't ignore the title, for goodness' sake! And everyone keeps commenting about Byrne dancing with the lamp...what is so brilliant about this? It's the irony!!!!!! He is naive, he is delusional (not just qwirky!) Sorry to all the hopeless romantics (myself included), but wake up!
"If someone asks, this is where I'll be..." = if reality calls, I'll be in la-la land, so leave a message. |
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| Talking Heads – The Facts Of Life Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I can't BELIEVE nobody has commented on this song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Okay, so musically it's nothin' special, but the lyrics are the best! Humans aren't that different from animals, most biologists agree. We make babies and eat food (and shop at malls, unfortunately). |
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| Talking Heads – Radio Head Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Radiohead was called "on a Friday" because they rehearsed on Friday's. This is common in the university music world. A jazz combo that rehearses at 2:00 is often billed as the 2:00 combo. But I agree, Radiohead is a better name.
I think that Radiohead was being tongue-in-cheek when it said it named itself after the least annoying song in the film. It seems that Radiohead songs are the closest things (lyrically) to Talking Heads songs that you can find today. Their songs are basically poetic musings on the f***ed up state of affairs in modern society. Radiohead has a richer database to probe, granted (with all the corporate takeovers that have made us, more than ever, cogs in the machine). But don't forget, Talking Heads had the Reagan administration, rich fodder for any intellectual canon!!!!! |
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| Talking Heads – Puzzlin' Evidence Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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It's not that paranoid. ABC and NBC and all the major CORPORATE news organizations are about the same, and they are all owned by Rupert Murdoch! Even the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has a new NEOCON administration. I think in this sense, the Talking Heads songs were prophetic: they saw the consolidation of our sources of information before it became common knowledge that corporate media serves corporate interests. |
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| Talking Heads – Once In A Lifetime Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Wow, Stevenmingus stole my brain. (Any relation to Charles?)
It is sooooo easy to sell out in this modern shitty world of ours. I've come to see almost all Talking Heads songs as warnings against accepting the status quo as being natural or correct.
As for the interpretation of realizing that one is gay...I think this may not be specifically what the song intended, but it certainly in the spirit of the song. It is about realizing at some point in life that you are not what you have thought you were. I think anyone who likes this song should read T.S. Eliot's "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock." |
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| Talking Heads – Making Flippy Floppy (Stop Making Sense Version) Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Wow...there is a dearth of commentary on this song...what a shame.
This is such a scary song on so many levels...the ever-pervasive government that keeps you in line...keepin flippy floppy to me means that your position has to flip-flop to be in harmony with the powers that be.
How about that last line...kill the beast. Is that a reference to the Reagan era "starve the beast" economic policy? "Our president's crazy...did you hear what he said?" |
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| Talking Heads – Crosseyed and Painless Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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It seems that this song makes more sense today than ever before. "Facts just twist the truth around." Look at all the facts Dick Cheney pulled out during the 2004 debates. He had more facts than Edwards, but Truth lies in the interpretation of the facts. |
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| Talking Heads – (Nothing But) Flowers Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I think samadriel's comments are right on the money (or coconuts, or whatever is currency after the apocalypse).
Whether or not the song is "sarcastic" is a moot point if you consider that the narrator of the song is NOT David Byrne himself, and does not speak for him. I think the character should be seen as kinda pathetic, but is he really that different from the rest of us?
The brilliance of this song is that Byrne uses his own voice to present a character that we should simultaneously laugh at and pity, and recognize as similar to us. It's a brave move, considering that people in this country don't seem to get irony and dry humor. |
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| Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Does this song remind anyone else of that Radiohead song from "Hail to the Thief"? "We suck young blood..."
Hey fishnetgirl777- nice job cutting and pasting verbatim from wikipedia. |
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| Radiohead – Paranoid Android Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I know I'm a late-comer, but I must condone the comment made by "Kleiny." Ever heard the concept, "death of the author?" Artists' intentions are only 12 aspect of interpretation, if we're really interested in this gig called "humanity." (Besides, you could read a Freud-like (not that he's the ultimate authority) cry of the subconscious coming out in their lyrics, if one must remain obssessed with the intentionality thing). I think what the song does is more important than what it was intended to do (as we all know, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions...and sometimes esoteric song lyrics?) What makes the "getting" of an intended message superior to, say, constructing a meaning for oneself that is more complex, but more personally and/or culturally resonant? |
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