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Category: Talking Heads

  • Who needs satellite radio when you have David Byrne radio?

    David Byrne is one of my heroes. He is best known as the frontman for the Talking Heads, which in and of itself is amazing. The Talking Heads, in my opinion, never put out a bad album. He did the stage design and choreography for “Stop Making Sense”, one of the best concert films ever…

  • Video: the Talking Heads live in Syracuse 1978 (full concert)

    The wonderful folks at Open Culture have tracked down yet another vintage Talking Heads performance. It’s not clear what venue this was captured at but it really doesn’t matter. The fact that videos like this exist at all, from an era 30 years before people carried iPhones, is a minor miracle. Here’s David Byrne &…

  • Live Talking Heads video from 1980 & why the 70s were the best decade for music

    This was posted earlier today at Open Culture. It doesn’t really need much of an introduction, it’s the Talking Heads playing at their pinnacle. By 1980 they were well beyond the small club days of CBGBa but not yet the huge international sensation they’d become with the rise of MTV and their concert film “Stop…

  • The Talking Heads 1984 BBC TV Special

    This 68 minute special features the Talking Heads, in their prime, performing live at London’s Wembley Arena along with clips and interviews. David Byrne, credited as a creative consultant, apparently had a hand in selecting the strange television clips that go along with the music. It was aired by BBC’s Channel 4 and includes “Life…

  • Phish Covers Entire Albums by Talking Heads + Rolling Stones [Video]

    Phish sometimes likes to do live covers, sometimes they like to do covers of entire albums. One of the best of these was the 1994 cover of the Beatles ‘White Album‘. Bits and pieces of that show, and many other shows can be found online but there are, at least, two full shows that are…

  • Video: the Talking Heads live set at CBGBs 1975

    From the mid 70s onward, New York’s CBGBs played host to the bands that would lay the foundation for the American punk and new wave scenes of the 1980s. Along with the Talking Heads, bands like the Ramones, Blondie, the Dead Boys, Television and Patti Smith regularly graced the stage. Richard Hell once wrote in…

  • Video: the Talking Heads live set at CBGBs 1975

    From the mid 70s onward, New York’s CBGBs played host to the bands that would lay the foundation for the American punk and new wave scenes of the 1980s. Along with the Talking Heads, bands like the Ramones, Blondie, the Dead Boys, Television and Patti Smith regularly graced the stage. Richard Hell once wrote in…

  • Watch the Talking Heads Live in Rome and the Punk Rock Movie free on YouTube

    The Talking Heads Live in Rome on the follow up to the Stop Making Sense tour (Stop Making Sense might be the best concert film ever, in case you’ve missed it). The Rome show is now online in it’s entirity (via Boing Boing). If you’ve watched that and you still don’t have your retro fix…

  • Watch the Talking Heads Live in Rome and the Punk Rock Movie free on YouTube

    The Talking Heads Live in Rome on the follow up to the Stop Making Sense tour (Stop Making Sense might be the best concert film ever, in case you’ve missed it). The Rome show is now online in it’s entirity (via Boing Boing). If you’ve watched that and you still don’t have your retro fix…