They play it regularly at my store, as well as Queen, Michael Jackson, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Tears for Fears, ABBA, Earth, Wind, and Fire, and other wildly influential artists for some reason Update: they also play Blue Monday
And I have loved it ever since. 67 years old. A masterpiece. Starred in a movie with Tom Hanks as the theme song - A Hologram for a King. Highly appropriate and meaningful.
@@timsavini2585 the song does I don't know about the video so much anymore but if you just hear the song without the video it has aged very well and sounds contemporary
This song can speak to you at several different stages of life. From an 80s kid watching this video on MTV to pushing 50, it means something different at every age, and that’s what makes it a brilliant song.
I'm 25, and I can remember my mom playing this song in the car for me and my brothers when we were little all the time. I liked it then, even without understanding the meaning, and I love it more and more the older I get, as it becomes more and more meaningful. It's unequivocally my favorite song of all time, and I'll probably be listening to it until the day I die.
I’m here for my son Alex Whitton, he passed away on 3 September 2024 aged 22. As a Young autistic man, he found joy in the work of David Byrne, idolised him almost. We had this as his ‘exit’ song at his funeral. His grave stone has ‘same as it ever was’ etched onto it. My heart aches for my boy. I hope he’s at Peace now. I love you without end Alex ❤
He just came from the optometrist and has till the end of the day to return his glasses 😁😁😁🤗 Edit: if they don't fit. He didnt know they were recording
i remember a discussion a long time ago about how David Byrne in the foreground is imperfectly trying to mimic the david byrnes in the background. he is trying to follow along but just doesn't have a hang of the moves. like he's trying to imitate successful businessmen but failing to do so.
Huh. But then I went back and realized when he's immitating african muslims and talking about living in a shack, he actually performed those moves pretty well, like they were natural. And in fact defaulted to them in the first 'immitating the men on the background' sequence. ... Is this song actually brilliant?
that's what most performers can't do these days... everything is digital and produced then they have to ACT like they did it... this guy wrote, performed and did this for real. He's a real MUSICIAN... look up the TALKING HEADS his band before he went solo. David Byrne IS A MUSICIAN....
"You may find yourself living in a shotgun shack" is undoubtedly one of the greatest opening lyrics to a song ever. Right up there with "Saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand"
I remember being 15 years old sitting in an easy chair in front of a TV when this video suddenly came on. Since then it has continued to haunt and inspire like no other song. It's an examination of conscience put to music.
I had a similar experience with "Enjoy the Silence". I was like 8 and was just passing through the living room and that video went straight to my subconscious
what you said is so so so true. I heard this song as a kid. I felt to my heart that it is saying something very important. hearing it as a very very adult person I finally got it..... chills down my spine
@Richard JW this isn't your house thr bank owns it. That's not your wife the government owns her and when you divorce you will know that never was yuur wife. How did I get here like how do I take these chains off
The anxiety induced by the worrying message about monotonous time based life gives me enough fear based motivation to keep trying to do something else with my life
The later, unfortunately. I think we have hit an impasse due to religious and militaristic obsession of competitive nature and paranoia. Until that is solved, I don't think we will progress as a society.
@@bebopganymede I guess a lot of the anxieties of the early 80's are as relevant now as they were back then, if not moreso. Not that I was even alive back then but a general fear of an increasingly interconnected, impersonal, and globalistic world- operating on a level too complex for human comprehension- seems like it was a major part of the zeitgeist. Of course the specifics change with time but the fears and sources of conflict seem like they're much the same.
@The Stan Man; Dear, you have clearly and absolutely not understood the text. Then it is also better that you absolutely do not respond. Because with the experts you now come across as absolutely enormously stupid. For those who don't know, they are going to agree with you, but don't forget at the IQ test they are all going to end on 75, just like you.
I met David Byrne's mom at a Quaker meeting years ago and told her how much I liked this song. You would never have guessed she was the mother of someone famous, she was so unpretentious. She replied simply how David's music was like poetry. How true this is!
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When I graduated from high school, the Principal tracked down my folks and asked them if they had anymore kids he should know about. That's when they learned I'd been on restriction for the last three weeks. Hey, old enough to do what you want and young enough to get away with it? That only happens once in your life. High School is there for a reason. Kick ass!
Talking Heads at the Boston Orpheum - during this song, he ran and ran multiple laps full speed around the stage, circling the performers, what seemed like forever, until he finally stopped front and center and wailed the last verse of "same as it ever was" - echoing through the auditorium. It was stunning, if you can imagine.
I'd be honored if some David Byrne & Talking Heads fans would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal performance of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE (re-interpreted as a ballad) th-cam.com/video/ufAJixCpGZU/w-d-xo.html on my YT channel in tribute to one of the most unique & iconic bands of the late 70s/early 80s era. Raw acoustic with no digital editing. Thanks and peace.
I once heard this song on a midnight run to Daytona to watch the 500. At 1 am this song came on while I was considering pulling over to a hotel to sleep and hit the road early that morning. But this song fucked me up so badly that I stayed on the road wide awake for the next 2 hours until I made it to my AirBNB in Orlando. I'll never forget this damn song.
When I was 19 and this song first came out I thought "Am I right or am I wrong?/My god what have I done?" was a pretty badass lyric. Now, at 60, it makes my heart hurt. In a good way. I think anyone who cares about the effects their actions have on themselves and others will eventually ask themselves those questions, maybe multiple times.
That "My God, what have I done?" part hits different after you have that exact epiphany about your own life. Just that dawning moment when you realize how much time you wasted on something you can never reach
No not really about a simple regret, it's more about things like getting into a fight, cheating on your wife- that kind of thing. Not about simple regrets. Things unintentional, but still there.
"Time isn't holding up, time isn't after us"... God, you REALLY get this after a lota spins around the sun... But it also brings a peaceful, calming comfort, an "it's all going to be A-OK" vibe.
This is a hauntingly beautiful masterpiece of a work of art. It speaks so much truth about our existence in less than four minutes. Anyone over 40 can easily relate to this as you realize that there are probably more days in the rear view mirror than there are on the road ahead. We get stuck in the same pattern day in and day out. Get up. Get breakfast. Get the kids off to school. Go to work. Come home. Get dinner. Go to bed. ...and then we do it over and over again for years. The water will still be flowing long after we are gone from this earth, and I think that everyone has had one of those moments where we say to ourselves "MY GOD! WHAT HAVE I DONE!!?" It is brilliant that David was only 28 when he realized, wrote and performed this. The fact that we are still talking about it 40+ years later speaks to his wisdom. This will always be my mid life crisis theme as I let the days go by.
He surely realized "it" much before (maybe early 20's at the latest); every greater soul comes to realize it sooner than average people... not many of them, I guess, live past 30 without having tried (or seriously contemplated) to "escape" at least once.
@@Isabel-sr8ep Lol, I was 15 when I first heard this song and I didn't relate to it then, but hearing it at 48 I'm just shaking my head (and my booty!) It is a joy to get to the point where you can look back at things you didn't fully appreciate when you were young....saying that, I have a hard time imagining you in 40 years going, man WAP was such a great song!
I was a teen rocking out to this in the 80’s laughing at parents and older people listened to 40’s-60’s music and now 30+ years, here we are! How did I get here?!! Same as it ever was...
I think the chorus seriously takes away from the mean sounding bass line. I feel this could have had serious potential if the chorus was similar to the verse
The Talking Heads at their absolute best. New Wave really kicking in in 1980. It's one of the best songs ever. It will never grow old, and it will live on forever like most excellent songs.
I had this surreal dream where David Byrne was my grandfather. I was in his house which was on the edge of a cliff and he showed me his record collection, including all Talking Heads albums, of course. Byrne always reminded me of my actual grandfather, who I often dream about since he passed last year, may he rest in peace. No real reason for sharing this here, just wanted to type it somewhere so I don't forget about it and here it seemed appropriate.
This is the ultimate mid life crisis song. The movements represent the realization that you have maybe more years behind than ahead. You're coming to realizations of your life and choices made. The water flows with or without you and sometimes it feels like you're drowning in it (Opening where it looks like he's being dunked and trying to catch his breath) "You may find your self...." is part of the realization that you're either doing pretty good or you aren't where you wanted to be by this age and it all seems sudden. Like you're in your youth playing with friends and then suddenly you're an adult, married, car, home and you wonder where the time went. "once in a lifetime" because each moment is once in a lifetime. You won't have this moment ever again the same way. Time is ticking. The movements are the internal monologue of you don't know wtf is going on and in all your years you have no answers and seeming no control thinking you may be going insane or life feels like it is beating you. You've gotten into a routine "same as it ever was" and realizing you're stuck " but "you may ask yourself where Does that highway go to?" could be should I try this new thing (change of career, finish a degree, some dream or goal) "Am I right or am I wrong" is either talking yourself into or out of something and "My God What have I done?" could be seen as regret that you tried something new and failed or the regret that you didn't try something new and your able time to do it has passed. "This is not my beautiful house" is realizing you have it good but still something is missing as time ticks. Live every day as if it were your last, one day you're going to be right
I taught secondary school up until 2015. The kids all knew and loved this song (generational) and it still gets plenty of airplay today; which for me are two pretty good indicators of a great song which is a true classic. To think that it was not originally released as a single, but became widely known because of student radio.
I can't believe 41 years! I saw them in NYC at CBGB's before anyone knew them. He looked like some sort of odd crane, but you couldn't take your eyes off him. And that existential voice was perfect
@@Brickkicker55 Later on. As I said, it wasn't originally released as a single. Only once its popularity built, did they release it and some time later make the video. The album it was off, Remain in Light, was released in 1980. It charted as a single in 1981. The video was released November 1984 and won an MTV award in 1985.
Not exactly. His Devo influence shows big time in this. The early use of video; the satirical jerking around; the focus on man as an absurd commodity pressed into pre-fab behaviors. This is a more beautified, less punk take on Devo's Mongoloid from years earlier.
I'd be honored if some Talking Heads fans would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal TH-cam performance of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE (re-interpreted as a ballad) in tribute to one of the most unique & iconic bands of the late 70s/early 80s era. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Peace and stay safe.
To me these lyrics are about how we can kinda go on "autopilot" and kinda just let life pass by, as we're just going through the motions, but maybe one day something can snap us out of that dream-like autopilot existence, whether its something like a loved one dying, a new romantic relationship, a health diagnosis like cancer or something else. Just something that brings us out of the trance and reminds us how precious time is. Really interesting song :)
This has been my favorite song since I was a kid and I never listened to it with your idea in mind until now. Thank you. You made a great interpretation
@@NedInYaHead Who else are you referring too? (Unless you mean generally, because if so, then I get it as there were many songs/albums based around the suburbs in and around the 80s. (Especially early 80s))
Fun fact: The choreographer for this video (yes, it was actually meticulously choregraphed) was Toni "Oh Mickey you're so fine" Basil. She had a career as a dancer and choreographer going back to the early sixties, and was good friends with David Byrne, David Bowie, and a whole slew of legends besides. After her one hit in the music biz, she happily went back to dancing and choreographing full-time. She still moves like a pro even in her golden years... Yes, that was a Bowie pun. I apologize for nothing.
The message of this old song is for me more actual than ever. We live in chaotic stressful times. We work like idiots only to see everything falling apart again. And once in a lifetime we ask ourselves: How did I get here? Then we realize that everything is just the same as it ever was. Brilliant song!
I'm 59 now, and I've known this song for much of my adult life, and its meant different things to me at different times. Now I'm almost 60, I often wonder "How did I get here?" because its not where I planned, but its equally wonderful.
Ya, I remember MTV played it the first hour that they first came on the air August 1, 1981. Remember that night very well. We were all in the basement of my cousins' house watching MTV's premiere. I was in 6th grade at the time and it was the talk of the school that next Monday. Our cable company was one of the few to carry the channel at the time. Then I'd move to another city whose cable company didn't carry it a year later and have to wait another four years for it to show up again in 1986.
The whole concept of the Remain in Light album is the calling not from a man but from its mind to stay sane. Is a great example of society losing its fundaments and losing itself into consuming and bad habits. Remain in Light is the mind of a man trying to stay calm and sane against all the explosive emotions and standards society was taking and still is taking. The LP is the current definition of losing itself in peaceful times and this song is a great example.
I've come to feel like there were three groups in the 80s that sort of dealt with a world gone mad. Devo warned about the madness. Talking Heads was about enduring the madness. Oingo Boingo was about reveling in the madness.
@@joebates8659back when music actually was real music written by those playing it and could actually perform live and not need to record studio loop..... aka use auto tune, not just the videos but at the start mtv actually played real music then it became show tunes beiber, perry so on so forth all the fools that need a studio magic to sound ok.
@@antlerr check Black Country New Road and stop talking about how music once was great and no longer is, auto tune also can be used wisely Also what you're talking about is true when looking at mainstream, music is still as great as it was in 70s
I just missed it! I'm born in 84 so I grew up to 90s MTV generation (teenage mtv) it was awesome but yah im pretty jealous for people like you who experienced this 80s stuff on mtv
I just had the pleasure of seeing David Byrne’s “American Utopia on Broadway” performance last Saturday. There were a lot of really great songs, pretty much all of them were about as experimental as you could get. And the performance and choreography was great. But my favorite part would definitely have to be when they played their rendition of this song. This is my favorite Talking Heads song, and David had pretty much been hinting at the fact they’d play this song the entire show, by occasionally doing the “how do I work this” hand chopping motion. And let me tell you, David Byrne has STILL got it. He was singing higher notes during his performance than he did in the original recording. And each line was delivered like a declaration in a gospel. When the song was over, everyone was clapping of course, but a select few people got up to give a standing ovation, and I was one of them. It was my favorite part to an incredible and enriching experience. Thank you to David, and all of the other cast members. It really was a once in a lifetime experience.
I was a teenager in the 80's and I was continually blown away by the music videos the artists made. They were so experimental that I were glued the the screen and watched every time the were shown. I attribute much of my artistic way of thinking to those music video in that time.
Green screens weren’t in use when this came out on MTV; blue-screens were still fairly new. ...into the blue again... But I probably don’t have all of my facts straight on that. ...same as it ever was
@@Dark0neone Stop being such an asshole. Not everyone who's clarifying shit like that is an asshole. Maybe learn some fucking tolerance instead of being impulsive.
Imagine surviving the korean and vietnamese war, then 7 years later you hear this Okay edit: just how the song sounds, the instruments used, and the technology behind this video. While I know blue screens had been used since the late 60s/early 70s (See Monty Python's Flying Circus for example), the vietnam war had a pretty distinct soundtrack so to speak, and I doubt many, if any, songs sounded like this.
@@sirrivet9557 Unfortunately, a lot of new veterans are rolling into the same thing around now. 40 years old and wondering wtf was that shit in the Middle East all about? STILL about?
Except it is more complicated, like cultures are. Oops, I've given the answer, "culture". If it's true some religions were includind "dance" it was generally in some ceremonies and rituals, but there are people who made dances from ways to conform to society (Middle-Age era is an example). Monotheist dogmatic beliefs are not the ones that started including dance, but I think including dance and singing in a dogmatic belief is a good way to keep people stronger against the tides of death and other dramatical events. Gospel and such must keep existing in religions.
@@Donjonneau Dance is more part of some cultures than others. Many Christians are reticent to include dance in their ceremonies because it is absolutely essential that these ceremonies remain reverent, and it isn't easy to make dance reverent. Plus, many of them have been turned off the idea by cringey, irreverent dance numbers that are an embarrassment to all involved. African Christians, for instance, are much better at including it, because it's more part of their culture and they can do it more respectfully.
I was at a Penny's store shopping for some nice work clothes. I have to go to the big and tall section. My son was with me in his stroller. I stopped by the suit jackets and this song started playing in the store. I put on a large Shaquille O'Neil brand jacket and started dancing like David Byrne. Made my son crack up and my wife embarrassed.
keep doing it, in the car, at home, on your lawn, just don't stop doing it because of what others think. great songs with great dances deserved to be sung and danced to!
@@shockshock23 it seems to me that some, if not, most genius's are a lil weird, guess that's what genius is. i wouldn't know about being genius, but a lil off in some degree, yes. lol.
I bought an antique fire truck a few years ago and I have a decal on the windshield facing the drivers seat that reads "And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile." No S^@$%
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Hearing this play in a supermarket was the most surreal thing I've experienced in a long time.
I kinda wish I would've experienced that.
~~forgot to type "wish" because I'm an idiot~~
Nice pfp
They play it regularly at my store, as well as Queen, Michael Jackson, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Tears for Fears, ABBA, Earth, Wind, and Fire, and other wildly influential artists for some reason
Update: they also play Blue Monday
@Buick GSX
what kind of grocery store do y'all _HAVE_ 😭😭😭
bruhh all the stores where I live play crap like katy perry or justin bieber 😔
Talking Heads were way ahead of their time. It's hard to believe that this song was released in 1980. A timeless masterpiece.
And I have loved it ever since. 67 years old. A masterpiece. Starred in a movie with Tom Hanks as the theme song - A Hologram for a King. Highly appropriate and meaningful.
Incredible isn't it!
Sounds as fresh everytime I hear it now, as it did the first time I ever heard it.
@@timsavini2585 the song does I don't know about the video so much anymore but if you just hear the song without the video it has aged very well and sounds contemporary
It never gets old
Digga dein Name ist zu perfekt für diese Welt
This song can speak to you at several different stages of life. From an 80s kid watching this video on MTV to pushing 50, it means something different at every age, and that’s what makes it a brilliant song.
Pushing 50 is young to me.
Pushing 45 and this is my childhood MTV its priceless
I'm 25, and I can remember my mom playing this song in the car for me and my brothers when we were little all the time. I liked it then, even without understanding the meaning, and I love it more and more the older I get, as it becomes more and more meaningful. It's unequivocally my favorite song of all time, and I'll probably be listening to it until the day I die.
Also an 80s inner city Black kid who's 52 now and THIS is my ABSOLUTE favorite song EVER...
@@TheRCish YOUR favorite song ever TOO huh... Great minds DO think alike...
I’m here for my son Alex Whitton, he passed away on 3 September 2024 aged 22. As a Young autistic man, he found joy in the work of David Byrne, idolised him almost. We had this as his ‘exit’ song at his funeral. His grave stone has ‘same as it ever was’ etched onto it. My heart aches for my boy. I hope he’s at Peace now. I love you without end Alex ❤
God bless him and your family! 🙏🏻
Bless you!
Salute to that fine man. He has impeccable taste.
Fellow autistic young man here :)
My condolences to you. A mother never should Lose their child before us. I feel your pain, I lost my son 38 yrs in 2020. May both are sons RIP. 😢🙏
Im so sorry for your loss. ❤
I don't know what emotion is portrayed here but I've definitely felt it before
Some combination of regret, acceptance, and going along with the absurdity of Life.
It’s really complicated but I can feel it. It’s really hard to explain
Lust
@@samsonite7694 no
Sam Venskus yes
This songs doesn’t age. Work of art.
You could almost say it’s... the same as it ever was.
@@skinwalker69420 You stole my line. 😡
Completely agree
Exact
Absolutely!
"Same as it ever was" is a great response to any question you don't understand.
Like life.
@@patricky101🎉 i🎉 hope 🎉mtmtm😢g😢😮
same as it ever was
Back in the day, that was my answer to "How was your weekend?" (along with the chops on the forearm)
Same as it ever was !!!!!!!!!!
アーティストってこの様な人を指すのだろう！詩を書き音楽にし表現をする本当にかっこいい！
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give me money now
I guess??
oh hiiii david byrne
Lmao
This fuels me
Brilliant
👌👌👌
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I’m pretty sure this is just David showing off how perfectly his glasses fit.
Lol 😆... dude, you got a point.
Honestly, I'm kinda jealous
@@thebirdsareuptosomething4938 same my glasses are falling off just watching youtube
He just came from the optometrist and has till the end of the day to return his glasses 😁😁😁🤗
Edit: if they don't fit.
He didnt know they were recording
They wouldn't budge for NOTHIN'
I went to a pub on holiday last year. I was not sober AT ALL... and watching someone do this dance was the best laugh I had.
Yeh, this track is seriously funked up.
Then you realized you were looking into a mirror :) .
@@jimjim377 Maybe one day. I am still learning the routine
Maybe it was him… orToni Basil 😂
Most probably the Bouncer pushs you out 😉
0:54 My braincells during a test:
A drug test?
i remember a discussion a long time ago about how David Byrne in the foreground is imperfectly trying to mimic the david byrnes in the background. he is trying to follow along but just doesn't have a hang of the moves. like he's trying to imitate successful businessmen but failing to do so.
i still want to find this background to use in my pc
That actually makes a lot of sense
Huh. But then I went back and realized when he's immitating african muslims and talking about living in a shack, he actually performed those moves pretty well, like they were natural. And in fact defaulted to them in the first 'immitating the men on the background' sequence.
... Is this song actually brilliant?
Hes also really sweaty
I thought he was trying to imitate some kind of church preacher
Tina Waymouth is one of the meanest, funkiest and most badass bassist in history. Those baselines are hypnotizing and make you want to move.
Yeah mad how she didn't want to be a bassist at first. She much talented..
Abouslty
Funny thing is I think she’s seriously overrated.
@FloopidyMcDoopidy same as it ever was
Tom- Tom Club
I could never understand why people left the dance floor whenever I got up to dance. After all I learnt everything from David Byrne.
lmao
because they did The Great Curve afterwards and we got fucking crazy for that one
That's fukn brilliant mate,
Legend.
Man I would've joined you
You were granted an audience
Unbeatable choreography by Byrne. The whole album (Remain In Light) is excellent.
I love how he just look like he is possessed while doing all these move and is shocked by each movement
That's life innit?
that's what most performers can't do these days... everything is digital and produced then they have to ACT like they did it...
this guy wrote, performed and did this for real. He's a real MUSICIAN... look up the TALKING HEADS his band before he went solo.
David Byrne IS A MUSICIAN....
@Unojhiir0 doesnt sound like a terrible Saturday nighf
What do you mean "looks like".
That's exactly what he's doing, he was playing a demented preacher
"You may find yourself living in a shotgun shack" is undoubtedly one of the greatest opening lyrics to a song ever. Right up there with "Saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand"
my favorite is still "driving home from my meth lab"
"She put on her boxing gloves and went to sleep" - the song Glory from Television
"That there, that's not me"
Right up there with: “… Somewhere in a lonely hotel room, a guys starting to realize that eternal fate has turned its back on him… it’s 2am…”
"bitch I'm back out my coma" - ye
I remember being 15 years old sitting in an easy chair in front of a TV when this video suddenly came on. Since then it has continued to haunt and inspire like no other song. It's an examination of conscience put to music.
Heard it on a movie with nick Nolte.
The combo of the movie and this song....Nolte a homeless in a rich family home...
Imagine trying to figure out how to compose a track like this and the video is perfect fxxking unbelievable 😂😂😂😂😂 PEACE Dublin Ireland 😜😜😜
😢can you do acid b4 listening to this song, safely?...
That's why this song has so much stamina. It's slightly older than me yet still is very relevant since it came out
I had a similar experience with "Enjoy the Silence". I was like 8 and was just passing through the living room and that video went straight to my subconscious
The ultimate "You'll understand when you're older." song.
Same as it ever was.
what you said is so so so true. I heard this song as a kid. I felt to my heart that it is saying something very important. hearing it as a very very adult person I finally got it..... chills down my spine
As each year passes, this song becomes more and more dystopian in meaning. I listened to this as a teen and had no idea how dark it really is.
@Richard JW this isn't your house thr bank owns it. That's not your wife the government owns her and when you divorce you will know that never was yuur wife. How did I get here like how do I take these chains off
the real epiphany is the time signature and key signature changes and how they work.
@@willbracken2367 nice comment. It sounds elusive but it’s actually a straight 4/4 time, and the chords are very simple too.
It also says get off your zza and do _something_ with your life before it's too late.
@@hankkingsley2976 100%
David Byrne: Has a stroke in the studio
Music video creators: "This is art."
Yes, Yes, when people music made people beautiful!!!!! CellaMadea
More like a cocaine overdose but pretty much lol. Never gets old.
@@johnharrington4757 Definitely a combo of coke and acid
@@Megaalith David Byrne likes the topic of nervousness and angst for songwriting. Cant sleep my beds on fire, don't touch me ...................
fun fact: all of this was choreographed
The anxiety induced by the worrying message about monotonous time based life gives me enough fear based motivation to keep trying to do something else with my life
You worry about silly things. We all die with regrets.
If you fear time is monotonous then does that mean you are only doing things to avoid your fear of the ironic monotony of doing things ?
Same here, except it hits harder when there’s people holding you back from trying to do something else by obligating me to spend time with them 24/7
@@seawind930 You are right, but that isn’t a valid reason to stop trying, there are things I don’t want to regret
Why? You’re only going to fail.
it's amazing how forward-thinking this whole album is
or maybe the world just hasn't changed much since 1980
The later, unfortunately. I think we have hit an impasse due to religious and militaristic obsession of competitive nature and paranoia.
Until that is solved, I don't think we will progress as a society.
@@bebopganymede I guess a lot of the anxieties of the early 80's are as relevant now as they were back then, if not moreso.
Not that I was even alive back then but a general fear of an increasingly interconnected, impersonal, and globalistic world- operating on a level too complex for human comprehension- seems like it was a major part of the zeitgeist.
Of course the specifics change with time but the fears and sources of conflict seem like they're much the same.
The more things change, the more they stay the same
Same as it ever was
Those have to be the most well fitting glasses ever. Them shits barely even slipped from their place
Tru
Bruh my glasses fall off my face when I look down
expecially with the 30 pounds of sweat he had on his face
Maybe he's super glue them to his face
@The Stan Man; Dear, you have clearly and absolutely not understood the text. Then it is also better that you absolutely do not respond. Because with the experts you now come across as absolutely enormously stupid. For those who don't know, they are going to agree with you, but don't forget at the IQ test they are all going to end on 75, just like you.
I met David Byrne's mom at a Quaker meeting years ago and told her how much I liked this song. You would never have guessed she was the mother of someone famous, she was so unpretentious. She replied simply how David's music was like poetry. How true this is!
That’s amazing. I imagine she’s very sweet
I met David Byrne’s uncle’s cousin’s ex-wife. She was so unpretentious and didn’t even know who David Byrne was.
This is not my beautiful house this is not my beautiful wife
His mom is a Quaker? Well that explains... everything or nothing I dunno. She's got to be in her 90s eh?
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"There is water at the bottom of the ocean." -David Byrne
Indeed
No truer words have been spoken.
We live in a society.
The missing verse...
captain Obvious
This is by far the best song of the era.
David Byrne got that drip, literally. The man is dripping
Corey finally wrote a comment here
Boi I just got done binging your videos what the fuck
Its the national treasure himself. Seriously if you havent checked him out do it now!
Absolutely outstanding.
he's shinier than Gordon Freeman's ass in SFM
My grandfather went to high school with him
According to him, he was always this...David Byrne like.
When I graduated from high school, the Principal tracked down my folks and asked them if they had anymore kids he should know about. That's when they learned I'd been on restriction for the last three weeks. Hey, old enough to do what you want and young enough to get away with it? That only happens once in your life. High School is there for a reason. Kick ass!
so, would you say his whole life was... the same as it ever was?
@@andyk5467 I believe he has spoken about his experience with Aspergers, I dont remember for sure though.
Math teacher: David, what's the square root of 16?
David Byrne: Same as it ever was.
@@Posit_Zero_Blue I audibly chuckled
Talking Heads at the Boston Orpheum - during this song, he ran and ran multiple laps full speed around the stage, circling the performers, what seemed like forever, until he finally stopped front and center and wailed the last verse of "same as it ever was" - echoing through the auditorium. It was stunning, if you can imagine.
I'd be honored if some David Byrne & Talking Heads fans would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal performance of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE (re-interpreted as a ballad) th-cam.com/video/ufAJixCpGZU/w-d-xo.html on my YT channel in tribute to one of the most unique & iconic bands of the late 70s/early 80s era. Raw acoustic with no digital editing. Thanks and peace.
That must've been a great concert..I'm jealous..lol
Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
My God, what did he do?
Imagine Lady Gaga on stage.
0:49 nah if I wake up like that I'm not asking questions
I once heard this song on a midnight run to Daytona to watch the 500. At 1 am this song came on while I was considering pulling over to a hotel to sleep and hit the road early that morning. But this song fucked me up so badly that I stayed on the road wide awake for the next 2 hours until I made it to my AirBNB in Orlando. I'll never forget this damn song.
Good story
Brilliant mate
Hey gen z. 1979. God bless.
I thought you were relating an experience from the 80s until I see the word AirBnB
LOL.
When I was 19 and this song first came out I thought "Am I right or am I wrong?/My god what have I done?" was a pretty badass lyric. Now, at 60, it makes my heart hurt. In a good way. I think anyone who cares about the effects their actions have on themselves and others will eventually ask themselves those questions, maybe multiple times.
but the real question is where is that large automobile
@@Darenz-cg9zg came out in 1980
Yikes
Ah but then it'll be too late.
Sometimes genius is so advanced it may take decades to fully appreciate.
That "My God, what have I done?" part hits different after you have that exact epiphany about your own life. Just that dawning moment when you realize how much time you wasted on something you can never reach
Yup
Bruh
Or..."How did I get here?" !!!
No not really about a simple regret, it's more about things like getting into a fight, cheating on your wife- that kind of thing. Not about simple regrets. Things unintentional, but still there.
@@DS40764 Regardless, it's still like regret.
2:45 DID I HEAR A ROCK AND STONE?!
FOR ROCK AND STONE!!
ROCK AND STONEEEEE
FOR KARL!! 🤘
"Time isn't holding up, time isn't after us"... God, you REALLY get this after a lota spins around the sun... But it also brings a peaceful, calming comfort, an "it's all going to be A-OK" vibe.
There is Iron in your avatar. There shall be a like
Oh, yes.
I was just thinking that that's my favourite line in the song and seconds later I saw your comment. ❤
This is a hauntingly beautiful masterpiece of a work of art. It speaks so much truth about our existence in less than four minutes. Anyone over 40 can easily relate to this as you realize that there are probably more days in the rear view mirror than there are on the road ahead.
We get stuck in the same pattern day in and day out. Get up. Get breakfast. Get the kids off to school. Go to work. Come home. Get dinner. Go to bed.
...and then we do it over and over again for years. The water will still be flowing long after we are gone from this earth, and I think that everyone has had one of those moments where we say to ourselves "MY GOD! WHAT HAVE I DONE!!?"
It is brilliant that David was only 28 when he realized, wrote and performed this. The fact that we are still talking about it 40+ years later speaks to his wisdom.
This will always be my mid life crisis theme as I let the days go by.
Hi I recommend a new indie song of reflection called 'Looking Into The Mirror' By Robert Nix
Well said that fellow middle-aged man! :)
I’m only 15 so I can’t relate to this song (yet) haha but damn I’ve been listening to it for about a half hour now on loop! 😆
He surely realized "it" much before (maybe early 20's at the latest); every greater soul comes to realize it sooner than average people... not many of them, I guess, live past 30 without having tried (or seriously contemplated) to "escape" at least once.
@@Isabel-sr8ep Lol, I was 15 when I first heard this song and I didn't relate to it then, but hearing it at 48 I'm just shaking my head (and my booty!) It is a joy to get to the point where you can look back at things you didn't fully appreciate when you were young....saying that, I have a hard time imagining you in 40 years going, man WAP was such a great song!
I was a teen rocking out to this in the 80’s laughing at parents and older people listened to 40’s-60’s music and now 30+ years, here we are! How did I get here?!! Same as it ever was...
Same here lol
I concur
I thought your parents were dead Batman ;)
@@jennifervan75 ummm... Alternate universe lol
I like Swing and all era's and genres of music. I hope we can keep You-Tube from becoming something lame!
Seeing this video as a child was astonishing. A little frightening, a lot enthralling.
Most impressive thing about this video is this man’s glasses never moving from his face
I'm 70% sure they're taped
I've seen this video multiple times the last 3 years and never noticed this until you said it
holy shit
The first use of Gorilla glue.
I head bang for a milmeter and i find my glasses across the room
This song has one of the most beautiful choruses ever composed.
DrZaius75
I think the chorus seriously takes away from the mean sounding bass line. I feel this could have had serious potential if the chorus was similar to the verse
I really miss that comment about that guy getting thrown out a club because he tried to the dance at 0:54
I too am searching for it
Yeah I'm sure you miss that comment and aren't completely bandwagoning the top comment
@@Rose-qn2ed calm down that's a bit unnecessary
Why did he get banned.. now i gotta find that comment,
YES!
The Talking Heads at their absolute best. New Wave really kicking in in 1980. It's one of the best songs ever. It will never grow old, and it will live on forever like most excellent songs.
Dude, this edible ain’t shi-
*LETTING THE DAYS GO BY*
I discovered this song when I was on edibles lol
@@swagmaster6973 If you aren’t making that up, it must have been quite the experience!
@@adamj1367 dead serious, I had heard their music plenty of times but never this song even though it's their most popular. I love it though
*LET THE WATER HOLD ME DOWN*
I'm high on medical mamajuana for severe nerve damage and I'm laughing my ass off !!!
0:55 me when the world is taken over by evil clones of myself and the only way to sneak past them is by doing the same dance as them
1:06 when i'm trying to dig out the brain chip
2:16 me trying to convince the court that I’m sane
3:15 Me when I practice massage methods on my arm in hope they spare me
Shaun of the dead reference:
lol
David Byrne is truly one of a kind
Hi I Recommend an Indie rock song called 'Looking Into The Mirror' By Robert Nix
When I was working in Dublin one of the people working in the area was called David Byrne. I had to explain who that was to my Latvian co worker.
Are you trying to imitate him?
he's the type of person who can only appear once in a lifetime
he's the kind of guy you'll see once in a lifetime
"Well, how did I get here?" is something I ask myself every day.
I had this surreal dream where David Byrne was my grandfather. I was in his house which was on the edge of a cliff and he showed me his record collection, including all Talking Heads albums, of course. Byrne always reminded me of my actual grandfather, who I often dream about since he passed last year, may he rest in peace. No real reason for sharing this here, just wanted to type it somewhere so I don't forget about it and here it seemed appropriate.
commenting on it so it’s always in your notifications brother
oh man nice profile pic, The Avalanches are awesome!
sounds like a nice dream
I liked reading this
Nice dream bro!
This is the ultimate mid life crisis song. The movements represent the realization that you have maybe more years behind than ahead. You're coming to realizations of your life and choices made. The water flows with or without you and sometimes it feels like you're drowning in it (Opening where it looks like he's being dunked and trying to catch his breath) "You may find your self...." is part of the realization that you're either doing pretty good or you aren't where you wanted to be by this age and it all seems sudden. Like you're in your youth playing with friends and then suddenly you're an adult, married, car, home and you wonder where the time went. "once in a lifetime" because each moment is once in a lifetime. You won't have this moment ever again the same way. Time is ticking. The movements are the internal monologue of you don't know wtf is going on and in all your years you have no answers and seeming no control thinking you may be going insane or life feels like it is beating you. You've gotten into a routine "same as it ever was" and realizing you're stuck " but "you may ask yourself where Does that highway go to?" could be should I try this new thing (change of career, finish a degree, some dream or goal) "Am I right or am I wrong" is either talking yourself into or out of something and "My God What have I done?" could be seen as regret that you tried something new and failed or the regret that you didn't try something new and your able time to do it has passed. "This is not my beautiful house" is realizing you have it good but still something is missing as time ticks. Live every day as if it were your last, one day you're going to be right
I know all of those feelings
Are you my conscience??
I think song is funny
A pop song that sums up an existential crisis..brilliant
Catchy too🙂
Fuck I'm at a quarter life crisis lmao the gods only know how my midlife is gonna be...whew.
This was released 41 years ago and it still rocks in 2022! And the days go by...
Same as it ever was
I taught secondary school up until 2015. The kids all knew and loved this song (generational) and it still gets plenty of airplay today; which for me are two pretty good indicators of a great song which is a true classic.
To think that it was not originally released as a single, but became widely known because of student radio.
I can't believe 41 years!
I saw them in NYC at CBGB's before anyone knew them.
He looked like some sort of odd crane, but you couldn't take your eyes off him.
And that existential voice was perfect
@@MrT67 And MTV
@@Brickkicker55 Later on. As I said, it wasn't originally released as a single. Only once its popularity built, did they release it and some time later make the video. The album it was off, Remain in Light, was released in 1980. It charted as a single in 1981. The video was released November 1984 and won an MTV award in 1985.
I just got engaged. I never thought it would happen to me. Life is crazy.
Congrats fam!!
David Byrne is art. He sits in a whole unknown genre all to himself.
Not exactly. His Devo influence shows big time in this. The early use of video; the satirical jerking around; the focus on man as an absurd commodity pressed into pre-fab behaviors. This is a more beautified, less punk take on Devo's Mongoloid from years earlier.
True
And he can play a guitar like nobodys business.
Definitely the inspiration for Ena! :)
That make me think a little bit of devo and oingo boingo
This song is almost 40 years old and it makes more sense today than it did back then.
Or is it because it's the same as it ever was?
@@transrights1345 , same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...
pachampion same as it ever was...
Still ahead of 2020. Next try in 10 years.
The guitar riff at the end as Byrne settles down gives me chills.
as Byrne settles down 😂
I'd be honored if some Talking Heads fans would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal TH-cam performance of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE (re-interpreted as a ballad) in tribute to one of the most unique & iconic bands of the late 70s/early 80s era. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Peace and stay safe.
Yeap - Best part of the whole song!
as Byrne settles down [2]
Sure! Where do we listen?
As for me there has never been a better Popsong. Period.
That suit is somehow too big and too small for him at the same time
🤣🤣🤣
Rich Hall: "Is this suit too big? Can it be taken in?"
This sums up most of 80's and 90's fashion
So it fits???
😅😂 you win!!
To me these lyrics are about how we can kinda go on "autopilot" and kinda just let life pass by, as we're just going through the motions, but maybe one day something can snap us out of that dream-like autopilot existence, whether its something like a loved one dying, a new romantic relationship, a health diagnosis like cancer or something else. Just something that brings us out of the trance and reminds us how precious time is. Really interesting song :)
They were inspired by suburban life as well
@pork_soup, You should have more Likes!
And then the next song is.. burning down the house
This has been my favorite song since I was a kid and I never listened to it with your idea in mind until now. Thank you. You made a great interpretation
@@NedInYaHead Who else are you referring too? (Unless you mean generally, because if so, then I get it as there were many songs/albums based around the suburbs in and around the 80s. (Especially early 80s))
the only man able to do the club penguin dance
Lmao
Lmao
Wait doesnt that to a bommer sound like saying "wow they made the poggers girl into a anime" cuz i get the same energy from this comment
lol stop it
One of them
I’ve been hooked on The Talking Heads for the last two weeks… ageless! 😊❤
Ha ha glad you found them than
I imagine this hits a lot harder when you're older and have already let the days go by and let the water hold you down
Once in a lifetime?
Can confirm.
You don’t have to be old to experience regret @ not taking up opportunity when it knocks.
My God! What have I done?
Tough shit but we have very little control really
Fun fact: The choreographer for this video (yes, it was actually meticulously choregraphed) was Toni "Oh Mickey you're so fine" Basil. She had a career as a dancer and choreographer going back to the early sixties, and was good friends with David Byrne, David Bowie, and a whole slew of legends besides. After her one hit in the music biz, she happily went back to dancing and choreographing full-time. She still moves like a pro even in her golden years... Yes, that was a Bowie pun. I apologize for nothing.
That’s actually a pretty cool fact, I wouldn’t have guessed
Considering how much she's done during her career (it's absolutely insane), this shouldn't come as a shock.
Yep, she has done a ton of work behind the scenes for decades.
I always liked the parody oh Ricky you're so fine by Weird Al hey Lucy
No apology is accepted 😆😅🤣🤣🤣😂🙂🙃😉😋
Any band that puts the lyrics to thier songs in thier descriptions instantly gets my respect.
Did you notice the description doesn't have "auto generated by youtube" like most band official channels?
Lemon demon
The message of this old song is for me more actual than ever. We live in chaotic stressful times. We work like idiots only to see everything falling apart again. And once in a lifetime we ask ourselves: How did I get here?
Then we realize that everything is just the same as it ever was.
Brilliant song!
When the 80's come on the table, people always praise the geniuses like Bowie and Prince. David Byrne fully deserves to be in that list.
WE COULD BE HEROESSSSSS JUST FOR ONE DAYYYYYYYYY
@@williamjclinton2998 David byrne worked on that song with bowie and they were good friends
Name another song by David Byrne you have 2 months
Read some of his music books. This dude was never behind the times. Same as it ever was.
@@dismaned6675 Get innocuous
I am quite sure this song contains one of the many clues for the meaning of life
Hi I recommend a song called 'The Bond Villain' By Robert Nix
@@redskies4530 tank yo
Sheer genius, this is. Hard to believe anyone was thinking this much more clearly than Asimov in 1980.
something about stopping up and accepting what life is instead of mindlessly running after what you think life should be.
Meaning of meaning:
1. what is intended to be, or actually is, expressed or indicated;
2. the end, purpose, or significance of something:
I can't tell if this song is meant to be about how fast life moves or if it's about trying to grasp the concept of existing
both
@@coldcoffee2320 both is good
Both, its about life, time and consciousness
Just enjoy the music
@@gloriareay515 it’s enjoyable when you know the meaning
I could just watch david byrne sit and count to a milion and do nothing else and I would be thoroughly happy.
I would love to have been on the set of this music video
holy crap its hoovy tube from the popular youtube chanel hoovy tube its nice to see you here man have a eonderful day
@@filip9650 thank you filip from the channel filip
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Didnt expect to see you here, Hoovy Tube. Make a discord server please!
Oh hey, nice to see here, Hoovy Tube.
you'd think one day this song would get old, but it never does.
So true. It hits me in the head just as profoundly every time I listen to it.
Same as it ever was !
LETTING THE DAYS GO BY, SAME AS IT EVER WAS!
Pure unadulterated masterpiece!… typical David Byrne!
@@kimberlypatton205your comment 🎯 100 %
Still love talking heads 44 years after first seeing them live.
Same. Saw them 1977!
never saw then live but they sure do rock
me too unc
Yep my graduation year 💃🎉@@primitivedogs4638
😂 55 & I still love this song. Wow the 80's will never die!💯💯👏👏💖💖💃💃👍🙌🤸♀️🥴
I'm 59 now, and I've known this song for much of my adult life, and its meant different things to me at different times. Now I'm almost 60, I often wonder "How did I get here?" because its not where I planned, but its equally wonderful.
Hi I recommend a song and video called 'Looking into The Mirror' by Robert Nix
It is a beautiful song and an experience
I can so relate, I'm turning 57 in the Fall.
60 and I still fully enjoy this "futuristic" Song, because Young people now, will have same question : How I get here ?
Welcome to the club. 56 here!
I remember seeing this video on MTV on a heavy rotation. What a great song. 80's❤️
When this video came out, I saw it originally on SCTV… What a blessed intersection of holy events
Ya, I remember MTV played it the first hour that they first came on the air August 1, 1981. Remember that night very well. We were all in the basement of my cousins' house watching MTV's premiere. I was in 6th grade at the time and it was the talk of the school that next Monday. Our cable company was one of the few to carry the channel at the time. Then I'd move to another city whose cable company didn't carry it a year later and have to wait another four years for it to show up again in 1986.
my sister and i worked on the “dance” moves from this video and loved them so much !
Maybe you have to be of a certain age, but the older I've gotten the more of a masterpiece this record has become. Timeless.
We knew the day we heard it. Pure Genius.
Time isn't holding up,
Time isn't after us,
Same as it ever was.
Time isn't after us has two meanings is it it's not out to get you or after you're gone there is no time
Time is endless as we are but all things change... same as it ever was. Yet all that was will be again😉
True
This song is still ahead of its time!!,, PURE GENIUS!! 👌
Dude, this guy was a straight up genius. He was SOOO far ahead of his time.
I think he fell apart by 1988 or so. But he had a spectacular run.
Lightyears ahead
@@jeffstone5618 We saw him last year---Still a genius Saw tons of people I've known for a very long time and all said one of the best concerts EVER
How so? This video is awful, love the song but don't understand it. Can you explain?
True, I love this song
Same as it ever was
🎉☺
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
same as it ever was
Same as it ever wa- Hello Gordon!
The whole concept of the Remain in Light album is the calling not from a man but from its mind to stay sane. Is a great example of society losing its fundaments and losing itself into consuming and bad habits. Remain in Light is the mind of a man trying to stay calm and sane against all the explosive emotions and standards society was taking and still is taking. The LP is the current definition of losing itself in peaceful times and this song is a great example.
I've come to feel like there were three groups in the 80s that sort of dealt with a world gone mad.
Devo warned about the madness.
Talking Heads was about enduring the madness.
Oingo Boingo was about reveling in the madness.
@@Pentarax interesting
Ngl I'm struggling mentally rn and this song completely describes what I'm going thru. A masterpiece.
Well said.
It's like a fan sequel to _Dark Side of the Moon_ in a way.
Saw the Talking Heads at the Coconut Grove, Santa Cruz, Ca. 1979. Greatest show ever!
This song exemplifies what made MTV great in it's infancy. I'm proud to have grown up in this generation.
Back when there were goddamn videos on MTV not the SHIT that is on it now!
AMEN>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.i was barely 11 when MTV came out
@@joebates8659back when music actually was real music written by those playing it and could actually perform live and not need to record studio loop..... aka use auto tune, not just the videos but at the start mtv actually played real music then it became show tunes beiber, perry so on so forth all the fools that need a studio magic to sound ok.
@@antlerr check Black Country New Road and stop talking about how music once was great and no longer is, auto tune also can be used wisely
Also what you're talking about is true when looking at mainstream, music is still as great as it was in 70s
I just missed it! I'm born in 84 so I grew up to 90s MTV generation (teenage mtv) it was awesome but yah im pretty jealous for people like you who experienced this 80s stuff on mtv
his dance moves are like NPC getting hit by invisible barrier lmao
man i am so sorry for your creator freddy
@@lilbobby9345 dw miku is fine
@Marina cringe and based
Bruh
Good analogy because the song is about being an NPC in your own life!!!!
this is the most serotonin i’ve had in my body in a minute and i’m still crying
I love how weird and old this is, masterpiece
I just had the pleasure of seeing David Byrne’s “American Utopia on Broadway” performance last Saturday. There were a lot of really great songs, pretty much all of them were about as experimental as you could get. And the performance and choreography was great. But my favorite part would definitely have to be when they played their rendition of this song.
This is my favorite Talking Heads song, and David had pretty much been hinting at the fact they’d play this song the entire show, by occasionally doing the “how do I work this” hand chopping motion. And let me tell you, David Byrne has STILL got it. He was singing higher notes during his performance than he did in the original recording. And each line was delivered like a declaration in a gospel.
When the song was over, everyone was clapping of course, but a select few people got up to give a standing ovation, and I was one of them. It was my favorite part to an incredible and enriching experience. Thank you to David, and all of the other cast members. It really was a once in a lifetime experience.
That is so awesome, I am glad you got to see it!
Check out the podcast SmartLess, he was just on it this week
Fantastic show. One of the best!
saw it two nights in a row back in December - every time the broadway recording comes on at home it takes me back to this moment and so many others.
I thought he passed away?
I was a teenager in the 80's and I was continually blown away by the music videos the artists made. They were so experimental that I were glued the the screen and watched every time the were shown. I attribute much of my artistic way of thinking to those music video in that time.
Eighties music videos the best
You lived in one of the coolest eras for music videos and I respect that~
@@rexivivi Thank you.
Gen X are the coolest generation
@@sandralangstafff we are!!
0:54 Ah yes, the body language of the gods
TURRON TURRRON!!!!!!!
@@somegoodsoup7008 TURRÓN TURRÓN TURRÓN
TURRON TURRON
TURRON TURRON
egyptian gods anyways
PS5 still has no games.
Same as it ever was
You may ask yourself "where are my beautiful games?"
@@Polenguesame as it ever was
My god! Concord was FOUR-HUNDRED-MILLION DOLLADS!
Astro bot, ratchet and clank rift apart, spider man 2, returnal, and final fantasy vii
This video is really funny if you imagine him before editing, he’s just doing weird things in front of a green screen
Thats actually what they did for the background versions of him.
Green screens weren’t in use when this came out on MTV; blue-screens were still fairly new. ...into the blue again...
But I probably don’t have all of my facts straight on that. ...same as it ever was
@@michaelpaquette3004 Stop being such a smartass. Green screen and blue screen are both just chroma keying.
@@Dark0neone Stop being such an asshole. Not everyone who's clarifying shit like that is an asshole.
Maybe learn some fucking tolerance instead of being impulsive.
@@Darkspinesupersonic8 you could learn something from what you tell others to do
Imagine surviving the korean and vietnamese war, then 7 years later you hear this
Okay edit: just how the song sounds, the instruments used, and the technology behind this video. While I know blue screens had been used since the late 60s/early 70s (See Monty Python's Flying Circus for example), the vietnam war had a pretty distinct soundtrack so to speak, and I doubt many, if any, songs sounded like this.
Thing is a lot of veterans probably would be rolling into their monotonous middle class life around this time. So yeah it might relate to them.
@@sirrivet9557 Unfortunately, a lot of new veterans are rolling into the same thing around now. 40 years old and wondering wtf was that shit in the Middle East all about? STILL about?
@@squamish4244 Nothing but power.
@@LordVader1094 You got it, you got it.
Once in a lifetime
Fact is every dance is based on religious trances and I think that's what make them memorable
Him singing this song is also based off television evangelists of the 60’s and 70’s
"dancing is the vertical expression of a horizontal desire." - _some jehovah's witness/mormon probably._
Winston Churchill apparently.
Except it is more complicated, like cultures are. Oops, I've given the answer, "culture". If it's true some religions were includind "dance" it was generally in some ceremonies and rituals, but there are people who made dances from ways to conform to society (Middle-Age era is an example). Monotheist dogmatic beliefs are not the ones that started including dance, but I think including dance and singing in a dogmatic belief is a good way to keep people stronger against the tides of death and other dramatical events. Gospel and such must keep existing in religions.
@@Donjonneau Dance is more part of some cultures than others. Many Christians are reticent to include dance in their ceremonies because it is absolutely essential that these ceremonies remain reverent, and it isn't easy to make dance reverent. Plus, many of them have been turned off the idea by cringey, irreverent dance numbers that are an embarrassment to all involved. African Christians, for instance, are much better at including it, because it's more part of their culture and they can do it more respectfully.
@@CantusTropus That nuance makes sense.
That Bass! That Base! And everything else, water flowing underground! Masterpiece, thanks for this.
one of the most creative musicians that ever lived finally getting attention... wait... finally... always got attention.
one of the greats.
Always got attention, Finaly getting attention so I guess you could say it's same as it ever was
same as it ever was
High functioning Autism.
jaw dropped when I found out he's Scottish and was born ten minutes down the road from where I live.
Question is why would you search where he was born
@@kh2b573 Who said he did? Maybe he just saw it somewhere. Also stop being so judgmental this guy just made an innocent comment.
@@gabrieldarcy9067 i wasnt being judgemental I was just making a "question is" joke
and you may ask yourself how was that this odd guy jerking around is from a place near me
@@kh2b573 He wanted to know how David Byrne got here.
David Byrne always reminded me of a 1950"s college professor that lost his shit
Or a guy that just doesn't want to go home to his wife, lol, I can relate
My high school physics teacher had a similar look & mannerisms but was less handsome and actually crazy.
falling. down....
Tina Sheroan my mom went to school with David at Lansdowne high
kinda looks like bill nye
David Byrne - a true Genius!!! Words of Wisdom… truly brilliant ❤
I was at a Penny's store shopping for some nice work clothes. I have to go to the big and tall section. My son was with me in his stroller. I stopped by the suit jackets and this song started playing in the store. I put on a large Shaquille O'Neil brand jacket and started dancing like David Byrne. Made my son crack up and my wife embarrassed.
keep doing it, in the car, at home, on your lawn, just don't stop doing it because of what others think. great songs with great dances deserved to be sung and danced to!
Well done.
Luv it!!!!🎶
Perfect!
😂😂
the kind of choreography, where you can't quite decide if it's terrible, or genius. for this reason alone, I think it must be genius
Guy was a genius, & a weirdo!😂
@@shockshock23 it seems to me that some, if not, most genius's are a lil weird, guess that's what genius is. i wouldn't know about being genius, but a lil off in some degree, yes. lol.
@@jimjam1719 I know what you mean. If you don't want to seem weird and be judged you follow the rules and are more bound in your creativity.
@@nerddujugement8334 yes, you are correct my friend. thank you and have a great day.
You are more correct than you can possibly imagine.
Man, I can't go one day in my entire life without asking _"Where is that large automobile?"_
My God what have you done
I bought an antique fire truck a few years ago and I have a decal on the windshield facing the drivers seat that reads "And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile." No S^@$%
@Finky Stingers McFarthing Exactly!! :}
Can't have shit in Detroit.
@@bunionpain16 I-
Beautiful music, beautiful lyrics, beautiful dance moves!