What a pleasure it is to listen to a reactor that listens, (and watches), so openly, carefully, and actively. As a result you notice so many subtle details almost all others miss. And you're so articulate regarding what you do notice. On every video, even about subjects you humbly admit to being ignorant about, you display remarkable insight and intelligence. Put your enthusiasm, positivity and intense curiosity on top of that, and you've got a great channel. Congrats. Even better than that, you'll be an interesting and expansive parent for some kid some day.
In answer to your question about alot of the 'WTF Sound is That!.... They did quite alot of feeding instruments through a MOOG Synthesizer. An old school Synth that still used cables to connect different elements (Not sure if they still get used).. This lead to quite a bit of innovation in Audio Production. They did this not only for the obvious artistic flavor, but also because they wanted a sound that they could create just as good live as in the studio. They weren't the pioneers of the technique, but they were certainly Masters of it!
Thanks for reacting to this. My favorite band, and it’s so great seeing it through your fresh eyes. You gotta check out more songs from this concert! Glad you liked it!
A band making history. It was recorded over two days by Jonathan Denme and is considered one of the greatest shows ever recorded. There is no doubt that David Byrne (the lead singer) was born Scottish and with many talents, one of them is the ability to bring music and artistic performances together as a whole. And a lot of fun! PS: You are getting late with the reaction to the GOAT, the one, the unique, the Purple Highness... Prince. Check'im LIVE and: 1. You won't regret it 2. You'll become a fan for life.
On keyboards Bernie Worrell of Parliament Funkadelic fame ...this video was shot in Hollywood in 1983 at the legendary Hollywood Palladium...I was in high school in L.A and almost ditched school to go...free admission too ..wish I would have gone...as for what genre it was I guess it was New Wave..though I hate to label them
Part of a movie - Stop Making Sense - showing the the whole gig, where they build the whole band up piece by piece starting with an empty stage. A MUST WATCH.
I am not all the way through the reaction yet, but generally they are one of the absolute great in the post-punk world. But it's just so hard to classify. They are their own sound and they are incredible.
i'm from chicago too!,, but, too me this song is about a person working undercover..for the gov and her goes on to say we dress like students we dress like housewives..ppl you never suspect. tapping phone lines ect.. :)
The Talking Heads are often categorized as punk/new wave. The truth is they are their own genre. I recommend Girlfriend is Better from this same live performance next. Their music and particularly their videos are quirky and different.
You really should watch this concert movie. They go on like this for about 2 hours, dancing, jumping, and running around like lunatics. Its a hell of a show man, giving the audience their money's worth. I should add that they perform the material pretty much perfectly even with all of the chaos. There's some serious talent on that stage.
That “electric-funk” vibe you are speaking of comes from the keyboardist Bernie Worrell. He was amazing - RIP. He played with Les Claypool from Primus in a side band years ago…and he was amazing then as well. Such a talent!!
Yeah without her and her husband (and then Bernie funking on keys) this was just a weird art school keyboard band. I mean props to Jerry Harrison for being part of the Modern Lovers but this is nowhere near as consequential without the groove.
The blonde bassist Tina Waymouth wrote the bass line for Genius of Love. Her spinoff band TomTom Club. If you watch this whole video of Talking Heads Stop Making Sense you will see them preform it when David takes a break.
"Does anyone have any questions?" It's actually rhetorical. Talking Heads were all about the perverseness of life and using hyperbole to bring it home. You should perhaps hear more of this particular documentary. It was directed by Jonathan Demme before he went on to win an oscar for directing Silence of the Lambs. That much intellect going into this production, many believe it is the greatest live concert documentary ever filmed. Mick who?
Their genre usually gets labeled as New Wave. They were part of the 70s punk/new wave movement in NYC (They opened for The Ramones at CBGB’s for their first show ever). Musically their sound is a combination of rock, funk, afrobeat, and more.
One of my oldest memories is seeing their first performance, when they were just a four peice, on Saturday Night Live in the later 70's. I was pretty much hooked then. FYI, they just rereleased this concert video in 4K for theaters.
It’s literally about life during wartime. We’ve never had to imagine here, a situation of being under attack or our way of life totally disrupted and chaotic. He’s trying to survive in war conditions which is why he doesn’t have time for anything but getting through the roadblock so they can tap the phone lines in their student and housewife costumes.
At that time music industry couldn't decide which genre label, so were promoted as *College Punk Rock* This concert most rented VHS video of entire 80s decade. Wonder why never see cameras recording on stage? Filmed over three shows - day one stage left, day two stage right; and last show was filmed from back of the concert hall.
First thing you should know about The Talking Heads is that the four core members met in Art College in Boston. So being weird is just part and parcel of who they are, especially David Byrne, the lead singer, song writer, and guitarist. The weird noises you thought were guitar at first is a synthesizer and Jerry Harrison, one of the 4 core members, was playing the solo that you heard. The other synth player, that you didn't hear as much on this song, was Bernie Worrell, the legendary keyboard player from Parliament/Funkadelic. Trivia: David Byrne grew up in Baltimore (I'm from MD, and lived there for a while) and he makes a little nod to Baltimore early in the song with the mention of 'lived in Brown Stones', which is a style of house in a lot of Baltimore City. Keep going with songs from this concert, "Stop Making Sense" - they're all awesome! Thanks for listening and sharing. Peace from SF
Thanks for the brownstone rabbit hole you just sent me down! Not just Baltimore though, you can definitely find brownstones in NYC and Boston; I first encountered the style up here in the Boston area. Definition: "a kind of reddish-brown sandstone used for building. "marble, brownstone, and brick all played major roles in New York construction" a building faced with reddish-brown sandstone. plural noun: brownstones" "A brownstone is a building made from, well, brownstone-a dark sandstone quarried primarily from New Jersey, Connecticut, and Maine. Since this stone is soft (at least as far as stones go) and easy to carve, it lends itself to ornate ornamentation that makes these homes highly sought-after real estate today." So brownstones can definitely be found both in the Mid-Atlantic states and in the northeast, I'm not sure where else but with the material primarily quarried in those three states, it makes sense for it to mostly be used within reasonable transportation distance of those sources. Have you seen any brownstones in SF? San Francisco I presume? Or maybe Santa Fe.
There so many songs from this concert video you should check out. I'm sure you would love Slippery People. Anyway the funk it's coming from Bernie Worrell on the keyboards. He was from the parliament funkadelic's with George Clinton
Bernie Worrell on synthesizer top left of screen, original member of George Clinton’s Parliament Funkadelic responsible for those odd sounds, not guitar
"Take me to the River" by the Talking Heads next please...trust me also thats Bernie Worell in the band, a founding member of Parliment Funkadelic. So that funk you're hearing aint no junk, its funk from one of the foundational players.
NOT DISCO. New Wave. You have to know a bit about what was going on in the world at that time. Running on stage was running during war time, you didn't notice the guitar player "shooting" at him as he ran by the first time. And, he's not taking questions at the end, he's being funny. Your generation doesn't get metaphor very well, you all think too literal. You're not used to creativity in music and lyrics and performance. He is a bit paranoid, moving around time, has a stash of weapons, stay away from the window, tapping phone lines, has some passports and visas, changes his hair style, dress in suit and ties or like house wives. I hope music can get back to this purposeful, artistic, and creative way.
You know Talking Heads and Fela Kuti are related artistically right? Wait. Do you know who Fela Kuti is? Dude, you gotta be culturally literate. The rule of thumb in my family was 'you're on the hook for ALL cultural output since your parents were born. You don't have to like it or even have consumed it all, but you gotta at least be cognizant of it'. Your journey starts...NOW! Enjoy!
This is one of those bands that grows on you, even if you don't like them at first.👍
Shon: "It could be disco."
David Byrne: "This ain't no disco!"
What a pleasure it is to listen to a reactor that listens, (and watches), so openly, carefully, and actively. As a result you notice so many subtle details almost all others miss. And you're so articulate regarding what you do notice. On every video, even about subjects you humbly admit to being ignorant about, you display remarkable insight and intelligence. Put your enthusiasm, positivity and intense curiosity on top of that, and you've got a great channel. Congrats. Even better than that, you'll be an interesting and expansive parent for some kid some day.
Thank you so much! This was a really sweet comment and I appreciate it a lot! Glad you enjoyed, much love🫶🏽
Bollocks.....so many of these phonies on here now.
This concert, Stop Making Sense, is probably one of the top 5 live rock performances of all time. Great from first song to last.
In answer to your question about alot of the 'WTF Sound is That!....
They did quite alot of feeding instruments through a MOOG Synthesizer. An old school Synth that still used cables to connect different elements (Not sure if they still get used).. This lead to quite a bit of innovation in Audio Production. They did this not only for the obvious artistic flavor, but also because they wanted a sound that they could create just as good live as in the studio. They weren't the pioneers of the technique, but they were certainly Masters of it!
Keyboard player for Talking Heads was Bernie Worrell who also played keys for Parliament Funkadelic. Dude could bring the funk.
That dude was a mad genius.
Thanks for reacting to this. My favorite band, and it’s so great seeing it through your fresh eyes. You gotta check out more songs from this concert! Glad you liked it!
About 15 years ago I saw David Byrne in Miami Beach do 5 Encores.
A band making history. It was recorded over two days by Jonathan Denme and is considered one of the greatest shows ever recorded.
There is no doubt that David Byrne (the lead singer) was born Scottish and with many talents, one of them is the ability to bring music and artistic performances together as a whole. And a lot of fun!
PS: You are getting late with the reaction to the GOAT, the one, the unique, the Purple Highness... Prince. Check'im LIVE and:
1. You won't regret it
2. You'll become a fan for life.
I am not certain, but I think out of like 200 reaction channels- yours is my #1 favorite. You are smart. You keep it real. So keep it up.
And people can call it whatever genre they like, it is very dancable. But the talking heads totally helped create what we know of as new wave music.
On keyboards Bernie Worrell of Parliament Funkadelic fame ...this video was shot in Hollywood in 1983 at the legendary Hollywood Palladium...I was in high school in L.A and almost ditched school to go...free admission too ..wish I would have gone...as for what genre it was I guess it was New Wave..though I hate to label them
Part of a movie - Stop Making Sense - showing the the whole gig, where they build the whole band up piece by piece starting with an empty stage. A MUST WATCH.
The only concert video I own. So much fun!
Talking Heads were the business back in the 80's and 90's. They were the bomb.
For a small lady, Tina Weymouth plays a mean bass! David Byrne wears me out just watching him! Gotta love it!
David Byrne Talking heads and Paul Simon’s Rhythm of the Saints for funky rhythms. This is from the 80’s and 90’s. They do everything. Check them out.
Chicago here too and can relate. You should maybe watch the whole Talking Heads Stop Makings Sense film.
Talking Heads came out of the late 70's CBGBS scene, along with Blondie and the Ramons, all are considered "New Wave".
Talking Heads genre is Talking Heads
I am not all the way through the reaction yet, but generally they are one of the absolute great in the post-punk world. But it's just so hard to classify. They are their own sound and they are incredible.
I think they were classified at the time as “New Wave”
i'm from chicago too!,, but, too me this song is about a person working undercover..for the gov and her goes on to say we dress like students we dress like housewives..ppl you never suspect. tapping phone lines ect.. :)
Talking Heads are often considered new wave. Side note, the girl on the bass (Tina Weymouth) is self taught and was pregnant during this tour
Tina Weymouth got me crushing on her the moment she hit the stage. Love her work in Tom Tom Club too...
Ha, loved your reaction to Jerry's keyboard solo at the end!
The Talking Heads are often categorized as punk/new wave. The truth is they are their own genre. I recommend Girlfriend is Better from this same live performance next. Their music and particularly their videos are quirky and different.
You really should watch this concert movie. They go on like this for about 2 hours, dancing, jumping, and running around like lunatics. Its a hell of a show man, giving the audience their money's worth.
I should add that they perform the material pretty much perfectly even with all of the chaos. There's some serious talent on that stage.
That “electric-funk” vibe you are speaking of comes from the keyboardist Bernie Worrell. He was amazing - RIP. He played with Les Claypool from Primus in a side band years ago…and he was amazing then as well. Such a talent!!
Tina Weymouth on bass guitar is the cement.
Yeah without her and her husband (and then Bernie funking on keys) this was just a weird art school keyboard band. I mean props to Jerry Harrison for being part of the Modern Lovers but this is nowhere near as consequential without the groove.
The blonde bassist Tina Waymouth wrote the bass line for Genius of Love. Her spinoff band TomTom Club. If you watch this whole video of Talking Heads Stop Making Sense you will see them preform it when David takes a break.
"Does anyone have any questions?"
It's actually rhetorical. Talking Heads were all about the perverseness of life and using hyperbole to bring it home. You should perhaps hear more of this particular documentary. It was directed by Jonathan Demme before he went on to win an oscar for directing Silence of the Lambs. That much intellect going into this production, many believe it is the greatest live concert documentary ever filmed. Mick who?
The Talking Heads are legendary ❤❤❤
Talking Heads are so fun!! So talented too!
Nice reaction. You got the fun of this band right off the bat.
City's, Houston, Detroit and Pittsburg pee-yay
Their genre usually gets labeled as New Wave. They were part of the 70s punk/new wave movement in NYC (They opened for The Ramones at CBGB’s for their first show ever). Musically their sound is a combination of rock, funk, afrobeat, and more.
Live musical performance doesn’t get much better than this.Saw the remastered Stop Making Sense film on the big screen a few weeks ago - superb
One of my oldest memories is seeing their first performance, when they were just a four peice, on Saturday Night Live in the later 70's. I was pretty much hooked then. FYI, they just rereleased this concert video in 4K for theaters.
It’s literally about life during wartime. We’ve never had to imagine here, a situation of being under attack or our way of life totally disrupted and chaotic. He’s trying to survive in war conditions which is why he doesn’t have time for anything but getting through the roadblock so they can tap the phone lines in their student and housewife costumes.
At that time music industry couldn't decide which genre label, so were promoted as *College Punk Rock* This concert most rented VHS video of entire 80s decade. Wonder why never see cameras recording on stage? Filmed over three shows - day one stage left, day two stage right; and last show was filmed from back of the concert hall.
This was big in the early 80's, Punk Rock or New Wave genres.
"What genre is this?" All of them.
YES! thank you rock and I'm so glad I found your channel
Yer actual Bernie Worrell on synth (RIP), he is a proper hero.
Thanks Shon for checking this out, I love this band, was waiting to see what u think of them.
One of the best bands EVER bro , you have to watch the all concert, one day , it’s incredible, Talking Heads , what a band ,
Best I could come up with is ALT-dance.
my fave Talking Heads song! ♥ infamously krazy performance 😃
Yeah this performance is from a concert movie they did and they s regarded as the best one ever. Every track is cool in its own way.
First thing you should know about The Talking Heads is that the four core members met in Art College in Boston. So being weird is just part and parcel of who they are, especially David Byrne, the lead singer, song writer, and guitarist. The weird noises you thought were guitar at first is a synthesizer and Jerry Harrison, one of the 4 core members, was playing the solo that you heard. The other synth player, that you didn't hear as much on this song, was Bernie Worrell, the legendary keyboard player from Parliament/Funkadelic. Trivia: David Byrne grew up in Baltimore (I'm from MD, and lived there for a while) and he makes a little nod to Baltimore early in the song with the mention of 'lived in Brown Stones', which is a style of house in a lot of Baltimore City. Keep going with songs from this concert, "Stop Making Sense" - they're all awesome! Thanks for listening and sharing.
Peace from SF
Thanks for the brownstone rabbit hole you just sent me down! Not just Baltimore though, you can definitely find brownstones in NYC and Boston; I first encountered the style up here in the Boston area. Definition:
"a kind of reddish-brown sandstone used for building.
"marble, brownstone, and brick all played major roles in New York construction"
a building faced with reddish-brown sandstone.
plural noun: brownstones"
"A brownstone is a building made from, well, brownstone-a dark sandstone quarried primarily from New Jersey, Connecticut, and Maine. Since this stone is soft (at least as far as stones go) and easy to carve, it lends itself to ornate ornamentation that makes these homes highly sought-after real estate today."
So brownstones can definitely be found both in the Mid-Atlantic states and in the northeast, I'm not sure where else but with the material primarily quarried in those three states, it makes sense for it to mostly be used within reasonable transportation distance of those sources.
Have you seen any brownstones in SF? San Francisco I presume? Or maybe Santa Fe.
These cats were the shit🤘❤️i believe this is a concert/movie project
This is what happens when you let Art students form a band.
Talking Heads is only for people who are actually funky deep in their soul
There so many songs from this concert video you should check out. I'm sure you would love Slippery People. Anyway the funk it's coming from Bernie Worrell on the keyboards. He was from the parliament funkadelic's with George Clinton
After disco and punk , we called this new wave...
Check out Devo and Blondie
This is really professional athlete level of conditioning...
“Anybody have any questions”
Greatest concert film ever.
This is considered to be New Wave music
I recommend "Burning down the house" and "Road to nowhere"!
This was the NEW WAVE baby!! The Police, the Cars, U2, B52s...
yes man - more talking heads live...
Burning down the house is my favorite song from them.
Great enthusiasm! Like your thoughts on the song and its meaning to you.
The lyrics are the key to the Heads.
You gotta look up You’re It by Wookiefoot if you haven’t heard them.
Your interpterion has been the best so far sir!!!!!!!
Started playing at CBGB’s in New York with The Ramones
dude...check out Devo-Don Kirschner's rock concert. God I miss the 80s.
Bernie Worrell on synthesizer top left of screen, original member of George Clinton’s Parliament Funkadelic responsible for those odd sounds, not guitar
Turn it up a lot
Living off the grid
I think this song is about underground espionage?
Nothing but flowers is also a really good song by them. It's in a really good movie too.
It's New Wave
"Take me to the River" by the Talking Heads next please...trust me
also thats Bernie Worell in the band, a founding member of Parliment Funkadelic. So that funk you're hearing aint no junk, its funk from one of the foundational players.
Theater set to music 😊
They were Post-Punk College Art Rock, sir. I really recommend a song of theirs, called "The Great Curve."
Very seriously subject preformed in a fun way love it
🥳 This ain't no party!
Classic!
Check out Psycho Killer! This is a great one too! I’m not a fan of every song but they have some great ones especially live! ❤
Love
New wave, punkish, nerd funk?
I think they were playing a synthesizer.Great performance art.
Stop Making Sense 👏👏👏
Shon--this is kind of Art Rock.
☮️💙💙💙🔥🔥🔥😎
Wen I can just F it all I wanna be that sort of happy go luck idc having fun kinda lunitic 😊
GENRE: PUNK FUNK
Singing on the floor?... See Gloria Gaynor 😊
NOT DISCO. New Wave.
You have to know a bit about what was going on in the world at that time. Running on stage was running during war time, you didn't notice the guitar player "shooting" at him as he ran by the first time. And, he's not taking questions at the end, he's being funny. Your generation doesn't get metaphor very well, you all think too literal. You're not used to creativity in music and lyrics and performance. He is a bit paranoid, moving around time, has a stash of weapons, stay away from the window, tapping phone lines, has some passports and visas, changes his hair style, dress in suit and ties or like house wives. I hope music can get back to this purposeful, artistic, and creative way.
Not another bogus dollar chaser.....please go away.
You know Talking Heads and Fela Kuti are related artistically right? Wait. Do you know who Fela Kuti is?
Dude, you gotta be culturally literate. The rule of thumb in my family was 'you're on the hook for ALL cultural output since your parents were born. You don't have to like it or even have consumed it all, but you gotta at least be cognizant of it'. Your journey starts...NOW!
Enjoy!
Start with Fela Kuti...DO IT NOW!