This performance is during the Talking Heads concert/movie “Stop making sense “. The lead singer of The Talking Heads, David Byrne took a break and 3 of the members of Tom Tom Club plus Talking Heads backup Singers and and other musicians performed with them. Tina Weymouth on bass, her husband Chris Frantz and I believe one other member was part of this performance.
Hugely popular in the early 80's New York club scene. Tom Tom Club is the offshoot of Talking Heads members Tina Weymouth & husband Chris Franz. Recorded at the famous Bahamas Compass Point Studios & featuring the studio crew Compass Point Allstars. The woman in this video aren't with the original band. Backup vocals are Tina's sisters. This debut album & the followup album are a happy explosion of dub & dancehall influence. Check out their other songs Wordy Rappinghood, Pleasure of Love, Man With The Four Way Hips". Watch the original video for the New York/Caribbean cartoon, this was THE Tom Tom Club visual in the 80's.
This song was The Tom-Tom Club's one and only r&b crossover hit ever!!! The song peaked at the #31 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the early winter of 1982.
The audio on the video is the studio recording of the song. Even though a live performance of this song is nice but you guys should have reacted to the official music video for this song because it's very fun and creative. React to their song Suboceana please.
But it's so much fun to watch! I saw this concert live, back in the day, while they were touring before the concert film "Stop Making Sense" was made. When Talking Heads performed "Burning Down the House" I thought the balcony section of the venue was going to crash to the floor; the whole building was shaking. Will never forget it.
My mom had this and a few others on loop on a casset player. 44 years later, l get a sleep reaction hearing this , as my mom would put it on. Put me and my sister to. Sleep and start working for her collage classes.
Tina is a national treasure. One of the highlights of my trip to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was seeing her bass. If you're going to give us some Bootsy, how about some Funkadelic.
Right off the bat someone said what I was going to say. This is actually the studio version dubbed to concert footage. The actual concert audio is actually better than than studio, but less "clean".
This is an incredible song. It's great to see the love and appreciation for the song. I heard this song when it first came out. The first album was incredible, Lorili, under the Boardwalk, and wordy rappinghood were ground breaking in 1982 lol
One of my favorite songs. The original song is chopped up in this video. The Stop Making Sense movie has the whole song without cuts. If you haven’t seen it, this movie is one of the best rock concert movies ever. Love you guys.
this tune was so crazy when it came out , i took it 2 a party on a cassettetape and they play``d over and over. they dont let me go home with my tape , i had to stay overnight
They are a spin offf from Talking Heads They’d always do a couple songs in concert. Tina Weymouth is the bass player from Heads. More fabulous art students
So this is not the video for this song. The video is animated. This is just concert footage of a different performance with the studio track played over it. The actual video is very artistic. Oh and MC Hammer was a small child when this song was out.
Definitely please do some Bootsy, Sly & The Family Stone, The J.B. 's etc. I'' m in! Also, MF Doom, more Wu, Outkast, Goodie Mob. Anyways, very delighted to have found your channel.
If you like Bootsy Collins, aside from his own amazing catalog, would love to see you guys react to Deee-Lite's "Groove is in the Heart." which I feel like you've probably heard before for sure.
Hell yes!!!! Tom Tom Club shouts out to “BOHANNON” in this song; you want Funk? React to his song “Let’s Start The Dance”🔥🔥🔥 NYC club classic; Tom Tom Club knows the roots of funk; also love how they also shout out to James Brown❤
Did someone put the studio version over top the Stop Making Sense footage? This not how my dvd of the concert sounds.... Regardless, still a great track!
Tina wasn't doing MC Hammer. This was before MC Hammer. The concert was filmed in 1984. Hammer didn't come on the scene until '85. I think maybe Hammer was doing Tina's moves!
The most gangster lyrics in a song: "What you gonna do when you get out of jail? I'm gonna have some fun! What do you consider fun? Fun! Natural fun!" and "All the weekend Boyfriend was missing I surely miss him The way he'd hold me in his warm arms We went insane when we took cocaine..."
I wish you'da used the sound from the Stop Making Sense documentary. You're using the video for God's sake. There's no "natural" fun. It's, "Fun, nasty fun!"
@@karenfryberger4260 I don't care which myopic observer concurs, that's not the soundtrack to Stop Making Sense. It just isn't. Why not? I saw this documentary when it came out back in the 80's and it was NEVER lame ass "natural".
@@karenfryberger4260 You're right about one thing. That is the studio version that was neutered enough to play on air, but don't overlay it with the live version. Don't treat me like I buy into this lyp-syncing bullshit!
This performance is during the Talking Heads concert/movie “Stop making sense “. The lead singer of The Talking Heads, David Byrne took a break and 3 of the members of Tom Tom Club plus Talking Heads backup Singers and and other musicians performed with them. Tina Weymouth on bass, her husband Chris Frantz and I believe one other member was part of this performance.
I was going to say that this looks like TH without David Byrne. Thank you.
Kind of weird that someone decided to dub over a live performance with the album version of the song.
@@WaveGazerYeah, but at least we don’t have to hear Chris Frantz doing all his corny little interjections: “Check it out!” “The girls can do it, too!”
Tina weymouth said she based the bass line on Zapp’s “More Bounce to the Ounce.” Produced by Bootsy Collins, who gets name-checked in the song.
To be clear, Bootsy produced the Zapp track.
Hugely popular in the early 80's New York club scene. Tom Tom Club is the offshoot of Talking Heads members Tina Weymouth & husband Chris Franz. Recorded at the famous Bahamas Compass Point Studios & featuring the studio crew Compass Point Allstars. The woman in this video aren't with the original band. Backup vocals are Tina's sisters. This debut album & the followup album are a happy explosion of dub & dancehall influence. Check out their other songs Wordy Rappinghood, Pleasure of Love, Man With The Four Way Hips". Watch the original video for the New York/Caribbean cartoon, this was THE Tom Tom Club visual in the 80's.
It's always worth pointing out that bassist Tina Weymouth and drummer Chris Frantz were and still are married. They were members of Talking Heads.
This song was The Tom-Tom Club's one and only r&b crossover hit ever!!! The song peaked at the #31 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the early winter of 1982.
And Bohannon, Bohannon, Bohannon, Bohannon (Check out, "Let's Start The Dance"). One of the biggest club classics of all time Fam.
Gotta be one of the best bass sounds ever. That beat just grabs ya by the throat and never lets go. One my other fav bass sounds is Dazz by Brick.
The audio on the video is the studio recording of the song. Even though a live performance of this song is nice but you guys should have reacted to the official music video for this song because it's very fun and creative.
React to their song Suboceana please.
But it's so much fun to watch! I saw this concert live, back in the day, while they were touring before the concert film "Stop Making Sense" was made. When Talking Heads performed "Burning Down the House" I thought the balcony section of the venue was going to crash to the floor; the whole building was shaking. Will never forget it.
@@karenfryberger4260 What city did you see it in?
Love Suboceana!
You have to listen to their best song “ wordy rappinghood “. What a great band . Those were the days of fun dance music and they were one of the best
Wordy Rappinghood was another one of their songs.
their song "The pleasure of Love" sounds very similar and I'm surprised it didn't do as well.
One of my favorite Roller Skating songs🛼🛼🛼❤
My mom had this and a few others on loop on a casset player. 44 years later, l get a sleep reaction hearing this , as my mom would put it on. Put me and my sister to. Sleep and start working for her collage classes.
Tina is an absolute doll. 😍 There was a lot of mixing of genres going on in New York in the late 70s/early-mid 80s.
So happy you guys watch this I remember when it first came out wow
So Tina Weymouth that plays the bass she was with the Talking Heads
Tina is a national treasure. One of the highlights of my trip to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was seeing her bass.
If you're going to give us some Bootsy, how about some Funkadelic.
I still love this I think I was about 10 or 11 years old at the time when this came out 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Bassist for the Talking Heads ❤
Right off the bat someone said what I was going to say. This is actually the studio version dubbed to concert footage. The actual concert audio is actually better than than studio, but less "clean".
This is an incredible song. It's great to see the love and appreciation for the song. I heard this song when it first came out. The first album was incredible, Lorili, under the Boardwalk, and wordy rappinghood were ground breaking in 1982 lol
Pleasure of Love is another song that got a lot of play on R&B stations in the eighties.
One of my all time favorites
One of my favorite songs. The original song is chopped up in this video. The Stop Making Sense movie has the whole song without cuts. If you haven’t seen it, this movie is one of the best rock concert movies ever. Love you guys.
this tune was so crazy when it came out , i took it 2 a party on a cassettetape and they play``d over and over. they dont let me go home with my tape , i had to stay overnight
Tom Tom Club is a very underrated band when they came out back in the day I was obsessed!
I saw the “Escape From NY” tour with Blondie, the Ramones, Tom Tom Club and Jerry Harrison (Talking Heads). I saw front row, it was everything. 😁❤️
Saw the Talking Heads in Rochester and the opening act was Tom Tom Club...lol
So right on, my 13 year old knows this beat 💓 Came out when I worked at the record store and seems to have been in my life ever since.
"Pleasure of Love" was another huge hit for Tom Tom Club in the 80's and was sampled by LL Cool J for his big hit "Hot, Hot, Hot" (1997)
Love your content - thanks guys!
They are a spin offf from Talking Heads
They’d always do a couple songs in concert. Tina Weymouth is the bass player from Heads. More fabulous art students
Chris Franz is the drummer from Heads, and her husband.
Tina Waymouth and Chris Wentz are husband and wife founding members and also members of The Talking Heads.
I used to love that album
So this is not the video for this song. The video is animated. This is just concert footage of a different performance with the studio track played over it. The actual video is very artistic. Oh and MC Hammer was a small child when this song was out.
Classic Hit !
Definitely please do some Bootsy, Sly & The Family Stone, The J.B. 's etc. I'' m in!
Also, MF Doom, more Wu, Outkast, Goodie Mob.
Anyways, very delighted to have found your channel.
It's impossible to listen to this track without at least tapping your foot.
It would be the most epic thing ever if Tom Tom Club and Mariah did a mashup performance together live.
Tom Tom Club is members from The Talking Heads.Their other song was Wordy Rappinhood.
Shout out to Bootsy. I stumbled upon a post he had on Instagram and clicked Follow. Funkin' on thru his 70s...
This was sampled by Mariah Carey on her hit song Fantasy.
I have always loved this song!! However, this is the studio version, over a live performance.
Pleasure of love is another of their songs. Some of the members are part of the talking heads.
If you like Bootsy Collins, aside from his own amazing catalog, would love to see you guys react to Deee-Lite's "Groove is in the Heart." which I feel like you've probably heard before for sure.
They remade : Love to Love you baby..❤
Grandmaster Flash had the best sample!!
Ice Cube also used the line “what you gonna do when you get outta jail? I’m gonna have some fun”
The official video is trippy.
Hell yes!!!! Tom Tom Club shouts out to “BOHANNON” in this song; you want Funk? React to his song “Let’s Start The Dance”🔥🔥🔥 NYC club classic; Tom Tom Club knows the roots of funk; also love how they also shout out to James Brown❤
Haven’t heard that one in decades!! Have you guys heard of a song called “Let’s Start The Dance” by Bohanon ?
First to sample this song was "Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - It's Nasty (Genius Of Love)" roots of hip-hop
P.S., the bassist (Tina Weymouth) slash lead singer and the drummer are married, and were in the Talking Heads 😊 They wrote their music as well
more like MC Hammer was mimicing her... she did this way before Hammer was around 😎
Flashback!
It got to #31 on the Hot 100 chart, but on the R&B chart it got as high as #2
Did someone put the studio version over top the Stop Making Sense footage? This not how my dvd of the concert sounds.... Regardless, still a great track!
The real female singers are Tina's sisters, these were the backup singers for talking heads.
You are watching Tina Weymouth slay.
How yall got so much gray in ya beards and ya never heard this CLASSIC🤯
Check out " pleasure of Love " its one of my favorite by : Tom Tom Club .
They used to be with talking heads when lead left the band they got together and work on there own project
Tina wasn't doing MC Hammer. This was before MC Hammer. The concert was filmed in 1984. Hammer didn't come on the scene until '85. I think maybe Hammer was doing Tina's moves!
Y'all missed Bernie Worrell from Parliament Funkadelic on keys
This is the studio version dub over the live version.
This song was SO good that Mariah Carey sampled most of this song!
Suboceana by Tom Tom Club is much more fun! Used to dance my tail off to it back in the day!
This was sampled over 100 times
You fellas would like anything by Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam. I Wonder if I Take You Home Tonight or Head to Toe.
Pretty sure they did "if I Take You Home Tonight" already.
The most gangster lyrics in a song: "What you gonna do when you get out of jail? I'm gonna have some fun! What do you consider fun? Fun! Natural fun!" and
"All the weekend
Boyfriend was missing
I surely miss him
The way he'd hold me in his warm arms
We went insane when we took cocaine..."
❤️❤️❤️
tina is just too cute here
This is a live performance where they tried miserably to sync it up with the studio track. Sounds better live.
You should do a reaction to the talking heads concerts that video was taken from. Burning down the house.
The concert film was called "Stop Making Sense" - a great film of a great concert.
If you are Tina Weymouth's boyfriend, you're the luckiest guy in the world.
Tom Tom Club is basically "The Talking Heads" but, less David Byrne.
Yeah this the studio dub. Need to listen the live version from stop making sense.
The video is poorly edited but the song is a blast to skate to..
You have not heard of that in itself is called the talking heads the band is just without the lead singer created the name the tom Tom club.
Drummer Chris Frantz and bassist Tina Weymouth of the Talking Heads are marries and the Tom Tom Club was a side project for them
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Tom Tom Club other big hit is "Wordy Rappinghood".
More like MC Hammer is doing Tina Weymouth.
Please do some Janis Joplin-Ball and chain or Maybe
Great song, but I've never seen a performance before that looked both lip synched, and dubbed
I wish you'da used the sound from the Stop Making Sense documentary. You're using the video for God's sake. There's no "natural" fun. It's, "Fun, nasty fun!"
No, it's "fun, natural fun." Multiple lyric sources can confirm. Agreed that every performance from the concert film is great.
@@karenfryberger4260 I don't care which myopic observer concurs, that's not the soundtrack to Stop Making Sense. It just isn't. Why not? I saw this documentary when it came out back in the 80's and it was NEVER lame ass "natural".
@@karenfryberger4260 You're right about one thing. That is the studio version that was neutered enough to play on air, but don't overlay it with the live version. Don't treat me like I buy into this lyp-syncing bullshit!
" Wordy Rappinghood" is a Bop.too by TTC