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Take Me To The River
"Take Me to the River" is a 1974 song written by singer Al Green and guitarist Mabon "Teenie" Hodges. Hit versions were recorded by Syl Johnson, Talking Heads and Delbert McClinton. In 2004, Green's original version was ranked number 117 on ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's list of the Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Green's 1974 recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2011. Recording and composition Al Green originally recorded the song for his 1974 album, '' Al Green Explores Your Mind'', produced by Willie Mitchell and featuring musicians Charles, Leroy and Mabon "Teenie" Hodges (of The Hodges Brothers), drummer Howard Grimes, and the Memphis Horns. Green and Mabon Hodges wrote the song while staying in a rented house at Lake Hamilton, Arkansas, for three days in 1973 in order to come up with new material. According to Mitchell, Green wrote the words and Green and Hodges wrote the tune together. Green dedicated his performance on the record to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Road To Nowhere
"Road to Nowhere" is a song by the American band Talking Heads from their 1985 album '' Little Creatures''. The song was written by David Byrne and released as a single in 1985. It reached on the US '' Billboard'' Album Rock Tracks chart and entered the top 10 in eight other countries. It appeared on '' Best of Talking Heads'', '' Sand in the Vaseline: Popular Favorites'', the ''Once in a Lifetime'' box set and the ''Brick'' box set. Production "I wanted to write a song that presented a resigned, even joyful look at doom," recalls David Byrne in the liner notes of '' Once in a Lifetime: The Best of Talking Heads''. "At our deaths and at the apocalypse... (always looming, folks). I think it succeeded. The front bit, the white gospel choir, is kind of tacked on, 'cause I didn't think the rest of the song was enough... I mean, it was only two chords. So, out of embarrassment, or shame, I wrote an intro section that had a couple more in it." Reception ''Cash Box'' said that "th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Creatures
''Little Creatures'' is the sixth studio album by American rock band Talking Heads, released June 10, 1985, by Sire Records. The album examines themes of Americana and incorporates elements of country music, with many songs featuring steel guitar. It was voted album of the year in ''The Village Voice'' Pazz & Jop critics poll, and is the band's best-selling studio album, with more than two million copies sold in the United States. The cover art was created by outsider artist Howard Finster, and was selected as album cover of the year by ''Rolling Stone''. Track listing Personnel Talking Heads *David Byrne – guitar, vocals *Chris Frantz – drums *Jerry Harrison – keyboards, guitar, backing vocals *Tina Weymouth – bass guitar, backing vocals Additional musicians *Ellen Bernfeld – backing vocals on "Perfect World" and "Walk It Down" *Andrew Cader – washboard on "Road to Nowhere" * Erin Dickens – backing vocals on "Television Man" and "Road to Nowhere" *Diva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
And She Was
"And She Was" is a song by the American band Talking Heads from their 1985 album '' Little Creatures''. The song was written by David Byrne, who also provides the lead vocals. It reached on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and on the UK Singles Chart. The accompanying music video was directed by avant-garde filmmaker Jim Blashfield, who cites the style of Terry Gilliam as one of his major influences. The song is musically notable for its unusual use of modulation. The overall key of the song is E major; however, the bridge to the chorus is in F major. The second bridge back to the verse is in the key of G major (Chords B minor to G major, "She was glad about it...") Background "I used to know a blissed-out hippie-chick in Baltimore," recalled Byrne in the liner notes of '' Once in a Lifetime: The Best of Talking Heads''. "She once told me that she used to do acid (the drug, not music) and lay down on the field by the Yoo-hoo chocolate soda factory. Flying out of her body, etc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Life During Wartime (song)
"Life During Wartime" is a song by the American new wave band Talking Heads, released as the first single from their 1979 album '' Fear of Music''. It entered the US ''Billboard'' Pop Singles Chart on November 3, 1979, and peaked at number 80, spending a total of five weeks on the chart. The song is also performed in the 1984 film '' Stop Making Sense'', which depicts a Talking Heads concert. The performance featured in the film prominently features aerobic exercising and jogging by David Byrne and background singers. The ''Stop Making Sense'' live version of the track is featured in the film's accompanying soundtrack album. Its official title as a single, "Life During Wartime (This Ain't No Party... This Ain't No Disco... This Ain't No Foolin' Around)", makes it one of the longest-titled singles. The song is included in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. Origin In David Bowman's book ''This Must Be the Place: The Adventures of Talking H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stop Making Sense (album)
''Stop Making Sense'' is a live album by the American Rock music, rock band Talking Heads, also serving as the soundtrack to the Stop Making Sense, concert film of the same name. It was released in September 1984 and features nine tracks from the film, albeit with treatment and editing. The album spent over two years on the Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200 chart. It was their first album to be distributed by EMI outside North America. Limited pressings of the original LP version featured a full-colour picture book wrapped around the album jacket; standard versions had many of the pictures (printed in black and white) and captions on the album's inner sleeve. The CD release of the album includes the full-colour book, but it rearranges the layout to conform to the dimensions of a square CD booklet (compared to the vertically oriented rectangular shape of the LP book). In 1999, a 16-track re-release—with content and sound closely matching those of the film—coincided with the 15th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
"This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)" is a song by American rock band Talking Heads. The closing track of their fifth studio album ''Speaking in Tongues'', it was released in November 1983 as the second and final studio single from the album; a live version would be released as a single in 1986. The lyrics were written by frontman David Byrne, and the music was written by Byrne and the other members of the band, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison. Byrne intended the song to be a love song without the clichés of the genre. The parenthesized title refers to the simple ("naïve") construction of the song, which is framed on a sparse ostinato that lasts for the song's duration. This simplicity marked a departure for Talking Heads, whose work was known for its complex African-inspired polyrhythms and funk. Background ''Speaking in Tongues'', Talking Heads' fifth studio album, was released on June 1, 1983, by Sire Records. It was produced by the band themselves after th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burning Down The House
"Burning Down the House" is a song by American rock band Talking Heads, released in July 1983 as the first single from their fifth studio album ''Speaking in Tongues''. Inspiration and composition "Burning Down the House" is a new wave, funk, and art rock song. "This song started from a jam," says bassist Tina Weymouth in the liner notes of '' Once in a Lifetime: The Best of Talking Heads'' (1992). " Chris rantzhad just been to see Parliament-Funkadelic in its full glory at Madison Square Garden, and he was really hyped. During the jam, he kept yelling 'Burn down the house!' which was a P-Funk audience chant, and David yrnedug the line, changing it to the finished version, 'Burning down the house'." The initial lyrics were considerably different, however. In an interview on NPR's ''All Things Considered'' aired on December 2, 1984, David Byrne played excerpts of early worktapes showing how the song had evolved from an instrumental jam by Weymouth and Frantz. Once the whole ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Remain In Light
''Remain in Light'' is the fourth studio album An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track cartridge, 8-track or Cassette tape, cassette), or digital distribution, dig ... by the American rock band Talking Heads, released on October 8, 1980, by Sire Records. The band's third and final album to be produced by Brian Eno, ''Remain in Light'' was recorded at Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas and Sigma Sound Studios in New York in July and August 1980. After the release of ''Fear of Music'' in 1979, Talking Heads and Eno sought to dispel notions of the band as a mere vehicle for frontman and songwriter David Byrne. Drawing influence from Nigerian Afrobeat musician Fela Kuti, they blended African polyrhythms and funk with electronics, recording instrumental tracks as a series of Loop (music), looping grooves. Session musicians included the guitarist Adrian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
