Brian Eno - King's lead hat

[shakychevy]

yup yup yup mr. brian eno...sheer play fun genius.....sounds like early roxy music fun....your type most pronounced of course

[newfuckingwave]

i feel this heavily inspired 'shake it up' by the cars

[kmagcla]

@newfuckingwave I never thought of that until my roommate just now made the same observation. And I'm a big Roxy fan, so I've heard this song a million times!

[katoklzmk]

Talking Head? Next you wqill tell me Brian was the band slut

[cheekymonkey1979]

Thanks for stating the obvious, everyone. Of course it's Talking Heads, it's no secret. Now, what band is 'The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch' an anagram of?

[rickwithasilentp009]

ENO=GOD

[gsdfdfgdfge5rdgdr]

The talking heads anagram was intentional

[MrKazpurr]

my favorite eno fast song and thax for the anagram i always pictured king midas witha beaten lead sheet on his head.

[MasterCed100]

KING'S LEAD HAT=TALKING HEADS - Anyone else ever noticed that? Rearrange the letters, and you get "Talking Heads".

[mshollyleeann]

I really wish I was listening to this at home so I could blast it and dance like a crazy person.

[drstrangeluv25]

king's lead hat is an anagram for talking heads B-)

[bearcabbie]

sounds better on vinyl. now i am gonna listen to 801 live. thats vinyl toooo.

[KeithStoneman]

J Alfred Prufrock's favourite parlour music

[SolsburyHill22]

Id of loved to hear David Byrne sing this!!!!

[cometdust]

bitter sweet. i love this, but it reminds me of getting all my rare records stolen

[lotec51]

@cometdust ,i feel your pain. i lost all of mine too,not stolen but there gone none the less.but thanks to youtube i can hear them agiain.rock+roll for ever!

[MattyMattThing]

Fuck he's a babe

[wipers86]

this to me is like new wave this song reminds me of a cars song a bit im not saying the cars sound like new wave though

[amngilbert]

Take a look at my video response. I listen o Brian Eno's ambient stuff more than this style, though this is nice. SEARCH FOR watch?v=1mic8sUDmjk IN THE YOUTUBE SEARCH BAR.

[cousiwa09]

fuck he's G.R.E.A.T

'the biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface!"

[loverman123able]

THIS SONG IS ON CLUSTER LP ,AND IS BACKWARD'S ON LP !

[btreefingers]

never really stopped to notice how cool this tune was, its wierd how songs can come back and hit ya later

[tpmableful]

Brian Eno is an anagram of Brainy Nob

[mungogubbins]

@tpmableful

You need an E!

[comeonboeltsy]

SPLISH SPLASH I WAS RAKING IN THE CASH

[FatArsedScouser]

Yeah salsabill. There is a similarity, but it's much more like the stuff Eno produced for Devo.

[HeathenLoveGod]

FAN-FRIGGING-TASTIC!!!

[thebkkbear]

try the Ultravox cover!

[salsabil44]

Anybody else notice any similarity between the chorus of this song and that of E=mc² by BAD?

[Akhiloth]

Try to make sense of these lyrics, I dare you.

[Micky777]

@Akhiloth... hmmm...well...."all I know and all I have is time,and time and tide is on my side..." ok?? lol!!

[ExLuedenscheider]

I was at college at Newark, Notts, in 1984. My friend got this LP out of the library, and I think I wore out the grooves on it before he took it back again. Shall I buy it on iTunes? Not sure....

[cementbug]

can you say abstract? it's all metaphore, all allegory: "the passage of my life is measured out in shirts"? absolutely brilliant. what is really about? who knows? who cares? bloddy brilliant...

[GrigoriSom]

You're all fools: it's an anagram for "Death Slag Ink"!

[crabtini]

Best song on a perfect album.

[Micky777]

@crabtini...I love "Julie With" too....I could drift away forever with her & that song...

[twister5960]

has anyone mentioned David Byrne on lead vocals?

[lesheuresltd]

dunno.....its a NYC 80's night...wednesday ...rainin in the mountains

[FraterSoddi]

It's also a sideways nod to Duchamp.

[h92o]

the passage of my life is measured in its shirts

[picasso18115]

dude looks like buffalo bill from "Silence of the Lambs".

[medamorth]

@picasso18115 Would you fuck Eno? I'd fuck Eno. I'd fuck Eno hard.

[sephiroth90666]

@picasso18115 hahahahaha my god you're right XD

[elmphlemp]

just realised King's Lead Hat is an anagram for Death Slaking

must have been what eno was singing about

[nonfictionstory]

@elmphlemp its also an anagram of "talking heads". i think thats what the song is about. he did a lot of work with them...

[videocanone]

@hammbetta ... snooze hambonebutta ... go play with yourself and wear panties on your head

[videocanone]

@tjk355 what a drip ... I posted that 2 MONTHS ago and you respond NOW ? so sorry a bit of intellectual reparte' caused you the unpleasant sensation of having to dust off your braincells ! LOL ! go back to your hookah and listen to 'Music for Airports' and return to thinking 'life is but a dream' if you wish. If you just came to listen, why type at all ?

[hammbetta]

@videocanone your a wank drip

[spectrum99122]

What a brilliant song, and an anagram of Talking Heads too! I had no idea. He was a crafty bugger.

[mrprogjazzgto]

Eno was ahead of music by a decade..!

Fripp n Eno...!!!!

Thanks for helping create many bands...!! esp. Talking Heads..!

[jimsound6]

just amazing for the time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ajhoncantara]

The passage of my life is measured out in shirts

[midaswelbytom]

alchemical processes....do not seek the buried gold.... but the otherwise than

being... Midas Welby, Mg

[videocanone]

Evolution had never and did never explain anything but the adapation of preexisting things, and science now knows there was NO pre-biotic soup here on Earth from which life sprung. Its excessive extrapolation in the mind of junkscientists is pure arrogance, nothing more.

[tjk355]

@videocanone wtf are you going on about? please just enjoy the music and leave your ego elsewhere.

[hammbetta]

@videocanone you wank

[flightonenine]

splish splash,I was raking in the cash

[videocanone]

That does not really fit in with his work, esp that with Laraaji who is involved in Eastern Religion. I have never heard Eno discuss anything but Art and Music, not religion. Even so, he's used his gifts from God well, even if he is arrogant and does not recognize where those gifts come from. I hope for his sake you are wrong and that he has a change of heart. Still, regardless, you missed the point. Peope lke like Eno are not the result of bozo monkey evolution, wouldn't you agree?

[ivankaramasov]

@videocanone Yes, he is the result of evoloution. As was Einstein, Bach, Beethoven, Da Vinci, and all the others.

[videocanone]

people will be trying to catch up with this guy for the rest of the century !!!

Proof we have some good alien dna in the human gene pool. !!!

Proof there is a god and we did not evolve from fucking monkeys !!!

[UTOG90]

@videocanone

lol you know Eno is a proselytizing atheist right?

[TheAverageCanadian]

@videocanone Alien DNA? What do you know of this?

[niallmaloney]

Early greed.

[aldp]

Happy Birthday Brian ;) Love, love, love this song ;)

[MordaciousFilms]

This sounds so ahead of it's time for 1977. He already knew what the 80s was going to sound like, it's brilliant!

[dennybop]

@MordaciousFilms

I'm pretty sure Eno didn't know what the 80's were going to sound like. The 80's decided to sound like Eno. Otherwise you're right. It IS brilliant!!!

[eriteugram]

King's lead hat was a mother to desire......

Poetry in motion ...LOVE IT!

Thank you for taking me back to my miss-spent youth!

[nonfictionstory]

i cringe every time i hear 'splish splash i was raking in the cash'. and ive heard it about 58 times according to my itunes.

[michaelivingstone]

but biology of purpose keeps my nose above the water :D

[spenckey]

@michaelivingstone surface

[DupekChopra]

Percy Jones on bass...

[allanosterm]

Yayy, eno.

[AFirmKickInThePants]

It will come, it will come, it will surely come

[luvumo2day]

hey kids ,spiral out of control and lose your grip feel the fear of not knowing what tomorow brings

[rypat34]

get a grip sidbarret1973 its okay you are correct that other guy is stupid i was around back then.ha.

[luvumo2day]

uh iment 78 syd tanks for enlightenment the,electric instruments can effect your memory and stuff,like guiness too much of which i been drinkin all my music lovin life,not to mention charlie and the gan ja

[billfromtopgun]

how did i used to spend my time before i got this album?

[sydbarret1973]

luvomo2day u fuckin lying son of a bitch.this album was not released till 77 u dumbass

[sydbarret1973]

you are stupid..this track was on before and after science 1977,so as i say u are a lying dumbass

[sydbarret1973]

well my semi illiterate friend,you certainly lied about your friends band covering this track in 74..so i will repeat myself....you are a lying dumbass.

[luvinbuzzin]

corker... !!!

[swineburn]

"put the fucking lotion in the basket!"

[h92o]

it puts the lotion in the basket ...

banana's on shirts of a unit of measures in the by and by. 9eat

[bakedzale]

Love this song/album but........ the picture above makes me laugh a bit. I see it and think "It rubs the lotion on it's skin". HA!

[Leadhead444]

@bakedzale God that's rich!....thank you for making my day! LMAO!

[sydbarret1973]

@luvumo2day u lying piece of crap,this song was written in 77 after the th album 77.dumbass

[AScoppa]

splish-splash I was raking in the cash!!$!!

[jshutcherson]

Hey - everyone knows the T Heads anagram bit....that's been talked about since he WROTE the thing 30+ yrs ago. The mysterious Mr. Eno. But no one in these blogs says anything about the fact that the chorus for KLH is the same chord progression as "Free Bird". Let's put on some BAAS and fire up a cigarette lighter!! Maybe there's some anagram from Sweet Home Alabama buried deep within Sky Saw or Golden Hours!

[andreaprodan]

King's Lead Hat

Talking Heads

... gettit?

[PAULLONDEN]

The vocal track from this song was used backwards by Brian, for the track

Tzima n'arki .on the LP

Eno,Moebius & Roedelius: After The Heat.

Trainspotter stuff.......I know .☻.

.

[cousiwa09]

YES! YOU ARE CORRECT, WITH ROBERT FRIPP, ITS ALL GOOD STUFF, FUCK I LOVE THIS ONE, and have heaps of this guys stuff on da vinyl.....indeed this one is second fave to skysaw!!!!!

[peterikarlstad]

proto-punk! fripp on guitar! incomprehensible lyrics! what more could you want?

[clumpft]

Great use of kitchen metallics in this track

[CLARKPEST]

This is one of my top five of Eno's rock songs. Lots of beautiful memory images.

[heatherdaydream]

hey rob57...eno's presence in the studio perhaps the first oblique strategy? ..hehe....

[donone149]

Talking Heads ! Its an anagram as ~Eno was producing them @ the time!

[theMacvarish]

@donone149 Saw Ultravox,the tour after Midge Ure joined and they did this as the encore. Midge admitted that it had taken years to get the joke. Glad he did though, cos I hadn't got it either.

[uberalles2]

@donone149 Neat! Thanks!

[cosmicrider287]

@donone149 how smart is that huh?

[zebgalin]

Excellent!!!

[rob57uk]

Ahh, Ivan, you're right and I'm wrong. I feel humbled. Damned 70's are just a big blur these days ... Eno worked on some of those Berlin trilogy albums with DB, but didn't take a production credit. On the other hand, plenty of people think that the mere fact of Eno's presence in the studio was enough to dramatically affect the production outcome. Hmmm ... It's funny how many people's best work was produced while they were working with Brian Eno.

[SOMOGYI8230]

Fuck! Just yesterday I was telling this to my wife! About the many people's best work being produced while they were working with Brian Eno. I think Low for example (one of best albums ever) is just as much an Eno-album as it is a Bowie's. The same counts for Fear of Music and Remain in Light, by far the very best albums the Talking Heads did.

[rob57uk]

Fair comment, SOMOGY, excepting "Jezebel Spirit", but back in '81, MLITBOG came as something of a revelation. These days, post sampling & "house" music etc, it seems less remarkable. Eno as facilitator/inspiration is a given though. From a historical perspective, "B&AS" "HCTWJ" and "AGW" are landmarks. For these alone he deserves hommage. I hear his influence all over, from Pork Recordings to Morgan Geist to Michael Mannring. No surprise; Brian Eno is an anagram of ... One Brain. Far out!!!

[SOMOGYI8230]

Now this is what I call a fair anagram review. Getting kind a sick of all the people telling about the King's Lead Hat / Talking Heads-anagram. Did you know that Axl Rose is an anagram for Oral Sex?-:)

[himself801]

@SOMOGYI8230 Who really cares about Axl Rose and the band that isn't Guns n Roses anymore?

The song is Eno's attempt to make a record like Talking Heads, who he hadn't yet worked with.

[Pedossaurus]

@SOMOGYI8230 What about Clint Eastwood for Old West Action?

[Wormtongue13]

@SOMOGYI8230 > That explains why Axl Rose sucks so much.

[rob57uk]

I love coming across stuff like this on YT. Eno was way ahead of the pack when he made this. As others have said here, it was a period of intense creativity for him, B&AS, Another Green World etc, and then he went and produced Bowie, then Talking Heads seminal "Remain in Light" and then with David Byrne made the first music using samples of "found sound" in "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts"... As Rebecceh said way back, find the album on CD, this one's a must have.

[ivankaramasov]

Eno did not produce Bowie's so-called Berlin trilogy. The production was done by Tony Visconti and David Bowie. However, he did co-produce Bowie's Outside (1995) together with Bowie and David Richards.

[SOMOGYI8230]

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts sucks. Better just listen to Talking Heads Fear of Music and Remain in Light or Bowies Low if you want to hear Enos best work. And of course his first solo albums!

[clumpft]

My life in the bush of ghosts sucks? You're on the wrong drugs. It's the best thing either of them have ever done!!!!!! I do love all the other albums you mentioned tho.

[a123age]

Dude, I think my mind was just blown

[Dereck89]

Brian Eno is one of my favorite musicians, up there with David Bowie and Kraftwerk

[dencerspay]

wow it is an anagram of talking heads. good observation.

[tjk355]

that bassline!!! im gonna have a little dance!

[beaksofeagles]

Check out TV on the Radio's "Wolf like me", and see if you can hear the groove repeated. Not taking it away from TV on the Radio, it's an awesome track, just reminds me.....

[tuiti87]

aaaaarrgggg! i love youtube! this is one of the best songs of the 70s... 21st century musicians with their digital mixing and muzak videos could learn a thing or three from eno! "he was just a victim of the telephone"

[Arkhigoul]

He tries to dial out... 9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-

[abacaba1977]

Anyone know the chords the rhythm guitar is playing? I can't find a tab for it anywhere.

[a123age]

C]Dark alley, [Am]Four turkeys [C]The road is shiny, [Am]Four turkeys [C]The lacquer crackles, [Am]A ship is turning broadside [C]Splish Splash I [Am]The biology of [G]King's lead hat put the [Bb]innocence inside her It will [C]come, it will come, it will surely come [G]King's lead hat was a [Bb]mother to desire It will [C]come, it will come, it will surely come

[abacaba1977]

Thank you.

[PAULLONDEN]

Explain please a123....

what's it with the brackets and unfinnished lyrics.

Is it an enoesque inside j☺ke ?

Cut▬Up

[abacaba1977]

A while ago I was looking for the chords for this song and a123 was kind enough to help me out. Those letters in the brackets are the chords and the lyrics are a reference to where those chords are played in the song. I looked all over the Internet and came up with nothing. I don't know how he found them, but I am grateful.

[PAULLONDEN]

Ok..That's nice.thanks.

Eno and Rober Fripp .tend to work

with rare open tunings too, bytheway ♫

[ome32]

yes

[notchic]

Splish splash, I was raking in the cash

The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface

King's lead hat put the innocence inside her

It will come, it will come, it will surely come

In New Delhi (smelly Delhi) and Hong Kong

They all know that it won't be long

I count my fingers (digit counter) as night falls

And draw bananas on the bathroom walls

The killer cycles (humdrum), the killer hurts

[enossified]

The passage of my life is measured out in shirts.

[notchic]

One of my favorite TILTED songs.... the old grey matter gets to dancing on this one.

[depechemodevilla]

There are some electronic sounds here that I'm sure I have heard in early DM recordings.

[stripedhyenuh]

He made those four infamous albums all within a 5 year span in his mid to late 20s. Pretty mindblowing.

I wonder what drove him to produce the kind of music he did during that time period, and why he never really got back to it in the same way. He's always been influential, but in those years, he was legendary.

[syr1811]

Agree - Some Amazingly great stuff that I still listen to, what, like (HOLY SHIT!)35! years later.

[syr1811]

This was reply to stripedhyenuh below - why can't YouTube ever get this stuff in the right place?!?!?

[squeapler]

didn't fripp and eno do a great version of this great song? i also remember the offbeats (early cleveland punkxcore) doing a great live cover of this song at about twice the speed of eno's version.

[notchic]

fuck me sideways ! I'd love to hear that!!

[sammyll08]

The title of this song is supposed to be an anagram of 'Talking Head'...

[quyenthenghiem]

Why do idiots thumb down your comment? King's Lead Hat is an anagram of Talking Heads.

[ziggystardust78]

This song demonstrates that Eno is God

[minutegongcoughs]

Anagram..Talking Heads. Brian has thing about anagrams and puns.

[darinnear]

Srange this song seemed so separeted from the rest of the tracks at the time, from the album

[flashglamtrash]

I actually thought it was David Byrne singing. Or was he?

[teflonmagnet]

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, david byrne!

phil collins on percusion?

[serpas86]

Brian Eno sing on this song, i got the vynil and on it is written "voices: Brian Eno".

And Andy Frazer on the drums.

[Rebecceh]

if you like this song, i'd suggest doing yourself the favour of finding the original on cd or vinyl, it's way more intense than this shitty youtube quality.

[lluhta]

Eno invented Talking Heads the same time Talking Heads invented Talking Heads.

[SOMOGYI8230]

My God! Exactly what I was thinking when I heard this and No One Receiving for the first time!

[WKaliber1]

brian eno is a fucking genius

[schragemusik]

For those who say that Eno did the first punk song, you're so very wrong. 'The Bank Clerks' beat them all.

[Ninyae1]

Do not know of the Bank Clerks, but do they predate the Sonics? If not, then I would suggest that they were the first to create that edge. Whichever, there is no doubt that Eno influenced punk, I should know, I was into punk by about March 77 and I was an Eno fan and everyone I knew adored Eno.

[idaltuguy]

Ah...but who was eno influenced by? This argument could go on and on. It's best left said, that from the late 60's-mid 70's there was a succession of people (of various genres) that influenced each other, leading to punk.

[Wavelength247]

Well said.One clue to Eno's formative influences(and the roots of punk)are from his famous Velvet Underground quote...Few people bought the records but everyone that did formed a band...The godfather of punk..Iggy(+The Stooges)their 60's,debut produced by VU alumni John Cale,who also produced Patti Smith's Horses,that's quite a legacy.Lots more to the story,these are but a few of Eno's(and punk's)formative influences,can't forget Bo Didley..a huge influence on Eno and countless others..

[swaggs]

Third Uncle influened the Punk Rock movement, but it was purely a progressive rock song.

[Ryanrobot99]

Im young... ok. But i just discovered Brian Eno and this is amazing. I can't believe he was doing this in 1977.

[RTRoberto]

Ryan, check out Roxy Music, early 70s.

[RTRoberto]

matter of fact, Eno's "Here Come the Warm Jets" was around about 73.

[nomno]

yes, you have found one of the main roots of today's music.

the best of all? there is a lot of music that you are going to listen from him, and you can keep listening to it for the rest of your life still wondering how did he think about that...

by the way, you should listen to NEU and CAN.

[shring7]

Ah the memories, fantastic

[gwddd]

Am I the only one who heard the skip at 2:56??

Mebbe Brian was telling David Byrne and the gang to be patient for success.... "it will come, it will come, it will surely come."

[Wavelength247]

...and in the beginning there was Brian Eno.

[iching1111]

I was living in Hollywood in '78 and saw Talking Heads at the Whiskey because of this song!! (or was it the Roxy?) LOL

[r41zcu4dr4d4d3E]

the last punk song....!

[phillipedebohun]

I Agree-

But the first true punk song was also his!,

namely

"Third Uncle" from the album

Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)-1974.

Eno fans may argue that

"Blank Frank" From his 1973 debut album

is the first true punk track, but I say

IT HAS'NT GOT THE ANGST!

[phillipedebohun]

I Agree-

But the first true punk song was also his!,

namely

"Third Uncle" from the album

Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)-1974.

Eno fans may argue that

"Blank Frank" From his 1973 debut album

is the first true punk track, but I say

IT HAS'NT GOT THE ANGST!

[gollaglee123]

thats what we get for living in a wiggly world!

[edenmaze]

I got turned on to song around 1979.

I always really liked it. I was and still am a big DEVO fan as well.

Brian Eno had real talent from the very beggining.

[wipeouters]

talking heads, devo what a great producer

[bartleby2007]

He and Daniel Lanois turned U2 from a kind of good band into a superstar band by producing The Unforgettable Fire and their subsequent breakthrough album The Joshua Tree.

[Scroobily]

Far out.

[turntapzap]

Perhaps my very favorite song ever. Boxing gloves on the piano...Frippertronics...

Wfhat could be better?

[DPTG23]

mine too, almost need to hear it everyday.

[hunchybunker]

kingsleadhat has the same letters as talkingheads

The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.

[pofh]

Weird thing about the mixes I've heard on CD vs. the version on vinyl that I have is that at the end of the last verse the "AAAUUUUUGH!" is a lot more muted. I wonder what that's about?