I have a VHS over the air broadcast of The Catherine Wheel, the Twyla Tharp dance piece with music by David Byrne. I really like this tune and the Golden Age music is truly inspired, the best that Tharp has done, IMHO.
@shishimore and no need for apologies; i take no offense. id rather have a good debate and learn something than worry about peoples feelings and remain ignorant.
im not usually one for live albums as the artists are usually too messed up to perform well (with some exceptions, i.e. dylan, guns n roses (most of the time), and even the beatles way back), but stop making sense exemplifies one of the rare instances when the live show is actually much better than the studio recordings. this is the pinnacle of a live performance and more bands should strive to do live shows like this, with such quality of musicianship, artistry, and performance.
@existentialcwby OMG, the truth is exactly the exact opposite of what you think. Yes Dylan was great, and not a lot of bands can play live nowadays. The beateles....haha, once they hit the psychedelic era they never played live because they couldn't play the songs. 1 or 2 of them would hit the studio with some friends, write a song like "I am the Walrus" and move on because they didn't play live anymore. The rest of the band would not learn it and well there you go.
@shishimore the beatles stopped playing live because they were sick of not being listened to ('all we could hear was girls screaming' - the beatles, collectively) and because their songs could not be played live with the technology of the time. when they did play live, however, they were brilliant. and so was guns n roses, and dylan, talking heads, xtc, squeeze, ya well there you go.
@existentialcwby Hmmm, technology huh? Are we talking about the same band? Sgt. Peppers album used a lot of technological innovations, tech that could have been used for a live performance just as easily. The Beatles stopped touring because they wanted to stop. It gave them the time to explore personal interests and like I said, they couldn't play whole shows together after that because they didn't collaborate as much. All of them wanted to be songwriters and composers. I don't blame them.
@shishimore in the anthology (unless im mistaken), they state explicitly that they werent confident the sound they produced in the studio could be reproduced with the same sound quality live, or it would just be a logistical nightmare (and it would, if you think about the tiny amps they used in the shea stadium show, imagine trying to play 'a day in the life' live with that technology. i realize those two occurrences were a couple years apart, but the technology hadnt advanced THAT much)....
@shishimore ...and even when they recorded 'tomorrow never knows' they (again, in the anthology) talk about how alot of it (the backwards guitar tracks and other misc. sounds) happened completely by accident and they didnt think they could reproduce it even in the studio. that may have all been an excuse to stop playing live (i agree, they were already estranged from each other and were essentially 4 independent songwriters who played together every once in a while), but it wasnt just one factor
@shishimore that made them stop playing live. i dont blame them either, but they were fantastic live and really began as a live band in germany (thats where they cut their teeth and really forged themselves as a band that could stick despite shitty conditions). but no, the technology would not have been enough to put on a faithful live show...and they already hated eachother. either way, they were great.
@existentialcwby hahaha you said guns n roses and left out The Band and Grateful Dead? two of the greatest live performers of all time? what about Neil Young? I saw Dylan live three years ago and he sucked so bad. I absolutely love the man, but i couldnt understand a word he said. which brings me to Elvis Costello, another fantastic live performer. I say live over studio almost any day, i find its rare for me to dislike a live performance.
@existentialcwby Wanna hear a funny story? I woke up this morning with an urge for "Once in a Lifetime". So I asked my lovely wife "live version or studio version?" She said, "live" and then made pretty much the same observation you did here in the lead comment for our next vid for the morning. It must be true. Independent sources/research and all that.
@existentialcwby literally all my favorite bands are great live. and i think there is a correlation between excellent live shows and the band being uber legit. Tool, Led Zeppelin, Talking Heads, The Rolling Stones, Rammstein. They are all legendary live performers. Seems you either are either good enough to sound better live, or you just suck. IMO
I'm one who hates concert albums and movies for their overall crudity; it's something you would have to be there physically to appreciate but doesn't work on recorded audio and visual media. Except for this! I serially rented this at video stores in the 80's and it still stands up today. Stop Making Sense just worked in ways that I can't explain within the 500 character limit.
I live concert videos. In fact, I love concert cds and bootlegs if possible because I think a person doesn't really know shit about a band until you hear ad preferably SEE them perform live with an audience. Live music is my church.
My bottom line was you would have to BE there physically to appreciate the LIVE experience. When it's taken through second-hand experiencing like video and audio media it just doesn't work for me usually.
I see what you mean Tusconia. In this case though, Stop Making Sense is anything but crude. Demme is a fabulous director, and as the description says, the show was remastered digitally, making the audio-visual aspects stunningly near-perfect. This is no sloppy bootleg. For those of us who are 30 and couldn't "be there", this TH concert is definitely appreciated for being second only to, as cheesy commercials used to say, "the best seat in the house".
David Byrne is a legend. he sang things that didn't make a lot of sense but thats what made sense, he confused to un-confuse! its a Confusing concept bit it makes sense just like David Byrne!
dear fellow... LISTEN. it is all about the complex rhythms, melody lines, the structure of the song. Yeah... they all look great, but this really isn't about a suit or nipples or great lighting. It is about a sound that never existed and will never again. Genius.
This is from Stop Making Sense - live consert 1984. if you havn't seen it, i highly recomment it, I would say it's the best music video i'v seen to date.
the original recording of this song is from a soundtrack to a dance piece called 'the catherine wheel', one of many byrne and eno collaborations...I've got the album on vinyl, it was pretty widely available...you might be able to find it if you search...
Of course, Stop Making Sense was directed by the great genius Jonathan Demme, the director of such films as: Silence of the Lambs, Something Wild, Married to the Mob, and Philadelphia to name a few. This is an awesome concert, and I think Mr. Demme had a lot to do with how well it actually came out.
Get the DVD of the Twyla Tharp "Catherine Wheel" production. It has ALL the music (The CD doesn't) and you'll never forget the dancing, especially the double whammy of "What a Day That Was" and "Big Blue Plymouth (Eyes Wide Open." These songs, together with "Big Business" and "My Big Hands (Fall Through the Cracks)" make it one of Byrne's very best albums. NY Times named it one of the 10 Best Albums of 1981.
Saw this concert 3 times: First at the Greek Theatre on the original tour, then at the Long Beach arena when they were feeling it out for an audience draw, then during one of the 2 nights they filmed this at the Pantages in Hollywood.
David Byrne totally BRINGS IT in this song, and I'd love to go to a club just once where the dj has the nads to play it.
I really can't imagine anything better than this. It's pretty damn close to perfect. That chorus! The whole film is totally incredible. When i watch it even now i have to stop my jaw from hitting the floor.
The song feels incredibly fast paced, but its not actually that fast. It conveys feeling so well. The verses feel like they are running, while the chorus steps back. I love the lyrics in the chorus. "What a Day That Was" is even an incredible name, and it makes me think of awesome days. The chorus lyrics are perfect.
i love how these live versions are so much more lively than the studio versions. that's not to say the originals aren't totally awesome, but listen to "Take Me To The River" or "Crosseyed and Painless" and try to keep from dancing. the studio versions are much less upbeat and alive for lack of better words. what a great show. i wish i could have gone back then.
I saw Stop Making Sense in its original release in the mid-80s, at a small art theater with a great sound system. I was about 12 and just starting to discover girls.
The concert absolutely blew my mind. The grooves, the footage, the lyrics, Byrne's charisma. It literally improved my musical taste by several notches overnight.
Amid all my bewilderment, though, I walked away clearly remembering this song and that little smile at 3:58, how I felt it run down my spine.
I think this just might be the most explosively intense 6 and a half minutes of rock & roll ever put on video. The Heads are ON FIRE in this song. All gears are workin' and everything's clicking 300 miles an hour. Between David and Tina, and the circus of brilliance around them... it's just ABSOLUTELY AMAZING.
Actually, if you read the book, 'This Must Be the Place: The Adventures of Talking Heads in the Twentieth Century' by David Bowman, you will find out that during this tour and especially at this show, when Tina and Chris's Tom Tom Club played, David would go back stage put on the big suit, and do some 'toot'. Toot is cocaine,
and there was another reference to it in the book, when he was living in New York. If you have the Sand in the Vaseline greatest hits collection you will notice David talks about how like many bands 'There was their fair share of drug use'. Also with the new DVD
of STOP MAKING SENSE you can clearly see substance at the nose after the Tom Tom Club played. Now of course David is no Tommy Lee but he did his fair share. And now he is a has been who has Tina Weymouth described someone who can't return friendship and ' Cutting off attachments when a thing/person is perceived to have served its purpose or there is a perceived threat to ego is the lifelong pattern of his relations'
...And not merely in the music industry. Mr. Byrne is also a hero of film, print and installation art communities. He's not nearly as famous in America as he was in the mid-'80s... but who is? He's often doing something surprising and awesome; constantly evolving with the times.
The original version on "Catherine Wheel" is slower, making it seem more moody and apocalyptic -- my favorite Byrne song. This faster version somehow trivializes it.
It's from a David Byrne solo albumn called The Catherine Wheel which he wrote for an amazing Twyla Tharpe dance show -- amazing in part b/c of DB's music. The whole albumn is as good as this song. check it out.
Anyone notice that the Stop Making Sense album has a different vocal perfomance on it than the film?
ThatThingByTheShed 4 months ago
@ThatThingByTheShed no
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I haz the dvd :D
1MickyBhoy 4 months ago
This album isn't half as good as the live "The Name of the Band is The Talking Heads." My favorite live album ever.
filmphobia 8 months ago
awesome!
genisto1 8 months ago
Looks & sounds like a 5 stars coke fueled party.
yolowell 10 months ago
A front man to die for- way up there with Jagger and Mercury! Sheer class! Love them!
atsabraxas 1 year ago
A front man to die for- way up there with Jagger and Mercury! Sheer class!
atsabraxas 1 year ago
I have a VHS over the air broadcast of The Catherine Wheel, the Twyla Tharp dance piece with music by David Byrne. I really like this tune and the Golden Age music is truly inspired, the best that Tharp has done, IMHO.
Razzjenk 1 year ago
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reparem na virada de som na parte de 0:55 segundos .F.A.N.T.A.S.T.I.C.O !
um dos melhores albuns ao vivo de todos os tempos, sem duvida !
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Cocaine is a helluva drug.
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so ahead of it's time. Ahead of any time!
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sarahiashl 1 year ago
It was a wonderful live show.. but I still prefer Talking Heads' first live album.."The Name of this Band is Talking Heads."
johnmckinlay67 1 year ago
Just addictive ... must have such innovation ...
happyenjoytime 1 year ago
Ace
happyenjoytime 1 year ago
Brilliance.
claux23 1 year ago
the harmony in this song is amazing. i think it's my favorite of the whole movie
COCOPUFF093 1 year ago
perfect
happyenjoytime 1 year ago
Genius!
happyenjoytime 1 year ago
If I seem confrontational I'm sorry, I love live music and I love the talking heads. I also love you existentialcwby! lol ;)
shishimore 1 year ago
@shishimore and no need for apologies; i take no offense. id rather have a good debate and learn something than worry about peoples feelings and remain ignorant.
existentialcwby 1 year ago
Gets me
happyenjoytime 1 year ago
Good dance beat.
froggydaddy1 1 year ago
The Genius Of Rock.
sunmachine100 1 year ago
One of the best live performances ever.
louiseduvee 1 year ago
Epic.
WVUer21 1 year ago
fantastic !!!!!
zaezen 2 years ago
Mmmyup. It's official. This is the coolest thing I've ever seen in my life.
JamesOhGoodie 2 years ago
don't know if the coolest, but DB is pure genius,
jiddu1970 1 year ago
im not usually one for live albums as the artists are usually too messed up to perform well (with some exceptions, i.e. dylan, guns n roses (most of the time), and even the beatles way back), but stop making sense exemplifies one of the rare instances when the live show is actually much better than the studio recordings. this is the pinnacle of a live performance and more bands should strive to do live shows like this, with such quality of musicianship, artistry, and performance.
existentialcwby 2 years ago 22
@existentialcwby I had a pleasent session on the tube when suddenly someone, of some peculiar reason, mention guns n roses.
lnbowling 1 year ago
@lnbowling haha, uh-oh...who would have dared do that?
existentialcwby 1 year ago
@existentialcwby I do agree totally with you fella
GhostFace38 1 year ago
@existentialcwby OMG, the truth is exactly the exact opposite of what you think. Yes Dylan was great, and not a lot of bands can play live nowadays. The beateles....haha, once they hit the psychedelic era they never played live because they couldn't play the songs. 1 or 2 of them would hit the studio with some friends, write a song like "I am the Walrus" and move on because they didn't play live anymore. The rest of the band would not learn it and well there you go.
shishimore 1 year ago
@shishimore the beatles stopped playing live because they were sick of not being listened to ('all we could hear was girls screaming' - the beatles, collectively) and because their songs could not be played live with the technology of the time. when they did play live, however, they were brilliant. and so was guns n roses, and dylan, talking heads, xtc, squeeze, ya well there you go.
existentialcwby 1 year ago
@existentialcwby Hmmm, technology huh? Are we talking about the same band? Sgt. Peppers album used a lot of technological innovations, tech that could have been used for a live performance just as easily. The Beatles stopped touring because they wanted to stop. It gave them the time to explore personal interests and like I said, they couldn't play whole shows together after that because they didn't collaborate as much. All of them wanted to be songwriters and composers. I don't blame them.
shishimore 1 year ago
@shishimore in the anthology (unless im mistaken), they state explicitly that they werent confident the sound they produced in the studio could be reproduced with the same sound quality live, or it would just be a logistical nightmare (and it would, if you think about the tiny amps they used in the shea stadium show, imagine trying to play 'a day in the life' live with that technology. i realize those two occurrences were a couple years apart, but the technology hadnt advanced THAT much)....
existentialcwby 1 year ago
@shishimore ...and even when they recorded 'tomorrow never knows' they (again, in the anthology) talk about how alot of it (the backwards guitar tracks and other misc. sounds) happened completely by accident and they didnt think they could reproduce it even in the studio. that may have all been an excuse to stop playing live (i agree, they were already estranged from each other and were essentially 4 independent songwriters who played together every once in a while), but it wasnt just one factor
existentialcwby 1 year ago
@shishimore that made them stop playing live. i dont blame them either, but they were fantastic live and really began as a live band in germany (thats where they cut their teeth and really forged themselves as a band that could stick despite shitty conditions). but no, the technology would not have been enough to put on a faithful live show...and they already hated eachother. either way, they were great.
existentialcwby 1 year ago
@existentialcwby hahaha you said guns n roses and left out The Band and Grateful Dead? two of the greatest live performers of all time? what about Neil Young? I saw Dylan live three years ago and he sucked so bad. I absolutely love the man, but i couldnt understand a word he said. which brings me to Elvis Costello, another fantastic live performer. I say live over studio almost any day, i find its rare for me to dislike a live performance.
QuadropheniaBrosef 1 year ago
@existentialcwby Wanna hear a funny story? I woke up this morning with an urge for "Once in a Lifetime". So I asked my lovely wife "live version or studio version?" She said, "live" and then made pretty much the same observation you did here in the lead comment for our next vid for the morning. It must be true. Independent sources/research and all that.
KingOfWhiteTrash1 10 months ago
@existentialcwby couldnt of said it any better .craftmanship first gimics later.
duranasty 6 months ago
@existentialcwby literally all my favorite bands are great live. and i think there is a correlation between excellent live shows and the band being uber legit. Tool, Led Zeppelin, Talking Heads, The Rolling Stones, Rammstein. They are all legendary live performers. Seems you either are either good enough to sound better live, or you just suck. IMO
codydawson91 6 months ago
@existentialcwby They took all their performances seriously. Check out Live in Rome
gxtmfa 5 months ago in playlist 56. Talking Heads movie "Stop Making Sense"
@existentialcwby cocaine on it's own is fine, mixed with booze not so much.
gards2 6 days ago
4:59 is amazing.
inmotion86 2 years ago
Ricky Ricardo on LSD!! Byrne ROCKS!
loupi4bama 2 years ago
Gigantic.
noisepuppet 2 years ago 3
Ive seen the performance on big screen in Filmhuis Gouda long time ago. Teering goed.
Fucking good.....
maninhairysuit 2 years ago 2
I'm one who hates concert albums and movies for their overall crudity; it's something you would have to be there physically to appreciate but doesn't work on recorded audio and visual media. Except for this! I serially rented this at video stores in the 80's and it still stands up today. Stop Making Sense just worked in ways that I can't explain within the 500 character limit.
tucsonia 2 years ago 5
I live concert videos. In fact, I love concert cds and bootlegs if possible because I think a person doesn't really know shit about a band until you hear ad preferably SEE them perform live with an audience. Live music is my church.
JLoveBomb 2 years ago 3
My bottom line was you would have to BE there physically to appreciate the LIVE experience. When it's taken through second-hand experiencing like video and audio media it just doesn't work for me usually.
tucsonia 2 years ago
I see what you mean Tusconia. In this case though, Stop Making Sense is anything but crude. Demme is a fabulous director, and as the description says, the show was remastered digitally, making the audio-visual aspects stunningly near-perfect. This is no sloppy bootleg. For those of us who are 30 and couldn't "be there", this TH concert is definitely appreciated for being second only to, as cheesy commercials used to say, "the best seat in the house".
JLoveBomb 2 years ago
@tucsonia SO WHAT ??? THAT IS YOU NOT 70,000 WHO LOVE THIS VIDEO (ALMOST)
TheMilanese1 2 years ago
Do I have to spell it out for you and others? What part of "except for this" can't you understand, even if english is not your first language?
tucsonia 2 years ago
Amen!!
colmas 2 years ago
Your only concern should be the quality of the music. You think?
peppertee 2 years ago
Is it just me or does his pupils look dialated as fuck like he's tweeking on some shit?
MikeOB 2 years ago
David Byrne is a legend. he sang things that didn't make a lot of sense but thats what made sense, he confused to un-confuse! its a Confusing concept bit it makes sense just like David Byrne!
ligerliker 2 years ago 2
what more would you expect from a Yale graduate?
jacowaves 2 years ago
not much more, thats for sure!
ligerliker 2 years ago
Bryne's no goddamn Yalie. He attend RISD. With a few other TH band mates.
yossarian9 2 years ago
awesome,can't see why most kids like junk instead of good stuff,glad back in the day that my childhood and friends weren't like that!
animal90sFreak5 2 years ago 10
must´ve been cool to live in a time when it was normal to listen to that kind of music...
Tim12600 2 years ago 6
@animal90sFreak5 no shit!!!!! my friends in their twenties listen to garbage no not the band
khurit 1 year ago
@animal90sFreak5 because today standards are a tight body and ass but no talent!!
duonra10001 3 days ago in playlist talking heads
this is the best song.the album "stop making sence" the guitar is funky.the whole jam rox sox.love it!
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Leckbandwidth 2 years ago
What a day that was..
allaboutdmagic 2 years ago
Byrne is a rhythm machine.
julieswahn 2 years ago 3
dear fellow... LISTEN. it is all about the complex rhythms, melody lines, the structure of the song. Yeah... they all look great, but this really isn't about a suit or nipples or great lighting. It is about a sound that never existed and will never again. Genius.
sliderman57 2 years ago 5
great as they ever were
sachsen100 2 years ago 2
We're going boom boom boom! And that's the way we live.
Blissinflux 2 years ago 5
lol...Brian Eno is black now?
IndustryLeech 2 years ago
the dancers aren't wearing any bras, hot. who is the black guy laying down the licks? brian eno? kind of looks like him.
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brian eno's white dumbass
mandris08 2 years ago
that is alex weir on guitar and steven scales on percussion and the great bernie worrell on synth
akyriel 2 years ago
thanks a lot, i have the video tape but want to get the dvd. ft
FellowTraveller 2 years ago
This is from Stop Making Sense - live consert 1984. if you havn't seen it, i highly recomment it, I would say it's the best music video i'v seen to date.
nelzi80 2 years ago 6
Totally. A must-own.
Blissinflux 2 years ago 5
superb..............................!
jeremyhewitt 2 years ago
I can't stop listening to this song. So unbelievably good.
silo7 2 years ago 4
the original recording of this song is from a soundtrack to a dance piece called 'the catherine wheel', one of many byrne and eno collaborations...I've got the album on vinyl, it was pretty widely available...you might be able to find it if you search...
sirtophamhatt 2 years ago
Gets me everytime. Brilliant.
ochayedonald 2 years ago 3
Sooooo great, I am seeing David Byrne this year.
grantaldn 2 years ago
Of course, Stop Making Sense was directed by the great genius Jonathan Demme, the director of such films as: Silence of the Lambs, Something Wild, Married to the Mob, and Philadelphia to name a few. This is an awesome concert, and I think Mr. Demme had a lot to do with how well it actually came out.
Roark66 2 years ago
I'm burning some fat dancing to this!
puklop 2 years ago
So many musical layers......my head's going to explode!!!!
orbfile 2 years ago
Possibly the best filmed song in the best concert film
orbfile 2 years ago
Same way i feel . His best band set-up also . i really like the power and sound of this "New" old band .
tencz57 2 years ago
i like the lighting here
worm082 2 years ago
Wicked shit!Excellent film.
Cabronosidad 2 years ago
stop making sense
bigshot3287 2 years ago
Get the DVD of the Twyla Tharp "Catherine Wheel" production. It has ALL the music (The CD doesn't) and you'll never forget the dancing, especially the double whammy of "What a Day That Was" and "Big Blue Plymouth (Eyes Wide Open." These songs, together with "Big Business" and "My Big Hands (Fall Through the Cracks)" make it one of Byrne's very best albums. NY Times named it one of the 10 Best Albums of 1981.
thrash5409 2 years ago
such great close ups of tina
feelinganalog 2 years ago
Marvellous!!!
chiamamenestore 2 years ago
you better stop making sense
VorsichtFalle 2 years ago 2
David Byrne still sings this at his solo shows. He really brings it.
DiscreetFilms 3 years ago 2
LSD and coke are great
mikejmarvin 3 years ago 2
You said it, brother! That's what made the 80's so much fun.
icenine2 2 years ago
them backup singers are hot.the whole light and shadows was very cool
rand9234 3 years ago
zoooooooooooooooorted
tdbcrackfiend 3 years ago
perfection
nicolettedegroot 3 years ago
the chorus of this song is sooooo fucking beautiful!
looshkin66 3 years ago
Saw this concert 3 times: First at the Greek Theatre on the original tour, then at the Long Beach arena when they were feeling it out for an audience draw, then during one of the 2 nights they filmed this at the Pantages in Hollywood.
David Byrne totally BRINGS IT in this song, and I'd love to go to a club just once where the dj has the nads to play it.
donde2k 3 years ago
This whole concert is just one of the best things ever. Brilliant lyrics on this one, amazing energy and DANCING throughout.
Tomapella 3 years ago
its gets better after every watch!!
zaezen 3 years ago
In which album does this song appear? can't find it
nikorble2 3 years ago
You can find it on the Stop Making Sense album, I believe.
RapscallionRebellion 3 years ago 2
yes I googled it and actually appears on the soundtrack for 'the caterine wheel' (1981) by David Byrne
nikorble2 3 years ago 2
its on both actually
looshkin66 3 years ago
ya - - thanks for all of these.
ljpw93 3 years ago
thanks 4 this. Wow.
935323 3 years ago
love this section, its awesome seeing their shadows on the back wall.
love the version of This Must Be The Place too
Phished123 3 years ago
This may well be the best part of the concert. Just stunning
Mjunes 3 years ago 4
i totally agree. this was the highlight of the show.
anotherjoshua 3 years ago 2
Love it!
jimmorrisonrebel 3 years ago
Cool, I was listening to this album last night!
Genius stuff.
ray1bradbury 3 years ago 2
I want to keep the back up singer to our left more comfortable... weather wise.
hemlockgourmand 3 years ago
The backup singer on the right...at exactly 1:00 looks amazing!
Sheldon66 3 years ago 2
All three ladies gourgeous and talneted.
torgo714 3 years ago 4
I really can't imagine anything better than this. It's pretty damn close to perfect. That chorus! The whole film is totally incredible. When i watch it even now i have to stop my jaw from hitting the floor.
nexuspexus 3 years ago 3
I have to agree about the chorus.
The song feels incredibly fast paced, but its not actually that fast. It conveys feeling so well. The verses feel like they are running, while the chorus steps back. I love the lyrics in the chorus. "What a Day That Was" is even an incredible name, and it makes me think of awesome days. The chorus lyrics are perfect.
grenaderock 3 years ago 5
i love how these live versions are so much more lively than the studio versions. that's not to say the originals aren't totally awesome, but listen to "Take Me To The River" or "Crosseyed and Painless" and try to keep from dancing. the studio versions are much less upbeat and alive for lack of better words. what a great show. i wish i could have gone back then.
nickademous 3 years ago 4
I wish i could go back there again too! Right On!
treeplaya2 3 years ago
Prime example of how to use great musians and use them to there fullest. The whole concert untouchable
torgo714 3 years ago 5
i dont think theres anything to compare nowadays. prince at the o2 maybe but other then that what do we have-robbie williams - no comparison
wayne39 3 years ago
tuneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
nastytrigga 3 years ago
I saw Stop Making Sense in its original release in the mid-80s, at a small art theater with a great sound system. I was about 12 and just starting to discover girls.
The concert absolutely blew my mind. The grooves, the footage, the lyrics, Byrne's charisma. It literally improved my musical taste by several notches overnight.
Amid all my bewilderment, though, I walked away clearly remembering this song and that little smile at 3:58, how I felt it run down my spine.
Still do.
classof77 3 years ago 9
I think this just might be the most explosively intense 6 and a half minutes of rock & roll ever put on video. The Heads are ON FIRE in this song. All gears are workin' and everything's clicking 300 miles an hour. Between David and Tina, and the circus of brilliance around them... it's just ABSOLUTELY AMAZING.
beefmageditor 3 years ago 6
Nice one! comment I mean. (and vid, obviously :)
prfctday 3 years ago
Tina at 2:25. I wish I could blow that frame up and make a poster out of it. So amazingly intense!!!!!!!
beefmageditor 3 years ago 4
No doubt!! That is a great shot of Tina at 2:25. It's time to watch Stop Making Sense again....like for the gazillionth time.
Sheldon66 3 years ago 3
Byrne really is a true performer. Notice how long he goes without blinking during this. It's crazy how much he plays his part.
michaelbuice 3 years ago
That's called "cocaine."
ChaosBorg 3 years ago 2
David Byrne is cocaine!
Jigs1girl 3 years ago
I got this DVD as a present. What a day that was.
ochayedonald 3 years ago 5
is that a keyboard solo?
venturieffect 3 years ago
it's a bloody good synth solo
ochayedonald 3 years ago
definitely an awesome solo.
venturieffect 3 years ago
Played by a P-Funk hero ;)
prfctday 3 years ago
The wet mouths of the backing singers make me feel things.
eyebrowraising 3 years ago 2
And no bras... I know :-o <-- that isn't my impression :-D <-- neither is that
I know what you mean!
prfctday 3 years ago 2
So, kkkkkklf... what format is needed to upload CLEAR fullscreen video, like yours????
-It's the best quality I have seen, compared to everyone else's.
And, thanks for the music!
bubblerings 3 years ago
It doesn't get better than this - does it?
smudgepots 3 years ago 3
What a great band and what a great show that was!
pfonyt 4 years ago 3
thanks for posting that ! The Talking Heads are brilliant.
irrelevancy58 4 years ago
That pan shot at 1:21 of the whole group -- unbelievably iconic.
Years later, I still compare all concert footage to the standard set by this film.
classof77 4 years ago
Unbelievably iconic? You crystalized my thoughts to a T!!!
Sheldon66 3 years ago
Davis Byrne was on LSD most of the time
samthed 4 years ago
I think you are getting David Byrne confused with yo momma.
Jigs1girl 3 years ago
david byrne is a coked up werewolf
Eurou812trash 4 years ago
I doubt it highly. He doesn't do drugs. he is just brilliant!
Jigs1girl 4 years ago
Actually, if you read the book, 'This Must Be the Place: The Adventures of Talking Heads in the Twentieth Century' by David Bowman, you will find out that during this tour and especially at this show, when Tina and Chris's Tom Tom Club played, David would go back stage put on the big suit, and do some 'toot'. Toot is cocaine,
Eurou812trash 4 years ago
and there was another reference to it in the book, when he was living in New York. If you have the Sand in the Vaseline greatest hits collection you will notice David talks about how like many bands 'There was their fair share of drug use'. Also with the new DVD
Eurou812trash 4 years ago
of STOP MAKING SENSE you can clearly see substance at the nose after the Tom Tom Club played. Now of course David is no Tommy Lee but he did his fair share. And now he is a has been who has Tina Weymouth described someone who can't return friendship and ' Cutting off attachments when a thing/person is perceived to have served its purpose or there is a perceived threat to ego is the lifelong pattern of his relations'
Eurou812trash 4 years ago 2
better a has been than never have been
doctorfunkshock 4 years ago 3
I agree.
lazyassbutthead 4 years ago
Not a "Has-Been" at all. Still very well respected in the music community, and comes out with albums fairly frequently.
wouldntyouliketoknow 3 years ago 2
...And not merely in the music industry. Mr. Byrne is also a hero of film, print and installation art communities. He's not nearly as famous in America as he was in the mid-'80s... but who is? He's often doing something surprising and awesome; constantly evolving with the times.
aaroneous1973 3 years ago
Dude wrote a song in 1979 called "Drugs", which, let's say, reflects a considerable insight into such experiences.
classof77 4 years ago
Great Song from an amazing concert movie! Oh ya, nice braless backup singers!
Sheldon66 4 years ago
The original version on "Catherine Wheel" is slower, making it seem more moody and apocalyptic -- my favorite Byrne song. This faster version somehow trivializes it.
thrash5409 4 years ago
This is a song from "songs from the catherine wheel!but this version is much much much better (the original is slow)
michelegntl 4 years ago
I think its from Stop Making Sense..
tye81 4 years ago
It is also featured on Stop Making Sense album.
MORBIN5150 4 years ago
i love this song.! What record is it from?? I have most of their records but it is not on any of them. Please tell me...
jamestampere 4 years ago
It's from a David Byrne solo albumn called The Catherine Wheel which he wrote for an amazing Twyla Tharpe dance show -- amazing in part b/c of DB's music. The whole albumn is as good as this song. check it out.
remain0in0light 4 years ago
definetly best track on stop making sense
mlcollinsjr 4 years ago
good for you, post katrina
ePhilosopher 4 years ago
wow
skydiverks 4 years ago
My favourite Talking Heads song.
tye81 4 years ago
great version of this song. electrifying!
barlapaz 4 years ago