Talking Heads - (Nothing but) Flowers

[imboonga]

@MunkeePete I bet they are! You probably dont even know a muslim or anything at all about islam! Islam itself is radical and completely at odds with our way of life and constitution! And, unfortunately for us people like you and this administration fail to grasp that. No amount of appeasement by liberals will ever change the mandates within islam to subjugate and war against unbelievers! Thanks to people like you the creeping sharia continues unabated!

[erik1966lutig]

Justice for Kirsty!

[polycera]

Check out the guy playing the Rickenbacker guitar. Johnny Marr from The Smiths.

[stevieVantanna]

Okay ... of course all the daisies are gone and oasis...and in their place are buildings ect - but this song states the opposite - what's the deal? Is the song being clever? Is it like Joni Mitchell's Yellow Taxi song?

[umeharombay]

End the war

[imboonga]

Tell the muslims that

[trollfinger]

When I first heard this I put it on every morning when i got up. It's a nice start to the day.

[Meanlevee]

Really? You don't find it depressing?

[trollfinger]

Nah, I think it's more optimistic then anything. I like the idea of some places not being looked at as somewhere to build on. But hey, everybody takes what they want from music.

[GordonBombay66]

Fuck you.

[trollfinger]

Ok....

[Iheartgazelles]

The writing when they sing "we got it" goes away way too quickly for me to read...

[LeoDroogie]

i love this song so much!

[Kinotriter]

The video is STILL current. The music is great.

[Kaufbelig]

Like the Beverly Hillbillies meets Johnny Klegg. Some of that is due to Johnny Marr using the Rickenbacker 12-string against the High Life (or is it Palm Wine) guitar parts.

[Kaufbelig]

Yes was the late Kirsty MacColl. Her Ex-Steve Lillywhite produce some of the songs on that album.

[LtSykes]

i wonder if they'd go ass to mouth....

[SolaceInShadow]

You NEVER go ass to mouth!

[szkokee]

"Grow up!" :)

[deemavo]

Not so simple. The addressing of issues such as consumerism erasing or tainting the beauty of the world around us is neither a common nor a simple-minded pursuit. Sorry I didn't quip that in a nice easy-to-slap-onto-a-t-shirt way, Sparky.

[dieguinhojeremias]

CLERKS II ROX

[bradlers178]

ohh, would you fuck me? i would fuck me, id fuck me hard

[oldladylove]

i want this played when I ndie

[equallyeasilyfuqyou]

favorite th song

[Jenscool]

I could.

[fuzzprobe]

America has too many stores.

[hitek3222]

2:55 cracks me up with his little hand wave.

[freymaroto]

THAT'S JOHNNY MARRR!!!!!!!! Fucking Johnny Marr form the Smiths... great!!!! love him.. love the talking heads too of course!!!

[VinMetal666]

You holdin? Shit everything but h. coke and your dick.

[Andyakaherman]

Coke, heroine and your dick* :p

[VinMetal666]

Clerks 2 dude.

[SesameStrut]

Johnny Marr is God.

[javyys]

i love this song, and i love it more for CLERKS II. excelent song. wait a minute... is it Lando Calrissian? lol

[rupman27]

Gusters cover is better! :)

[WelcomeToDetroitWimp]

youre a joke

[msc32887]

You know whats even more of a joke? I am impressed that someone knows how to use the word you're in the right context. ^&*#(%# idiots nowadays.

[Convoicev2]

THis song in a nutshell:

Post apocalyptic world where civilization is gone, replaced with nature, or "The Garden of Eden". But the people there are so far away from the natural world they want a lawnmower.

Kinda depressing.

[streetlightkid72422]

this song is so fuckin good haha

[VenusGrnys]

Sqw them the first time they came to Philly in '77. Awesome!!! Saw them many times after, even at the Philly Zoo.

Thx!

[de132]

Clerks II

[armydarkenss99]

yep

[filthee1977]

Marr!!!

[nikorble2]

I like the lyrics...they are 'ironically optimistic'

[nikorble2]

I think some parts of this video inspired Radiohead's "No Surprises" video

Take a look at 2:15

Known is that they are big fans of the Talking Heads

[DMarriott81]

to be fair the lyrics are bloody awful!!

[feetwad]

go listen to something else then you fucking philistine

[DMarriott81]

philistine? cheeky tosser....i like their earlier stuff but this song, melody, lyrics to me seem boring and to be blunt crap!!

[jojo808]

think there is kind of a World message behind the lyrics and the Music has a deliberate South African touch to it.

[stevewithak]

Like most Talking Heads songs, totally timeless.

[legendofsource]

It just says it all...

[oglockwood]

also, is a term for that distinct guitar style he's playing? you know how there's country, blues, jazz, etc. it sounds spanish influenced or something.

[oglockwood]

anyone know of a tab for this song (not just chords)?

[haddy999]

you right chumba you not trippin lol

[Iluvbisquits]

This came out my Sr. year of high school, loved it then, love it now.

[dingwan1]

20 years ahead of it's time. serious.

[chumbersdee]

I may be tripping , but was that Johnny Marr at 0:22?

[diediedie999]

nope, that is johnny marr

[counteractive256]

THINK of the pure exhuberance this song brings to you.

If it were nothing but flowers, what worries would we have left?

[yarbles67]

brilliant -

with the way things are going, we may end up going back to our hunter/gatherer roots wether we like or not :) nuts and berries baby

[hennibenni]

Great...

[MattKnightdude]

The Facts that it shows are Amazing Even for an old Video

[kkoondzio]

best song ever lol o luV it baby

[karenzitaloren]

I love, love, love David Byrne.

[goonmobile]

clerks2

[mute754]

clerks 2 meaga mobey muffen with chesse

[ericaduhthegreat]

I can't believe people don't realise this song is just used in Clerks, but it's about 20 years older than Clerks!

[Holmes3000]

The song's 20 years old now, but it's only six years older than "Clerks" from 1994.

[brijendersingh]

I think this is a tongue-in-cheek commentary on how we have destroyed paradise and replaced it with concrete and pizza-hut

[DANLUGBUK]

looool u dumbass

[gezuis]

You reminded me the song "Big Yellow Taxi" of Joni Mitchell ... "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot"

[Padulas]

i think that they ruined their image with the "naked" LP. it had a south american sound.

[onehundredfigurehead]

Naked is a really good album, it's a bit of a grower though. This and 'Totally Nude' are really infectious :)

[rookybeats]

First heard this in Clerks II, nice song:)

[prfctcellrulz]

I guess everyone remembers the movie this song was from! Little known fact: I GRADUATED FROM THE SAME HIGH SCHOOL AS KEVIN SMITH!!!! BOO-YAH!!!

[GalactusPBN]

this song predates clerks 2 by decades.

im surpised you even graduated from high school.

[prfctcellrulz]

Ho ho, very funny. Not really. I already knew that.

[ers784]

whats this song about?

[ziggyzero]

this song is about someone talking in the future when the montains flowers and paradise has grown again, like the perfect future "nobody puts much attention"

[ers784]

thanks, i had to choose an "environmental song" for school! this is a good one but i didnt use it.

[KVPshamshel]

I would disagree, I would say this song is about the future when "paradise" has grown back, and he views it as a dystopia. for example, "if this is paradise/I wish I had a lawnmower" and "I miss my honky tonks, dairy queens, and seven elevens" - I see this as a song appreciating "civilization," not demeaning it

[SomethingRules]

In that case, how do you explain the environmentalist messages in the video (during the "You got it, you got it" part).

[KVPshamshel]

I dont hear environmentalist messages in the chorus parts, it sounds like he is stating what has happened - that there used to be factories, but now there are just mountains and rivers. What seals it for me is the end "dont leave me stranded here, I cant get used to this lifestyle"

[SomethingRules]

Not in the song itself, in the video.

[KVPshamshel]

Ah, I see. the video does have an explicit environmentalist message, even though it seems to be at odds with the song.

[ratisnice]

that part of the chorus "you got it" just means how abtainable it is to live in such a peaceful primitave culture, its just that we people dont try to stray from the culture we are already in, although if we keep living this unatural way with no regards to the species around us, our civilization will be destroyed before we know it.

[SomethingRules]

Once again, I am talking about the video itself, not the song lyrics.

[rasengen505]

live from her capital in mexico, Oh God No!

[bobsaget117]

IM SORRY JESUS *fap fap fap*

[rasengen505]

sometimes in the heat of the moment its ok to go ass to mouth.......pssshh i knew it

[hsbkiller79]

if you like covevers check out a version of this song done by the band Guster.

[musemichelle]

i like this song- sounds real great. can anyone recommend me any other songs by talking heads? i really dont know which songs are good or not- or which songs to listen to.

[svenderikengh]

the whole album Stop Making Sense is great

SVend-Erik

[musemichelle]

thanks, i'll check it out!

[thegoldenwombat]

Pretty much everything by The Talking Heads is of this caliber. I'm sure you'll be pleased with any of them.

[DressSmartLookHard]

Great song...love the Smiths influence from Johnny. It reminds me of Boy With The Thorn In His Side.

[AzraelI666]

Most disturbing! After the apocalypse we will still have flowers? How horrible!

[VenusGrnys]

Tina Weymouth kicks ass on bass!!!!

[mcmanusdown]

This was a Pizza Hut

Now it's all covered with daisies.

[jasong4111]

One of my favorite Talking Heads songs.

[wuclanfan]

really johhny marr plays on this?

[somme1915]

johnny maar on this video/track

[Doodeezz]

we have to interpret this song in class and write a literary essay on it

[UberPirateNinjaz]

Same o.o , we are on it now

[entropyfu]

So tell us, what do you think it means?

[Doodeezz]

that the society they are describing is ignorant to the wonders around them and depend on technology/consumer goods to get them through the day, making them lazy.

which pretty much comments on our current society

[trickmastermonkey]

oh yeah? well try doing a modern dance piece choreographed to this song in class.

[jamesharvey]

I disagree- I think it's possible to both hate war AND think you guys are douchebags. In fact, one pretty much guarantees the other.

[haylex95]

I always have to think of Clerks 2 when here this song. Excellent song. 5 stars.

[IrishEyedBlue]

The part where the words are on the singer's face reminds me of the video for Radiohead's music video for "No Surprises."

[aaronomy]

Radiohead got their name from a Talking Heads song.

[magsie40]

I've always loved Talking Heads but I'd never heard this before. How prophetic!

[heavyzimmy]

fuck you tree hugging liberals. war is where its at. iran is next. great song though.

[seatownfan]

You should join the military, show what a tough guy you are.

[jamesharvey]

Hahahahahahahaha

[trollfinger]

What ? War is where what is ? And what type of idiot wants a war ? Like, do you get upset when wars and conflicts die out ?

[fredjhenzel]

amazing. I'm too slow a reader!

[FreakinSweet87]

I love this song. Makes you think about how life would be if we really did stop putting up stores and tearing down forests. We like to imagine it's saving the earth, but at the same time it would be making life harder for us. That's deep!

[bushwacker23]

Look at the poor within the city... no way to even scatch out a small crop from the earth. I'm not sure it would be harder living with nature.

[rorschach1]

this song is post-apocalyptic. manye years after the cataclysm, this is the song they sing. it's sad and hilarious and clever.

remember computers? those things were neat!

[jimpedigo]

Those guys were undoubtedly the most unique rock band. I still love 'em.

[MaxReinsch]

I almost feel like crying when I hear this. It's deep soulful music!!

[JMein13074]

1:54

Actual size of David's ego

[thewesterly]

It's not sarcastic, it's conflicted. He wants to like it, but he misses seven-elevens and such. Which is a good point - it's not as easy to get used to life without our modern conveniences as we'd like to think.

[AuthentiWolf]

And I'd pretend that I was a billboard.

Like you do. C:

[Emby508]

ignore that..... that was a stupid question

[LeedsUnited1984]

Whats up baby, whats up sluts : )

[PC3900]

Kirsty MacColl, RIP.

[coldbarefeet]

You got it. You got it.

:D

[thebrew]

GREAT tune.

[UncleAndy13]

Love the Heads. Such a smart man Byrne is. Songs and vids alike. Too bad ego and burn-out took over.

[trollfinger]

Is it because it's not snoop dog or something ?

[Emby508]

Go talking heads and the environment!!!!!!!

[willmcloone1]

Not to upset you... but just a thought. They also wrote a song entitled Big Country. In this song, David Byrne says, "I wouldn't live there if you paid me."

[Emby508]

2 questions..... was it tlaking heads or david byrne and live were.....

[thegirl44]

It was Talking Heads and it's David Byrne recounting his observations from the window of an airplane, basically saying that the suburbs and the country aren't his gig.

[prontoalaire]

Un excelnte jugo de imagenes y transiosiones apara una excelente cancion, desde la letrqa hasta la musica.

[andreaandrewmilne]

Top-notch! - typical witty David Byrne. Deliberately contradictory mix of opposite positions. You gotta decide where you stand. The perils of mud-hut eco-totalitarianism? The unsustainability/pointlessness of never-ending consumer capitalism? Ask yourself which of the captions he/the band endorse or are sending up. Fab, fab musicians. Love that passage with no vocals from 3:28 to 3:44. That soukous/fast rumba guitar playing - hi curumba!!

[fabifly]

Hahaha, great song! And fun random facts, though I had to pause the vid to read them, but I guess they made the facts go faster so that people would pay closer attention, hehe.

I love you David Byrne, you sexy man you! <33

[fknugly222]

You must not be able to read and listen and the same time. Try closing your eyes and listening, Brainiac. If you still don't like it, then i'm sure you can find something to listen to at Wal-Mart.

[bobbie4]

YAY!!!!

Talk about a quick trip back in time.

Thanks for posting it!

[chuckman276]

success, she got really pissed off hahaha.

[chuckman276]

my sister hates this song. i am now synching my amp up to my computer and blasting it at her room door. she is not aware that im alone. wish me luck.

[char1737]

it did work well as did all the music they used in the movie abc and 1979 were perfectly matched

[char1737]

was this used in the film Clearks II as they rolled the credits?

[thechaplain]

Certainly was! It worked very well, didn't it!

[BipolarPics]

Johnny Marr, Johnny Marr, Johnny Marr!

[opaulo30]

lol

love that lil elf

although a faer darig he may be

maythe road rise

[BluebeardTheGreat]

What a superb concept video - says loads, complements the song and the message, brilliantly shot and executed. Why are there so few tracks these days that have something to say and fail to be preachy with it?

[A550RGY]

Love the band and the song, but take a look at 3:03 and see the irrational fear against nuclear power that has contributed greatly to our current energy/oil crisis.

Fire up the nuclear plants and let's all drive 100% electric cars, for crying out loud.

[RGWWrestling]

Clerks 2 thats what this song reminds me of LOL

[trollfinger]

Good stuff get more of us young folk into them. Im only 23 and started listening to the talking heads a few months ago and they are amazing

[NMMorna]

yes there are :D fortunately... yeah vampire weekend nice sound I listen to them all the time

[NMMorna]

yes, it's just that nobody can hear it since hip-hop and shapeless music makes a lot of noise

[Shadowthrone08]

Good lyrics, shitty tune

[boxter6699]

congratulations on missing the point of the song

[mef1975]

Oh oh, I see one of the greatest guitarists ever...  Back then, I had no idea.

[chuckman276]

found this from clerks 2

awesome

[NMMorna]

hey it's marr! I could tell because of the guitar tunes, and then he appeared

[Milkdudds92]

Is there a word hidden in the static at the end?

[biazilla]

I think it says "The End"

[trollfinger]

for the last month or two I've been putting this on as soon I get out of bed. It's a great song to wake up to. I love the talking heads. pity they don't talk anymore.

[mkdadi]

Clerks 2 :D

[transonicbuoy1]

And JM on guitar. I still have the 10inch.

[Kekapo]

Wow, that's really cleaver. Is so futuristic, a clever play on those usual sentiments of how 'it used to be all fields around here', and how we always mourn for what is lost. Very forward thinking even now! Imagine some day we might just find it hard to imagine having lived in a concrete consumeristic jungle. What a smart boy, and that was 20 years ago!!

[ycp777]

Not to be a jerk but, there were intelligent people 20 years ago

[palehorsepalerider]

more so than now.

[Kekapo]

Hiya, sorry - my bad syntax, I didn't mean that I was surprised there were smart people 20 years ago! I'm 46 after all.

[mef1975]

No actually, there use to be a Texaco across the street from me, but now, it's nothing but...

[judemblackbbc]

Twenty years later and it is still relevant to today's world. What a great song!

[butcherboy2008]

Actually, the people in paradise are unhappy. The real message of the song is that we long for things to be a certain way, but something in ourselves will never allow us to be happy. We want simplicity when we have things, we want things when we have simplicity.

[Rasscoco]

Great artists!

[dsignrdane]

is this not one of the most sarcastic songs ever?!