Talking Heads - Take Me to the River (1978-05-10)

[wmbraddy]

I love you all. Be well.

[conkle]

Maybe best live example....early dayzzzzzzzzzzz

[fjolset]

Watching this, you really can sense how the whole thing was trying (and succeeding) to do something profoundly different yet insightful.

[valeriemci1]

Someone here said the Talking Heads are weird...That's what makes them so GOOD!!!!

[mileskp44]

@valeriemci1 absolutely bro....couldnt have been more right onnn...

[railer16]

lsd

[gwsurf]

Yeah way better with no jigga boo's

[JasonBarnhart]

Flat out awesome.

[801liveable]

pretty good cover..so was BRYAN FERRY'S..maybe better.

[234helenrose]

Now THIS is the tempo!

[michaeldpaul]

This was part of my coming of age musically soooo many years ago, when i realized that was more than 70's metal :) Wish I could have seen them at GBGB's

[Kell1295]

YEEEEAH! <3

[MMRJL]

'Name of this band is Talking Heads' is a double LP and hope you all got for definitive version of this song.

[MultiWebweaver]

MATTHEW BARNETT, Take me to the River, my money my joints

[Shaun17170]

This reminds me of the the first time Human kind landed on the moon. The footage looks similar. The band is great though!

[Baritone45]

@Shaun17170 Though it seemed like half a lifetime at the time, probably because it was over half my life at the time, those events were separated by less than 9 years.

[joonk35]

L O V E this version.

[Baritone45]

Wow, this is painful, but educational to listen to this after the Stop Making Sense version. To me this song shows vividly how the band transformed from a fairly typical small-club rock band with different ideas and an interesting music-based sound (as opposed to the typical rhythm and guitar-based glam or hard rock bands of the time that used as little music as possible) into something that was markedly different - the celebratory musical garden that Talking Heads become.

[FetaCheese222]

@Baritone45 Yeah, the Heads are wierd. You can't really say where their music came from. You know, at least with, say, The Police, you can say there's a punk and reggae influence.

[Baritone45]

@FetaCheese222 You say weird, I say interesting. I think it all came from their ummm heads. I wish we had more original thinkers in commercial music.

[FetaCheese222]

@Baritone45 I meant "wierd" in a good way. They're very unique.

[Baritone45]

@FetaCheese222 LOL, in that case, I completely agree.

[Leandroidj]

Yeah!

[sharpclay]

Many Thanks from Florida!!!

[baggins1944]

Finally found it!!

[234helenrose]

yeah - I don't like the faster tempo.

[JimmyDiggs87]

i love the way Tina moves...

[yumionlyyou]

i know this song by Uyen Linh VietNamIdol, so i think the cover of UYEN LINH is great more than.... pl try if u don't believe me, GOOGLE it: UYEN LINH - take me to the river.

i think u will love her cover!!

[kientran1988]

@yumionlyyou I dont think you should beg for attention that way, Uyen Linh has a great voice, ppl around the world will know her, soon enough. Believe me ;)

[Tommyfazz]

I like ...I prefer the...the other version...by far the best version...I want the other version... I cry if I don't here the other version... where is the first version?...I want...I need...I will have...MINE MINE MINE!

[spassfaktorx]

verdammt gut , geile alte Zeit ,wow

[theseether]

The Heads version tramples Green's version.

[Tommyfazz]

@theseether you should eat more water based food.

[theseether]

@Tommyfazz ha!

[castingtherunes]

I love Al Green, but I prefer the Heads version of this song. It's weird and sexxy at the same time.

[Martymartythe1manpar]

that's Punk Rock

[Martymartythe1manpar]

that's Punk Rock !!!

[SuddenSparkles]

Roslyn, NY Rosslyn, VA... Scottie's gone AWOL. Now what?

[issymudd]

point of VIEW not you. sry (I've been accused of being anal about this kind of thing) lol  This is good and I love the Talking Heads but.... Al Green rocks this one.

[steve0281]

Music. Imagery. Good video.

[fieryhand]

5 people are Bieber fans.

[nuccipooch]

Nice an' dirty - That's incredible man, 

[SheWhoPlays]

Jesus loves the Talking Heads; he will invite them to sing for the Party in Heaven. And we all get to come to It.

[subimedia]

honkey tonk bluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuues XXXXXXXXXXX

[sinterics]

Can't forget the bass lick.

[234helenrose]

This is the best tempo for this. I don't enjoy the faster version.

[hebneh]

Oh my. YOUTHFUL people. Look at that David Byrne.

Incredible memories are associated with this song.

[FreneticKey]

god

[pedemeyer]

Cool! The heaviest version I ever heard! :)) Best band ever!

[cherrymaryx]

excellent! thanks for sharing :D

[Aeschylus]

Heavy beats.

[nhito]

cool :)

[jws54]

i like it

[wooooooooooooo12]

he was born in scottland anyway

[infinity0747]

I like this version better too. Raw live.

[EnglishBadBoi]

another load of yank crap

[headly66]

Punk was invented by Americans green teeth.

[vastak]

Once again, New York 1, rest of the world 0.

[Sointula2]

Ok, I'll give you my vote, but only if you promise to stay there.

[00bikeboy]

@vastak Too geocentric man, share the wealth. New York 1, rest of the world: grateful

[vastak]

@00bikeboy  I accept your point of you. Came to that conclusion by observing myself. You can't get much further from New York than I am (I'm hoping only physically).

[roffus420]

one of the best songs ever!!!! brings back some serious party memories,

[tsicilian]

My favorite cover of this song!

[trextrextrex]

@tsicilian This one and Charlie Musselwhite w/Ratdog version is awesome as well.

Both are very well done. Better than Orig IMO

[reast341]

cool this is the song u hear when u press the button on big mouth billy bass

[FatboyMolloy]

wtf your right! i remember that!!

[reast341]

yeah right?/ haha

[azkaser]

A classic

[strangwool]

I love the flub that starts around 3:50. This is a great sounding gig.

[M2centsOhYeah]

always loved the slow version of this (this one). Sexy! Like earlier poster... didn't realize this song so old. Gp Talking Heads!

[imaStonesGirl]

This is good too though i just like the way he sing it on snl better

[NalaStash]

OMG, I was so HIGH that decade.

[imaStonesGirl]

does anyone know if the Saturday night live clip is on you tube ?I saw talking heads do this song on SNL and it was so good !!

[fugepoo]

yeah that's the best version.

[imaStonesGirl]

yep u right

[801liveable]

@fugepoo the best version is BRYAN FERRY'S..

[puapake]

I always thought this song was from the 80's!

[scottathon]

This is a lot closer to Al Green's original version than the way they performed it on Stop Making Sense.

[datlilnerdigrl]

And a lot closer to the version I've heard on the radio most of my life. I prefer this heavy blues by far.

[Teporah1]

Yeah...this is the version I loved way back when...still the best by far

[AlottaStuff]

Hmm wonder what they were smoking that evening!?!! It shows! lol

[andreik2]

Same shit we're smoking THIS evening... LOL

[rubasub]

steaming!

[katmass]

OMG I was so HIGH that evening

[Velikan121]

That evening? Hell, I must have been high for 20 years; I thought this song was only about 10 years old.

[AlottaStuff]

How about 32 years so far! lmfao!!!

[peterbelelius]

brillinat

[hotnowone]

I missed going to school with these so talented guys, RISD. (Rhode Island School of Design) by one yr.  bummer!

[PVCVIDEOLA]

The only way the Heads should play it.

[Superhelter]

I agree.

[ritakay19]

cant beleive it . Relic The tempo is much motionless. You can tell alot about how they moved on with this song. Thanks to you for bringing this back.

[katmass]

i was there.. WOW.. speehless.. so great

[alabastersmom]

Lucky you! That day was 15th birthday. Would have made a great present, huh?

[00bikeboy]

@katmass I am SO FRIGGIN' JEALOUS!!

[dadaisticsurgeon]

first to comment it, first to put it in my favourites :)

[dadaisticsurgeon]

thank you