David Van Tieghem - These Things Happen

Music video from the 1984 Warner Bros. album "These Things Happen"

Category:

Music

Tags:

• percussion
• solo
• experimental
• avant-garde
• performance art

[DRRwine]

LOVE this track. It took me ages to figure out that some of the samples came from "The Birds", but the "Poltergeist" stuff was so powerful... I was obsessed!!!

[iwantoldschool]

As a woman I have to say they just don't make men like this anymore. He's delightful. Quirky, sexy, talented, and Donald Fagen with a sense of humor :D

[10SEAvenue]

I had great fun with this album. DVT a percussionist with Peter Gordon's Love of Life Orchestra. If you loved LOLO, you're in the right place.

[TVSLT]

This got a lot of play on hip hop stations in the San Francisco Bay Area in the mid-80s. To me, this is hip hop and very Kraftwerkian. I have the "These Things Happen" CD single that was issued by the old MP3.com.

[humungus57]

I have the "Even As We Speak" compilation on mp3, haven't seen an actual album with artwork or anything but it must exist. here's the track listing:

1. Good As New -- 2. Mesozoic Flood -- 3. Non Nobles and Te Deum -- 4. Prologue -- 5. The Withered Arm -- 6. These Things Happen (yellow) -- 7. Even As We Speak -- 8. Strata -- 9. These Things Happen (blue) -- 10. Live in Brooklyn -- 11. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

[MindbenderMilo]

@humungus57 Do you have any more info? I've looked online but couldn't find anything.

[MindbenderMilo]

Sample ID: "Mommy, Mommy, I can't see you mommy, where are you" comes from Poltergeist. But does anyone know where the "Look...Look" comes from? I seem to recall watching an old (british?) black & white movie that ended with a little girl looking out a window where rain was streaming down the pane & it looked like tears rolling down her face & she said "Look, ? I'm crying". I could have sworn it was the same voice.....I always wanted to watch the whole movie, but forget to id the title, anyone?

[MindbenderMilo]

I bought this LP & 12" after hearing it in a gay club too & then was blown away when VH-1 started playing the video (along with other more experimental music videos). The LP (and Laurie Anderson's United States box set) were rather thin & a poor quality pressings (the pops & crackle overshadowed the music). This album (along with Eno's My Life In The bush Of Ghosts) presaged the UK dance & sampling craze of the 90s & really needs to be remastered & issued on CD/SACD!

[nappyheadhoes]

At 20 years old, high on MDA and dancing at the gay clubs to this back then I truly felt this track was a "gift" to me and my friends from my friend who had died(murdered) earlier in the 1984...his favorite movie at the time of his death was "Poltergeist" and when i listened to this track at home with head phones on I clearly heard the P-geist samples and the hair on my neck just stood up. Thanks Jeff H!! There are also samples from some scenes from the movie, "The Birds."

[clipsupreme]

Funny and serious at the same time. Odd