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"Wild Wild Life" is a song by American rock band Talking Heads, released as the lead single from their seventh studio album True Stories. It was the band's third and last top 40 hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.

The video for the song won "Best Group Video" at the MTV Video Music Awards in 1987. Taken from the film True Stories, with some additional content, it includes band member Jerry Harrison parodying Billy Idol, Kid Creole, Ralph Macchio's character Karate Kid, and Prince. "My favorite T. Heads video, the most fun to make," Harrison recalled in the liner notes of Once in a Lifetime: The Best of Talking Heads. "I always wondered what Prince thought of it." The rest of the band also appears in various costumes.

The video is set in a 1960s ambienced cabaret bar, where a frantic series of unannounced performers lip sync to the song, imitating such singers as Madonna and Meat Loaf as disjointed images play across a wall of video screens behind them. Byrne wrote about this scene:

The song itself becomes a vehicle that can say anything they want it to. Some gestures and movements are obviously derived from well-known sources: television shows, movies and, most recently, rock videos. Odd to think that some lip-synchers are imitating characters in videos, who are really musicians imitating other characters.

Actor John Goodman, prior to his fame in the sitcom Roseanne, appeared in both the film and MTV versions of the video. Goodman was also featured on the B-side's "People Like Us", a song that also appeared in the film.

Talking Heads were an American rock band formed in 1975 in New York City and active until 1991. The band was composed of David Byrne (lead vocals, guitar), Chris Frantz (drums), Tina Weymouth (bass), and Jerry Harrison (keyboards, guitar). Described as "one of the most critically acclaimed bands of the '80s", the group helped to pioneer new wave music by integrating elements of punk, art rock, funk, and world music with avant-garde sensibilities and an anxious, clean-cut image.

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7 months, 1 week ago

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00:00 Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
05:50 Crosseyed and Painless
10:40 The Great Curve
17:24 Once in a Lifetime
21:46 Houses in Motion
26:15 Seen and Not Seen
29:40 Listening Wind
34:31 The Overload

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7 months, 1 week ago

And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
And you may find yourself in another part of the world
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife
And you may ask yourself
Well... How did I get here?

How to cram a 15-year career into 30 minutes - excellent documentary!

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Awesome song from an awesome band. One of Vaughn's favorites. I don't own this music.

1 year ago

Song by the Talking Heads
Bass Note Accuracy: 99 percent

1 year, 4 months ago

From 'Stop Making Sense'

1 year, 6 months ago

Talking points, agendas are pushed through approved and controlled narratives, manipulating the masses with familiar, local faces, voices they’ve come to trust. The question is, just who are those few who determine what is to be programmed. Here is an example of deceptive propaganda at work:

1 year, 7 months ago

Psycho Killer

Lyrics by David Byrne and Talking Heads, 1974, rewritten by Brian Ruhe.

Special thanks for the recording and video created by Stephen Craft.

Psycho Killer song World War II Cover

I seem to face up to the facts
I’m tense and nervous and I can’t relax
I can’t sleep ’cause the lies on fire
Don’t touch me I’m a real live wire

Psycho Killer
Winston Churchill
Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-far better
Run run run run run run run away oh oh
Psycho Killer
President Roosevelt
Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-far better
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, away oh oh oh
Yeah yeah yeah yeah!

The Jews started the war and they were sure to finish it
They’re talking a lot, but they’re not saying anything true
I have something to say, my lips are not sealed

Say something once, and say it again!

Psycho Killer
Winston Churchill
Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-far better
Run run run run run run run away oh oh oh
Psycho Killer
Franklin Roosevelt
Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-far… better

Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, away oh oh oh
Yeah yeah yeah yeah!

1933 was an economic war

They ganged up on Germany more

Realize they started the war

Germany just defended themselves…OK

Yeah yeah yeah yeah… !
We are vain and we are blind
I hate people when they’re not polite

Psycho Killer,
Winston Churchill
fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
Run run run run run run run away
Psycho Killer,
Franklin Roosevelt
fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
Run run run run run run run away
oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh….

1 year, 9 months ago

"And She Was" is a song written by David Byrne for the 1985 Talking Heads album Little Creatures.

"I used to know a blissed-out hippie-chick in Baltimore," recalled Byrne in the liner notes of Once in a Lifetime: The Best of Talking Heads. "She once told me that she used to do acid (the drug, not music) and lay down on the field by the Yoo-hoo chocolate soda factory. Flying out of her body, etc etc. It seemed like such a tacky kind of transcendence… but it was real! A new kind of religion being born out of heaps of rusted cars and fast food joints. And this girl was flying above it all, but in it too."

Drummer Chris Frantz said of the song, "It’s a story about a woman who has the power to levitate above the ground and to check out all her neighbors from a kind of bird’s eye view. And the guy who’s writing the song is in love with her and he kinda wishes she would just be more normal and, like, come on back down to the ground [Laughs], but she doesn’t. She goes floating over the backyard and past the buildings and the schools and stuff and is absolutely superior to him in every way."

The song is musically notable for its unusual use of modulation, The overall key of the song is E major, however the bridge to the chorus is in F major. The second bridge back to the verse is in the key of G major (Chords B min to G maj, "She was glad about it...")

It reached No. 54 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and No. 17 on the British singles chart. The accompanying music video was directed by avant-garde filmmaker Jim Blashfield, who cites the style of Terry Gilliam as one of his major influences.

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1 year, 9 months ago

Storytelling Giant is a 1988 compilation album of music videos by Talking Heads during the 1980s.
The videos are linked by real people (not actors) telling stories from their lives; the stories have no logical connection to the videos.

2003 DVD Track listing:
1. "Once in a Lifetime" (Byrne, Brian Eno, Harrison, Frantz, Weymouth)
2. "Wild Wild Life" (Byrne)
3. "Stay Up Late" (Byrne)
4. "Blind" (previously unreleased) (directed by Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel)
5. "Crosseyed and Painless" (Byrne, Eno, Harrison, Frantz, Weymouth)
6. "Burning Down the House"
7. "And She Was" (Byrne)
8. "Sax and Violins" (previously unreleased) (directed by Wim Wenders)
9. "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)"
10. "The Lady Don't Mind"
11. "Love for Sale" (Byrne)
12. "(Nothing But) Flowers" (previously unreleased) (directed by Tibor Kalman and Sandy MacLeod)
13. "Road to Nowhere" (Byrne)

1 year, 9 months ago

80's Music Video. Released 1981

2 years, 4 months ago

Some Records and CDS I picked up from the thriftstore.

2 years, 6 months ago

David Byrne of The Talking Heads performs a very freaky version of "Psycho Killer" while wearing a skinless human suit. This is from his 1997 appearance on "Sessions At West 54th St."

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3 years, 3 months ago

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4 years, 1 month ago