Talking Heads - Psycho Killer (REACTION!)
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Great Curve, Making Flippy Floppy, Burning Down the House, Girlfriend is Better, or Crosseyed and Painlesss would all be right up your alley!
I second Girlfriend is Better!
Speaking In Tongues is packed with bangers, go there next
I recently joined a reggae band specializing in Talking Heads covers. We're called Talking Dreads.
😂😂😂😂😂
Yes!!!!
That’s dope
Sounds like it would be a complete shit show 😂
Outstanding! I think I'm in love. hahaha
Talking Heads - This Must be the Place!
That god damned lamp dance gets me.
Life During Wartime, Burning Down the House, This Must Be the Place, or Born Under Punches next!
Lived in a brownstone I... lived the ghetto...
Life during wartime for sure!
Life During Wartime, the *Stop Making Sense version*
“I’m not sure why but it works” pretty much sums up the Talking Heads.
A band still ahead of their time
100%!!!!!!!!!
David Byrne's "Look into the Eyeball" is fantastically mature, I've listened to it more than any other album since 2000. It's so gooood. Saw that tour 3 times.
Great comment. Idk but they have to have inspired Faith No More. Another band that is great.
“Take Me To The River”, “Burning Down The House”, “This Must be the Place(Naive Melody)” are worth checking out by the Talking Heads
Road to nowhere.
@@MarkChappell1Beat me to it Little Monsters movie
Just came here to second all of these suggestions ❤
The Stop Making Sense Documentary is one of the best concert films ever made. They’ve expanded the band with a couple of terrific funk musicians and a pair of wonderful backup singers. It really is worth checking out these songs from those live performances.
Got to catch it during its IMAX run ❤
This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) is one of the most satisfying songs of all time to me.
They are truly one of the most important bands ever.
Their concert movie "Stop Making Sense" is a damn work of art. Starts with a boombox and acoustic guitar. Then blossoms seamlessly into the full band plus all the extra musicians and backing singers... including none other than the amazing Bernie Worrell on keys from P-Funk.
Norman Bates was loosely based on Ed Gein.
That's a rabbit hole that's just crazy and inspired so many moves (Psycho, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, House of 1000 Corpses, etc.) and songs.
If you want a quirky song about like you talk about at the end... Blind Melon's "Skinned"... WOW. Such a twisted song. But it's so upbeat and quirky. Plus it's got a Kazoo solo.
Yeah... it's the band that did "No Rain" with the Bee Girl. But Skinned is from their album "SOUP"... which is the most underrated album of the 90s in my opinion. It wasn't a big album because Shannon Hoon, the singer, died a few weeks after it was released.
I just wanna second This Must Be The Place as an absolute beauty. If you hear ONE other Talking Heads song, hear that one. Very different vibe lol
@@razzleland “Oh, and don't you know that I'm caught here in the middle
Making rib cages into coffee tables?” Gotta love the lyrics😂!
"...by arcade fire"....."I am sorry, but this must be the place is by the talking heads" ....also a fantastic movie ;)
Was looking for this comment. The melody just gets me every time I hear it. Fits perfectly with the lyrics.
Byrne’s performance for this song in Stop Making Sense is magical.
👏👏👏
Honestly that entire recording is pretty magical. Byrne has an energy that I've never seen anyone else match.
Give Tina, the bass player her props. One of the best.
She's a goddess!
Kooky with a groove..... Talking Heads accurate description
comment on the head
Talking Heads, Radiohead, REM all bands that formed or met in art school/college and for all of them it shows in the creativity and diversity of their music.
"I don't know why that works, but it does man" Best description of Talking Heads ever spoken!
yep that's exactly it. and when it came out there was NOTHING that sounded anything even close
Just imagine New York in this time. A heat wave, punk is just really coming into pop culture, there’s a black out, and some psychopath is running around the Burroughs shooting people in the head.
The twitchy, nervous groove is a perfect match to the obsessive lyrics.
Love it. Reminds me how ahead of their time they are.
“I hate people when they’re not polite” still makes me smile and laugh inside. lol.
If you want instant playlist, catch their cover of Al Green's "Take Me To The River". Completely different direction from the original.
"Cant sleep; beds on fire" is such a good line for this song.
Exactly, how can we sleep when our beds are burning?
Definitely gotta get to "Burning Down the House"! I think y'all will like it, and it is a certified banger!
Life During a Wartime “Live” from “Stop Making Sense”
And you MUST watch the video
Keep in mind this in early New Wave/Art Punk. It's meant to be strange in a good way.
I'm down for more Talking Heads, too. Fun one.
This band gives me such a visceral reaction of pure emotion and I can't really explain why. A band that truly means the world to me. Idk much about the reaction game but this early album stuff is better live. The band is pretty tight musically and I think it is a genuine disservice to them to put all the "charm" on David Byrne. You're missing on some excellent bass lines, pretty tight and rhythmic riffing. And again live these guys were jamming.
Anthony Kiedas of RHCP said listening to Talking Heads when he was younger made him feel smart... I get it.
Their live film "Stop Making Sense" will make you appreciate them even more, its great. But i think "This Must Be The Place" or "Burning Down The House" for next song reaction by them!
Talking Heads is a band the more you listen to them, the more your appreciation of not just of the band here, but other music as well. They are such a such diverse creative band that did a lot of excellent music
One of my favorite lyrics: "You're talking a lot, but you're not saying anything"
This applies to so, so many people in my life!
I believe David Byrne said this is the first song he ever wrote.
They have a lot of good, fun songs. Some of the more well known radio played ones you haven't covered are Road to Nowhere and Burning Down the House.
He also stated he wished he hadn't written it lol
You guys have to check out Girlfriend is Better from Stop Making Sense. It's one of my favorite Talking Heads songs and that live version has so much more energy than the studio version.
I just dont understand people who dont like The Talking Heads. Just the shit! They were so different and talented. They had a way of keeping your attention at all times..thats talent baby!!!
Completely agree. My Mom, who grew up on Elvis and Motown, loved them. She said she didn't "get them" but who cares, they're great.
I am lucky to have a sister 4 years older than me who had great taste in music and I would constantly steal her albums. In '77, I was the only 9 year old singing PsychoKiller in my class 😂
There's no The in their name. It's just Talking Heads.
@@CryptikConstruct no it's actually Talking The Heads
My go-to band when I’m not sure who to listen to……I frickin’ LOVE Talking Heads 😁✌️
They’re a true classic band.
Art rock with a groove. Byrne is a genius and was a must see live.
Doooooods! Life during war time 🤘🤘🤘❤️❤️❤️
Life During Wartime Live Video is a must to see the genius in the live perforace of thevTalkingbHeads and Byrne. They were so entertaining.
Man, I'd LOVE to see your reaction to "Girlfriend Is Better" from Stop Making Sense.
Also: "Who else in 1977 was doing this?" The answer is Nobody. Talking Heads are one of those truly groundbreaking bands in music history.
Hey guys, I’m from Rhode Island and not many bands came from here except for the talking heads. They formed while matriculating at RI school of Design, RISD.
Pretty cool
And if anyone isn't around young kids... they should look up the mascots for RISD sports teams.
Only art nerds could come up with such hilarious names. 😉🤣
Talking heads are the beginning of new wave in the US. The man is an actual genius.
Slippery People from the live film Stop Making Sense is a must-react. Incredible groove.
You really need to see him perform live. He's a riot and the perfect front man. I bet he's even more fun than you even pictured 😅✌️❤️
Talking Heads were amazing live. I saw them at Forest hills Stadium in 1983, Black Uhuru opened as I recall, one of the best concerts I ever saw. Such good times!
6:30 I saw once a music studio here in Brazil that put a sign on the wall forbidding people to play Psycho Killer🤣 People really like that song and starters bands plays it a lot
They could easily have this sign at karaoke here in Canada 😂
They need to react to more of Talking Heads, THE GREAT CURVE, GUYS!! If you get to more of these guys you'll LOVE them. Anything off of Remain In Light. They have SO many amazing songs.
Absolutely second The Great Curve. Hectic hypnotic groove, insane Adrian Belew solos
I wasn't a fan in the 80s, but now I kick myself in the ass for not recognizing their genius and catching them live back in the day.
It’s good to see you guys get this and enjoy it so much. This was a Huge song in college in the 1980s….
Put it on Loud at a party and Amp people up.
Thanks!
The Heads really found their sound and became the tightest live band in the world when they were joined by Bernie Worrell (P-Funk co-founder), Alex Weir (Brothers Johnson guitarist/composer), Lynn Mabry and Edna Holt (P-Funk- She-Funk) and percussionist Steve Scales.
Thank you for letting us share this adventure with you.
Awesome reaction, guys! I love Talking Heads and always enjoy others discovering them and trying to figure them out, lol.
I think you guys would like their song "Swamp". It's got a great funky groove, and Byrne's usual twisted lyrics that circle around something without ever really expressing it directly. Great stuff!
I have this song on my driving/road trip playlist. 😊
(I also have it on a couple of my *'background music'* playlists for when reading, or working around the house)😎
And a buddy has this and a bunch of other Talking Heads songs, on his workout play lists.
Please do a double listen to their cover of "Take Me to the River" from their album and then the live version of it on their 'Stop Making Sense' tour. This year is the 40th anniversary of the tour :)
You have to had seen them when they were introduced to Saturday Live back in 1977 playing this song. It was a revolution!
for some reason. maybe because of where they started, that they fit in with the 1970's PUNK MOVEMENT of New York, with Blonde, The Ramones, Patti Smith, Dead Boys Etc....They were big at the time !!!
This will be stuck in your mind all day
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Oh my been away from the channel for a spell and been surfing your reactions . As awesome as ever,p. Needed cheering up today and you give big smiles . Thank you 🙏💚💙
I know a lot of Talking Heads fan who would disagree with me.. but this studio version is pretty rough.. For newbies trying to get into Talking Heads and the entire music scene they represent it's best to start with the Stop Making Sense live movie.. The performance of this song in that movie blows this away.. twice the confidence in the vocal and the visual representation of the performance makes the whole thing soar.. Sorry Talking Heads fans but I'm gonna say it.. F the 'amazing bass line'. Everything about this song is done better in Stop Making Sense.
Ryan and George need to just hit play on the movie STOP MAKING SENSE. it is one of our most popular reactions on our channel for a reason.
I'll argue that Stop Making Sense concert is one of the top 10 live shows ever. It's freaking amazing. Every rock fan should be required to watch it.
@@Fawkes318 No one can unsee that performance of Life During Wartime. Once they see it they will remember it forever. To this day it is the only music video I have ever seen my dad actually sit up and go 'hell yeah this is amazing'. He has never cared about music at all.
This version was just 4 musicians (who were just starting out) and the Stop Making Sense live version has like 9 people on stage. 2 drummers, 2 bass players, backup singers, etc. Comparing them is like apples and oranges.
Why not rename the band Yawning Mediocrity???!!
Why not rename the band Yawning Mediocrity???
Life during Wartime. A must. I highly recommend watching the live version from the Stop making Sense concert film.
Both of your reactions were accurate to what was felt back when this was big. Ryan laughing is like a lot of us. It's just strange, but dammit it's catchy. I'll listen when it's on and yell the chorus in the car.
David Byrne leaned into his neurodivergence. Amazing soul.
ExACTly.
A true earworm. You can't get it out of your head. "No sleep for you!"
George is doing that 'I like this in spite of myself' face. 🙂
You are my favourite reaction channel. Great songs. You listen and paus just perfectly👌🇸🇪
THERE IS ONLY ONE!!!
you guys will absolutely LOVE the TH’s track CROSSEYED AND PAINLESS if you can keep still while listening to it you are better men than me 😅
"the better a singers voice, the harder it is to believe what they're saying" - David Brynes
Discussing the topic of keeping musical flaws in the tracks
P.s. Also they covered Al Greens "take me to the river" it's genuinely a perfect song
You have to see the live movie, best concert film of all time
Tom Tom Club --genius of love is essentially The Talking Heads..
Talking Head usually run hot or cold with people, so I always love when anyone's willing to give them an open mind. One of my favorite bands, with Byrne being one of my favorite musicians in general.
Stop Making Sense is a Talking Heads concert movie directed by Jonathan Demme. It starts with this song with the lead singer on a guitar all by himself, and rest of the band come in one by one during the course of the song. Strongly recommended!
It'll be passively stuck in your head. No playlist needed. To this day if I hear "Fa" it's an instant ear worm.
Haven’t finished the video yet, but right off the bat the boys are laughing hysterically. Makes me nervous about their final verdict on one of my favorite bands.
But then again that’s why I love this channel. Real honest reactions from two guys that love music and are open to being surprised.
David Berkowitz, better known as the Son of Sam, pled guilty to eight shootings in New York the year before the song was released...
They were performing this song in 76 the first time I saw them, a full year before Son of Sam, & I’m pretty sure the song was even older than when I saw them.
In the 70s, there was also the Talking Heads NYC contemporaries Television who had some similar quirkiness. Try Little Johnny Jewel.
Talking Heads are the sneakiest earworm producers. One small part of the song and I'm just repeating it in my head all day.
Anytime I see anything with Talking Heads, I'm in! Love your reaction to this. My opinion, of course, is that they are the greatest band ever!!! "Heaven" "This Must Be the Place" "Road to Nowhere" - AMAZING stuff there.
Wow that is a great thing of you showcasing unknowns! Kinda like “left of the dial” back in the day. Keep up the good work!
After listening to this I realized a kind of similar band that you guys would have fun reacting to is The Violent Femmes - "Gimme the Car", "Add it Up", "Kiss Off" would all be great songs
Classic band that were always ahead if their time, even in todays standards.
College. 1983. A parking lot quad between 3 bluestone buildings. The boys in the coed dorm would blast "Burning Down the House" followed by "Psycho Killer" from their dorm window at 9am every Saturday. It's a formative memory for me.
Talking Heads were something else but i loved them...and so did everyone else in the 80s...never heard anything like it, and still haven't.
love talking Heads you find yourself singing Along.
"Life During Wartime" Live is one of my favorite performances of all time.
Saw Talking Heads at the Roxy on the Sunset Strip when this just came out. Unreal.
Talking Heads, I actually got to meet David Byrne in the late '80s and get his autograph outside the Tower Theater in Upper Darby, PA. Just west of Philly. Not as tall as you would think in person but his skin was practically translucent. I wasn't planning on getting his autograph. But I had a dream that I met him on a SEPTA bus at 2nd and Market in Philly and ended up sitting next to him having a casual chat. In the dream I sharly asked him for his autograph and he gave it to me. Later, I got the tickets to the show in upper Darby. It was during what is best described as his Latin Phase. Precognitive dream . Weird, huh? Not so much for this mystic, mind reading Pisces. LOL!
All the songs suggested here are great ones. Especially Burning Down the House.
But if you want to hear a T-Head song that's more fun than cryptic, more light-hearted than psychotic, check out Stay Up Late.
Born in 1961, I grew up as a child of the '70s. Man, as far as music was concerned, we had it all! Love your channel, I am now a fan.
PS- Just finished your reaction, you guys had me rolling on the floor laughing right along with you.
Don't spread this around, but if a guy can't make me laugh out loud on the first date he is 💩 outta luck, as far as I'm concerned. I'm like, NO SOUP FOR YOU! NEXT!!!🤣 🤣🤣🤣
PPS! I absolutely loved Bates Motel! What could be better than Freddie Highmore and Vera Farmiga as Mrs Bates and her son Norman?
I watched Alfred Hitchcock's terrifying classic original movie Psycho, released in 1960, starring Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates, years before that series came out.
If you like Bates Motel you gotta check out that movie.
Even more terrifying, and a fact that many people do not know is that that movie was adapted from a book titled Psycho, by Robert Bloch. Based on a true story about a serial killer that rivaled even Dahmer's weirdness, Ed Gein. In case you didn't guess, I am a horror and true crime fan.
PPPS- Hey Ryan, I don't care what they say about you, you a'ight.
That's how we compliment someone in South Philly. 😘
yall ought to see the "stop making sense" live version. berzerk
recommendations: Born Under Punches, The Great Curve, This Must Be the Place (Live: Stop Making Sense), Cities, I Zimbra
"You're talking a lot, but you're not saying anything" best lyrics eva! Also, one of my favorite bass line openings
Lol, my man Ryan was *_dying_* during the choruses! No wonder, this is a *_killer_* song! 🤣
Ok, I'll see myself out, now. 😊
The only time I ever did well playing Rock Band was singing this song. I know all the lyrics and all the wails. Perfect score. =)
I'm going straight out to watch the whole concert for the fifth time, it's entrancing how tight that performance was
"Burning Down the House" is the number one Talking Heads song.
Great reaction ❤❤😂 I was exactly like you guys. 😅
A few other great tracks from Talking Heads: 77 are "Pulled Up", "Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town", and "The Book I Read". And for related acts from the seventies also check out The Modern Lovers "Roadrunner", Television "Marquee Moon", and Blondie "I Know but I Don't Know" or "Pretty Baby".
Their debut is such a great album, not my favorite of theirs but it's not far from that.
BROOO yall gotta listen to Talking Heads-Road To Nowhere
You can’t approach Talking Heads like any other band. They’re in a world of their own.
This band's music just makes me wanna laugh and feel good. I haven't heard this song since I was working at my summer job during school in the early 2000's when my best friend would walk straight up to me with a serious face and start singing
Psycho Killer
Qu'est-ce que c'est?
Fa-fa-fa-fa, fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa, better
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run away,
oh-oh-oh
It never, ever failed to make me burst out with laughter. I dare Ryan and George to sing this chorus to their friends and see their reactions. It will be memorable. hahaha
This song has popped off in so many movies and TV shows lately.
Also, I love David's lines in this one: you're talking a lot but not saying anything.
Glad you guys appreciate how unique these cats were. Born Under Punches and Crosseyed and Painless are really cool songs.
i requested this on patreon and youtube . give a guy a shout . i like all the things you do and all things you have never heard .. my first 45 was soul sonic force when i was 10 and I played metal since i was 13 when i saw slayer .. trust me when i tell you something is great .
This is an off-putting, naive, arrogant, and just all-round strange comment.
Love Talking Heads. The Stop Making Sense version of Life During Wartime is one of the greatest live performances ever.
Crosseyed and Painless. Nothing But Flowers, Life During Wartime, & Wild, Wild Life
I love this song. Reminds me of my son. He’s awesome.