🎵 Talking Heads - Burning Down the House REACTION
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David Byrne: “Burning Down the House” wasn't a song about arson. When I wrote the lyrics in 1982, the title phrase was a metaphor for destroying something safe that entrapped you. I envisioned the song as an expression of liberation, to break free from whatever was holding you back.
The song was inspired by listening to Parliament Funkadelic. Even the line "burnin' down the house".
Yes! Brad & Lex, read some poetry. You don’t have to understand it first listen. It’s not random.
I had to take my like away from this comment, so it would stay at 69 ... Nice
I used to play this lp on the regular as a teen!💕
Beautiful metaphor
Their whole Stop Making Sense concert is gold, would highly recommend watching it!
Fire 🔥 stuff …. Brad couldn’t handle it
Awesome concert movie directed by Oscar winner Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs). How the band exercizes to an entire song leaves me winded!
Sir, truer words have never been said
Couldn't agree more! One of the greatest (and unusual) live concerts ever. Starting off with one man on the stage and gradually bringing in the whole band. Classic!!
True true true! Might help Brad's lack of imagination w good video illustrating! 😊❤
I love watching Brad trying to make sense of this. These guys made up their words by skatting to their own music and then piecing together words from those basically random sounds. This is musical Dadaism (they were art students, originally). Lex pretty much gets it on this one
I believe that David wrote the lyrics and the music is credited to all four of them.
(He should just) STOP (tryin') MAKING SENSE (instead) !
STOP MAKING SENSE
It's kinda fun watching him trying to figure out
lyrics that are somewhat abstract,
especially when the real meaning comes
through the music itself.
...have they done The Beatles' Come Together?
Brad ALWAYS looks like he's trying to make sense of what he's made to listen to.
Brad trying to understand lyrics is why I want him to tackle Frank Zappa and the Mothers.
Talking Heads is most definitely an art/experimental type band. sometimes lyrics are just lyrics and aren’t that deep lex is right here. Great band to expand upon and listen to more of
Some "lyric" is just sounds. "a rose is a rose is a rose..... " what does that "really" mean ???
guys, this song is one of the true legendary songs of the 80's - when we used to listen to it we ignored MOST of the lyrics, all we sang was the chorus line; "burning down the house" the whole point of this song at the clubs, on your home stereo or in your car was just to bop along to the awesome beat and cray out, "burning down the house"....nothing more. You could read into it that they were saying that your going to leave behind your old life or what problem and issues you have, pack your bags, burn down the house, and just leave....but even that is a stretch. Just bop to the beat and sing the chorus. For me 40 years later when this song comes on my car radio you have no idea how happy it makes me feel, the memories of my friends back then and the fun we had.
i couldn't help but toke to it.
Lex said "Stop thinking so much" Interestingly, one of Talking Heads albums is called "Stop Making Sense" nice one, Lex! ;-)
The axiom that there are questions that we just can't answer is a big theme in their music too. I think that "Road To Nowhere" is their strongest statement on the idea because it says that there are questions that we'll never answer, and that's OK. Talking Heads music is comforting to a worrier like me. And also funky lol.
To me the tribal drums and saying stop attaching yourself to the TV set, and just stop and listen, don't start "a fire with fire"
@@dorian822 Maybe their best song ? 🤔
@@bminturn road to nowhere is my top songs in life ❤️
@@dankelly5150 that or "This Must Be the Place" in my book.
Good pick. These guys have a very good catalogue. "Life During Wartime" is a must. And "This Must Be the Place". It's good that you bring up Beck. The Talking Heads were huge a huge influence on Beck. You can hear them loud and clear in just about every one of his albums. They are there (along with The Pixies) in every Modest Mouse album as well. Your education in "alternative rock" is coming along nicely lol.
Agree about Beck. Favorite artist of this 66 yr old dude. TH undertones, but Beck creates a real landscape of sounds, beats and grooves.
Like KISS, this is a band where the visual of them performing really helps to contextualize how to 'take' their songs. Even if they don't show it to us, they would likely find the band a little less mysterious if they saw how they approach doing something like 'Life During Wartime,' live.
@@TheTussman oh he definitely makes his own music. You can hear the Talking Heads influence in his work though, which is not taking away from Beck, but acknowledging a lineage so to speak.
Life During Wartime live 100%
@@CaptainAmercia From the "Stop Making Sense" film.
Brad is like a Vulcan, very logical. Lex is human, enjoys the sound.
logic? i think he just dont get it ... most of the time he s confused because he cant make a interpratation of the lyrics ......... not much about the music ........ lex is more on the tract
One of the most original bands ever! Watch LIFE IN WARTIME from their live concert epic concert STOP MAKING SENSE for the full experience.
One of the few bands that were better live than in studio in my opinion
Stop Making Sense changed my LIFE!! It's def in my top 5 EVER!!
Life During Wartime. Forgive me. I am a fanatic. 🎶
@@MrUndersolo duh. What was I thinking?
@@themadcow71 You...stopped making sense!?😗
Brad & Lex, I'd recommend their "Life During Wartime" and "Take Me To The River" next. This band has some of the more creative videos out there. They started in the 70's and were big in the 80s
Born Under Punches live in Rome 1980. Hypnotic performance.
Take me to the river for sure
The original Al Green version of take me to the river? Or the Foghat version?
No wrong rub your nose in that
Both of those are fantastic. I also recommend I Zimbra, to see that sort of random song that still feels like it has a secret meaning.
A truly visionary band. They were something completely new and original.
I've never verified whether this is true - but my understanding of Talking Heads is that they all met while they were art students in college in the 1970s and decided to form a musical band. They were on the forefront of the new wave movement. If you keep in mind their "artsy" beginning - then their music makes a little more sense. But I could be wrong. THanks for your reactions.
Every time Brad & Lex do a lyric video of a song I know, the music video plays in my head. I’m definitely Gen X and old 😂. Most interesting couple on UA-cam, love their content 💜.
same here. LOL!
"The psychologist Carl Jung said that fire represents the process of psychological transformation so burning down the house is destroying one personality and creating another one, As you can see in the video one person takes over another. David Byrne said the song was about this in an interview for the BBC (but he looked high at the time)."
-mbhvisbyon October 07, 2011
A Phoenix
I love the percussion and tempo. Very clever structure. I think David is saying, in order to "get out of" an uncomfortable situation, you've got to Burn.Down.the.House. Raze it and rebuild.
The overwhelming theme of most of Talking Heads' work is feeling out of place and disconnected from modern society. You see it in "Life During Wartime", "Once in a Lifetime" and "And She Was", as well as this song. (All of those are awesome, btw.)
Add Psycho Killer and you've got my list of must listens.
And she was about acid, though lol. Easy to understand.
"You like Weezer and Cake!" Damn, Lex is throwing back at Brad in this one! Poor Brad's face when he paused to figure out the song...I can't stop laughing!
Funny story...trying to get sober in the mid 90s, staying at a halfway house in Phoenix Arizona. Small apartment style recovery house. 14 apartments surrounding a swimming pool. 4 to a apartment. My 3rd day, came home from work round 2:30pm and eating in the cafeteria/mtg room when the fire alarm went off. Counselors gathered us and walked us out the complex. I could see smoke coming from my apt. As we passed an open door on our way out, this song was playing. Come to find out, one of my roommates had pushed their bed up against a wall receptacle and a plug from a clock/radio was exposed and lit his mattress on fire. Even Alzheimer's won't take that memory away....whenever I hear this song, it always takes me back. ☮️🔥
Violent Femmes, They Might Be Giants, Ween, Cake, Soul Coughing, all kinda fall into this category of nerdy rock often deceptively smart.
🤠 David Byrne is a musical genius! 🕺
Also someone you can count on to take any mundane thing and give you a perspective on it that makes it almost unrecognizable.
If you're ever having a day that's just too ordinary, David Byrne can fix that, sharpish.
Thats what I was about to say John
Quirkiness and randomness were part of the aesthetic of New Wave music. It was kind of a reaction to the “we can make the world better” message of 60s-70s music. It’s like accepting that life can seem random and lack sense.
👍
"Take me to the river" live is some epic Talking Heads
The Talking heads "Facts Of Life"! Love it!
I love the look of disgust on Brad’s face!
Love me some Talking Heads, 'Road to Nowhere' or 'She Was'...really good stuff.
Random? Oh, Hell Yes!!! Andddddddddddd. Life is freaking random. Which is what is beatiful here, and in most of their songs.
Talking heads had some concert filmed and turned into a concert movie. Yes, shown in movie theaters. For these concerts they added some extra band members, like from the The Brothers Johnson band. That really injected some Funk & Soul into their songs. A must whatch..
Christmas 1977, I was 10, my brother got Talking Heads 77. We shared a bedroom and Talking Heads became part of the soundtrack of our lives. I didn’t care what any of it meant, it was just a joy to listen to. Made me a fan for life.
My dad took me to Mexico as a high school graduation present in 1991 and in this little diving town we stopped at, "Burning Down the House" was playing at the bar and the Mexican bartenders were singing along to it. I don't even remember it, but my dad would remind me of it every now and then. He must've thought Mexican bartenders singing Talking Heads in the middle of nowhere was pretty random.
On the commentary for the Stop Making Sense DVD, David Byrne mentions how the lyrics to this particular song make absolutely no sense at all. The individual couplets alone make sense, but they have nothing to do with the lyrics before or after them.
Talking Heads were one of the bands that nerds/geeks liked a whole lot back in the day. As far as "random", you should listen to "Once In A Lifetime", "And She Was", and "Wild Wild Life". :)
Girlfriend is Better
Can't hear this song without thinking of "Revenge of the Nerds." Great movie.
I'm not sure about the rest of the band, but David Byrne was an art student at RISD. Completely original, no one else like them group and music. Byrne still tours and performs and, when I saw him about a dozen years ago, his band (different members from Talking Heads, who had long since disbanded) and him put on an amazing show. Oddball genius at its finest.
You need to check out the Talking Heads doing this song, or any of their songs, live. They are incredible. You're right to kind of lump them in with the B-52's for several reasons.
I agree! When you see them perform, its a whole different experience compared to just audio. ✌❤
I hope you guys do more Talking Heads. They are capable of doing songs with meaning. You might try "(Nothing But) Flowers".
Songs with meaning... You mean, like this one? Because it definitely has meaning.
That was the entire point of the lyrics to the entire Speaking In Tongues album...Byrne put together a bunch of couplets that worked with each other and then randomly threw them together for each song.
This band was comprised of 4 visual arts students who just came at music from an entirely different perspective and to me and many others it was brilliant. And they grooved liked no one's business too. Definitely one of my very favorite bands of all-time.
Take me to the river is a great one - my dad used to be a drummer in a band and whenever I hear it, it takes me back to being a little girl dancing while they play. Love the talking heads ♥️
Talking Heads "Life during wartime". Live version is crazy.
The Great Bernie Worrell from Parliament Funkadelic on the keyboards!!!
Whoa. You cant do Talking Heads without listening to Once in a Lifetime - probably their seminal song.
When I first heard this song I ran out and bought the 45'. It has been a favorite of mine ever since. Then I saw the video. At the time this was a favorite video. When MTV actually played videos. The video is awesome; at least for 1980's standards.
HaHa...I feel like you guys are the perfect counter balance for the other. You both look at music from completely different places but it works. She brings him more out of the box and he pulls her more in. Y'all work and I love it!
"life during wartime" is excellent and "this must be the place" is a total summertime vibe and brad would like the lyrics to "nothing but flowers"
Magic - B52s were around at the same time - the dancefloors were crazy! Lex would have loved it!!!
I always felt that Talking Heads lyrics was just telling our brains to loosen up and stop having all our thoughts "stuck together".
'Burn down the house!' was something Pariament/Funkadelic used to shout (You should react to them if you can find live footage). Chris Frantz, the drummer, went to a Parliament gig & during the next rehearsal, he would randomly shout 'Burn down the house!'. David Byrne liked it & the band wrote this song. I would suggest Life During Wartime if you want to react to more Talking Heads (& why wouldn't you?), especially a live version.
P-Funk legend Bernie Worrell plays synth on Stop Making Sense.
I loved being a teenager in the 80's. This band is very 80's. ❤️♥️❤️♥️❤️
I saw David Byrne play a solo show at a small club in Indy about 20 years ago. It was fantastic. He even wore the pink fur suit.
Lucky! That must’ve been amazing! I want to see him live so bad
This was from the 1st New Wave stream yall did last year (Jan/Feb 2022). Need to do more new wave streams.
Ordinary guy have happiness and hey just wait for weather change. Then you watch tv with wrong person in your side while dream walking outside in daylight 360 degrees. You have to stay and extinguish fire with fire or burn down the house. Sense of humor. It’s completely ordinary, water is everywhere just put the raincoat. You have leaving ticket out of the situation just burn down the house.😂 Amazing song
There is actually quite a bit of meaning in Talking Heads lyrics, this song included. David Byrne's lyrics talk about universal themes from a perspective unfamiliar to people who haven't been exposed to leftist theory. The "house" he is talking about is society writ large facing the crises of late capitalism which were already appearing even in the 1980s, & the responses of society to them. These lyrics are anything but random.
Oh, then perhaps “retarded” is a more accurate description?
I 100% recommend the "Stop Making Sense" movie/concert, they're amazing live, and seeing the entire band perform some of their best songs is amazing.
Talking Heads is one of those bands whose videos sometimes rival their music in creativity and fun
A good follow up to Talking Heads is their side project Tom Tom Club, made up of their drummer and his wife their bassist, and their mega dance hit "Genius Of Love" which is one of the most sampled songs from the 1980's.
They have a famous concert movie called "Stop making Sense" Great advice for Brad! Lol
When I used to go out on the town in the 80's, this was one of the songs which got everyone out on the dance floor.
This is the best channel for reacting to weird. The bands explanation of the lyrics was never let the words get in the way of a good jam.
0:35 THE EXUBERANCE OF A YOUNG CHILD! LEX IS PERFECT! LUCKY BRAD!
Those drums punctuating that big echoey space always sound awesome
This is great higher volume song from Talking Heads. I turn this up, every time.
All these decades I only understood about ten words in that song , thanks for putting the lyrics up pretty cooler song now
seymour stein would hang around the exits of downtown clubs in new york after the talking heads gigs to catch the band before they headed back to their dorms at risd and offer them a deal on his punk/new wave label sire records ...it took nearly a year of weekly rejections until seymour's tenacity paid off and he finally heard the band say yes... he brokered a deal with warner bros for distribution and well soon enough the talking heads debut was available on vinyl at local record stores across the u.s...along with the ramones, the dead boys, the undertones and as the 70s faded into the 80s soft cell, the cure, the smiths, depeche mode, echo & the bunnyman, the pretenders, madonna....seymour knew what was up before it was up
Now that you've baptized yourselves with The Talking Heads, you should seek out some of the live videos of their songs from the Stop Making Sense tour and movie. They can be a seriously high energy group. As fun to watch as they are good to listen to.
Great band! This is a great song and a fun Official video. Would love to see a reaction to "And She Was" and "Wild, Wild Life"! If you can, maybe do the Official videos as they were done in the day when videos were events...just some fun vibes.
Lex you are so cerebral with music. Anyone can be cerebral with the lyrics but you are with the music itself. At times when I first started watching you I thought you were over thinking the music. Now I realize I was just not getting the music on the level you do. You should have been a musical interpreter teacher. You are ahead of us all.
Lex is right on the song and right on the groove. That’s how I bop to this track too. The drums just sound lit on this one.
To give you a clue, the Talking Heads did an album and a documentary film in 1984 called "Stop Making Sense." They were successful at marrying new wave rock with funk in the '80s. It's all about the sound and feel of the songs.
It's amazing thinking of all the bands that came out of CBGB's. Talking Heads, New York Dolls, Ramones, Blondie. just amazing birthplace of music.
You have to watch them in their videos to get the whole picture. The 80's were soooo cool, thanks to this group of geniuses
Stop Making Sense! It’s life changing...incredible live band!
The video to this song is recommended to understand it. With the birth of Mtv in the 1980s, songs had a video that went with them, to give the audience an idea of what the artist was trying to get across in the song. Watch the video.
"Once In Lifetime", "Take Me To The River", "Life During Wartime", "Burning Down The House", "This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)", "Girlfriend Is Better", "Pulled Up", "Crosseyed and Painless", "Nothing But Flowers" are the names of some of Talking Heads better known songs. Check them out when you're ready for more from them. Also check out Tom Tom Club "Genius of Love", the hit Talking Head's bass player Tina Weymouth scored with the side group she formed with her husband Talking Head's drummer Chris Frantz. Listen to the 7 minute long dance hall version of that when you can. I think you'll dig it.
i love Lex's reactions, she totally gets it!!
'Stay Up Late' is one of my favorites, he wrote it after spending the night with his sister and her new baby boy.
THE ULTIMATE CLUB DANCE TUNE ! EVERY WAREHOUSE PARTY EVERYWHERE !! ALWAYS GOT EVERY WALLFLOWER OFF THE WALL!! RAVE UP!!
Someone in high school made me laugh my ass off when he sang this song. He made up the lyrics as he went along & it was different every time...
Once in a Lifetime is one of my favorite songs
Talking Heads are soooooo funky.
Imagine, growing up in the 60s-70s,, all the cool blues rock and acoustic guitars we had,, and then this stuff started invading our airwaves,, it wasn't easy.
This is one of my favorite songs. Great piece of music
Lol Lex gets David Byrne on a molecular level, and I’m very happy about it.
"Road To Nowhere" is my favorite Talking Heads song. Both of you would love it.
String sentences together and let the audience endlessly decipher the meaning. It's a winning formula for thousands of hits. Amazing production on this track.
College days as a PIKE pledge. This song brings back great memories as well as sad ones. In my pledge year, this song was at every party. We were The Animal House of the university and two friends and I thought the hazing was childish, left and formed a Sigma Nu chapter. The next semester, the PIKE house burned down killing a pledge and senior about to graduate. To this day, the lot is still empty. That happened in 1986.
Remember Tom Tom Club’s “Genius Of Love”? Covered and sampled my MANY wrappers and even Maria Carey. The Bass player (Tina W.) and others are from this band. Great bass/ rhythm section on this one!!!
“Road to nowhere” is my favourite of theirs
A couple years ago David Byrne was the guest musician on SNL and played a part in a hilarious skit, “Airport Sushi,” set at LaGuardia and he played the baggage handler who throws everyone’s luggage in the river. 😂 And of course at the end, he led the entire cast skipping off stage to that song.
If you didn’t see that, you must check it out!
I was waitin on Brads head to explode LOL and Lex's impersonation was spot on !!!
Brad used his scrunch face in the thumbnail. Funny. Being 1983, when MTV was the new fire, videos were essential, and many saw them just as important as the song. If you view it, the song would probably make more sense. "Once in a Lifetime" and "Take Me to the River" are quintessential Talking Heads.
The lyrics remind me of Once in a Lifetime. A guy disappointed with his reality and wanting to get out. In this case it was to burn his "house" down.
From what I read the lyrics were never meant to have any specific meaning...they were inspired by a Parliament/Funkadelic concert, and felt that with funk the lyrics were never meant to get in the way of a great groove. So they sang lyrics that weren't really connected to each other but fit the beat and groove perfectly. That's why you get an out-of-the-blue lyric like "Six-Hun-Dred-Six-Ty-Five-De-Grees!"--it fit perfectly into the rhythm and beat of the groove without needing to mean anything.
If you do Once In a Lifetime, you've got to watch the music video for it. It's one of those songs that the music and video are just forever connected in the minds of us 80's kids.
Yes check out the talking heads “stop making sense”
Brad 😍
In the early 80's hip hop was just getting started. They would throw parties in abandoned burned out high rises. People in Brooklyn were burning their own buildings to collect insurance money. The talking heads went to one of these parties and the performers kept shouting "burning down the house" so David Byrne made the phrase into a song.
Lex, you nailed it, it's the groove that's important, the lyrics are like random thoughts flying around. Talking Heads made a fantastic live concert video which was called 'Stop making sense' , that kinda says it all. Brad, along with most of the planet, you could have a hard time trying to apply meaning and logic to a lot of David Bryne's lyrics.
Brad CRACKS me up!! He looks so confused and can't quite make sense of it. "DOES NOT COMPUTE, DOES NOT COMPUTE" LMAO!! Like it offends his senses 😆 Lex always vibes more on the trippy music. Love it. Such a contrast.
I was a TH fan in the day!
Once in a lifetime Physo Killer , The River… many more. I’m still campaigning for Hozier Take Me to Church. ❤️🤩
Talking Heads! Brilliant. Lyrics in songs like this are almost metaphorical.
I ❤️This song... try "Psycho Killer" next.
you try it: ua-cam.com/video/9SCfhrOXFcw/v-deo.html
"Girlfriend is better" and "once in a lifetime" are a couple more Talking Heads tunes to check out...although they have many others.
Revolutionary 40 + years ago - and ahead of its time today. Timeless.
David Byrne claiming, "I'm just an ordinary guy" always cracks me up.