YES! I love the Talking Heads try "Taking me to the River", "Once in a Lifetime", and "Burning Down the House" and yes I know they take getting use to.
Yes I agree this was not a good version of Psycho Killer. I think the studio version is better and yes check out the other songs that you listed. Burning Down the House etc etc etc
Road to Nowhere, And She Was and Wild Wild Life are probably some of the more wellknown songs I'd recommend. You should check out The Cars and The Pretenders
gotta watch 'wild wild life' all the time. it doesn't matter who's doing it including kids, inc with teens mario lopez ''playing'' drums and stacie ferguson from black eyed peas.
Big fan of your sincere and honest reactions to music. Talking Heads were one of the early bands of the late seventies, early eighties that changed the face of rock music. This version of Psycho Killer is not the final finished track that broke the band to the world. David Byrne, arguable musical genius, is the front man, lead singer and songwriter. They have a considerable collection of great music and unique stage presentation. Concert film Stop Making Sense catches them at their popular and creative peak, and is worth a look. Keep up the good work.
It's the first result when you search 'talking heads psycho killer' and don't tack 'stop making sense' onto it. I can't speak to why the final album version doesn't show up first.
Talking Heads are deliberately weird. Ease into them with "Wild Wild Life", "Road To Nowhere", or their biggest hit "Burning Down The House". Then pick up "Once In A Lifetime" and "Stay Up Late". By then... you'll get it.
Oh hell yeah ! Talking heads are great and the more you listen to them the more you love them and they will leave you with a smile. Great choice of songs my dear, it was great i look forward to more of these guy's. You might try one or all of these songs once in a lifetime, wild wild life, road to no where or burning down the house. Thx...♡
If I were you, I would watch videos from the movie "Stop Making Sense" - great concert footage with excellent sound, the movie won multiple awards too.
Try “Once in a Lifetime.” That’s a great tune. Also, do you know The Cure? Try “The Love Cats” “Bingo Masters Breakout.” They are totally weird but strangely satisfying. Keep on working, man, you’re doing good work. xx
I first saw that when I was 14 years old, at a very drunken party, it was playing in one of the rooms and I was very out of it and utterly hypnotized. That was the beginning of my love of David Byrne! I went to see it at an Arts Cinema showing at 27 for old times sake. I have the cd of the concert.
This was a great reaction! I've watched a few and you are the only one so far who 'got it'! It's deliberately weird, different. David Byrne is a unique man for sure.
OK now we're talking! Talking Heads, great stuff, takes me back to my college years. The Great Curve, Houses In Motion, Once In a Lifetime, Burning Down the House Road To Nowhere, Cross-eyed and Painless, I Zimbra, Mind, Drugs, And She Was, just for starters...David Byrne is excellent, as are other band members, Chris Franz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison.
Life During Wartime was the song that introduced me to the Talking Heads. There's a live concert video that I have seen some react to. Lots of energy in the band during that video.
Javon you absolutely must listen to their seminal Once In A Lifetime and one of my favorites The Big Country. Dude you really are exposing yourself to a huge spectrum of music!
Hahaha love that track!! Probably their most underrated track for me. Sax and violins another, wasn’t a fan of road to nowhere. I know it was a hit for them..still.
It was hard to find this music back in the day. By that I mean they didn't play it on the regular radio stations. They played all of this stuff on college radio and MTV had dedicated hours for these videos and we'd tune in for it. It was so different. And we'd follow these bands as they played small clubs and college campuses. R.E.M. was one we traveled alllll over in our beat up old cars going from campus to campus for their concerts. Good memories.
Not the best version. Still very cool to see Talking Heads. Is this the place, take me to the river, once in a life time, Stop making sense, I’ve got a girl friend better than that...plus so many more! David Byrne is another musical genius. Tina, Chris, Jerry are tight as well.
Ok as a massive Heads fan I'm happy to see this. This is the raw early version of this song when they leaned heavily towards 70's punk. I love it but there are plenty of people who prefer the cleaner and better-produced sound of the actual single. I suggest you watch the concert film "Stop Making Sense", even if you are unfamiliar with the songs you will still enjoy it. It's more performance art than just straight-up concert and ranks in the top of all-time great concert films. "Once in a lifetime" "Swamp" "Life during wartime" "Take me to the river" and "Girlfriend is better" are all personal favorites.
Hi Jay 😁 it's true! David Byrne in Talking Heads final 70's and the beging 80's cruel song punk... CBGB (dirt bar/show) scenes (NY) with Ramones, Television, Blondie, Patti Smith, The Dead Boys, Cramps, The B-52’s, Joan Jett, Bad Brains, Black Flag and others bands 🙌 Divine David Byrne, listen all your discography! And you is great guy with big smile!!! Peace ✌️♥️
I see we're taking a break from love songs, personal anthems, youthful angst, and peeking into the mind of a homicidal killer stalking his victims. Well that's what you get when you put a bunch of musical instruments in the hands of art students. You call David Burns voice unusual. Yep, you could say THAT. Now try "Road to Nowhere," "Burning Down the House," "And She Was," and "Wild, Wild Life."
One of my favourite bands ever! Not the best version though, it's not what they played on the radio but pretty close. The best version is from the live video movie " Stop Making Sense " That whole video live show is friggin' AWESOME!
Don't know if you have heard it but the term "talking heads". Usually refers to people on TV, like newscasters. Because that's all you usually see is their head.
Talking Heads has quite a few iconic tracks. I like ‘BETTER THAN YOUR GIRLFRIEND’ or something like that. Also some live performances where Byrnes dance moves make it even better
They made a fantastic concert movie with just the band and some extra musicians and singers and EVERY song is amazing! So much energy and so much fun. Check out "Burning Down the House" which was a big hit for them. The album version is great, but the live one is smoking!
TINA WEYMOUTH IS A GODDESS AMONG BASS PLAYERS Welcome to New Wave, sir. There's nothing quite like Talking Heads out there. Next stops: "Road to Nowhere," "Once in a Lifetime," "Burning Down the House," "Take Me to the River" (a cover, but *goddamn* is it an excellent one), "Wild Wild Life," "(Nothing But) Flowers" (follow it up with Guster's version; they're both wonderful), "Girlfriend Is Better" and "Life During Wartime." Pull the last two from Stop Making Sense if you can; it's one of The live album experiences. David Byrne, the lead singer, has done some solo work since the group disbanded. My favorites of that are "Tiny Town," "Hanging Upside Down" and "Now I'm Your Mom."
One way to make sure you get the final studio version that everyone knows and loves (not that this is a bad version) is to get a video that has the album cover as the still image. That's what I do just for my own personal music listening on UA-cam. Got tired of browsing through different videos looking for the right version. The album cover is 95 percent likely to be the one.
This was the original version later re-produced but it it definitely gives you a taste of Talking Heads to come. I remembe my Dad hipped me to a local morning show that did a parody of this called Psycho Weather since Pittsburgh weather is so all over the place. Great line, psycho weather WTF, should I take an umbrella, a ski mask, or my Mama's sandals, oh oh oh why why why do I live here ! Good shit and great song. Get into some more Heads, promise you will love the odyssey.
You’re entering into the world of punk rock and you couldn’t have started with a more talented and creative band. This was far from their best. Keep exploring their music.
I think I had the same reaction to this song when I heard it when first release. The song is funny! and still makes me laugh when I hear it. Talking Heads were ahead of their time.
This is a group where you really need to SEE them! A very visual lead singer in David Byrne. You have lots of great suggestions in the other comments--grab one and run with it!
"Take Me to the River" -- a cool one from Talking Heads
There is an amazing rendition of "take me too the river " on a film called the commitments its worth a look x
That’s one of my favorite Talking Heads songs.
There's killer bass lines.. and then there is Psycho killer.....
YES! I love the Talking Heads try "Taking me to the River", "Once in a Lifetime", and "Burning Down the House" and yes I know they take getting use to.
Yes I agree this was not a good version of Psycho Killer. I think the studio version is better and yes check out the other songs that you listed. Burning Down the House etc etc etc
Once in a lifetime, yeah...Breakfast Club
Those are the same songs that I would recommend, especially the last two. They were a rather different band later on than what they were at first.
Road to Nowhere, And She Was and Wild Wild Life are probably some of the more wellknown songs I'd recommend. You should check out The Cars and The Pretenders
LOVE The Pretenders. Crissie is a goddess!
And She Was is one of my favorite Talking Heads songs!
Their concert film, Stop Making Sense, is one of my top 4 concert films ever
👍👍 yep fantastic work!
Greetings from Australia. Saw Stop making sense at the movies. It was fantastic.
Susan
Oh my god, absolutely the BEST concert film ever made! Convince me I'm wrong!
Suzanne Lemieux u won’t find me trying!! 😄
Yes film version starting with the boom box is a must listen!
This is one of the weird songs you don’t why you like it but you do. I love when David Byrne screams
Talking Heads - Burning Down the House, Wild Wild Life, And She Was, Take Me to the River - all great Talking Heads songs!
Life During Wartime and Girlfriend is Better are my top 2 Heads songs.
Take me to the River is my all time face TH song.
gotta watch 'wild wild life' all the time. it doesn't matter who's doing it including kids, inc with teens mario lopez ''playing'' drums and stacie ferguson from black eyed peas.
Big fan of your sincere and honest reactions to music. Talking Heads were one of the early bands of the late seventies, early eighties that changed the face of rock music. This version of Psycho Killer is not the final finished track that broke the band to the world. David Byrne, arguable musical genius, is the front man, lead singer and songwriter. They have a considerable collection of great music and unique stage presentation. Concert film Stop Making Sense catches them at their popular and creative peak, and is worth a look. Keep up the good work.
David Byrne IS a genius! His solo stuff is fantastic too.
This song was the first one on "Stop Making Sense", IIRC. Just DB and a guitar, with a boombox for some additional sounds.
Dammit. Why does every reaction channel do this alternative version? It's not THEE version we all know and love.
I agree. It's like they are being led astray...
Yeah doesn’t kick the song as well as it could.
Do it better, the american way.
I hardly ever comment on these things, but was gonna make an exception to say the same thing. I don't get why this is the go-to version for this song.
It's the first result when you search 'talking heads psycho killer' and don't tack 'stop making sense' onto it. I can't speak to why the final album version doesn't show up first.
Talking Heads are deliberately weird. Ease into them with "Wild Wild Life", "Road To Nowhere", or their biggest hit "Burning Down The House". Then pick up "Once In A Lifetime" and "Stay Up Late". By then... you'll get it.
I always thought that he was an intellectual
i always enjoyed Stay up late
The live version of "Life After Wartime" from the Talking Heads concert film "Stop making Sense" is pure genius.
The way they run! Just kills me...
Talking Heads do some great stuff! "Stay Up Late" is great, and also "And She Was"
Hahah forgotten stay up late..another excellent track.
Oh hell yeah ! Talking heads are great and the more you listen to them the more you love them and they will leave you with a smile. Great choice of songs my dear, it was great i look forward to more of these guy's. You might try one or all of these songs once in a lifetime, wild wild life, road to no where or burning down the house. Thx...♡
Exactly right!!!
You'll love The Cars!
Moving in Stereo
Whenever I run into someone who gives me a bad vibe... I think to myself that they are Physco Killers and I need to Run Run, Run away lol.
Excellent advise! 😲
lol
Check out The Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love it is 2 members of this group with another couple and the song has been sampled 100's of times.
"Take Me To the River" should probably be next.
If I were you, I would watch videos from the movie "Stop Making Sense" - great concert footage with excellent sound, the movie won multiple awards too.
One of their best is "Life in Wartime". They have a lot of cool songs though. Just kick back and enjoy the trip.
Bro I love this song lol. I’m barely discovering that you reacted to this.
Their song This Must Be The Place is my favorite, it's beautiful!
Life During Wartime is another great song of theirs!!
Watch the Talking Heads LIVE.!!!
Try “Once in a Lifetime.” That’s a great tune. Also, do you know The Cure? Try “The Love Cats” “Bingo Masters Breakout.” They are totally weird but strangely satisfying. Keep on working, man, you’re doing good work. xx
"This Must Be the Place" (Naive Melody)
Yep!
Burning Down The House was huge.
There's a great Talking Heads concert film called "Stop Making Sense". Highly recommend it if you get into the band.
I first saw that when I was 14 years old, at a very drunken party, it was playing in one of the rooms and I was very out of it and utterly hypnotized. That was the beginning of my love of David Byrne! I went to see it at an Arts Cinema showing at 27 for old times sake. I have the cd of the concert.
Road to Nowhere is my favorite song of theirs.
Oh yes! That is a really good one.
David Byrne is a cool cat!
My favorite album is Speaking In Toungues. I clean to the Talking Heads...always motivates me! It's happy music!
This was a great reaction! I've watched a few and you are the only one so far who 'got it'! It's deliberately weird, different. David Byrne is a unique man for sure.
OK now we're talking! Talking Heads, great stuff, takes me back to my college years. The Great Curve, Houses In Motion, Once In a Lifetime, Burning Down the House Road To Nowhere, Cross-eyed and Painless, I Zimbra, Mind, Drugs, And She Was, just for starters...David Byrne is excellent, as are other band members, Chris Franz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison.
Soooooo many incredible Talking Heads tunes, Jay..try more
Talking Heads. Live in Rome. 1980. mind-blowing.
Crosseyed and painless off their stop making sense movie is amazing
Life During Wartime was the song that introduced me to the Talking Heads. There's a live concert video that I have seen some react to. Lots of energy in the band during that video.
"Once in a lifetime", my absolute favorite from them.
React to perfect day by Lou Reed.
Try their song 'Burning Down the House' it was a popular song back in the day. You may recognize it.
The version from "Stop Making Sense" is so. much. fun!
Javon you absolutely must listen to their seminal Once In A Lifetime and one of my favorites The Big Country. Dude you really are exposing yourself to a huge spectrum of music!
YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO THE ORIGINAL VERSION. I think this is some later live version.
My mother used to sing this to me all. This is Sunday morning house cleaning music.
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I LOVE TALKING HEADS! My favorite song by them is, "This Must Be The Place", aka "Naive Melody". 💜
Hahaha love that track!! Probably their most underrated track for me. Sax and violins another, wasn’t a fan of road to nowhere. I know it was a hit for them..still.
It was hard to find this music back in the day. By that I mean they didn't play it on the regular radio stations. They played all of this stuff on college radio and MTV had dedicated hours for these videos and we'd tune in for it. It was so different. And we'd follow these bands as they played small clubs and college campuses. R.E.M. was one we traveled alllll over in our beat up old cars going from campus to campus for their concerts. Good memories.
I saw David Byrne play a small club in Indianapolis. He even sang a few songs in his furry pink suit. Great show!
Great band. You need to do more. Once in a lifetime, cross-eyed and painless, swamp. You should watch stop making sense. Kia ora😊
Indeed the stop making sense concert fully rocks!! Kia kaha😉
The whole album "Remain in Light" is probably a desert island disc for me. Every song is just astoundingly good!
Burning down the house is pretty cool.
Jay...react to anything of "Stop Making Sense" , there's not a bad song on it
Hard to handle original soundtrack from a film Called "The commitments "
Tina Weymouth, the bassist, is doing the heavy lifting here, as usual.
Her brother Chris could hold his own too. Jerry Harrison wasn’t a slouch either.
All their songs have a great beat - one of the best bands
Definitely keep going with the TALKING HEADS. Their concert film ‘Stop Making Sense’ is mind-blowing.
Not the best version. Still very cool to see Talking Heads. Is this the place, take me to the river, once in a life time, Stop making sense, I’ve got a girl friend better than that...plus so many more! David Byrne is another musical genius. Tina, Chris, Jerry are tight as well.
It's weird. Every reaction channel uses this same version.
Sean Barbante must be the first one to pop up for them. Shame really, it’s one of the tracks that truly cranks the opening of a great concert.
for me, this might be a different take (take 6 or smthng) but this i like more than the official.
more raw
Ok as a massive Heads fan I'm happy to see this. This is the raw early version of this song when they leaned heavily towards 70's punk. I love it but there are plenty of people who prefer the cleaner and better-produced sound of the actual single. I suggest you watch the concert film "Stop Making Sense", even if you are unfamiliar with the songs you will still enjoy it. It's more performance art than just straight-up concert and ranks in the top of all-time great concert films. "Once in a lifetime" "Swamp" "Life during wartime" "Take me to the river" and "Girlfriend is better" are all personal favorites.
Hi Jay 😁 it's true! David Byrne in Talking Heads final 70's and the beging 80's cruel song punk... CBGB (dirt bar/show) scenes (NY) with Ramones, Television, Blondie, Patti Smith, The Dead Boys, Cramps, The B-52’s, Joan Jett, Bad Brains, Black Flag and others bands 🙌 Divine David Byrne, listen all your discography! And you is great guy with big smile!!! Peace ✌️♥️
Talking Heads are great !
The lead singer is on the spectrum he's awesome. Try Burning Down the House.
Spike Lee is making a film version of his last concert, American Utopia. One of the best concerts I’ve ever seen.
I see we're taking a break from love songs, personal anthems, youthful angst, and peeking into the mind of a homicidal killer stalking his victims. Well that's what you get when you put a bunch of musical instruments in the hands of art students. You call David Burns voice unusual. Yep, you could say THAT. Now try "Road to Nowhere," "Burning Down the House," "And She Was," and "Wild, Wild Life."
WRONG VERSION...NOT SO COMMON...BUT YOU GET THE IDEA
You've got to hear
The Cars
"Moving in Stereo "
Everything the Cars did was awesome!
Letting the days go bye is better
That's called Once In a Lifetime.
Thanks for doing talking heads and hall and Oates, now, glad all over by dave clark 5 please!!!!!!!!!
Love the group and song
Can you please listen to more of the Kinks
Once again I have truly enjoyed watching you enjoy this song!
Check out their song "This Must be the Place" it will not disappoint.😉
Yep!👏👏underrated song like sax and violins.
You are now in the 80's. Love this band.Was a special time for me.
Another great one worth checking. "Smalltown Boy" Bronski Beat.
One of my favourite bands ever! Not the best version though, it's not what they played on the radio but pretty close. The best version is from the live video movie " Stop Making Sense " That whole video live show is friggin' AWESOME!
People complaining this isn't this original, I always liked this version better.
Dude , please take a listen to The Cars they are so good and so very underrated.
Agreed
Talking heads are in the hall music win academy made all the money 💰
Don't know if you have heard it but the term "talking heads". Usually refers to people on TV, like newscasters. Because that's all you usually see is their head.
check out springsteen- jungleland or thunder road
Talking Heads has quite a few iconic tracks. I like ‘BETTER THAN YOUR GIRLFRIEND’ or something like that.
Also some live performances where Byrnes dance moves make it even better
THE LIVE VERSION WHERE DAVID BYRNE RUNS AROUND THE BAND WHILE SINGING IS VERY COOL.
The lead singer - David Byrne - is one of a kind in the best possible way! There's no one like him.
LOL, loved your reaction. CBGB is NYC was the art rock club. Talking Heads, Blondie, The Cars and The Romones.
They made a fantastic concert movie with just the band and some extra musicians and singers and EVERY song is amazing! So much energy and so much fun. Check out "Burning Down the House" which was a big hit for them. The album version is great, but the live one is smoking!
Perfect song for this Fourth of July.
TINA WEYMOUTH IS A GODDESS AMONG BASS PLAYERS
Welcome to New Wave, sir. There's nothing quite like Talking Heads out there. Next stops: "Road to Nowhere," "Once in a Lifetime," "Burning Down the House," "Take Me to the River" (a cover, but *goddamn* is it an excellent one), "Wild Wild Life," "(Nothing But) Flowers" (follow it up with Guster's version; they're both wonderful), "Girlfriend Is Better" and "Life During Wartime." Pull the last two from Stop Making Sense if you can; it's one of The live album experiences.
David Byrne, the lead singer, has done some solo work since the group disbanded. My favorites of that are "Tiny Town," "Hanging Upside Down" and "Now I'm Your Mom."
I love that you have found Talking Heads, my personal fav is The Lady Don't Mind. Nice reaction, don't forget the Stranglers Golden Brown.
wow! I'm seeing your list for the day! I can't wait! what a list of songs!
Hi Jay, the bass player is Tina Weymouth, she went on to be in a group called the Tom Tom Club with her sisters, give 'Wordy Rapinghood' a listen 👍
Talking heads, are like a firework light the paper, stand well back, and wait. Believe me something will happen!
Welcome to Talking Heads! Great first song. For other songs, you can't go wrong with any of the suggestions you've been given!
One way to make sure you get the final studio version that everyone knows and loves (not that this is a bad version) is to get a video that has the album cover as the still image. That's what I do just for my own personal music listening on UA-cam. Got tired of browsing through different videos looking for the right version. The album cover is 95 percent likely to be the one.
This was the original version later re-produced but it it definitely gives you a taste of Talking Heads to come. I remembe my Dad hipped me to a local morning show that did a parody of this called Psycho Weather since Pittsburgh weather is so all over the place. Great line, psycho weather WTF, should I take an umbrella, a ski mask, or my Mama's sandals, oh oh oh why why why do I live here ! Good shit and great song. Get into some more Heads, promise you will love the odyssey.
Check out: Burning down the house; Naive melody (This must be the place); Slippery people (live version)
Talking Heads are so unique and I encourage you to react to more for sure! I love Life During Wartime and This Must Be The Place.
You’re entering into the world of punk rock and you couldn’t have started with a more talented and creative band. This was far from their best. Keep exploring their music.
I think I had the same reaction to this song when I heard it when first release. The song is funny! and still makes me laugh when I hear it. Talking Heads were ahead of their time.
One of the most genius bands ever.
Another good song by them "And She Was".
I always liked Talking Heads. Real artistic band. Makes you think with great live artistry interpretation.
This is a crazy somg.
As always I really enjoyed watching your reaction.
You better have this top 10. Also the BOMB bass is a female and I think she's UNBELIEVABLE!
They were a performance band. David B. So crazy
This is a group where you really need to SEE them! A very visual lead singer in David Byrne. You have lots of great suggestions in the other comments--grab one and run with it!
theri music is very unique and really great. like the doors were
their videos are really worth watchng
You should watch the entire Stop Making Sense concert film. It’ll blow you away!