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Its fun watching Lex during this. You can tell she's starting to like what she's hearing. The Talking Heads slowly creep into your listening subconscious and little by little they have you. Sometimes its just a vibe more then a message.
Nope, first beats I ever heard of them in my teens I was hooked, none of this "patty cake" slow game. They have amazing lyrics and their sound is so unique...
@@Wolverines77 not you, Lex wasn't a big fan, she is starting to like them.
Yep------ The Talking Heads are an entity to themselves.... funky and fresh. !
@@Wolverines77 The very first time I heard them on college radio, I had to run out and get the album. There was no question. :)
Except for Once in a Lifetime, that message will grab you before the unorthodox rhythm
Written by Al Green with his guitarist, Teenie Hodges, "Take Me To The River" first appeared on Green's 1974 album Al Green Explores Your Mind. It wasn't a hit, but attracted lots of cover versions, including by Syl Johnson in 1975, Foghat in 1976 and Bryan Ferry in 1978.
Green and Johnson's versions were well known in R&B circles, but the Talking Heads brought it to the New Wave rock crowd and had the highest charting version of the song, reaching #26 in the US.
The song is about a baptism, a topic that jelled with Al Green, who later became an ordained minister. You wouldn't think a New York City-based art-rock band could pull off a gospel-tinged song by a Southern soul singer, but Talking Heads kept the spiritual feel of the song while putting their own spin on it - lead singer David Byrne doesn't sound like a traditional vocalist and could inhabit a character quite believably. His version of preaching on "Take Me To The River" foreshadowed a later Talking Heads hit, "Once In A Lifetime."
(Songfacts.com)
This!
Excellent comment ❤️. You say it all and taught me something I didn’t know.
A rockin' version from The Commitments movie soundtrack - ua-cam.com/video/U9sAMCH8P7k/v-deo.html
About baptism ... and sex.
The Rev. Green was always about all about sex and the Holy Spirit.
My best friend in Memphis had an Al Green/Graceland policy for out of towners. She’s take them to Graceland if they’d agree to go to Al Green’s Church first for an hour. Great policy, which I took up myself.
All this talk about everybody BUT Tina Weymouth. She absolutely makes this song with her bass line keeping that beat going. 🤘
David Byrne is a genius. This band is incredible and he is still 🔥🤘🏼
David is great, but its Tina who really made the band special.
@@ericmclaughlin73 I have seen the Tom Tom Club play a set during the jammies at the Roseland Ballroom in NYC and they were incredible as well. She is overlooked and you are correct.
@@mikesmelon5714 Nice! That sounds awesome.
Have you seen American Utopia? Brilliant.
@@ericmclaughlin73 agree her bass playing is excetional
I always think of my Billy Bass when I hear this song.
Ya'll need to watch the live version from the "Stop Making Sense" tour. Sounds like a completely different song.
Brad & Lex, You'll love their "Life During Wartime" and"Once in a Lifetime (Official Video)" !!!.
Live performances from their 'Stop Making Sense' tour are fantastic! Its about baptism, I believe.
edit- Al Green sang the original and he was a reverend.
Yes, he is talking about baptism, but baptism in the love of the woman he is talking about loving...
Yes, this band does "Live" very well. Always worth checking them out. Good to see Lex starting to "get" Talking Heads. They are truly amazing. Not sure I could put them quite up there with David Bowie. But then again, who really IS up there with DB? Not many, I say.
Was going to say the same thing!
The whole concert is so good. It's an experience to watch it all front to back. I put it on every few months or so. It never gets old.
Why this song instead of Life during wartime
Their concert film Stop Making Sense is widely considered to be one of the best concert films in rock history . Definitely worth a watch beginning to end . Individual songs from the film are still great but the way the performance builds from the first note gets lost if you don't watch from beginning to end
FYI - film *Stop Making Sense* was the most rented video of the 80s decade.
It’s an absolute masterpiece in how to film a concert.
@@T-ShirtMagic I did not know that. Great piece of info.
@@chrithwaddle Clever too! Filmed three consecutive shows. Filming Day One *Stage Left* on Day Two *Stage Right* and on Third Day filmed only from *Back* of Concert Hall. Very seldom will you see the camera crews.
The live version from their concert film, Stop Making Sense, is my favorite song of all genres, all time periods, even after all these years since I saw the movie in a theater in Hollywood.
The "hold me, squeeze me, never leave me" thing...good catch; maybe Brad's thinking of Otis Redding's "Try a Little Tenderness"? "Hold her when you wanna squeeze her, don't tease her, never leave her."
Brad, maybe this is what sounded familiar? "You've got to love her, tease her, don't squeeze her \ Gotta try nah nah nah, try \ Try a little tenderness, yeah, watch her groove" -- "Try a Little Tenderness", Otis Redding (1966)
This is one of the few bands where I will recommend live versions of most of their popular songs. Their live sound is spot on, which is good, but it's the visual performance that is the seller. It's hilarious and full of energy.
Life During Wartime is the best. He literally runs laps around the stage during the song. When he isn't doing that he's dancing like a goofball while he sings...thats not an insult either as he is smooth as could be even while moving very strangely. It's just amazing enetertainment.
The drummer for the Talking Heads Chris Franz and his wife who played bass formed the band Tom Tom Club. You should hear their song GENIUS OF LOVE ❤️ 😊 it is awesome 😎
Yes, this! ❤❤❤
Tina Weymouth is her name. One of my top 5 favorite bass players of all time. Her time feel and her groove are unmatched.
Tina weymouth also formed Gorillaz
@@marklewen9384 not exactly. She was a guest musician on one album. The only official members of Gorillaz are Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett. They do get lots of guests to sit in on tracks.
It took me 20 years to understand how great they are and now I'm a superfan
I highly encourage you to watch their concert video called Stop Making Sense. It's fun to see the show build throughout the performance.
They put out a live concert movie called "Stop Making Sense" The live version is the bomb. I saw them live: Prince level performance.
I rewatch that concert every few months. It never gets old.
"Slippery People": from their movie "Stop Making Sense" is a wonderful clip. They had great stage presence and it's a great song.
The playful back and forths of singing and dancing between Byrne, Harrison and the back up singers are amazing on that track.
You guys have to watch the live version on your own time. next level. no band had more fun on stage.
The lyric "Love is an ocean" is your biggest clue to the meaning of the song. All rivers eventually run into the ocean, so the songwriter is asking for the object of his song to start him on the route of love, just get him started. It's a love song, but a person in search of love, not someone who already HAS love in their life. And Tina Weymouth's Bass line is insistent and urging.
Pretty sure that’s not the lyrics and is just a poor transcription. I think it’s, “Love is a notion that I can’t forget,” not, “Love is an ocean that I can’t forget.” But, that’s a cool interpretation nevertheless!
@@rgractor Pretty sure the lyric is, “ Love is an ocean “.
@@daledodson1279 the original lyric in the Al Green version was, “Love is a notion that I can’t forget.” It seems to have been inaccurately transcribed here and may have been sung inaccurately in a cover, but I’m pretty sure this version is also “notion”. The line is about the singer not being willing to give up on the notion of love, despite all the things the other person had put them through.
@@daledodson1279 I'm leaning to 'a notion' that seems to be the original lyric and it's what I hear when I listen to Talking Head's cover, and lyrically, 'a notion' actually works very well.
It's "love is a notion" not "love is an ocean"
...you can buy the published sheet music and see for yourself.
Lex is a gem.
I'm glad Led pointed out how funky this is. A lot of people miss that about Talking Heads. When they came out they were classified as alternative-new waves artsy white college kids and their funk was overlooked.
Also: "there's a lot of cheese on that"? Hahaha! Yes, there is! Layers and layers. ..
Such a simple beat yet so powerful
More Talking Heads please.
"Try a Little Tenderness" has "You've got to hold her, squeeze her, never leave her...". Otis Redding wrote it, I think, and 3 Dog Night covered it, as well as many others. Also a great song.
The Committments had the best version.
I never realized how long this song was before, this was always one of my favs from this band. I think late 70"s.early 80"s a Skatepark I once worked at. Such good times! On, Canada..
A sign of a great band as everybody is requesting different songs from them. And She Was and The Lady Don't Mind are another two🙂
Lady don't mind is a severely underated song like Radiohead or Slippery People.
Yep, I have Little Creatures on CD and it gets played in my car on a regular basis. I also love Television Man
Another great song by a wonderful band. It's still played on the radio and heard it once this week.
Glad that Lex is gradually “getting” Talking Heads. Once you do, you’re sucked in. A brilliant, incredible band. Back in the day I remember when Fear Of Music came out, and then Remain In Light, both fantastic albums, revolutionary and very influential. But above all, great to listen to!
I think the being taken to the river & dropped in is a metaphor for baptism & being saved. In the verses it seems the lyrics are about seeking love, so requesting the 'baptism' may be about asking to have a fresh start. As we all know, when we have a crush on someone our lustful feelings can be baggage that get in the way of the relationship we crave. We often just wish we could start over.
Soul singer Al Green who wrote & recorded the song four years before The Talking Heads covered it. He went on to become a pastor so if the song has some religious references, it might not be unexpected.
Saw them in concert in the early '80s. They were fabulous!
Brad: I feel like we're not communicating...
Lex: Yeeoowowowweeeep!
Lmao. Every man to every woman, ever, since time immemorial!
Reading the comments, I didn't know that this was a cover. That said, back in the day when this was played on MTV or the radio, I'd listen. I liked it. My default is rock/hard rock, but loved going outside my comfort zone. I could make a list that no one would read, but 50's through the 70's rock, what at the time was considered rock. Two examples: I loved Rick James and Tori Amos. Bigger list, of course, but those two gives you an idea.
This is not "funky," this is GROOVE. Easily my favorite Heads groove... you can do anything, and this tune is going to suck you into its groove. Cooking dinner, taking a walk, driving, skating, shopping... about anything but competition sports! It's just brilliant execution when dissected, because the actual music isn't difficult.
React to the LIVE version of Life During Wartime .
Talking Heads always have a good time on stage
After you get more Talking Heads songs under your belt, you should react to the movie “Stop Making Sense”. It’s my favorite live concert film. Like two dozen foot-long subways in a subway.
Talking Heads produced a lot of great numbers. Give 'Once In A Lifetime', 'And She Was' and 'Psycho Killer' a listen.
BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE!!!
They did Psycho Killer about a year ago.
@@dbreardon I'll have a look D.
Memories Can’t Wait, Air, Wild Wild Life, Stay Up Late, Love -> Building On Fire
The live version of this song is a must see!! You will appreciate it even more! The Stop Making Sense concert footage! Omg, the backing vocals alone are killer.
you guys need to watch their concert film "Stop Making Sense". It's amazing.
The Talking Heads bass player was a woman named Martina Michèle Weymouth, which was very unusual for those times. She was a great bassist.
Is a great bassist, Tina Weymouth isn't dead!
Great reaction and great choice. They are a fun, quirky band. I played guitar in a cover band in the early 80's and this was just a fun song to play. Thanks for the memory!
When I was younger and first heard of Talking Heads it was considered new wave and the music videos were crazy to watch.When I got older and then heard it just on rock radio and the amount of songs that they played and the stylistic sounds of the songs was way better. Their music is best listen to then watched in videos.
Tina is brilliant in her simplicity!
Concert film *Stop Making Sense* was the most rented video of entire 80s decade.
Also, theatres closed their balconies during showing - fear of collapsing from bouncing fans.
I think it is about Baptizing in her love, diving in converting 100% to the woman he is singing about.
This is a cover of an Al Green song
My favorite song by one of my favorite bands! Love the quirkiness of Byrne, and like someone else noted he was/is a genius.
"Damn we blew our cheese on that thing" is now my personal motto and what I will always say whenever I enjoy something.
You guys absolutely need to watch the live version of this song
I remember the first time I heard the Talking Heads was when I was a high school senior and this song came on my car radio. There was something so different in it that I pulled off the road to stop and listen. I think that only happened once or twice in my life. Still one of my favorites to sing to myself. Brad, you've probably heard the "squeeze me, tease me" rhyme in lots of songs; it shows up a lot, going back to at least Fats Waller and Ella Fitzgerald. One of the more recent examples is Li'l Kim's "Touch Me, Squeeze Me": "You gotta please me Touch and tease me Love me, hug me Rub me, squeeze me Kiss me, and never deceive me."
How will Lex react? "Connects some dots..." I get that.
Yeah Brad, the energy, the cut is amazing! Once you take a moment to connect, very groovy!
There are many artists doing their own versions of this song, and they're all fantastic. Sure sign of a great bit of songwriting.
Absolutely one of my favorite bands live
I love Lex's analogies!!!! "Dang, dey put a lotta cheese on dat!!!" LOL!!! Good catch Brad!!
Both the original Al Green song and the Talking Heads version are awesome tunes. This TH version sounded so different and fresh in 1979, really signaled a change in pop/rock music. The New Wave....
I went to see his American utopia tour,his vocals and performance were unbelievable❤️
Byrne is a musical genius.
He’s like the energizer bunny…still going…👍😂
The 'hold me, squeeze me, never leave me' was from Try a Little Tenderness. Otis Redding at Monterey Pop is the best video of it, but Three Dog Night had a hit version too.
Tina Weymouth’s bass line kicks ass.
Brad, the band Journey did a song called “Loving, Touching, Squeezing.” Maybe you were trying to think of that.
Tina Weymouth was the Talking Heads bass player responsible for that chugging riff.
LOVE It !! I'm 64.....seen 57 bands in concert....Lots more than once & met a lot of them ( most by friends in bands or stage clothes I made... 1st BIG !!! BEST Cyndi Lauper...drank tequila with her after a recording session she did with friend Rob Hyman when they were doing Time after Time ) BUT this is the 1st band I met....1978...was on Penn State concert committee...GREAT thing....got to hear my fav Heads song Life During Wartime before most...they ended with it...David came to Mic & said here's a new one we're working on... launched into it....&& in seconds the metal chairs ( was in the stadium they played basketball in ) were swept from the floor && EVERYONE was Dancing !!
Love the talking heads. Glad to see some reactions.
watch this LIVE awesome
another 70s band that made it BIG in the 80s
This is what happens when art students decide to start a band (and then decide to cover Al Green). XD
Talking Heads all met in New York City performing arts school that’s why did you get the theatrics and weird storylines they made a movie about concert they did in late 80’s
It’s timeless, few bands have as much fun performing And it comes through in their performance.
This is a cover of a song by soul legend Al Green. Talking Heads originally intended to record it with a faster groove, but while they were messing around in the studio they noticed more people were nodding along to it when they played it slow. Definitely a slow-burning groove. The song always make me think of old-time baptisms done by the riverside.
I am not well versed in the Talking Heads, but David Byrne is incredibly artistic.
Since Lex is expecting you really should listen to, Stay Up Late
Yes - they should tart a baby related song list
Not a big 80's music fan, but these guy's are great.
Talking Heads were a very unique, artsy punk rock band. New wave punk and always had funk added to their music. Bass guitars. Very danceable music. lol Similar to B-52s, David Bowie (some years), Devo, Oingo Boingo, etc. Punk funk! Punk rock bands hung out with funk bands often back then at underground clubs, therefore the influences.
They were kind of a nerdy, odd, smart band (they met at an art college in NYC area). Lot of their stuff was played on college radio, alternative radio stations.
Al Green cover, BTW. Always watch Talking Heads live videos and music videos, they are very fun and funny. Dance moves and antics.
BTW, Brad heard the familiarity with Journey "Lovin, Touchin, Squeezin" Yall done that one awhile back.
Providence, Rhode Island actually. They were students at RISD.
@@jasonremy1627 Ah true! I stand corrected. Knew it was on the east coast, northeast US somewhere. lol
But, they did come up from the punk scene at the C.B.G.B. in NYC. So I got that confused.
A personal favorite. Always satisfying. Thanks👍😁
Thank you for sharing this with me 😊
Just got to love David Byrne totally unique, always thought he was from the US but his profile has him down as Scottish/American all those years never knew he was part Scottish🏴🤩
She explained talking heads better than anyone ever has before. 🙌
Love this band so much
You need to see the live performance...love you guys
Slippery people ( LIVE ) is an amazing track by them or any thing of the live.. stop making sense album ( for a good take on the band you should watch the live video ),they are both minimalist and complicated at the same time . I have listened to this band for 40 years and the music never gets old .
Wicked Awesome Song. Rock on Brad & Lex
Thank you for this reaction. The Talking Heads were great.
The song that introduced me to Talking Heads. Have loved them and this song ever since.
First song I ever heard by them, and I fell in love with it!!!
I can remember seeing them do this on SNL way back in the 70's. I was 100% hooked!
Absolute GREATNESS!
LOVE LOVE LOVE
Nice. Very nice. This band was next-level for their time.
Love it ❣
Life during wartime Live is amazing.
The talking heads are more than music. It's an artistic expression. You really need to watch Life During Wartime live to see what David Byrne intended us to experience.
Yes, Stop Making Sense is a fantastic concert movie - but I still think this studio version is ace. The stealthy tempo and atmosphere are superb, and David Byrne's vocal is commanding. One of the things I love about this take on a soul classic is that Talking Heads truly remake the song in their own image, and Byrne doesn't try to "sound black", by which I mean he doesn't try to ape any of Al Green's vocal inflections and phrasing.
Agree.
Such a great song! Reaches across the different fanbases, its just cool! 👍
He sees his girl as something of a rebirth. Sweeps away his past and brings him to ecstasy via sweet love. Wash me in the water is an oblique reference to baptism to me.
If you can believe it, I played this song at my Brothers funeral. It was the first song that my other brother and I thought of when we were picking a favorite song of my brother that passed. He loved The Talking Heads period. Of course we also played traditional funeral songs but we wanted to have a couple of his favorite songs. The other song was The Flame by Cheap Trick. My brother was not a cryer but everytime he would be listening to The Flame, it brought tears to his eyes. It must have meant something to him. I do not know why I am telling you all this, feels a little odd. Thanks and have a great day everyone
xo The Flame is a beautiful song.. that holds special meaning for me, too. I'm so sorry to hear that your brother passed away... please give my regards to your other brother and the rest of your family. My heart is saddened at all loss... before their time. xo Be well.
You guys are great,
and your skin color compelled me to make this comment, I think it will interest you. This is a very old song, a pure blues song. I did not do my fact finding homework before this writing, I just started commenting. Who actually gets the credit for this song as the first recording artist with a contract. Another commenter below says it is Al Green and I am not going to doubt him, but where did Al Green get the idea from?
The slaves working the fields in places like Georgia and Alabama under way too much sun heat and in known oppressed circumstances would sing this song "Take me to the river, dump me in the water" in pure blues fashion in a cry to be cooled off by water and to in dream like fashion quest for the sense of freedom of just going to a river for fun and cool down. All this as a means to cope with the day, the work and their circumstances.
I can just imagine black musicians in the 1930's to 60's going to Chicago for a music career and playing altered versions of this song in the Chicago clubs. Of course subsequent recording artist altered and changed the music and lyrics up to make this song more light weight and palatable for audiences. So many blues musicians in their sense of purity love to play this song, I would say that it is a staple in blues music, popularized further by blues themed movies like "The Commitments" (the movie features this song).
I am with Lex, this Talking Heads version has quite a bit of tasteful funk to it. David Byrne is a great artist and The Talking Heads a great band, as they are praised in many comments below. What's interesting is that The Talking Heads were a "split-off" of a late 70's, early 80's, equally interesting pure Disco era and genre New York band, the "Tom Tom Club".
I looove the talking heads!
crosseyed and painless....needs to be reviewed...unreal bass
I watched them perform this live on SNL in Feb of 1979.
Originally by (the Reverend)Al Green (check him out too), Talking Heads naturally put their own peculiar spin on it.
Bassist Tina Weymouth and drummer Chris Frantz are married, btw, and had/have their own project - Tom Tom Club.
3:16 "smells like a subway inside of a subway" hahaha amazing metaphor!
The other song with the lyrics Brad is thinking about might be "Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'" by Journey [1979]
They’re just the coolest.