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The Indians told a story how it has come to pass
The Indians had a legend, the Spaniards lived for gold
White men came and killed them, but they haven't really gone
We live in the city of dreams
We drive on this highway of fire
Should we awake to find it gone
Remember this, our favorite town
From Germany and Europe and southern U.S.A.
They made this little town here that we live in to this day
The children of the white man saw Indians on TV
And heard about the legend, how their city was a dream
We live in the city of dreams
We drive on this highway of fire
Should we awake and find it gone
Remember this, our favorite town
The Civil War is over, and World War I and II
If we can live together, the dream, it might come true
Underneath the concrete, the dream is still alive
A hundred million lifetimes, a world that never dies
We live in the city of dreams
We drive on this highway of fire
Should we awake and find it gone
Remember this, our favorite town
We live in the city of dreams
We drive on this highway of fire
Should we awake and find it gone
Remember this, our favorite town
Boring, awful track. I can see what some people like in David Byrne but, not in this track!
BS If this was Radiohead everybody would be rating it a 10.
This is Radio Paradise and Radio Paradise is not Radio Paradise without Talking Heads or David Byrne
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That may be correct but both are overplayed. Some bands I hear just now and than but TH en DB I hear every day
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Thanks to RP I am swift becoming more of a TH fan. I guess I just wasn’t ready all those years ago. I love them now.
Radio Paradise showed me a side of Talking Heads that I connected with. Burning Down the House and Psycho Killer (the album version) never did anything for me.
RP played Strange Overtones, and I loved it, and I was like, okay, why don't I like Talking Heads? I do, I just don't like Burning Down the House and Psycho Killer 😅
I owned this album but never explored beyond "Puzzling evidence", "Wild wild Life" and another one. This feels like a cousin to "Heaven".
For all the hate the Heads and DB get here (along with other major artists), one should keep in mind that music is often inextricably linked with personal memories. The Talking Heads (pre -Naked) stuff takes me back to art school in the 80s. Great times. "Seagull" by Bad Company is playing now and while I loved it then and now, there isn't the same level of association.
To each their own. PSD away if you want. You might just get a favorite of yours.
I barely knew that TH existed back in the 80's. I truly like this band and not because the songs are linked to good memories. One of my favorite bands on this station and there is a lot of good music on this station.
I agree!!
Are you living in any sort of modern city, even of dreams? I find it incomprehensible that in the second decade of this century anyone would choose David Byrne for this honor. Of all the better examples we have today! I think you may be exaggerating?
Love this album, adore this movie. My college friends and I still quote it back and forth to each other almost 30 years later.
Same here.
These people have too much metal on their heads.
I owned this album but never explored beyond "Puzzling evidence", "Wild wild Life" and another one. This feels like a cousin to "Heaven".
For all the hate the Heads and DB get here (along with other major artists), one should keep in mind that music is often inextricably linked with personal memories. The Talking Heads (pre -Naked) stuff takes me back to art school in the 80s. Great times. "Seagull" by Bad Company is playing now and while I loved it then and now, there isn't the same level of association.
To each their own. PSD away if you want. You might just get a favorite of yours.
For all the hate the Heads and DB get here (along with other major artists), one should keep in mind that music is often inextricably linked with personal memories. The Talking Heads (pre -Naked) stuff takes me back to art school in the 80s. Great times. "Seagull" by Bad Company is playing now and while I loved it then and now, there isn't the same level of association.
To each their own. PSD away if you want. You might just get a favorite of yours.
Why, oh why did they ever part company with Brian Eno?
Because then we wouldn't have the latin-funky the "Naked" album, or great mainstream-poppy-hits from the "Little Creatures" album - or even this inbetween "True Stories" album that is kind of a soundtrack album to a weird movie.
I am fairly sure that we would have some great albums if they continued with Brian Eno. We will never know. But these are all great.
I really like David Byrne's post-Talking Heads stuff; and just like you miss the "sound" of Brian Eno with them, I do miss the sound of the TH band with David Byrne. To me, it feels like DB never found his true "broader sound" after he disbanded TH. I cried when I listened to them playing live one last time for their 2002 induction ceremony to Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Now THAT was a true BAND.
Take a listen: https://bit.ly/3d6SJLb
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If they had perhaps generated songs like this in '79, I would have been more partial to them. Hearing Psycho Killer 300 times almost turned me into one.
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Me too!
Wait. What?
the melody, the key changes, the lyrics
yes, it's low energy, but it's a lament, so it's appropriate
They were a very different band at this point from their early albums like "More Songs About Building and Food." "True Stories" wasn't as weird/neurotic/conspiratorial as the early stuff and some of it was boring but this is a great song. Reminds me of college friends and the better angels in our nature.
No. Dull observation. This is brilliant and conceptually covers more ground than most efforts to create something worthwhile.
Completely agree. This is a more effective and evocative song than some of those droning snarky surrealisms TH pumped out circa 1980 and thereby lost me.
No. Dull observation. This is brilliant and conceptually covers more ground than most efforts to create something worthwhile.
2 > 3
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Lucky kids.
What they said
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David Byrne by johnwmacdonald
John W. MacDonald
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David Byrne, the renowned musician, visual artist and author, lead a discussion on urban living and alternative transportation, featuring Marie Lemay from the National Capital Commission, author and urban theorist Jeb Brugmann, and Roger Plamondon from Montreal's innovative bike sharing system BIXI. The event was at St. Brigid's Centre for the Arts & Humanities, Ottawa International Writers Festival.
This photo was taken on October 23, 2009 using a Nikon D3.
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Still an okay song, though.
i agree.. i have most heads albums but not this one. i'd expect this tune to be on the corporate album (little creatures)..
Still an okay song, though.
Funny, the opposite for me.
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joanbcn wrote:
This is Radio Paradise and Radio Paradise is not Radio Paradise without Talking Heads or David Byrne
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3 -> 2. Fine lyrics, seriously dull delivery
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+1
How many times you going to say that?
——say it again
This is Radio Paradise and Radio Paradise is not Radio Paradise without Talking Heads or David Byrne
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But Bill loves Byrnin' down the house.
How many times you going to say that?
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Thanks to RP I am swift becoming more of a TH fan. I guess I just wasn’t ready all those years ago. I love them now.
Ahhh, me DeLight in these stories of musical maturity. Thanks 👀...