I am proudly taking the talking heads back from tumblr blorbofication and you can't stop me
They're art school freaks. Their most famous song blew up because they got in on the concept of music videos early. David Byrne listened to a dozen or so VHS tapes of televangelists to get the affect right for nonsense verse based on their sermons for that song. Their songs are pretty much all like that, directly inspired by French surrealists or the early world music scene or other shit one encounters in art school. way this website smooths the edges off of anyone it can misconstrue as a silly weirdo infuriates me
Is David Byrne a funny silly cartoon character or a 70-year-old autistic man who changed the face of music forever. Going by this website, we may never know