Talking Heads
Talking Head TINA WEYMOUTH Who Celebrates Her 75th Birthday Today Names The Perfect Song
22 November 2025
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Tina was born Martina Michèle Weymouth, on 22 November 1950 in Colorado, CA.
Happy 75 to the glorious, former Talking Head and Tom Tom Club bassist.
Perfect choice.
TALKING HEADS – Their Brill 4th LP ‘REMAIN IN LIGHT’ Is 45 Today
Significant longplayers from yesteryear
8 October 2025
TALKING HEADS released their 4th LP, REMAIN IN LIGHT
on 8 October 1980, today 45 years ago.
The band’s 3rd and last album was produced by Brian Eno.
Byrne struggled with writer’s block, but adopted a scattered,
stream-of-consciousness lyrical style inspired by early rap and
academic literature on Africa.
The album artwork was conceived by the bassist, Tina Weymouth, and
the drummer/husband, Chris Frantz, with the help of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology‘s computers design company.
Remain in Light got widespread acclaim from critics for its sonic experimentation,
rhythmic innovations, and merging of disparate genres into a cohesive whole. The
album reached number 19 on the US Billboard 200 and number 21 in the UK.
Rolling Stone said: “It’s a brave and absorbing attempt to locate a common ground in the era’s divergent and often hostile musical genres. ‘Remain in Light’ yields scary, funny music to which you can dance and think, think and dance, dance and think, ad infinitum.”
KEY SINGLE
ALBUM
PICTURE THIS – Talking Mouth Mask Heads
Remember that afwul Covid-19 period?
Even talking heads wore mouth masks
and had to remain inside.
DAVID BYRNE – Let’s All Sing Together ‘EVERYBODY LAUGHS’
Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
11 June 2025
New album artwork
Last week David Byrne and his former Talking Heads colleagues celebrated their very first gig, 50 years ago in the legendary CBGB club in New York, opening for the gaba-gaba hey Ramones, with a brand-new video for their classic 1977 single Psycho Killer.
And yesterday, Byrne announced the upcoming birth of his 9th solo album (that’s already one more than with Talking Heads). It’s named Who Is The Sly? and will see the day of light September 5th. Tracklist and other info here.
The first single EVERYBODY LAUGHS is a feel-good, cocktail party
gem for the upcoming summer. A luminous light in a dark world.
Byrne: “Someone I know said, “David, you use the word ‘everybody’ a lot.” I suppose I do that to give an anthropological view of life in New York as we know it. Everybody lives, dies, laughs, cries, sleeps and stares at the ceiling. Everybody’s wearing everybody else’s shoes, which not everybody does, but I have done. I tried to sing about these things that could be seen as negative in a way balanced by an uplifting feeling from the groove and the melody, especially at the end, when St. Vincent and I are doing a lot of hollering and singing together. Music can do that — hold opposites simultaneously. I realized that when singing with Robyn earlier this year. Her songs are often sad, but the music is joyous.”
Wake up people,
all together now,
1-2 and a 1-2-3-4.
Big TALKING HEADS Announcement This Thursday June 5
3 June 2025
TALKING HEADS – vocalist/guitarist/songwriter David Byrne, drummer Chris Frantz,
bassist Tina Weymouth and keyboardist Jerry Harrison started their illustrious career
(with 8 LPs) in December 1977 with their astounding debut LP Talking Heads: 77 and timeless classic single Psycho Killer (more than 608 million streams on Spotify). Their
journey ended in 1991, when Byrne decided to go his own way.
Today, the band posted this caption-less message: June 5, 2025.
It looks as if there’s some big news waiting in the pipeline to be revealed this Thursday.
Of course, speculation has started. Reunion? New album? New single? A once in a lifetime appearance? Tour around the world? A new psycho killer story? Whatever, we will have to wait and see what happens.
DAVID BYRNE About His Shyness Back In The Early Days
1 June 2025
Psycho screamer.
(Image on top: cover of his solo LP ‘Growing Backwards‘)
DAVID BYRNE About His Country
5 March 2025
Fuck psycho killer Trump.
Picture This – TALKING KILLER
America‘s psycho killer POTUS will be inaugurated tomorrow.
GIRL IN RED Covers TALKING HEADS – A Sexy, Trippy And Chirpy Girlfriend Is Better
Daily noise that works faster than any stimulant
26 April 2024
Last year, film company A24 launched a restored version
of Talking Heads’ 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense.
A24 has now fabricated a tribute LP, named Everyone’s Getting Involved:
A Tribute To Talking Heads. I’ll be out on 17 May and features BADBADNOTGOOD, Blondshell, the Cavemen, Chicano Batman feat. Money Mark, DJ Tunez, El Mató a un Policía Motorizado, girl in red, Jean Dawson, Kevin Abstract, the Linda Lindas, Miley Cyrus, the National, Teezo Touchdown, and Toro y Moi.
We already heard Lorde‘s take on Take Me To The River (actually
an Al Green original, covered by TH early in their career) and Paramore
doing Burning Down The House and now it’s Girl In Red‘s turn to do
a TH classic.
She picked GIRLFRIEND IS BETTER from their 1983 album
Speaking In Tongues and it sounds trippy, sexy and chirpy.
GIRL IN RED
TALKING HEADS
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