Talking Heads: Burning Down the House Music Video 1983

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The record will feature 16 artists sharing their own covers of Talking Heads classics – including the already released Lorde version of ‘Take Me to the River’, which Talking Heads themselves covered in 1978, from the 1974 original by Al Green. The song provided Talking Heads with their highest charting single in the US, cementing them as mainstream musical icons who had transcended their CBGB punk upbringing. Although ‘Burning Down the House’ failed to perform as successfully elsewhere in the world, it nevertheless remains one of Talking Heads’ most recognisable and well-loved tracks. "Burning Down the House" is a song by new wave band Talking Heads, released in July 1983 as the first single from their fifth studio album Speaking in Tongues. The singer-songwriter's latest, "Fu##in' Up" is a reimaging of some past Young classics with a Crazy Horse lineup that includes Micah Nelson. The Record Store Day limited edition comes on two clear vinyl LPs with a lithograph of the album cover art.

girl in red Covers Talking Heads' "Girlfriend Is Better" for A24's Tribute Album

“Burning Down the House,” with lyrics by Talking Heads frontman David Byrne, was the best-selling single the band ever had, and was proof that a great lyric is in the ear of the listener. The song purportedly evolved from a jam by the husband-and-wife rhythm section of Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz, with Byrne coming up with syllables and phrases that fit the rhythm of the song, finally deciding on something resembling verses. A bunch of verses, sung to two different rhythms and two slightly different sets of chord changes.

Speaking in Tongues [Bonus Tracks]

“There’s not much to chew on for the majority of the record, as Girl In Red plays it safe… the majority of the record sees her sitting safely within the parameters of her previous sound. Other artists on the album include The National, Blondshell, The Cavemen, Jean Dawson, Kevin Abstract, The Linda Lindas, Toro y Moi and BADBADNOTGOOD. Listeners who like their words to convey more easily-understood thoughts might hear this and say, “Uh, what does that mean?

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Sign up for InsideHook to get our best content delivered to your inbox every weekday. The lyrics of the track are said to centre around a man who is so engulfed by debt that he torches his own house. During a Parliament-Funkadelic show at Madison Square Gardens in New York, George Clinton and the rest of the group were reportedly shouting “Burn down the house” at the audience. Byrne and drummer Chris Frantz, who were present at the show, liked the phrase, with Byrne later saying, “They were just shouting it at the audience and I thought ‘that’s a song.’”. After Cher revived "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)" in 1990, Salt-N-Pepa released "Shoop" and Whitney Houston had a #1 hit with "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)."

The ‘Everyone’s Getting Involved: A Tribute to Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense’ tracklist is:

That film was restored and rereleased by A24 last year, prompting the band to reunite for Q&As. Girl in Red is paying homage to one of the most iconic bands on a special day. The top chant artist in the Western world, Krishna Das talks about how these Hindu mantras compare to Christian worship songs. “Burning Down the House” became Talking Heads' highest charting single in North America. It didn’t appear in the UK Singles Chart at all until Tom Jones and The Cardigans covered it and made it a Top 10 hit in 1999. No surprise, the top selling vinyl artist in the U.S. in 2023 was Taylor Swift, who had the top three sellers – "1989 (Taylor's Version)" was No. 1 – and five of the top seven, according to Luminate Data.

There is no doubt that, of all the bands to emerge from the CBGB scene, Talking Heads are one of the most beloved. Led by the uniquely brilliant artistic visionary David Byrne, Talking Heads gained notoriety in the new wave scene, combining art rock, funk and Latin jazz with their punk roots. The group have no shortage of iconic tracks, but one of their most popular comes with 1983’s ‘Burning Down The House’. The Stones are dropping "Live At Racket, NYC," a 180-gram solid white vinyl release of the seven songs the band played at the October 19, 2023 launch event for "Hackney Diamonds." The tracks include the duet with Lady Gaga on “Sweet Sounds of Heaven." A special 12-inch single has the band's tribute to Talking Heads on one side – a cover of the song "Burning Down the House" – and David Byrne's version of Paramore's “Hard Times” on the other (available starting Saturday, only at participating record stores).

Stream girl in red’s “Girlfriend Is Better” on Spotify and Apple Music now – and stay tuned to Hypebeast for more updates on A24’s debut album as they emerge. The singer also spoke to NME as part of the In Conversation series ahead of the release, where she recalled the inspiration behind the LP. “I feel like on this album, I just want to have fun and I just want to do things because they’re fun,” she said.

According to bassist Tina Weymouth, the track “started from a jam” between herself and Frantz. Early demos of ‘Burning Down the House’ show how Byrne’s nonsensical improvisations eventually morphed into the final lyrics. At one point in the track’s history, the chanting of “Burning down the house” was instead “Foam rubber USA”, Byrne once told NPR. Speaking about the track, Byrne revealed how the lyrics came to be, “I would improvise vocal nonsense syllables over the recorded music and go ‘okay now I gotta find words to this’”. Once again, speaking to the influence of groups like Parliament-Funkadelic, improvisation was key in the construction of ‘Burning Down the House’. The country artist has a collection called "The Beginning And Then Some," compiling his first three albums – available on vinyl and CD – with an extra disc of '80s rarities.

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Paramore cover Talking Heads' "Burning Down the House".

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Girl in Red Covers Talking Heads’ ‘Girlfriend Is Better’ for Upcoming Tribute Album

Welsh singer Tom Jones recorded a version of "Burning Down the House" with Swedish pop band the Cardigans for his 1999 collaborations album, Reload. In common with the other tracks on the album, the recording was made with the collaborators' choice of producer and studio, in this case Tore Johansson and Tambourine Studios in Malmö, Sweden. The video, produced and directed by Byrne, alternates primarily between footage of the band performing the song in an empty ballroom, Byrne playing while facing a projection screen that displays a concert crowd or a wall of flames at different times, and images projected on the outside wall of a house. A young boy resembling Byrne takes his place from time to time; eventually, younger counterparts start moving the arms of all four band members to play the music.

After the screen goes blank, both young and adult Byrne leave the stage, and the video ends with an extended close-up of Byrne's face projected on a highway at night. The Los Angeles event happens June 4 at Hollywood Pantages Theatre which is where the Stop Making Sense concerts happened. Fred Armisen is hosting a Q&A with Talking Heads, who will take audience questions too, and Blondshell will perform their cover of “Thank Your For Sending Me an Angel” from the Everyone’s Getting Involved tribute album (out May 17). Girl In Red has shared a lively cover of ‘Girlfriend Is Better’, as part of a new Talking Heads tribute album. The track was released as the lead single from Reload on September 13, 1999, and became a hit across Europe and Australia, reaching No. 1 in Iceland, No. 2 in Sweden, and the top ten in Australia, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Norway and the United Kingdom. The single was backed with Jones' live recordings of the EMF song "Unbelievable" and the Beatles' "Come Together", as well as remixes of "Burning Down the House" by Delakota, Pepe Deluxé and DJ Scissorkicks.

How a melody complements those lyrics has a lot to do with a song’s success, of course. But the true songwriting greats know how to come up with an emotional and universal lyric that can make listeners want to hear a song over and over again. "Burning Down the House" became Talking Heads' highest-charting hit single in North America, becoming their only top ten single on the US Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 9, as well as reaching the top ten in Canada.[5] Despite this success, the song was not a hit outside of North America. In Australia it peaked at a modest No. 94, while in the UK, where Talking Heads would release 14 charting singles, it failed to chart. Speaking of David Byrne, Talking Heads fans can seek out "Live at WCOZ 77," which captures the band's entire radio station performance from Nov. 17, 1977.

As one of the major hits of Jones' later career, it appears on numerous compilations of Jones' work. Here's a quick look at some of the most desired Record Store Day releases. Also released is Teezo Touchdown’s take on ‘Making Flippy Floppy’ and Miley Cyrus’ version of ‘Psycho Killer’. "Closing Time" by Semisonic was written by the lead singer when his wife was pregnant. Holland-Dozier-Holland originally wrote "Where Did Our Love Go" with The Marvelettes in mind, but they turned it down. Marvelettes lead singer Gladys Horton sang in a lower key than Diana Ross, so when The Supremes came to record the tune, Ross was forced to sing in a lower, breathier style than she was used to.

And for only the second time since 1987, vinyl outsold CDs in units (43 million vinyl, compared to 37 million in CDs), the RIAA says. Streaming still accounted 84% of U.S. recorded music revenue, the RIAA says. Talking Heads‘ classic concert film Stop Making Sense got a new 4K restoration and theatrical run via A24 last year.

The house used in the video is located on Myrtle Street in Union, New Jersey. Max Illidge (credited as Max Loving), vocalist of the band 40 Below Summer, and Rockets Redglare appear as the younger selves of Byrne and Jerry Harrison, respectively.

A year later, an extended live version of the song is a highlight of the band's landmark concert film Stop Making Sense. In September of 2023, commemorating the film's 40th anniversary, a remastered version was released across America in IMAX theaters, and later in conventional theaters worldwide. Olivia Rodrigo covers the title track from Noah Kahan's 2022 album "Stick Season," on one side of a special colored vinyl 7-inch single. On the other, Kahan provides a version of Rodrigo's "Lacy" from her 2023 album "Guts."

Girl in red has brought her flair to A24‘s Everyone’s Getting Involved Talking Heads tribute album. The enigmatic songstress covered “Girlfriend Is Better” for the stacked compilation album which includes Miley Cyrus, Teezo Touchdown, Lorde, Kevin Abstract, Toro y Moi and many, many others – and marks A24’s first official foray into the music sphere. The album comes in celebration of the recent re-release of Jonathan Demme’s iconic concert film Stop Making Sense, and is designed to both introduce a new generation of fans to Talking Heads’ music, as well as offer a new interpretation of their tracks for longtime fans. The Canadian artist's first live album, recorded during two November 2022 concerts in LA and released digitally last year, becomes available on a physical format (3 LPs).