Talking Heads - Pick Only 5

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Great band. What are their very best songs?

― the next grozart, Friday, 23 February 2007 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

5. Cities
4. Found A Job
3. Once In A Lifetime
2. Life During Wartime
1. Pulled Up

That wasn't easy...

― the next grozart, Friday, 23 February 2007 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

"Memories Can't Wait"
"Warning Sign"
"Psycho Killer"
"Burning Down the House"
"Life During Wartime"

This is tough - bubbling under "Love -> Building on Fire", "Crosseyed and Painless", "Heaven", "Sugar on my Tongue", "This Must Be The Place"

― BlackIronPrison, Friday, 23 February 2007 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

I might be alone in this, but I've always thought "Tentative Decisions" is one of their best. The big obvious ones like "Burning Down The House," "Once In A Lifetime," and "Psycho Killer" would be on my list too...

― Hatch, Friday, 23 February 2007 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

I swear this thread has been done before, but:

1. "Naive Melody (This Must Be The Place)"

― nickalicious, Friday, 23 February 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

Um, I wasn't done yet!

2. "Born Under Punches"
3. "Found a Job"
4. "Road To Nowhere"
5. "Life During Wartime"

― nickalicious, Friday, 23 February 2007 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

1. Once in a Lifetime
2.Crosseyed and Painless
3Take me to the River
4. .(Nothing but) Flowers
5. Psycho Killer

― outdoor_miner, Friday, 23 February 2007 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

The Great Curve
Warning Sign
The Big Country
Drugs
Born Under Punches

― peepee, Friday, 23 February 2007 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

5. "Psycho Killer"
4. "Take Me To The River"
3. "Life During Wartime"
2. "Once In A Lifetime"
1. "Swamp"

My #1 is probably something no one else would list, but I just love that song.

― glitch, Friday, 23 February 2007 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

"Mind"
"Memories Can't Wait"
"Thank You For Sending Me An Angel"
"The Girls Want To Be With The Girls"
"Don't Worry About The Government"

― zeus, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

I love Swamp too, glitch. It's kind of different from most TH songs. I also that one about "the foreigners in growing numbers" or whatever. I think it's about a letterbomber or something.

― the next grozart, Monday, 26 February 2007 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

Actually I'd love to hear Tom Waits sing "Swamp", it's almost made for him.

― the next grozart, Monday, 26 February 2007 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

"The great curve"
"The overload"
"Stay hungry"
"Houses in motion"
"Burning down the house"

"Heaven" survived even the Simply Red treatment, so it must be a good song.

― Marco Damiani, Monday, 26 February 2007 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

Sugar on my Tongue
The Big Country
Heaven
I Zimbra
Crosseyed and Painless

― abanana, Monday, 26 February 2007 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

today:

1 This Must Be the Place
2. Making Flippy Floppy
3 Stay Up Late
4. Love-Building on Fire
5. Thank You For Sending Me an Angel

― dan selzer, Monday, 26 February 2007 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

1) This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
2) Road To Nowhere
3) Nothing But Flowers
4) Blind
5) Once In A Lifetime

― Tantrum The Cat, Monday, 26 February 2007 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

"The Great Curve" (tntbth version)
"New Feeling"
"Don't Worry About the Government"
"Born Under Punches"
"This Must Be the Place"

― C0L1N B..., Monday, 26 February 2007 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

Studio:

Swamp
The Big Country
Once In A Lifetime
Memories Can't Wait
Drugs

Live:

The Great Curve
Houses In Motion
Crosseyed & Painless
Psycho Killer
I Zimbra

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 26 February 2007 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

Psycho Killer
Memories Can't Wait
Burning Down the House
The Big Country (tied with) Life During Wartime (tied with) Swamp (tied with) This Must Be the Place (tied with) Drugs (I'm soooo cheating)
Sugar On My Tongue

― Pye Poudre, Monday, 26 February 2007 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

Life During Wartime (live)
Psycho Killer
Thank You For Sending Me An Angel
Drugs
Memories Can't Wait

― clotpoll, Monday, 26 February 2007 22:24 (nineteen years ago)

Wait replace my "Born Under Punches" with "Houses In Motion", the The Name of This Band... version.

― nickalicious, Monday, 26 February 2007 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

A1 Uh-Oh, Love Comes To Town (2:48)
A2 New Feeling (3:09)
A3 Tentative Decisions (3:04)
A6 No Compassion (4:47)
B1 The Book I Read (4:06)

― lfam, Monday, 26 February 2007 23:45 (nineteen years ago)

this is so hard it's worthless. any of these top five lists could be a plausible best of.

― lfam, Monday, 26 February 2007 23:46 (nineteen years ago)

Cities
Burning Down the House
I Zimbra
Making Flippy Floppy (!!!)
Born Under Punches

for now

― sovietpanda, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

The Great Curve
Big Daddy
What A Day It Was - live
Slippery People - live
Don't Worry About The Government

Really difficult to narrow down this much! My decision is very influenced by my childhood tastes. When it comes to Talking Heads I can't separate my youthful self from my adult self.

― Moodles, Thursday, 1 March 2007 02:32 (nineteen years ago)

The Great Curve
Once In A Lifetime
Heaven
Burning Down the House
Blind

Hard! But I think I'd endorse that list when I woke up in the morning.

― raven, Thursday, 1 March 2007 06:06 (nineteen years ago)

making flippy floppy (SMS version)
life during wartime (SMS version)
burning down the house (SMS version)
found a job
born under punches

yeah not easy.

― pisces, Thursday, 1 March 2007 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

I read "SMS" and I was thinking, "THS AINT NO PARTY, THS AINT NO DISCO, THS AINT NO FLLNG ARND!"

― the next grozart, Thursday, 1 March 2007 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.