This must be Talking Heads — A song by song, album by album look at their musi‪c‬ Rodney Gordon

With a reputation as one of the world’s best live bands, we embark on a detailed illumination of Talking Heads’ live albums, TV profiles and notable concerts. Learn about the inspiration and impact of the greatest concert film of all time, Stop Making Sense, including an insiders perspective from Jon Braun, frontman for Talking Heads tribute band Start Making Sense, along with details and recordings of the band’s last performances.

Features:
Warner Bros Music Show
South Bank Show
The name of this band is Talking Heads
Stop Making Sense (Film, vinyl, CD, reissue DVD/Bluray)
Interview: Jon Braun, frontman for Start Making Sense

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A few years after their critically acclaimed album “Remain in Light”, the band return with their most approachable and radio-friendly record to date, “Speaking in Tongues”. Fuelled by the success of their highest charting single “Burning Down the House” and crowd-pleasers like "Slippery People", "Girlfriend is Better" and “This must be the place” the band drag the reluctant art crowd kicking and screaming into the pop realm. 

Tracks:
Burning Down the House (Hero track)
Making Flippy Floppy
Girlfriend is Better
Slippery People
I Get Wild / Wild Gravity
Swamp
Moon Rocks
Pull up the roots
This must be the place (Naive Melody)
Two note Swivel (Unfinished outtake)

 

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With Talking Heads on hiatus, Chris Blackwell from Island Records gambles on Chris and Tina's side project Tom Tom Club — a risk that pays off big time. Exploring a selection of tracks from their first three albums "Tom Tom Club", "Close to the bone" and "Boom boom chi boom boom", this is my first look at the side projects of the band members.

Tracks:
Wordy Rappinghood
Genius of Love
L'Elephant
Under the Boardwalk (by The Drifters)
Pleasure of Love
On the line again
The man with the 4 way hips
Suboceana
Femme Fatale (by The Velvet Underground)
Born for Love

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Featuring special guest Chris Franz, founding member of Talking Heads.

In their final collaboration with producer and song-writer Brian Eno, Talking Heads carefully sculpt their musical ideas into their most critically acclaimed album. Featuring a deep dive into the hero track "Once In A Lifetime" we breakdown the groove and lyrical inspiration, and learn how it was released to mixed reaction, something that's unthinkable considering it went on to earn it's place among the most iconic songs of the era.

Tracklist:
Born Under Punches (The heat goes on)
Crosseyed and Painless
The Great Curve
Once in a Lifetime (Hero track)
Houses in Motion
Seen and not seen
Listening Wind
The Overload
Unison (Unfinished outtake)
Double groove (Unfinished outtake)

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Chris Frantz, founding member of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club, joins me to discuss his life and career in music. In this episode we cover his experience writing his first book, an autobiography called "Remain in Love", and in upcoming episodes I'll be sharing his insights into the seminal Talking Heads album Remain In Light, the full Tom Tom Club discography and he even helps me solve a mystery that is decades in the making.

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On the back of their commercially successful sophomore album, Talking Heads start fresh searching for new inspiration and sounds. The result? The darkly comedic Fear of Music, their second record under the tutelage of producer Brian Eno that resulted in entirely new song-writing methods, and spawned the uber-catchy hit "Life During Wartime".

Tracklist:
I Zimbra
Mind
Paper
Cities
Life During Wartime (Hero track)
Memories Can't Wait
Air
Heaven
Animals
Electric Guitar
Drugs
Dancing for Money (Unfinished outtake)

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