Talking Heads (band): Difference between revisions

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In 2002, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Four of the band's albums appeared on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and the Channel 4 100 Greatest Albums poll listed one album (Fear of Music) at number 76. Their concert film ''[[Stop Making Sense]]'' is widely regarded as one of the finest examples of the genre.

 

* ''Talking Heads: 77'' (1977)

* ''More Songs About Buildings And Food'' (1978)

* ''Naked'' (1988)

* ''Sand in the Vaseline'' (1992 compilation)

* [[Academy Award]]: David Byrne won an Oscar for ''[[The Last Emperor]]''.

* [[After the End]]: "(Nothing But) Flowers".

* [[Self-Deprecation]]: The name of ''More Songs About Buildings and Food'' was the result of writer's block when it came to choosing the title of the album; Tina Weymouth suggested it as a joke about the out-there subject matter of some of their songs from the first album.

* [[Shout-Out]]: A spectacularly obscure one in the video for "Once In A Lifetime" -- During his time at the Rhode Island School of Design, David Byrne worked at a "New York System" hot dog stand in Providence. The up-the-arm chopping motion from his weird, twitchy dancing exactly matches the procedure for putting toppings on a row of short, chili-soaked hot dogs.

** Notably, ''Chris Frantz'' gets this wrong in ''[[Stop Making Sense]]'':

* [[The Seventies]], [[The Eighties]]

* [[Spin-Off]]: Frantz and Weymouth's [[Tom Tom Club]].

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