milehighYinzer
(Denver) | | Posted: Sep 14, 2006 - 07:15 | |
You can never overplay the talking heads Bill.
Also, to the people below. He isn't singing as if he is better and more sophisticated then country folk. In college I did acid and listend to this song. You see what he is saying.
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ndfan75
(Texas) | | Posted: Aug 01, 2006 - 10:14 | |
ndfan75 wrote:$$#@!$^Y%^#&%@&%&@$$^^#$
make it stop
seriously, wtf.
I'm replying to my own messages now |
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renlat
(Montreal, Canada) | | Posted: Aug 01, 2006 - 10:14 | |
ndfan75 wrote:$$#@!$^Y%^#&%@&%&@$$^^#$
make it stop
Agree with you. Can't stand that voice. |
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mooseisadick
(Westland, Michigan) | | Posted: Aug 01, 2006 - 10:13 | |
Cool song, but if it is a put down of non-New York America then I don't get it. I've spent a lot of time in NYC and I can't think of a bigger cesspool than that place. Unless maybe Ohio. Anyway I like the tune.
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steeler
(Riding The Bus to Canton) | | Posted: Aug 01, 2006 - 10:13 | |
hcaudill wrote:My take on the lyrics is that the person being parodied is a self-important urban sophisticate, who thinks he's better than all the people down there. David Byrne's a pretty subtle and thoughtful guy, and I don't think he's being scornful of rural/suburban people - just the opposite. Here are the lyrics for your reference:
I think the key line is "And I have learned how to look at these things." Not a slam at all; it's about someone forced to rationalize because he can't live like those down below because he's too busy climbing the ladder of success. |
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ndfan75
(Texas) | | Posted: Aug 01, 2006 - 10:11 | |
$$#@!$^Y%^#&%@&%&@$$^^#$
make it stop
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Zep
(Home) | | Posted: Jul 11, 2006 - 12:57 | |
ObsidianInfinity wrote:i hate the talking heads so much...his voice hurts my head
Turn it up. Loud. You will be cured soon.
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catbirdman
(Long Beach) | | Posted: Mar 23, 2006 - 00:09 | |
Immediately evokes my junior and senior years of high school. A perfect song of alienation for people of a certain age and temperament -- which I most definitely was. Is it any wonder I went on to become a land planner?
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hcaudill
(Washington, DC) | | Posted: Feb 21, 2006 - 10:09 | |
stonesmaster wrote:Very disrespectful of rural america.
My take on the lyrics is that the person being parodied is a self-important urban sophisticate, who thinks he's better than all the people down there. David Byrne's a pretty subtle and thoughtful guy, and I don't think he's being scornful of rural/suburban people - just the opposite. Here are the lyrics for your reference:
I see the shapes,
I remember from maps.
I see the shoreline.
I see the whitecaps.
A baseball diamond, nice weather down there.
I see the school and the houses where the kids are.
Places to park by the fac'tries and buildings.
Restaunts and bar for later in the evening.
Then we come to the farmlands, and the undeveloped areas.
And I have learned how these things work together.
I see the parkway that passes through them all.
And I have learned how to look at these things and I say,
(CHORUS)
I wouldn't live there if you paid me.
I couldn't live like that, no siree!
I couldn't do the things the way those people do.
I couldn't live there if you paid me to.
I guess it's healthy, I guess the air is clean.
I guess those people have fun with their neighbors and friends.
Look at that kitchen and all of that food.
Look at them eat it' guess it tastes real good.
They grow it in the farmlands
And they take it to the stores
They put it in the car trunk
And they bring it back home
And I say ...
(CHORUS)
I say, I wouldn't live there if you paid me.
I couldn't live like that, no siree!
I couldn't do the things the way those people do.
I wouldn't live there if you paid me to.
I'm tired of looking out the windows of the airplane
I'm tired of travelling, I want to be somewhere.
It's not even worth talking
About those people down there.
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Luna2
(CT) | | Posted: Feb 21, 2006 - 10:01 | |
Meghan: what happen to queen liner-notie drag on paragraphs ?????
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squidish
(California) | | Posted: Feb 21, 2006 - 10:00 | |
Why does this have to be a song? Why couldn't he have just written it down as an essay in the New Yorker? Why couldn't it just be a painting?
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Luna2
(CT) | | Posted: Feb 21, 2006 - 09:59 | |
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shakitten
(8500 feet, overlooking Denver, Colorado) | | Posted: Feb 06, 2006 - 17:03 | |
I just think it's funny how DB loves baby noises...cracks me up!
Gagaga....
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willmcnaught
(Eugene Oregon) | | Posted: Feb 06, 2006 - 17:01 | |
 I wouldn't do the things that most people do!!!!!!!! Gagagagagagaga  |
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Helchat
(a record store near you) | | Posted: Feb 06, 2006 - 16:59 | |
LOVE IT! and the guitar slidin' is waaay fun....
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djblitz
(Boston, MA) | | Posted: Feb 06, 2006 - 16:58 | |
My lowest rated RP song ever, downright unlistenable.  |
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Glockman45
(undisclosed) | | Posted: Dec 10, 2005 - 11:12 | |
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PattonFever
(wherever i go, there i am.) | | Posted: Nov 25, 2005 - 19:51 | |
i really don't like this one. he sounds like he's straining to hit every note. every single one. i can't appreciate this one's sound at all. perhaps i need a lyric sheet.
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federico
(Padova, Italy) | | Posted: Nov 11, 2005 - 04:25 | |
the thumping part at the end makes it good enough for me: a 5.
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Darlington
(Columbia, South Carolina) | | Posted: Sep 13, 2005 - 11:19 | |
sergeant_x wrote:The album this song originally came from is one of my favorites and definitely the best Talking Heads. Another song from that one, "Found a Job" always sticks with me, espeicially when I hear about yet another bad television show. "Good Thing" and, of course "Take Me to the River" are excellent cuts as well.
Agree 1000 percent. |
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Zep
(Outdoors) | | Posted: Jul 01, 2005 - 10:26 | |
I think of flying when I hear this song, and I think of this song when I fly.
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randomprime
(Midwest) | | Posted: Apr 04, 2005 - 11:00 | |
redeyespy wrote:
Uh uh. A perfect closer to a fabulous album (More Songs about Buildings and Food).
What redeyespy said.
"People fighting over little things and wasting precious time."
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redeyespy
(SoFL) | | Posted: Mar 20, 2005 - 17:21 | |
timandjuliet wrote:The only bad song on the album.
Uh uh. A perfect closer to a fabulous album (More Songs about Buildings and Food). |
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coding_to_music
(Marlborough Massachusetts) | | Posted: Feb 19, 2005 - 05:22 | |
Excellent song. Love the lyrics. Amazing journey, following the ideas he is putting out, describing what he is seeing and his reaction to it. Super!
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Trustocity
(Boston, baby) | | Posted: Feb 04, 2005 - 11:27 | |
timandjuliet wrote:The only bad song on the album.
Of course. Oh, and by the way, white is black and monkeys are bananas. |
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trekhead
| | Posted: Dec 22, 2004 - 04:21 | |
UPLOAD "DRUMMER BOY" BY VBC...
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timandjuliet
(Colorado, USA) | | Posted: Dec 07, 2004 - 10:10 | |
The only bad song on the album.
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ObsidianInfinity
(Rochester, NY) | | Posted: Nov 22, 2004 - 15:26 | |
i hate the talking heads so much...his voice hurts my head
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uberland
| | Posted: Sep 24, 2004 - 16:59 | |
one of my rem faves. makes me look deeper in myself
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willmcnaught
(Eugene Oregon) | | Posted: Sep 24, 2004 - 16:16 | |
ga ga ga ga ga ga ga  |
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