For those you dont like TH / DB ...
This is Radio Paradise and Radio Paradise is not Radio Paradise without Talking Heads or David Byrne

9 -> 10

...sounds a lot like brian eno!..

Most TH / DB songs get a one from me. This one wasn't as bad - it gets a 2.

 ThePoose wrote: 

How many times you going to say that?

I must agree with earlier comments to ignore the detractors. At this point one must be really jaded to not appreciate this unique musician.

Painful...it exists as an anthem to my memory of what we might have been. It's all just a city of dreams.

bmeador wrote:

But Bill loves Byrnin' down the house.

EssexTex wrote:

It's from the old joke poem:

From the bedroom came a scream:
who put sand in the vaseline?

A very interesting sound from the Talking Heads. Different side of the group. I'll need to hear it a few more times before adjusting my rating.

reason06 wrote:

I love it, too. Understand, I usually find Byrne irritating, but this is lovely.

LaurieinTucson wrote:

Really? I think this is one of their worst, sound wise.

EssexTex wrote:

My favorite talking heads song. Beautiful.

dmax wrote:

Interesting. I'm exactly the opposite. Not a big TH fan, but this song is quite lovely! Takes all kinds....

EssexTex wrote:

no... it just really sucks

InTexas wrote:

Another retread from byrned out . . .

Do you think "Sand in the vaseline" is a parody of "Sticky when wet"...."sticky fingers" etc?..

Another fine Talking Heads song.

dmax wrote:

While I agree with the premise - this is not your father's Talking Heads - I do think it comes close to evoking Bryne's earlier imagery of hope amidst alienation. I'll clock it at 6.

the style and lyrics are remeniscent of some sort of personal music/journal entry.

This is so not the Talking Heads the I adored. It misses the pathos of "Big Country" while trying to be in the same neighborhood. Gave it a 1.

Saw him play this at the 1991 International Design Conference in Aspen. It was quite a bit faster, much more sparse and a thousand times better (I'll give that one a 6000 as opposed to this version's 5 or 6). It was allegedly his first solo performance, and he seemed pretty wound up and nervous, all alone with only an acoustic guitar and a little drum machine. He also did a great cover of Greenback Dollar (traditional, not the Kingston Trio/Hoyt Axton song).

Do not stop playing TH or DB.
Do not mind about the ones who do not like him.

DB is a genious and nobody can discuss that

Thanks Bill

There's another genious called Prince. What about him? Maybe u should try to play something of him...

I am going to London just to see him next saturday. I will tell you about that...

mindless wrote:

yup...I thought it was Byrne solo

shayborg wrote:

Amen! This is worse than a middle-school talent show pseudo-profound "message" song.

widespread panic does an amazing cover of this

Boring, awful track. I can see what some people like in David Byrne but, not in this track!

There is no way this song would ever be played here if it weren't by the Talking Heads.

That's enough, David Byrne.