 Fear of Music (1979) [ larger cover art ] |
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Musicbrainz DBEveryone is trying to get to the bar
The name of the bar, the bar is called Heaven
The band in Heaven, they play my favorite song
They play it once again, they play it all night long
Heaven
Heaven is a place
A place where nothing
Nothing ever happens
Heaven
Heaven is a place
A place where nothing
Nothing ever happens
There is a party, everyone is there
Everyone will leave at exactly the same time
It's hard to imagine that nothing at all
Could be so exciting, could be so much fun
Yeah, heaven
Heaven is a place
A place where nothing
Nothing ever happens
Yeah, heaven
Heaven is a place
A place where nothing
Nothing ever happens
And when this kiss is over, it will start again
Will not be any different, will be exactly the same
It's hard to imagine that nothing at all
Could be so exciting, could be this much fun
Yeah, heaven
Heaven is a place
A place where nothing
Nothing ever happens
Heaven
Heaven is a place
A place where nothing
Nothing ever happens
| Zep | Posted: Mar 28, 2013 - 06:37 ScottFromWyoming wrote: But in heaven, wouldn't additional beauty, creativity and selflessness be either impossible or at least superfluous? Sin is nonexistent in heaven, correct? And to think that I, upon entering heaven, could possibly make it better, is at the very least gilding the lily. But really. The bar is called Heaven. Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens. Why did we all of a sudden get all metaphysical?  I imagine the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. But that's in a different universe. |
| haresfur (Bendigo Australia) | Posted: Mar 25, 2013 - 17:03 MaryAndrea wrote: A song really "struggente". I don't know a good word in English to define this sensation. David Byrne, good!!! Good word. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/struggente
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| jmsmy (Music Town, Klein, Texas) | Posted: Mar 25, 2013 - 16:58 Everybody wants to go there - but not right now |
| mamyam (Germany) | Posted: Feb 22, 2013 - 06:19 A good song with great lyrics  |
| MaryAndrea (Vada (Li) Italy) | Posted: Apr 13, 2012 - 08:13 A song really "struggente". I don't know a good word in English to define this sensation. David Byrne, good!!! |
| jmsmy (Music Town, Klein, Texas) | Posted: Mar 12, 2012 - 16:55 To my brother John. I'll miss you John - but I plan to be there one day. Love, James |
| Bruce_AK (Toketee, Oregon) | Posted: Nov 06, 2011 - 15:27 One of my favorite all time tunes. I LOVE the lyrics. Its how I feel about being in the mountains. Stunning beauty where "nothing ever happens." Timeless landscape, seemingly unchanging. |
| Cynaera (Kenneth's Frequency) | Posted: Sep 04, 2011 - 16:02 Well, I must be pretty shallow, because I like this song a lot. Especially the line, "Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens." It'd be really fun if Bill would follow this song with "Alleluia" by Dar Williams... "Ron and Nancy got the house, but Sid and Nancy ruled/I died eight years ago; I'm still a legend at my high school/I stole a Chevy and I wrapped it 'round a tree/ That's okay, cause no one's gonna make the next century/I'm up in heaven and they say I'm here to stay/ The clouds are really puffy and the angels sing every day... "The waves are always perfect and the sun it always shines, but there's got to be more to death than surfing all the time..." |
| calypsus_1 | Posted: Aug 18, 2011 - 19:31
Photography by & © Frank Murray 2011. All rights reserved. This photo was taken on July 22, 2011 using a Fujifilm FinePix S100FS. |
| Proclivities (Carrboro, NC) | Posted: Jan 27, 2011 - 07:10 FlatCat wrote: How I miss when Bill used to play the IceHouse version. So much more musical. I presume it's by intent, but the instruments are out of key here. I don't hear that at all. The only tonal variations (or possibly off-key sounds) I hear are the transitional slides on the (fretless?) bass being played by Tina Weymouth. We all hear different stuff though. It might have been one of Brian Eno's treatments. |
| ScottFromWyoming (Powell) | Posted: Nov 25, 2010 - 06:31 Art_Carnage wrote: What a LOUSY version of a great song. Making it "jangly" and drowning out the lyrics is NOT an improvement. Let's put this back in the attic, and bring back the real version. I wasn't listening but if it's off of Fear of Music then it's the "real" version. You might be thinking of the live version from Stop Making Sense, which is a little warmer. |
| Panama_Floyd (Atlanta, GA) | Posted: Aug 21, 2010 - 21:23 Interesting to hear that some folks would rather listen to cover verisions. I'm not slamming covers in general, or of this song in particular, I hope everyone knows that Byrne and Harrison actually wrote it.. |
| Art_Carnage (DeepintheheartofTexas) | Posted: Aug 21, 2010 - 21:21 What a LOUSY version of a great song. Making it "jangly" and drowning out the lyrics is NOT an improvement. Let's put this back in the attic, and bring back the real version. |
| Limpopoking (The Parish of St. Alfonzo) | Posted: Jun 19, 2010 - 01:41       |
| jmsmy (Music Town, Klein, Texas) | Posted: Apr 16, 2010 - 12:20 really great lyrics for a place we can only imagine how great it is |
| FlatCat (Chicago) | Posted: Apr 16, 2010 - 12:17 How I miss when Bill used to play the IceHouse version. So much more musical. I presume it's by intent, but the instruments are out of key here. |
| lmic (Harmless Little Bunny) | Posted: Mar 15, 2010 - 22:17 What drugs prolly did for others, this album did for me....shook me to my 18-year-old core.  Life shaping then, and certainly still awe inspiring now. |
| fingerpin (OhiO) | Posted: Feb 12, 2010 - 08:03   |
| Droidac (Blacklight District) | Posted: Feb 12, 2010 - 07:57 I must be in a good mood today - just up'd this from a 1 to a 2! |
| crockydile (Outer Spiral Arm, Milky Way) | Posted: Feb 12, 2010 - 07:57 This is a great song, but I don't like this version...by which I mean David Byrne singing it. Maybe Peter Gabriel? Maybe Potishead?  |
| vandal (arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | Posted: Feb 12, 2010 - 07:56 DaveInVA wrote: Oh come on. enough of this DB/TH, I'd sooner take a cheese grater to my balls than listen to this crap... bump |
| mcYammer (Beervana) | Posted: Feb 12, 2010 - 07:55 malvey254 wrote: My favorite hobby is whenever a TH or DB song comes on RP, I pop open Internet Explorer to watch the Byrne/Heads haters flood the comments. What an amusing bunch. I'm excited to see David Byrne tonight in Philly. He puts on an awesome show. it does make good sport. see below |
| Shesdifferent (Just visiting this planet this is not my home) | Posted: Feb 12, 2010 - 07:55 Please shoot me now |
| SweTex (Swede living in Texas) | Posted: Oct 09, 2009 - 14:51 DaveInVA wrote: Sorry about that, changed it :)  Here's to ya! |
| DaveInVA (In a crumbling Queen Anne mansion in Damnville, VA) | Posted: Oct 09, 2009 - 14:49 SweTex wrote: Was a joke. You forgot to put "absolutely no sense of humour" in your description, so I didn't know. Sorry about that, changed it :) |
| SweTex (Swede living in Texas) | Posted: Oct 09, 2009 - 14:40 DaveInVA wrote: Oh look at the little man that has to attack fellow posters to feel big, guess that comes with being a DB fan... Was a joke. You forgot to put "absolutely no sense of humour" in your description, so I didn't know. |
| pierpod (Paris, France) | Posted: Oct 09, 2009 - 14:38 |
| DaveInVA (In a crumbling Queen Anne mansion in Damnville, VA) | Posted: Oct 09, 2009 - 14:37 SweTex wrote: Thats strange...your wife told me you don't have any. Great song, btw. Ok then, hows this :) - If you see my wife tell her to bring them back, I've been missing those...Btw, the song still sucks :) |
| SweTex (Swede living in Texas) | Posted: Oct 09, 2009 - 14:35 DaveInVA wrote: Oh come on. enough of this DB/TH, I'd sooner take a cheese grater to my balls than listen to this crap... Thats strange...your wife told me you don't have any.  Great song, btw. |
| bam23 (Berkeley) | Posted: Oct 09, 2009 - 14:32 Shesdifferent wrote: Spare us this dribble? People actually think this guy is entertaining? This version sucks. Where's the mute button? I am guessing that you intended to use the word 'drivel'. I also guess that this unentertaining guy who sucks, etc., actually knows the English language sufficiently well to use it correctly. In addition, there are, strangely enough, quite a few of us who like this. |
| lemmoth (NYC) | Posted: Oct 09, 2009 - 14:31 More_Cowbell wrote: From their best album! You know — rechecking the track list — I think you are right. And I was with them since '77 |
| DaveInVA (In a crumbling Queen Anne mansion in Damnville, VA) | Posted: Oct 09, 2009 - 14:30 Oh come on. enough of this DB/TH, I'd sooner take a cheese grater to my balls than listen to this crap... |
| lemmoth (NYC) | Posted: Oct 09, 2009 - 14:30 One of my favorite title phrases of all time. |
| ziggytrix (Dallas, TX) | Posted: Aug 07, 2009 - 13:21 treatment_bound wrote: This song would not have gone over too well in my late 60's Catholic elementary school. I can almost picture a nun whacking David Byrne on the hand with a ruler right now... Maybe not in elementary school, but I can see it sparking some interesting debate at a Seminary. In the context of Eternity, how can any one thing happen? |
| hedgie (Pleasantville) | Posted: Aug 07, 2009 - 13:19 ChrisL wrote: I was thinking much the same, distinct Bowie echoes. Very nice  Perhaps the Brian Eno influence.... |
| malvey254 | Posted: Jun 05, 2009 - 04:54 My favorite hobby is whenever a TH or DB song comes on RP, I pop open Internet Explorer to watch the Byrne/Heads haters flood the comments. What an amusing bunch. I'm excited to see David Byrne tonight in Philly. He puts on an awesome show. |
| Papernapkin (Mountain View, CA) | Posted: May 04, 2009 - 09:46 Hey, look at that. Talking Heads on RP. Imagine. |
| Shesdifferent (Just visiting this planet this is not my home) | Posted: May 04, 2009 - 09:45 Spare us this dribble? People actually think this guy is entertaining? This version sucks. Where's the mute button? |
| More_Cowbell (North of Chicago, IL, USA) | Posted: May 04, 2009 - 09:42 From their best album! |
| arjcymru | Posted: Mar 22, 2009 - 20:11 Did someone say Simple Red did it better? Sorry but I remember them clearing the field in Glastonbury playing this track!! ~plus the fact I gave birth to this album 23 years ago. how dare anyone compare any track or cover version to the God that is David Byrne, Thanks that was the raving of a very old mother xx |
| ThePoose | Posted: Mar 02, 2009 - 09:00 Misterfixit wrote: Lovely Bass work ... Give thanks to Tina. |
| ChrisL (Directly above the centre of the earth (give or take a gravitational anomaly or two)) | Posted: Mar 02, 2009 - 08:16 westslope wrote: One of my favourites from THs. And yes, it has aged well. Makes me think of Bowie. And I mean that as a compliment. I was thinking much the same, distinct Bowie echoes. Very nice |
| snowcat (Cold, Frozen Minnesota) | Posted: Jan 29, 2009 - 18:22 Wow I've heard the Simply Red version of this and I didn't realize TH did it. MUCH better. |
| ThePoose | Posted: Nov 27, 2008 - 13:27 hippiechick wrote: Sigh...is it possible to go just one day without a TH song? Nein! Bill loves Byrnin' down the house. |
| bronorb (Wisconsin) | Posted: Sep 25, 2008 - 07:23 The live version of this song is so much better. This may be the original but.....yuck. |
| cstetler | Posted: Sep 25, 2008 - 07:21 Just got to see David Byrne perform this song in concert here in ole Memphis and it was fantastic. Teenie Hodges joined him on the song "Take Me to the River" it was a special Memphis moment! |
| eerovond | Posted: Jul 08, 2008 - 08:22 Mari wrote: Would love to hear Icehouse's version of this on RP?
I'll second that...it's a transcendant version of a great song. |
| jmpnbob (Lomita California) | Posted: Jun 06, 2008 - 19:40 sbird wrote: And Dylan too ... yeah and dont forget led zepplin |
| pierpod (Paris, France) | Posted: May 22, 2008 - 02:58 pierpod wrote: Talking heads est un des plus important groupes des années 80, hélas aujourd'hui très peu reconnu .Fear music est un très bon album et heaven dans sa version studio est remarquable .  |
| sbird (Dorchestah, MA) | Posted: May 06, 2008 - 09:23 siandbeth wrote: I think RP should have a marathon day of Talking Heads, Elvis Costello and Bruce Springsteen just for fun. Oh, and maybe the Cure. It could be called the "I don't 'get' it Day" And Dylan too ... |
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