Your top 3 favorite Talking Heads songs

Take Me to the River
Once in A Lifetime
Psycho Killer

 

Houses in Motion (from The Name of this Band is...)
Burning Down the House (from seeing Stop Making Sense in the theatre back in the day)
Big Business/ I Zimbra (from Stop Making Sense VHS)

 

Born Under Punches
Crosseyed and Painless
The Great Curve

 

I don't know their catalog very well but Once in a Lifetime and Heaven are favourites.

 

Born Under Punches
Once in a Lifetime
This Must be the Place

 

Heaven
Cities
Once in A Lifetime

Ask me tomorrow and you will get a new list of songs...

 

Cool Water
Once in a Lifetime
Life During Wartime

I could pick 20+ and still feel like I'm leaving stuff out.......

 

Life During Wartime
And She Was
Take Me To The River (live)

 

This Must Be The Place
Once In A Lifetime
Crosseyed and Painless

Take Me To the River is 4th
Stay Up Late would be 5th!

 

Psycho Killer
Once in a Lifetime
Burning Down the House

 

One of my top 20 favorite tracks of all time, I never tire of it





This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)...
Must be 'Stop Making Sense' Version.
in fact...

 

Slippery people (live version is sublime)
Take me to the river
Blind

 

1. Don't Worry About The Government, 2. City of Dreams, 3. Love Goes To A Building On Fire

 

4. Heaven, 5. The Big Country, 6. Dream Operator

 

Listening Wind
Once In A Lifetime (7inch edit)
Born Under Punches

All from Remain In Light, which is also my all time favourite lp by anyone..

 

Crosseyed & Painless
This Must Be The Place
Found A Job

A few more. . .
Houses in Motion
Making Flippy Floppy
Drugs

 

I couldn't narrow it down to 10 if my life depended on it, but "Cool Water" and "Listening Wind" would certainly be at the top of my list.

 

Hard to pick the other two tracks anything from 'Stop Making Sense' (16 tracks).

Thanks OP for helping me revisit.

 

Warning Sign
I'm Not In Love
Stay Hungry

 

And these two would be high on my list as well. I never understood why "True Stories" gets so little love.

 

Pulled Up
Seen and Not Seen
Heaven

 

I think the versions in the movie sounded a bit more fleshed out to me than the Heads takes on the same songs- that album has a lot of songs I really like but it seems really rushed and knocked out. Wish they would have spent a little more time on recording/mixing

 

Maybe. I only saw the film once when it came out, so I'm far more familiar with the album. I can see why many regard it as their weakest (given the competition), but I still think it's a very good album.

 

Me too. That was enough (although it was the first time I saw John Goodman in anything and he was great-brought some humanity to a movie that was sorely lacking in it)

 

I zimbra
Drugs
Artists only