"Take Me to the River" -- a cool one from Talking Heads

YES! I love the Talking Heads try "Taking me to the River", "Once in a Lifetime", and "Burning Down the House" and yes I know they take getting use to.

Their concert film, Stop Making Sense, is one of my top 4 concert films ever

This is one of the weird songs you don’t why you like it but you do. I love when David Byrne screams

Road to Nowhere, And She Was and Wild Wild Life are probably some of the more wellknown songs I'd recommend. You should check out The Cars and The Pretenders

Talking Heads - Burning Down the House, Wild Wild Life, And She Was, Take Me to the River - all great Talking Heads songs!

The live version of "Life After Wartime" from the Talking Heads concert film "Stop making Sense" is pure genius.

Big fan of your sincere and honest reactions to music. Talking Heads were one of the early bands of the late seventies, early eighties that changed the face of rock music. This version of Psycho Killer is not the final finished track that broke the band to the world. David Byrne, arguable musical genius, is the front man, lead singer and songwriter. They have a considerable collection of great music and unique stage presentation. Concert film Stop Making Sense catches them at their popular and creative peak, and is worth a look. Keep up the good work.

Dammit. Why does every reaction channel do this alternative version? It's not THEE version we all know and love.

Talking Heads do some great stuff! "Stay Up Late" is great, and also "And She Was"

Oh hell yeah ! Talking heads are great and the more you listen to them the more you love them and they will leave you with a smile. Great choice of songs my dear, it was great i look forward to more of these guy's. You might try one or all of these songs once in a lifetime, wild wild life, road to no where or burning down the house. Thx...♡

Talking Heads are deliberately weird. Ease into them with "Wild Wild Life", "Road To Nowhere", or their biggest hit "Burning Down The House". Then pick up "Once In A Lifetime" and "Stay Up Late". By then... you'll get it.

An entire week of Soul Train wouldn't hurt my feelings at all 😎 Please 👍

"Take Me To the River" should probably be next.

Whenever I run into someone who gives me a bad vibe... I think to myself that they are Physco Killers and I need to Run Run, Run away lol.

You'll love The Cars! Moving in Stereo

Their song This Must Be The Place is my favorite, it's beautiful!

There's a great Talking Heads concert film called "Stop Making Sense". Highly recommend it if you get into the band.

One of their best is "Life in Wartime". They have a lot of cool songs though. Just kick back and enjoy the trip.

"This Must Be the Place" (Naive Melody)

If I were you, I would watch videos from the movie "Stop Making Sense" - great concert footage with excellent sound, the movie won multiple awards too.

Check out The Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love it is 2 members of this group with another couple and the song has been sampled 100's of times.

My mother used to sing this to me all. This is Sunday morning house cleaning music.

OK now we're talking! Talking Heads, great stuff, takes me back to my college years. The Great Curve, Houses In Motion, Once In a Lifetime, Burning Down the House Road To Nowhere, Cross-eyed and Painless, I Zimbra, Mind, Drugs, And She Was, just for starters...David Byrne is excellent, as are other band members, Chris Franz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison.

Try “Once in a Lifetime.” That’s a great tune. Also, do you know The Cure? Try “The Love Cats” “Bingo Masters Breakout.” They are totally weird but strangely satisfying. Keep on working, man, you’re doing good work. xx

David Byrne is a cool cat! My favorite album is Speaking In Toungues. I clean to the Talking Heads...always motivates me! It's happy music!

Spike Lee is making a film version of his last concert, American Utopia. One of the best concerts I’ve ever seen.

Burning Down The House was huge.

Life During Wartime is another great song of theirs!!

Crosseyed and painless off their stop making sense movie is amazing

This was a great reaction! I've watched a few and you are the only one so far who 'got it'! It's deliberately weird, different. David Byrne is a unique man for sure.

Watch the Talking Heads LIVE.!!!

It was hard to find this music back in the day. By that I mean they didn't play it on the regular radio stations. They played all of this stuff on college radio and MTV had dedicated hours for these videos and we'd tune in for it. It was so different. And we'd follow these bands as they played small clubs and college campuses. R.E.M. was one we traveled alllll over in our beat up old cars going from campus to campus for their concerts. Good memories.

Soooooo many incredible Talking Heads tunes, Jay..try more

Bro I love this song lol. I’m barely discovering that you reacted to this.

Road to Nowhere is my favorite song of theirs.

Tina Weymouth, the bassist, is doing the heavy lifting here, as usual.

"Once in a lifetime", my absolute favorite from them.

Life During Wartime was the song that introduced me to the Talking Heads. There's a live concert video that I have seen some react to. Lots of energy in the band during that video.

THE LIVE VERSION WHERE DAVID BYRNE RUNS AROUND THE BAND WHILE SINGING IS VERY COOL.

Definitely keep going with the TALKING HEADS. Their concert film ‘Stop Making Sense’ is mind-blowing.

Try their song 'Burning Down the House' it was a popular song back in the day. You may recognize it.

Talking Heads. Live in Rome. 1980. mind-blowing.

I LOVE TALKING HEADS! My favorite song by them is, "This Must Be The Place", aka "Naive Melody". 💜

React to perfect day by Lou Reed.

Javon you absolutely must listen to their seminal Once In A Lifetime and one of my favorites The Big Country. Dude you really are exposing yourself to a huge spectrum of music!

I saw David Byrne play a small club in Indianapolis. He even sang a few songs in his furry pink suit. Great show!

Ok as a massive Heads fan I'm happy to see this. This is the raw early version of this song when they leaned heavily towards 70's punk. I love it but there are plenty of people who prefer the cleaner and better-produced sound of the actual single. I suggest you watch the concert film "Stop Making Sense", even if you are unfamiliar with the songs you will still enjoy it. It's more performance art than just straight-up concert and ranks in the top of all-time great concert films. "Once in a lifetime" "Swamp" "Life during wartime" "Take me to the river" and "Girlfriend is better" are all personal favorites.

Hard to handle original soundtrack from a film Called "The commitments "

All their songs have a great beat - one of the best bands

Talking Heads has quite a few iconic tracks. I like ‘BETTER THAN YOUR GIRLFRIEND’ or something like that. Also some live performances where Byrnes dance moves make it even better

Talking heads, are like a firework light the paper, stand well back, and wait. Believe me something will happen!

You are now in the 80's. Love this band.Was a special time for me. Another great one worth checking. "Smalltown Boy" Bronski Beat.

One way to make sure you get the final studio version that everyone knows and loves (not that this is a bad version) is to get a video that has the album cover as the still image. That's what I do just for my own personal music listening on KZfaq. Got tired of browsing through different videos looking for the right version. The album cover is 95 percent likely to be the one.

Don't know if you have heard it but the term "talking heads". Usually refers to people on TV, like newscasters. Because that's all you usually see is their head.

YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO THE ORIGINAL VERSION. I think this is some later live version.

You've got to hear The Cars "Moving in Stereo "

Check out: Burning down the house; Naive melody (This must be the place); Slippery people (live version)

Once again I have truly enjoyed watching you enjoy this song!

Great band. You need to do more. Once in a lifetime, cross-eyed and painless, swamp. You should watch stop making sense. Kia ora😊

Hi Jay, the bass player is Tina Weymouth, she went on to be in a group called the Tom Tom Club with her sisters, give 'Wordy Rapinghood' a listen 👍

I love that you have found Talking Heads, my personal fav is The Lady Don't Mind. Nice reaction, don't forget the Stranglers Golden Brown.

They made a fantastic concert movie with just the band and some extra musicians and singers and EVERY song is amazing! So much energy and so much fun. Check out "Burning Down the House" which was a big hit for them. The album version is great, but the live one is smoking!

Perfect song for this Fourth of July.

Burning down the house is pretty cool.

This was the original version later re-produced but it it definitely gives you a taste of Talking Heads to come. I remembe my Dad hipped me to a local morning show that did a parody of this called Psycho Weather since Pittsburgh weather is so all over the place. Great line, psycho weather WTF, should I take an umbrella, a ski mask, or my Mama's sandals, oh oh oh why why why do I live here ! Good shit and great song. Get into some more Heads, promise you will love the odyssey.

Welcome to Talking Heads! Great first song. For other songs, you can't go wrong with any of the suggestions you've been given!

The lead singer - David Byrne - is one of a kind in the best possible way! There's no one like him.

Jay...react to anything of "Stop Making Sense" , there's not a bad song on it

LOL, loved your reaction. CBGB is NYC was the art rock club. Talking Heads, Blondie, The Cars and The Romones.

This is a group where you really need to SEE them! A very visual lead singer in David Byrne. You have lots of great suggestions in the other comments--grab one and run with it!

TINA WEYMOUTH IS A GODDESS AMONG BASS PLAYERS Welcome to New Wave, sir. There's nothing quite like Talking Heads out there. Next stops: "Road to Nowhere," "Once in a Lifetime," "Burning Down the House," "Take Me to the River" (a cover, but *goddamn* is it an excellent one), "Wild Wild Life," "(Nothing But) Flowers" (follow it up with Guster's version; they're both wonderful), "Girlfriend Is Better" and "Life During Wartime." Pull the last two from Stop Making Sense if you can; it's one of The live album experiences. David Byrne, the lead singer, has done some solo work since the group disbanded. My favorites of that are "Tiny Town," "Hanging Upside Down" and "Now I'm Your Mom."

Letting the days go bye is better

wow! I'm seeing your list for the day! I can't wait! what a list of songs!

They were a performance band. David B. So crazy

I see we're taking a break from love songs, personal anthems, youthful angst, and peeking into the mind of a homicidal killer stalking his victims. Well that's what you get when you put a bunch of musical instruments in the hands of art students. You call David Burns voice unusual. Yep, you could say THAT. Now try "Road to Nowhere," "Burning Down the House," "And She Was," and "Wild, Wild Life."

Another good song by them "And She Was".

Hi Jay 😁 it's true! David Byrne in Talking Heads final 70's and the beging 80's cruel song punk... CBGB (dirt bar/show) scenes (NY) with Ramones, Television, Blondie, Patti Smith, The Dead Boys, Cramps, The B-52’s, Joan Jett, Bad Brains, Black Flag and others bands 🙌 Divine David Byrne, listen all your discography! And you is great guy with big smile!!! Peace ✌️♥️

Talking Heads are so unique and I encourage you to react to more for sure! I love Life During Wartime and This Must Be The Place.

You should watch the entire Stop Making Sense concert film. It’ll blow you away!

Back in the punk rock New Wave era of the late 1970’s and early 1980’s.

Oops the song. Check out Roxy Music. Genre is "Art Rock.

This is a crazy somg. As always I really enjoyed watching your reaction.

Thanks for doing talking heads and hall and Oates, now, glad all over by dave clark 5 please!!!!!!!!!

Talking heads - 1980 - Take me to the River

Talking Heads are great !

You never forget It once you hear it lol

Check out Take me to the River (Al Green), Burning down the House, and Road to Nowhere

What you mean by there is something about the instruments and the song Well it’s just the classics they just have that thing to them you know that makes them special and stand out from this lady Gaga and Selina Gomez stuff nowadays :)

Not the best version. Still very cool to see Talking Heads. Is this the place, take me to the river, once in a life time, Stop making sense, I’ve got a girl friend better than that...plus so many more! David Byrne is another musical genius. Tina, Chris, Jerry are tight as well.

Love talking heads but THAT WAS NOT THE OFFICIAL VERSION! Listen to the official version will blow your mind! I too love his unique voice used to see them on MTV when it was really MTV music television video-constant music videos day and night-had it on while working around the house!

Tina Weymouth is an amazing bassist!

One of the most genius bands ever.

The Heads are a visual band. You MUST watch their live videos.

If you're going to jump into Talking Heads, best to start with "Take Me To the River" and "Burning Down the House". Or anything from the film "Stop Making Sense". This alternate take of Psycho Killer is fine, but doesn't showcase how brilliant David Byrne and company really were.

The lead singer is on the spectrum he's awesome. Try Burning Down the House.

You’re entering into the world of punk rock and you couldn’t have started with a more talented and creative band. This was far from their best. Keep exploring their music.

Can you please listen to more of the Kinks

im so glad you liked that!! you really react to nuances that others miss..... this is why i watch your channel......id like to have a beer with ya.... im confident in that statement and im high AF.... peace... :)

This was quite a good song. It was deserving a bigger production. On that first chorus they should have given a warmer more choral backing and lift the roof - then transition back down to vivid sharpness for the next verse. That would resulted in a more celebrated song today.