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BORN: May 14, 1952, Dumbarton, Scotland

David Byrne was born in Dumbarton, Scotland, on 14 May
1952. When he was 2 years old, his parents moved to Canada
at the expense of a company that was recruiting engineers
and semi-scientists from Europe. When David was 8 or 9
years old, his parents moved again, this time to the
suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland.

In September 1970, David went straight from High School to
the Rhode Island School Of Design. It was here that he met
Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth who were also enrolled as
Freshmen. David was not very impressed by art school: "I
think art school is a real racket, especially in this
country. You run into a couple of good teachers and some
interesting students but for the amount of money you spend,
it's not worth More...

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  • A long time ago Lyrics
  • A Million Miles Away Lyrics
  • A self made man Lyrics
  • A soft seduction Lyrics
  • A Walk in the Dark Lyrics
  • Amnesia Lyrics
  • Angels Lyrics
  • Atronaut Lyrics
  • Au Fond du Temple Saint Lyrics
  • Back in the Box Lyrics
  • Big Blue Plymouth (Eyes Wide Open) Lyrics
  • Big Business Lyrics
  • Broken Things Lyrics
  • Buck Naked Lyrics
  • Burnt by the sun Lyrics
  • Carnival Eyes (Mapeye) Lyrics
  • Civilization Lyrics
  • Crash Lyrics
  • Daddy go Down Lyrics
  • Dance on Vaseline Lyrics
  • Desconocido Soy Lyrics
  • Dialog Box Lyrics
  • Dirty Old Town (Mapeye) Lyrics
  • DON'T FENCE ME IN (Cole Porter) Lyrics
  • Don't Want to be Part of Your World (Samba) Lyrics
  • Eggs In A Briar Patch Lyrics
  • Empire Lyrics
  • Everyone's in Love With You Lyrics
  • Finite = alright Lyrics
  • Fuzzy Freaky Lyrics
  • Girls on my Mind Lyrics
  • Glad Lyrics
  • Glass, Concrete & Stone Lyrics
  • Glass, Concrete, and Stone Lyrics
  • Good and Evil (Rumba/Llesa) Lyrics
  • Hanging Upside Down Lyrics
  • His Wife Refused Lyrics
  • I've Tried [Things to Do] [Knee Play 9] Lyrics
  • I Know Sometimes a Man is Wrong Lyrics
  • In the Future [Knee Play 12] Lyrics
  • Independence Day (Cumba) Lyrics
  • Lazy Lyrics
  • Lie to Me (Merengue) Lyrics
  • Like Humans Do Lyrics
  • Lilies of the valley Lyrics
  • Loco De Amor (Salsa/Reggae) Lyrics
  • Make Believe Mambo (Orisa) Lyrics
  • Marching Through the Wilderness (Charanga) Lyrics
  • Miss America Lyrics
  • Monkey Man Lyrics
  • My Big Hands (Fall Through the Cracks) Lyrics
  • My love is you Lyrics
  • Neighborhood Lyrics
  • Nothing at all Lyrics
  • Now I'm Your Mom Lyrics
  • Office Cowboy (Pagode) Lyrics
  • Pirates Lyrics
  • Poison Lyrics
  • Princess Lyrics
  • Ready For This World Lyrics
  • Sad song Lyrics
  • She's Mad Lyrics
  • She Only Sleeps Lyrics
  • Smile Lyrics
  • Social Studies [Knee Play 4] Lyrics
  • Somebody Lyrics
  • Something ain't Right Lyrics
  • Strange Ritual Lyrics
  • The Accident Lyrics
  • The Call of the Wild (Merengue) Lyrics
  • The Civil Wars Lyrics
  • The Cowboy Mambo (Hey Lookit me Now) Lyrics
  • The Dream Police (Cha Cha Cha) Lyrics
  • The Gates of Paradise Lyrics
  • The Great Intoxication Lyrics
  • The Man Who Loved Beer Lyrics
  • The Moment of Conception Lyrics
  • The Other Side Of This Life Lyrics
  • The Revolution Lyrics
  • The Rose Tattoo (Bomba/Mozambique) Lyrics
  • The Sound of Business [Knee Play 3] Lyrics
  • They are in love Lyrics
  • Tiny Apocalypse Lyrics
  • Tiny Town Lyrics
  • Tree (Today is an Important Occasion) [Knee Play 1] Lyrics
  • Twistin' in the Wind Lyrics
  • UNDER HEAVY MANNERS (Fripp/Byrne) Lyrics
  • unknown Lyrics
  • Untitled Track Lyrics
  • U.B. Jesus Lyrics
  • Walk on Water Lyrics
  • Waters of March Lyrics
  • What A Day That Was Lyrics
  • Why Lyrics
  • Wicked little Doll Lyrics
  • Women vs. Men (Bolero) Lyrics
  • You and Eye Lyrics
  • You don't know me Lyrics
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    Review about David Byrne

    G'd up | Reviewer: Steve Talamantes
        ------ About the song Like Humans Do performed by David Byrne

    I really do love this song. I mostly listen to gangsta rap, but i saw this song on my computer and just decided to give it a listen and I really enjoyed it. It's soo soothing and peaceful. Good work, David Byrne. :-)


    Lyrics/Like Humans Don't Do | Reviewer: Anonymous
        ------ About the song Like Humans Do performed by David Byrne

    First of all whoever corrected the lyrics these are correct for the censored version and secondly whoever wrote different lyrics, the feeling i got from your review was you firstly stole it and secondly you over-harshly critiqued it by over-analyzing it with intent to under-analyze it to make it appear shallow when really it isn't just a asininely written song exposing flaws it's accepting humanity even though it is flawed and continues to mess up and those lyrics were almost a good song but since i knew why they were written, when i read them they didn't seem good because they were so aimed at proving "your" point


    David Byrne ROCKS! | Reviewer: 2people1club:US
        ------ About artist/band David Byrne

    How does one man rock so much? The grey hair = AWESOME! Favourite songs include the David Byrne version of the Talking Heads' Psycho Killer (by the way we love Talking Heads too and our friend ROSS - nickname rossolina - LOVES you too), Nothing But Flowers and of course Like Humans Do. The man is genius.
    But we must ask. If you are in paradise, why do you wish you had a lawnmower?
    We think beyond what most people hear - we feel the music. It is an art. And who defines that art? David Byrne...


    lyrics correction | Reviewer: Anonymous
        ------ About the song Like Humans Do performed by David Byrne

    this sounds like a song that would come with the computer!!!!!

    Anyway, the lyrics in the second verse are incorrect:

    "we're eatin' off plates and we kiss with our tongue"
    should be
    "I never watch TV, except when I'm stoned"


    peace and love! | Reviewer: the one
        ------ About the song Like Humans Do performed by David Byrne

    i love this song. it makes me feel strangely peaceful, and i think that David B. describes life just the way it is, we don´t so anything but complain about our life's and he is right with such profound words. i love him, and i love this song. peace and love to you all folks. see ya in another life


    To L'Analyste Universel | Reviewer: Curtis
        ------ About the song Like Humans Do performed by David Byrne

    L'Analyste Universel:
    I suppose you are entitiled to your opinion, but I personally don't think your lyrics are that great.


    Pretty Darn good | Reviewer: Marion Wilson
        ------ About the song Like Humans Do performed by David Byrne

    Not bad at ALL! I actually really like this song. It's not my favoutire song I must admit, but still really good.


    I'm looking for the name of a song | Reviewer: Claudia
        ------ About the song unknown performed by David Byrne

    just heard a few seconds of a song which said something like
    "Looking for a home"
    and the other thing I heard was something like "doing it for money not for love or something like that"
    I apreciate your help!


    Jism | Reviewer: Haig
        ------ About the song UNDER HEAVY MANNERS (Fripp/Byrne) performed by David Byrne

    In the psycho-crazed intellectual art rock daze, Robert Fripp and David Byrne regularly surprised and satisfied with essential stimulation. Yet, they seemed a world apart, Byrne hitting beats that Fripp never touched; Fripp clicking and tricking guitar that buzzed and rocked. It seemed that whenever Fripp allowed drums to play a hard beat, his guitar playing with it just amazed, leaving us laughing, jumping, thinking fast and even dancing. We don't know where or how we got hold of this track, and to this day our few friends in-the-know refer to it as "The Jism Song"! The innovative use of one word lines of lyrics are statements in themselves, copied by several artists to follow including INXS, and of course the Talking Heads. Whoever posted these lyrics must understand these thoughts and hopefully it reminds you of how wonderful it was to attend college in a n environment such as Ann Arbor, MI. Thanks for clarifying the memories! Those that enjoy any Fripp and Bryrne have got to hear this one.


    basically | Reviewer: jared
        ------ About the song You and Eye performed by David Byrne

    this song is great. it has an eclectic blend of latin and funk, with that ever so "subtle" twist from david byrne.


    Amazing Song! | Reviewer: Will
        ------ About the song Like Humans Do performed by David Byrne

    I love this song, I think it should have made it to the top of the charts or at least close to it.
    This song comes on the windows xp home and pro operating system as a sample, but they chose a damn good song!


    God like humans do | Reviewer: gail kennon
        ------ About the song Like Humans Do performed by David Byrne

    i'd been listening to the album look into the eyeball all week and it was on my c.d. on good friday. just before i replaced it with messian's "quartet for the end of time" for good friday meditation i listened to "like humans do"...what an insight into Christ's passion i received. He was aching and shaking and breaking from his torment in the garden to his dying on the cross...the Son of God suffering "Like Humans Do"...thanks david byrne.


    great | Reviewer: Anonymous
        ------ About the song Like Humans Do performed by David Byrne

    First time I heard this was on my boyfriends Ipod, and lemme say this song rocks. It's a song that makes me wanna just dance, and I hate dancing.


    Like Humans Don't Do | Reviewer: L'Analyste Universel
        ------ About the song Like Humans Do performed by David Byrne

    Unfortunately the title of David Byrne's song is vastly misleading by letting us think that one will hear a song with some sort of meaningful and insightful analysis or at least a truthful commentary on humans, the human impact, or something worth thinking about and opening a debate. However, "like humans do", or as one would expect from so many songwriters, it is a shallow, general misrepresentation of human lives as though everyone wastes their time in some such light, flighty daily activities of most life forms. Like Humans Don't Do, it doesn't transcend such observations and present the general truth and where to go from there.
    In reality some humans do indulge themselves as such while others indulge more meaningfully in some of these daily activities and/or in other activities of much more importance to the future of all life including humans. So, unfortunately, I have to give the lyrics a 0 because of a meaningless theme and recommend they be changed. However, the music is good and just needs good lyrics to make it great.
    Since I believe it is always best to critique with a good example of my view, I shall leave you with one possible scenario of lyrics for this song that could and should clarify my point. I shall try to keep it in the flavor of Mr. Byrne's original, but with more transcending thoughts, thus

    Like Humans Do

    For millions of years, In millions of ways
    Humans have done well, Humans have done ill
    We've learned how to love and we've learned how to kill
    Like Humans Do

    [Chorus 1]

    We're breathin' in
    We're breathin' out
    But humans must find what it's all about
    All life's made a wreck
    No justice will ensue
    As we glorify our ills
    And pervert the truth
    We're achin'
    We're shakin'
    We're breakin' everything
    Like Humans Do
    We're achin'like
    We're shakin'like
    We're breakin' everything like
    Like Humans Do

    We work and we sleep and we think until we die
    We're eatin' all, we're laughin' all and we're lovin' our ills
    We never critique our misdeeds until it is too late
    Like Humans Do

    [Chorus 2]

    We're breathin' in
    We're breathin' out
    But humans must find what it's all about
    Restore the wrecked earth
    To a reasonable home
    Begin to see the truths
    And face the ills we've done
    We're achin'
    We're shakin'
    We're breakin' everything
    Like Humans Do
    We're achin'like
    We're shakin'like
    We're breakin' everything like
    Like Humans Do

    etc. (I like it better thus and will sing with such lyrics.)


    Hooked on a tune | Reviewer: Gainer
        ------ About the song Like Humans Do performed by David Byrne

    Hooked on a tune... magical, compelling lyrics, funky fun and profound. Buried on my new computer. Must have come along with Windows XP. Thank you Bill Gates. Some of the other music that was also installed by Microsoft was a pretty good mix, but "Like Humans Do" just "hit-the-spot"... tight.


    super song | Reviewer: Rahul singh
        ------ About the song Like Humans Do performed by David Byrne

    this song was in my computer and i never heard it but when i did i was stunned.

    what a song. it pictures the life of a man perfectly.

    i myself is a huge lover of this song.


    Latin spirit, English lyrics. | Reviewer: Fractal-q
        ------ About the song Make Believe Mambo (Orisa) performed by David Byrne

    David Byrne definitely captures the spirit and essence of the Salsa rhythm in Make Believe Mambo. While his english lyrics to what is essentially a Latin American artform sounds a little mismatched and to an extent, out of place, he compensates for this with authentic spirit and instrumentational arrangement to make this piece a spicy, zesty, sonic experience. His music video was my first exposure to this song and I've enjoyed it everytime since. To my mind, Make Believe Mambo is a fine example of music's power to cross cultural and social barriers to eventually influence artists who will then take this artform, co-opt it as their own and add a new dimension to it. Musical evolution.


    wooahhh amazing man | Reviewer: Liza
        ------ About the song Like Humans Do performed by David Byrne

    i think this song is just out of this world- no joker.. it was randomly on my computer and i had never even heard of david byrne before i when i heard this song i was like yesssssssssss! its soo good.. i have based my messenger names on it for example "do slip inside this pumpkin house" hehe. well lets jus say thank you for making this truly wonderful song!:)



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