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Talking Heads was a band of smart, self-conscious white
musicians intrigued by the rhythms and spirit of black
music. They drew on funk, classical minimalism, and African
rock to create some of the most adventurous, original, and
danceable music to emerge from new wave - a movement
Talking Heads outlasted and transcended in their
accomplishment and influence.

David Byrne and Chris Frantz met at the Rhode Island School
of Design, where they were part of a quintet called,
variously, the Artistics and the Autistics. With Tina
Weymouth, More...




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last line | Reviewer: David
    ------ About the song (Nothing But) Flowers performed by Talking Heads

Whoa, the last line sums it all up! The narrator is getting used to the natural worldsomething he has not experienced before. Clearly this is a sarcastic song about commercialism taking over. No way in Heckuvaville, does David Byrne wish for Dairy Queens and Pizza Huts to continue to take over the world.

I haven't seen my take | Reviewer: tstoneami
    ------ About the song (Nothing But) Flowers performed by Talking Heads

I think its a send up of the reality we would face if we lost the world we depend on and are habituated to.

A lot of us talk the talk about "getting ourselves back to the garden", but would miss our modern way of "life". Its SATIRE.

Stop Making Sense | Reviewer: Shava Nerad
    ------ About the song Life During Wartime performed by Talking Heads

You know, you people should keep in mind that this is art, not history; that it's likely we're dealing with an unreliable narrator (burning down the house/going underground - lots of madness and transcendental various weirdness various which ways - drugs, whatever,...), and the album is "Stop Making Sense."

Literal analysis might not be your best tool here.

IRONY? | Reviewer: Alan
    ------ About the song (Nothing But) Flowers performed by Talking Heads

The man is speaking for an overwhelming number of human beings who would find themselves confused, frustrated, overwhelmed by the loss of LA, Mumbai, Rio, Rome, Shanghai... as we know them; by the erasure of our brief presence here through our planet's natural processes. However, the very line "I can't get used to this lifestyle..." strikes me as humorously positivist, as if to say that we'll still be around when this all goes down. By the way, I once caught a rattlesnake, and had it for dinner; not so good. Peace

to know this song | Reviewer: Anonymous
    ------ About the song Psycho Killer performed by Talking Heads

First time to heard this song, is from my friend's facebook said about it about a mother singing it while walking with a baby. Then, I though why is so strange? After that, I heard this song in burger king twice time. After that is I just get remember it very clearly in my mind.

luthRBYzRWZa | Reviewer: Cheap oem software
    ------ About the song Life During Wartime performed by Talking Heads

HqRDQX I`m so grateful that you enlightened me and the most important thing that it happened in time. Just think, I have been using the internet for six years already but it`s the first time I`ve ever heard about it!....

Timeless application | Reviewer: piperj
    ------ About the song Life During Wartime performed by Talking Heads

I doubt it is anything to do with WWII. However, just listening to this song with a thought to current affairs, this could be applied to the uprisings in North Africa - Cairo, Tripoli, Syria and the thought of insurgents fighting tyrants who have ruled for decades, and this song is remarkably poignant. Next time you listen, replace the american city names with Cairo, Tripoli, Damascus, and the whole song comes alive (even more). As with all good verse, it has meaning for it's place in time, and application into the present.

wow | Reviewer: the home crowd
    ------ About the song Life During Wartime performed by Talking Heads

Sooo this is the what would happen if you put 6 or7 white people in a room and put a talking heads record on haha? Why can't you people just take music for what it is and let beauty be in the eyes of the beholder? It's people like this that make the world the way it is. Opinions are a great thing to have (these days more than ever) but no one wants to go on a site like this to see people fighting over what was going through David Byrne's head when he wrote this song. I bet you could all tell me exactly what "god" looks like too right? This world is seriously fucked if this is how people interact with each other about something as beautiful as music. Just saying...

Shakes head slowly | Reviewer: Wandering Penguin
    ------ About the song (Nothing But) Flowers performed by Talking Heads

What amazes me most about the reviews on here is how many people have quite obviously never heard a single other David Byrne-penned song in their life. I especially like the person who opined that Byrne "might be ambivalent" on the subject of environmentalism.

Uh....no.

Seriously, get out more.

shape shifting | Reviewer: Jim
    ------ About the song Seen and Not Seen performed by Talking Heads

Why this song confuses some is confusing. It's clear, and about someone changing their shape by force of will to fit an ideal chosen from images seen in the outside world. It may take years. It seems most people may have done this. It seems some do this, and regret the change.
And seen and not seen may mean many things.

And Talking Heads have turned this into a fantastically sparse yet melodious song, a dreamy few minutes where you hear without listening Byrne's impersonal description of how we all change our images to the point where what is seen is not us.

So put bluntly: a critique of consumerism destroying self.


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