Talking Heads '77

What can I say about the Talking Heads? I had multiple favorites before I finished one side. This album was ranked #290 on Rolling Stone magazine's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. I suppose I will have to revisit Talking Heads '77 and post more.  First up a light one... then a classic.

"First Week/Last Week…Carefree" :

"Psycho Killer" (Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth):

"First Week/Last Week…Carefree"

Can we run that again

Is that a woman's voice I hear?

I said, "Let's wait and see. I'll see for myself"

That's a phrase I repeat

To myself

Made a reference to me and

that's myself too

What progress I have made the first week

First Week

First Week

First Week

Every sentence I use

Refer to women and their names

I heard the voice first last week

I heard it myself

Made a reference to me

That's myself

This report's incomplete

I see for myself

Every appointment has been moved to last week

Last Week

Last Week

Last Week

I heard the voice first last week

I heard it myself

Made a reference to me

And that's myself

This report's incomplete

I can see for myself

Every appointment has been been moved to last week

Last Week

Last Week

Last Week

"Psycho Killer"

I can't seem to face up to the facts

I'm tense and nervous and I

Can't relax

I can't sleep 'cause my bed's on fire

Don't touch me I'm a real live wire

Psycho Killer

Qu'est-ce que c'est

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Run run run run run run run away

Psycho Killer

Qu'est-ce que c'est

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Run run run run run run run away

You start a conversation you can't even finish it.

You're talkin' a lot, but you're not sayin' anything.

When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed.

Say something once, why say it again?

Psycho Killer,

Qu'est-ce que c'est

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Run run run run run run run away

Psycho Killer

Qu'est-ce que c'est

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Run run run run run run run away

Ce que j'ai fais, ce soir la

Ce qu'elle a dit, ce soir la

Realisant mon espoir

Je me lance, vers la gloire ... OK

We are vain and we are blind

I hate people when they're not polite

Psycho Killer,

Qu'est-ce que c'est

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Run run run run run run run away

Psycho Killer,

Qu'est-ce que c'est

fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better

Run run run run run run run away

oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh....

Wikipedia:

Psycho Killer is a song written by David Byrne, Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth and first played by their band The Artistic in 1974, and as new wave band Talking Heads in 1975, with a later version recorded for their 1977 album Talking Heads: 77. "I'm glad," remarked Jerry Harrison in the liner notes for Once in a Lifetime: The Best of Talking Heads, "we persuaded Tony and Lance [Quinn] that the version with the cellos shouldn't be the only one."The band's "signature debut hit" features lyrics which seem to represent the thoughts of a serial killer. Originally written and performed as a ballad, "Psycho Killer" became what Allmusic calls a "deceptively funky new wave/no wave song ... [with] an insistent rhythm, and one of the most memorable, driving basslines in rock & roll."

"Psycho Killer" was the only song from the album to appear on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at number 92. It placed 32nd on the Triple J Hottest 100 in 1989, and peaked at #11 on the Dutch singles chart in 1977.

Cellos? :)

Ahhhhhhh this one: