Lyrics by Talking Heads

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1. Psycho Killer
2. This Must Be The Place
3. Once In a Lifetime
4. Burning Down The House
5. And She Was
6. Take Me To The River
7. Road To Nowhere
8. Wild Wild Life
9. (nothing But) Flowers
10. Girlfriend Is Better
11. Life During Wartime
12. Slippery People
13. Tentative Decisions
14. Uh-oh, Love Comes to Town
15. Artists Only
16. Heaven
17. I Zimbra
18. Thank You for Sending Me an Angel
19. The Great Curve
20. The Lady Don't Mind
21. (Give Me Back My) Name
22. A Clean Break
23. Air
24. Animals
25. Big Business
26. Big Daddy
27. Bill
28. Blind
29. Born Under Punches
30. Broken Things
31. Cities
32. City Of Dreams
33. Cool Water
34. Creatures of Love
35. Crosseyed And Painless
36. Desconocido Soy
37. Don't Worry About The Government
38. Dream Operator
39. Drugs
40. Electric Guitar
41. First Week/Last Week...Carefree
42. Found a Job
43. Gangster Of Love
44. Happy Day
45. Hey Now
46. House Of Cards
47. Houses in Motion
48. I Feel it in My Heart
49. I Get Wild / Wild Gravity
50. I Want To Live
51. I Wish You Wouldn't Say That
52. I'm Not in Love
53. In Asking Land
54. Lifetime Piling Up
55. Like Humans Do
56. Listening Wind
57. Love - Building On Fire
58. Love For Sale
59. Making Flippy Floppy
60. Memories Can't Wait
61. Mind
62. Mommy Daddy You & I
63. Moon Rocks
64. Mr. Jones
65. New Feeling
66. No Compassion
67. Papa Legba
68. Paper
69. People Like Us
70. Perfect World
71. Popsicle
72. Pull up the Roots
73. Pulled Up
74. Puzzling Evidence
75. Radio Head
76. Ruby Dear
77. Sax And Violins
78. Seen and Not Seen
79. Stay Hungry
80. Stay Up Late
81. Sugar On My Tongue
82. Swamp
83. Television Man
84. The Big Country
85. The Book I Read
86. The Democratic Circus
87. The Facts Of Life
88. The Girls Want to be With the Girls
89. The Good Thing
90. The Overload
91. The Revolution
92. Totally Nude
93. Ub Jesus
94. Walk It Down
95. Warning Sign
96. What A Day That Was
97. Who Is It?
98. Wild Wild Life
99. With Our Love

Talking Heads were an American new wave band that formed in 1975 in New York City. The band was composed of David Byrne (lead vocals, guitar), Chris Frantz (drums), Tina Weymouth (bass) and Jerry Harrison (keyboards, guitar). Described as "one of the most critically acclaimed bands of the '80s," Talking Heads helped to pioneer new wave music by combining elements of punk, art rock, funk, and world music with an anxious, clean-cut image. Byrne, Frantz, and Weymouth met as freshmen at the Rhode Island School of Design, where Byrne and Frantz were part of a band called the Artistics.: 24  The trio moved to New York City in 1975, adopted the name Talking Heads, joined the New York punk scene, and recruited Harrison to round out the band. Their debut album, Talking Heads: 77, was released in 1977 to positive reviews. They collaborated with the British producer Brian Eno on the acclaimed albums More Songs About Buildings and Food (1978), Fear of Music (1979), and Remain in Light (1980), which blended their art school sensibilities with influence from artists such as Parliament-Funkadelic and Fela Kuti. From the early 1980s, they included additional musicians in their recording sessions and shows, including guitarist Adrian Belew, keyboardist Bernie Worrell, singer Nona Hendryx, and bassist Busta Jones. Talking Heads reached their commercial peak in 1983 with the U.S. Top 10 hit "Burning Down the House" from the album Speaking in Tongues. In 1984, they released the concert film Stop Making Sense, directed by Jonathan Demme. For these performances, they were joined by Worrell, the guitarist Alex Weir, the percussionist Steve Scales and the singers Lynn Mabry and Ednah Holt. In 1985, Talking Heads released their best-selling album, Little Creatures. They produced a soundtrack album for Byrne's film True Stories (1986), and released their final album, worldbeat-influenced Naked (1988), before disbanding in 1991. Without Byrne, the other band members performed under the name Shrunken Heads, and released an album, No Talking, Just Head, as the Heads in 1996. In 2002, Talking Heads were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Four of their albums appeared in Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003, and three of their songs ("Psycho Killer", "Life During Wartime", and "Once in a Lifetime") were included among the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll. Talking Heads were also number 64 on VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time". In the 2011 update of Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Artists of All Time", they were ranked number 100.

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