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TALKING HEADS • Sax and Violins We are criminals that never broke no laws

If lovers discover that everyone dies So don't tell me, please hold me It's a dangerous life

Sex and sin, sax and violins It's hell

SPARKS • National Crime Awareness Week On and on, the world keeps spinning On and on, I keep on winning

I'll put it to you this way I love all the headlines Unknown Caucasian strikes one more time

You honor me, I feel unique It's National Crime Awareness Week

[madderwockylikestalkingheads]

Happy birthday DB!

😬

[pineapplefulfillseveryneed]

Happy Birthday Ron! 💖

[distractedbybyrne]

Has any of you guys ever made Russell's creme caramel recipe?

[blushingzephyr]

steve posting

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there's this one russell screenshot that's been on my desktop forever, waiting to be used as a reaction pic but the moment never comes 😔

[lottieno9]

Top 5 TH/DB anecdotes!

Okay I wanna have a vast collection of eras for this. And I'll do it in chronological order rather than my fav

1.

I find this so funny, altho I do feel a little bad for David haha

2. This is a basic one, but that David and Brian began dressing like each other during their time working tgt.

3. That Hal Ashby developed the editing system Lisa Day used in Stop Making Sense (he developed it for a Rolling Stones concert film). I also love to think that Hal Ashby introduced Pablo Ferro (title designer of Harold and Maude and Stop Making Sense, aswell as other great films) to Jonathan Demme.

4. (for some reason another Rolling Stones related one, despite me not really liking the Rolling Stones) Gary Kurfirst hired Steve Lillywhite to produce Naked because he was famous for coping with the feuds inside Rolling Stones. Also David said that going in to record naked made him feel physically ill because of how tense it was.

5. In 2002 during the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame it is speculated that David climbed out of their bathroom window to get out of the event early.

UGH there's so many, idk if I'd say these are my faves, and I'm so deep into Talking Heads I can't tell what's "deep cut" anymore, and I wanted a chronology and range in here. This was so hard but thanks for the ask :)

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Good ones!!!

[db50212]

facebook comments are a goldmine for amazing videos. here is one from backstage of the crew performing Life During Wartime! and David's belly🥺so cute

the original comment has been deleted, sadly.

[likeanaccident]

shout out to my friend who referred to brian eno as “that bald guy…you know the autistic man you’re obsessed with’s friend. brian bingo?”

[shirleyschmidts]

beautiful

[transjackfairy]

Let's all Get Bald and Play with Our Synthesisers #BrianEnoSummer

[dav1dbyrne]

Talking Heads by Bobby Grossman, 1970s.

[sugaronmytonguedotmp4]

From Richard Alden Peterson:

David Byrne of the Talking Heads in his hotel room in San Francisco in 1978 being interviewed by Lynn X for Search & Destroy 'zine while I'm jumping on the bed talking aerial photos drunk on David's preferred drink, Black Label, seen on the desk next to his stack of architecture books he traveled with to learn about each city.

[lottieno9]

haha I know the sparks tweet isn't serious, but it reminded me of this bit in Chris Frantz book

[lottieno9]

My Talking Heads/David Byrne CDs and Vynil Collection!

(I also have Stop Making Sense, True Stories and American Utopia on DVD)

[leirin]

as a certified sparks veteran what is the craziest thing you have witnessed in the fandom?

This isn't the type of question I'd normally answer on this blog since this place is really just for art, but hey, i'll have a go at it!

the time a woman next to me at a show kept trying to discreetly take pictures of my feet - i tried to give her the benefit of the doubt like "maybe she likes my shoes and is too shy to ask where they're from" but then i saw her spending half her time at the show zooming in on the brothers' shoes taking pictures of them

a fan handing Ron a sign that says "ron you're sexy please take off your shirt" with a drawing of him shirtless but he didn't heed the advice

a german woman mailing dozens of printed jpg photos of Russell for him to autograph and i think at some point he may have gotten fed up because he started drawing glasses and goatees on himself instead of signing properly

for a while, there was a confessions account themed around the band on instagram called cumonomyhouse that followed me and my friends one day that i believe has since vanished, but it had the most insanely perverse confessions imaginable and i don't know if they were joking or real or some mix of the two. one of the confessions involved turning russell mael into a "human incense holder" using his butt to burn incense. i will not get into further details. rest in peace i guess. ...oh, and the account was followed by the band's roadie.

idk if this is directly fandom-related, but when sparks played a festival a few years ago, they were directly preceded by a black metal group called deafheaven and those of us who showed up just to be there in time for sparks' set had to survive genuine moshpits. someone behind me was carried out on a stretcher. i was still wearing a brace for my carpal tunnel at the time so the moshers in my immediate vicinity were a bit more respectful.

[ylly22-2]

Ron Mael from Sparks

Photographed by @eddiekmiles

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