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  purchase [ Talking Heads:77 ] It hasn't been easy finding a Talking Heads song that has not appeared on SMM before. A veritable Who...

Concrete Blonde : Joey [ purchase ]  One of the things that made Joe Biden a compelling candidate (other than the fact that most people l...

Talking Heads : Don’t Worry About The Government [ purchase ]  I am sooooooo worried about the government.  Four years ago, relying on pr...

purchase [ Speaking in Tongues ] It seemed such a no-brainer to include Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues that I feared it had alread...

Or Waters of March, the english translation of what has been called the all-time best Brazilian song, in a 2001 poll. Written by arguably...

Talking Heads (from Stop Making Sense) : Girlfriend is Better [ purchase CD ] [ purchase DVD ] Director Jonathan Demme died last w...

purchase [ Once In A Lifetime ] The Element: Water redux I really thought Retropath was headed down the right path when he started ...

David Byrne : Broken Things [ purchase ] By 2001, new wave music had happened twenty years earlier. Talking Heads had made some of the...

David Byrne : Independence Day [ purchase ] I am a firm believer that “none of us is truly free until all of us are”. From this point o...

David Byrne : Loco De Amor [ purchase ] I have found Salsa music tremendously exciting since I first heard it. But there was also a cer...

David Byrne : Now I‘m Your Mom [ purchase ] I know a couple with two kids. When the kids had both reached the age of eighteen, the woman of ...

During Horns week I didn’t have the problem of submitting material too late to get it posted; I simply had more material than I had time. T...

In part 1 of this post, I discussed the polyrhythmic music of the Yoruba people of west Africa. Here, I will reveal what led me to seek out ...