Talking Heads - Psycho Killer (FaFaFa FaFaFa)

A silly poster I whipped up today. The idea of someone being like “oh, I love talking heads!” And you hitting them with the “woah, me too; do you have a favourite song?” And them being like “what? I was referring to when you can’t see the body of the person being interviewed” wriggled its way in and wouldn’t come out. Anyway, this is the result!

When David Byrne said "oh oh oh OOOOOHHHHHH AIEAIEAIEAIEAIEAIEeeeehhhhhuuuuuuuu" I really felt that

Psycho Killer

Quess Quess-ce

Fa, Fa, Fa, Fa, Fa, Fa, Fa, Fa

And in her leopard print coat, none the less!

Victoria de Angelis collaborates with Duran Duran for their Talking Heads cover: Psycho Killer. Having her do those vocals on the track is such a perfect idea, too. ♥️

Talking Heads - Psycho Killer

Artwork by @stuff_by_mark

Source: comominimo

Jonny's Fender Acoustic

This photo of Jonny playing a Fender dreadnought acoustic was taken by his son Tamir.

To help publicize their upcoming Steve Reich Festival, The Hallé recently shared this photo of Jonny playing a Fender dreadnought acoustic guitar. Jonny will be playing Reich's Electric Counterpoint on the third (and final) day of the festival.

Back in November 2012, Jonny answered fan and celebrity questions in an article for Uncut magazine. Nicolas Gauna from Buenos Aires asked Jonny about his first guitar and the first song he learned, and this was Jonny's reply:

I bought a Fender acoustic for £40 from a “for sale” column in the Oxford Journal when l was about 14, then an electric one from my teacher when l was 16. I still have the acoustic, but the electric one was stolen in Leeds on the first Radiohead tour (at the Duchess Of York, I think… it was a cream Telecaster if anyone's seen it). I don't remember working out many songs by other bands - maybe “Psycho Killer" by Talking Heads. There was a tiny guitar room at school where teenagers hung out playing each other U2 songs - but I never had any U2 records.

Given Jonny's penchant for stickers during his younger days, one can only assume that this is the same guitar that he played when he first strummed his way through Psycho Killer.

Based on the quote, the guitar was purchased in around ~1985, and was already used by that point. Fender had released their California series acoustics in 1983, but they were still relatively new and expensive. So it's more likely that the guitar is from Fender's standard F-series. Price lists show that the F-series was available from Fender through the 70s and 80s. The headstock confirms this: California series guitars have a Stratocaster-style headstock, whereas Jonny's has a more traditional acoustic headstock with the distinctive F-series notch in the center. In addition, we can see a square "Fender" label through the soundhole. A cursory glance through Fender F acoustics shows that the square label was used in the 70s and early-80s, particularly on Japanese-made instruments. They seem to have switched to a round label in the late-80s. This gives further evidence that the guitar in the picture really is Jonny's original acoustic.

Fender's acoustic and classical guitar offerings in April, 1977 (guitar-compare.com). Given the price Jonny paid for a used instrument, it seems very possible that he bought a 1970s F-35 model. The more expensive models like the F-65 had fancier inlays and details, whereas the one in the photo has simple dot inlays on the fingerboard.

Talking Heads - Psycho Killer

why are people so weirded out by the me gustas tú song switching to french halfway. speaking more than one language in a song is not like an unheard of concept

I have decided that there shall be no more love songs! No more breakup songs! They have all been written. Acceptable topics include but are not limited to:

A legendary trio of a fighter, bard, and noble perhaps destined to destroy the world

Meeting some creepy immortal being who claims he sold the world

The devil listing off his list of many accomplishments and asking the listener to play some weird Rumpelstiltskin game with him

Hunting down the manipulative bastard that screwed over your mother when you were but a lad, leading you to become a sailor, get eaten by a whale, and eventually have an emotionally charged showdown with your mortal enemy in the belly of said whale

Psycho killer (qu'est-ce que c'est)