I started listening 2 a lot of Talking Heads, because I want to get more in touch with the roots of conceptual pop music. Feel like I’ll appreciate modern indie music if I travel back in time and listen to ‘what was once cool’/'cutting edge’/'progressive.’ Seems like things from the past influence things in the present, and the present becomes the past, influencing things in the future.
I recently saw a meme where some bro ‘covered’ the hit song “This Must Be the Place.” I think that he might be ‘trying to go viral’ by ‘ripping off’ the American Psycho Club movie.
Not sure what attracts people to the ‘Patrick Bateman’ aesthetic. It seems like people just want to ‘be rich’ and ‘kill sluts’ or something. He might represent ‘perfection’, and we all think that 1 day we are going to move 2 NYC and ‘be rich.’ Not sure what AmPsychy has to do with the song though. Seems like a gimmick meme/something that mainstream film bros did to ‘feel creative.’
Might decide to listen 2 more MGMT. If I were a tween indie kid, I would say that this is my fave cover of ‘This Must Be the Place.’ Saw this video of them when they were just a ‘zany college campus band.’ Sorta wish they were still ‘this organic’, instead of some sort of over-marketed, post-OfMontreal bloghouse indie jam band who will ‘go hard’ on the festival circuit for the next 15 years.
Kinda weird 2 see altcelebs before they were ‘alt famous.’ Can’t believe these were the bros who wrote the transcendental masterpiece “KIDS.” Can’t believe they knew about the song ‘This Must Be The Place’ even though they were so young. Maybe their altParents made them listen 2 it in the car. Sorta wish I lived in the dormitory behind them, so I could say ‘the MGMT played at my dorm.’
Think it might be the ‘most authentic’ to say that u prefer ‘the original’ version of the song, which is the Talking Heads ‘covering’ themselves. As u can see, they are a very conceptual band. It seems like they want the performance to be ‘art’ and not just ’some band playing a ditty.’
I’m not sure what the significance of this song is. Seems like it has some sort of lyrical relevance, but also might just be ’some babbling bro’ with a ’simply structured pop song’ underneath. Not sure if the Talking Heads are even ‘that good.’ I just know they have that one song about questioning your life, but I had always thought they were just some ‘lame 80s band.’ Sorta like how u thought Devo was ‘just that band that sang WHIP IT’ but then people are like ‘those bros are really influential’ or something.
Not sure if I like music. Feel like the music that is supposed to define me still hasn’t been made yet. Will probably happen in 10-15 years.
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don’t show all the entry-lvlrz the talking heads!
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//////////Reply by lol
//////////Posted July 26th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
@lulz,
because talking heads is so obscure
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//////////Reply by lulz
//////////Posted July 26th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
@lol, yah hence the words “entry-lvlrz”
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//////////Reply by honestly
//////////Posted July 26th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
@lulz, CARLES I DREAMT OF YOU LAST NIGHT
LOL
YOU WERE TOTALY IN MY DORM
AND WE BLOGGED IRL
AND THEN WE ENDED UP BEING IN SPANISH WAR TERRITORY WHERE U AND I DUELED IT OUT WITH OTHER SPANTARDS, AND GOT LAID!
….
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could do without mgmt.
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third
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Well written, CRLS
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u missed the arcade fires’ version where they git davvy byrne to sing along with them
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THIS IS NOT MY BEAUTIFUL HOUSE
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//////////Reply by el fggt
//////////Posted July 26th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
@&^_&^,
THIS IS NOT MY BEAUTIFUL WIFE
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//////////Reply by anon
//////////Posted July 27th, 2009 at 11:41 am
@el fggt, this is ghey
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//////////Reply by el fggt
//////////Posted July 27th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
@anon,
ya
but thats how i roll, cuz im el fggt
thats spanish for the fggt, u kno
people only watch american psycho for the alt sex
hell if you didn’t get yr cock out during that scene yr mainstream
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10th!!!1
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yeah arcade fires version is surely the most authentic.
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them arcade fire ppl are the most authentic because they r ttly bff with head talking headbro
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Got2b annnoy for dis 1
Herd these bros are the new talking heads [via logic studio 8]
http://www.myspace.com/thebros
KEEP IT DIPSET, YALL
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YOU KNOW ANIMALS ARE HAIRY, THEY’RE LIVIN OFF NUTS & BERRIES, THEY’RE SETTIN A BAD EXAMPLE, THEY OUGHT TO BE MORE CAREFUL, THEY’RE MAKING A FOOL OF US
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my favorite cover of this song by far is by The String Cheese Incident they do a great job
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9IIrjJ8GxY
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Fisherbro is ironicly beautiful. his six pack is for the lulz.
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I HATE THAT FUCKER WHO TRIES TO BE CHRISTIAN BALE HE IS A FGGT
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//////////Reply by sirbro
//////////Posted July 28th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
@vdieselfor20, eric bana?
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u missed the arcade fire version where the steel drum is extremely loud and incredibly atonal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J-900xpiI0
quirky stage theatrics make “the fonzarelli” go “ayyyy”
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obviously the stop making sense version is unbeatable
what a great song, earnest but not stupid post-ironic-postquirky-earnest
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once told a girlfriend of mine that this is ‘my song to her’.
song always gave me a warm feeling, like she did. in the end she only gave me a shitty feeling tho, much like life ‘en general’. Thats spanish.
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Thanks Carlos,
Will definitely share with my AltMadre- gotta let all the alt-padres in on their altNess, as the Stop Make Sense Album (10-15 years later) begins to play on repeat in my head whenever I see a 1988 black Volvo sedan with red leather interior.
If only AltMadre and her fellow alties had foresight to know the impact their early altyears would have on me and young MGMT
Maybe I would have been allowed Nickelodeon cartoons instead of PBS Spotlight as the only source of TV. Perhaps under the influence of cartoons altMadre would have rethought the dip bowl that sat on our coffee table, which read “Now it is time to tell you there was LSD in the dip.”
However would have been moved to a place where nobody knows…..like the mantle, above the sightline of the little alties running through her house, in the yard, lying in the grass…..and she was…
still the best damn altMadre (even growing up sans cartoons)!
Maybe in 10-15 years you’ll have a little heaven of your own, if you don’t already, and you can pass down your altNess,….I don’t care how impossible it seems….I think you can if you like and this time from the driver’s seat!
*But no hard feelings, what do you know? I was the baby in the tie-dye onesie at many early altshows, with cotton in my ears, and still could hear the sound of machines….without having my baby eardrums made to bleed….altMadre didn’t always make sense, but she does have mad respect for the Little creatures…if ya know what I mean*
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I don’t want to be the guy who takes HRO too seriously but yes Devo were incredible and not just for whippin. Apparently when they played in their big plastic suits the sweat would pour down their arms and destroy their keyboards during their concerts, which made them sound ‘even better’. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRENoPisFYk
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Can’t believe you didn’t mention the scene in Lars + the Real Girl starring Dead Mans Bones (aka the Notebook aka Gosling) where Ryan Gosling attends a party with his blow up doll girlfriend, and suddenly fucking “this must be the place” takes over the soundtrack and Gosling closes his eyes and just gives himself to the music. Just think it’s worth mentioning is all.
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Carles,
Take a year off.
Read a few books, watch some films.
Learn.
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Don’t like either of those covers
sometimes it’s best to leave the classics alone, yes I feel this is a classic!
That first link is really the worst. The song is called “this must be the place ( naive melody)”, naive because through the whole song the melody remains the same. They totally f’ed it up with all that electro pop beat shit.
Talking heads and David byrne were (is) brilliant.
This song-the original- will be my wedding song.
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f yalls i, the link is that Talking Heads are Patrick Bateman’s favourite band in the book. Duh.
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Also, Talking Heads are the best band in the world.
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omg lol @ weird hick with booze in paper bag boogie-ing at MGMT “show”
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//////////Reply by don't worry about it
//////////Posted July 30th, 2009 at 8:49 am
3:12
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