What a track! One of a few that marked Talking heads as being out on their own. Of course, like a lot on ‘Remain In Light’ the music is clearly influenced by a lot of what was coming out of Africa at the time. The horn stabs are pure Africa 70, but brought into an age and area where the glistening, sharp sound of video games was starting to evolve. The percussion takes James Brown a step further into the future, while the vocals work in perfect call and response harmony with each other. Dominating when it wants to though, is the guitar solo, which sounds like a tear in a time portal. Crying out for a chug edit this. Wouldn’t be easy though.
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