I never saw the band live. No, not at all. The Talking Heads were an acquired taste. TH'77 and Fear of Music were difficult albums to listen to, because the Talking Heads didn't sound like anything else that had been pressed in black in the Seventies. When the band as a whole discovered funk in the early 80's, collaborating with Parliament's Bernie Worrell among others, the change seemed so radical it threw us off.
Truth is, the band was always ahead of the great curve.
But not so far ahead of the fans that we couldn't keep up. Stop Making Sense captures the Talking Heads at the peak of their powers. Live, the Heads took their music so far beyond anything captured on vinyl that the only disappointment was that the original soundtrack delivered only half the film's music. If you've sprung for a DVD player, that's on its way too. Let's talk about the film . . .