TALKING HEADS "SLIPPERY PEOPLE" LIVE (reaction)

[@KevinLynchDoc]

Certainly one of the greatest concert footage ever filmed. They were on their game that night!

[@chrisvandyk6807]

You're literally the only channel that has reacted to this track, thank you!

[@SightAfterDark]

Thanks for watching Chris!

[@brianmckenzie6046]

sorry not true jamel has a youtube channel on talking heads kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3KakKKFfa-mqJI

[@chrisvandyk6807]

@@brianmckenzie6046 I know he does, I enjoy both channels, but these nice people not only did this specific track, but pretty sure the whole "Stop Making Sense" concert movie. Yet to see anyone else do this

[@steelyd2]

If you notice, there’s no amps or monitors on stage, everyone had to wear gray, no bottles of water or anything, even the chrome mic and percussion stands were spray painted matte black as well as the keyboards. David Byrne wanted just the musicians and instruments on stage and literally everything else had to blend into black and white. It’s a pretty genius concept for 1984 right when big stage shows and pyro was starting to take over.

[@SightAfterDark]

They really pulled it off!

[@blitztim6416]

Chris Franz didn’t get the memo.

[@spiderbass65]

It was a half hour after the show was supposed to start, and we were pressed against the front of an empty stage. We were saying crap, they still have to set up the equipment! Haha! The rest is history.

[@gpeddino]

And then Byrne managed to take this concept to the limit on American Utopia,, with identical suits and a totally empty stage.

[@steelyd2]

@@gpeddino yeah very true. That was a very minimalist sort of thing as well. I didn’t get to see it live unfortunately but caught it on hbo and it was awesome of course like everything he does

[@Biomirth]

When I grew up, this is what I listened to, nonstop, but only now watching you two watch the film do I really appreciate again how genius this is. I think Slippery People might be my favorite Talking Heads song. The lyrics are alright, but it's the back and forth and musical development that just are on another level. Whenever I hear this song I keep singing it for at least a day. "Bup-bup-bap-baaaap-bap-put-ba-bap-buppup.....". Also, David's mom is nice, and David used to babysit for a friend of mine, guitar and all. Everyone in the band brings so much and that's also a testament to Byrne's leadership. I only clued in recently to the idea that he wrote the music first and added lyrics later. This makes so much of their songs make more sense. He's a great lyricist, but he's a genius arranger/composer. It's always the music that carries you.

[@johnflynn5044]

David Byrnes is one of the most underrated artists to come out of the UK, A real pioneer and technically brilliant

[@SightAfterDark]

Can’t be underrated running a Broadway show

[@sideline5519]

Slippery People and Life during wartime in this correct are absolute masterpieces.

[@SightAfterDark]

Absolutely!

[@sampickel1030]

Whole concert was and is brilliant.

[@rolandosarabia810]

As a young man, no band had moved me as much as Talking Heads since The Beatles

[@MindFeather]

filmed over four nights, and edited down to feel like one show. one of my favorite songs by them. the way there is a whole little "conversation" between front vocals and back vocals, a serious call-and-response moment under a microscope -- "what's the matter with him?" "ah, he's alright." "how do you know?" "the lord won't mind." "don't play no games." "he's alright. Love from the bottom to the top." -- these days i wonder if David was writing about his autism, how people seem to react to him. it's open-ended enough that it could be about many situations though. there's a whole verse that opens up, "put away that gun -- this part is simple. try to recognize -- what is in your mind." this whole track endlessly fascinates me, and it keeps having new meanings as i get older.

[@5skin710]

This whole set is legendary

[@SightAfterDark]

You said it! Thanks for watching!

[@steveclapper5424]

So utterly unique and skilled it truly is it's own thing.

[@skippythetubrat]

WOWOWOWOWOOWOWOWOWOWOWOW!!!!!!!!!!! I grew up in Western NY. I took my then-girlfriend and future ex-wife (great taste in music, terrible taste in men ;-) ) to see this tour when they rolled through Rochester, NY. They played the War Memorial, but couldn't sell it out,. So they threw up a curtain halfway across the floor and limited the tickets to 5,000 people. Yes. I saw the Stop Making Sense tour with fewer than 5k people in a small city arena. Oh...my...goodness. I never had so much fun in my life. Maybe the best concert I ever saw. Imagine 5k people high, dancing, and having a great time under general admission - which meant a clear dancefloor from the stage to the edge of the floor/ring. no opening act. Just the T-Heads with the Tom Tom Club as an intermission....playing the Genius of Love. Holy shit. I've never danced that long in my life.

[@SightAfterDark]

That sounds like an amazing time!

[@skippythetubrat]

@@SightAfterDark It was.

[@kotukukaihau8818]

Backing singers are 🔥

[@brianberthiaume7930]

I saw this tour in New Orleans , I've seen all the great acts, from Zep, to Police to Todd Rundren to Yes , and more obscure acts like Laurie Anderson ive seen them all ,BUT THE TALKING HEADS STOP MAKING SENSE TOUR WAS THE BEST CONCERT IVE EVER ATTENDED IN MY LIFE AND IT WAS SO GOOD BECAUSE EVERYONE AND I MEAN EVERYONE IN ATTENDANCE WAS HAVING THE BEST TIME , THE PERFORMERS AND THE AUDIENCE, EVERYWHERE I LOOKED EVERYONE WAS SMILING AND THERE WAS NOT ONE BAD ACTOR IN THE PLACE, IT WAS FANTASTIC, BEST SHOW EVER!

[@SightAfterDark]

We’re jealous that you got to be there!

[@brianberthiaume7930]

Hell I even saw U2 on the Riverboat President back in the day , but the Stop Making Sense Tour is still the best concert i have ever attended , hands down.

[@SightAfterDark]

Amazing

[@1234tori]

one of my top 3 live album of all time - thanks for reacts

[@SightAfterDark]

Thanks for watching!

[@johnflynn5044]

Ive seen these guys live thee times.. Hey the unsung hero is the chap on the tom tom drums

[@blitztim6416]

Great rhythm guitar work by David on this song.

[@SightAfterDark]

Indeed!

[@JoeBlow_4]

He was such a breath of fresh air in real life. This so cool to live through after stadium rock. I'm old, but I lived through this when it happened. ;)

[@zachshuler1143]

The gray clothes are for continuity. They filmed shows across multiple nights and used the best takes for the movie.

[@SightAfterDark]

haha unless you play drums, then you don't have to care apparently

[@kevindunne4604]

I was at this show at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood

[@SightAfterDark]

You’re part of rock music history!

[@williamandres1042]

The energy is amazing :)

[@axgreenious9400]

Stop Making Sense was the first LP Tape i bought as a child.

[@markerickson3179]

Second best song - one of many second place choices. Dope!

[@heleneberger2429]

Loving watching these and your reactions

[@SightAfterDark]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@vincentnevels9626]

Oh ! Boy this group got some "Funky Groove" about them.

[@cityhonors1]

Those 👩🏿‍🎤👩🏿‍🎤 singers also sang with Sting on his Blue Turtle Tour and The Police on The Synchronicity Tour. 🤔 Simple Minds & Tears for Fears also if I'm not wrong. 🍿🐰

[@SightAfterDark]

That’s dope! The do an amazing job!

[@cityhonors1]

@@SightAfterDark 🤷🏿‍♀️ not sure which one was an original Bride of Funkenstein. 😒 Too many "Floyd Shows" so memories a little shot. 🙄 Doh'! 😁🐰

[@athanatic]

With its Biblical quotes and its overall sound it sounds almost like church! (And "Take me to the River" is definitely like that too!)

[@markblom8039]

As we get deeper I think the drummer listens to a click track so they could piece from multiple nights.

[@SightAfterDark]

Interesting! Definitely possible!

[@steelyd2]

That’s exactly it. They mixed video from performances over 3 or 4 nights so they had to maintain tempos across each night so Chris would listen to a metronome before each song so they could intersperse video and audio from various nights into one song

[@noraoros9974]

Love this song/ band/ video! If this song doesn’t make you move, there is something wrong with you.

[@stuarthastie6374]

Acording to the biography of the band , animosity was creaping in prior to the movie. Tina wnted her sisters on as backing singers and Byrne was writing lyrics to tapes sent him in the post. They were hardly on speaking terms.

[@SightAfterDark]

Oh wow. Hard to tell by how in-synch they are in the performance!

[@stuarthastie6374]

@@SightAfterDark yes atrueiy great show. I think the others surrendered to his terms. Also they had honed the show at several locations. It was during his sbatical that Tom Tom Club happened. They hd n interesting way of splitting royalties. They each voted points to other members Re: input into a song, but could not vote for themselves.

[@kf9346]

My favourite!

[@mysticmouse7261]

The definition of rock.

[@BartholomewCounty]

The name of the band is 'TALKING HEADS' ,... not - 'The Talking Heads.' They had an entire album dedicated to that.

[@wwestern99]

They sure put on a show.

[@SightAfterDark]

You know it!

[@duckbrew]

Ya'll see the remake that just came out of this film!? It's hot right now ;)

[@SightAfterDark]

We haven’t yet!

[@hughcalder6156]

great band but ex art school.. stop making sense = good starter lesson for any band on how a show can be put together.. wearing GREY because the stage theme is black and white .. all the drum hardware etc. has been sprayed black >> lighting with mostly white light (a very few colour gels were used.) going for shadows and texture.. you need to watch the WHOLE show .. As at the start.. it is an empty stage Then david b. enters with just an acoustic guitar .rolling risers of kit are then added. As to the the grim dancing.. their choreographer was Toni Basil known for "hey mickey" and also the film Easy Rider

[@SightAfterDark]

So cool! Thanks for watching Hugh!

[@carolmclaine6489]

[@kristianbearden1066]

Sorry, they kinda hated him. Dave knew this was it. It's how I got into them. Think Hitchcock or Kubrick on his level of control.

[@thethikboy]

rock concaine

[@thomasobrien1213]

This isn't a band it's a drug..