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[Magical Realist]

They came and went in 1985 and left only this----a poetic masterpiece!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UXnulANF8g

[Magical Realist]

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"When recording More Songs About Buildings and Food, Brian Eno wanted the Talking Heads to try recording a cover song. David Byrne didn’t want the band to have to go the route of including somebody else’s material with each new release, but he eventually relented.

The choice of songs was somehow both ingenious and fraught with issues all at once. Several other artists just happened to be releasing their own version of “Take Me To The River”, originally an Al Green track, at around the same time as Talking Heads. Besides, how would the band’s post-punk leanings mesh with such a soulful original?

Eno convinced the band to slow the pace down from the original version. That allowed for some of the band’s spacey atmosphere to come to the surface. In addition, Eno knew that, in Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, the band possessed a rhythm section with more than enough wiggle to do the song justice.
On top of that, Byrne’s delivery seemed to imbue the song’s lyrics with strange new meanings. The Talking Heads’ version of “Take Me To The River” made it to No. 28 on the pop charts in 1978. They wouldn’t hit the Top 40 again for another five years."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9f21bsjMIo