1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,160 Speaker 1: So when I opened the envelope, I ripped it open 2 00:00:02,240 --> 00:00:05,640 Speaker 1: very slowly, just for effect. What did you think, Lis, 3 00:00:05,680 --> 00:00:06,400 Speaker 1: when you saw the name? 4 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:08,680 Speaker 2: I thought, the lady don't mind that one at all. 5 00:00:09,039 --> 00:00:10,400 Speaker 1: We weren't on a road to know where we were. 6 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:17,160 Speaker 3: No kick, an envelope contains the music topic to discuss 7 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:20,279 Speaker 3: this five minutes on the clock to film and this 8 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:25,720 Speaker 3: no times of prap. This is Banter with Clezy and Lisa. 9 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:29,360 Speaker 1: Okay, it is that time, Lise. I have the large 10 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:31,280 Speaker 1: ninety six a m on in front of me. 11 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:32,800 Speaker 2: Okay, open away. 12 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 1: It's been mailed to banter at ninety six of them. 13 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:41,279 Speaker 1: Take me forever to open it Christmas Day? 14 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 4: Are you ready? 15 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:45,200 Speaker 1: I'm about to head towards starting the time right because 16 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:45,839 Speaker 1: the act we. 17 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:50,320 Speaker 2: Have is talk talking Heads? 18 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 1: Where do we start talking about talking heads? What a band? 19 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 2: I love? Talking Heads? 20 00:00:56,920 --> 00:00:57,680 Speaker 1: So incredible. 21 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 5: When I went to Rotten at the end of school, 22 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 5: it was the inaugural school. 23 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:07,240 Speaker 1: Oh yes, it. 24 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:08,040 Speaker 2: Was back in the day. 25 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:12,240 Speaker 5: Well, we did have to make a booking way early, 26 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:15,399 Speaker 5: but there was none of this ballot business and stuff. 27 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 5: And I think we had about twenty six girls in 28 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:21,000 Speaker 5: an eight bed bungalow. But anyway, that's neither here nor there. 29 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 5: There was an album had just come out and it 30 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 5: was called Stop Making Sense, Oh Wow, and a game changer. 31 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:31,960 Speaker 5: It was the Big Suit YEP album and it kind 32 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:36,920 Speaker 5: of it just it was the soundtrack for my week 33 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:38,560 Speaker 5: that week at Rotnest. 34 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 2: So I have very very fond memories of that album. 35 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 1: And what a band. I mean, you talk about the 36 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:48,480 Speaker 1: Big Suit speak of David Byrne, who's really he is 37 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 1: a very different, very talented. 38 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:52,400 Speaker 2: Very different cat, very different cash. 39 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 1: Very different cat. We've been speaking about that concert that 40 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 1: has been three hour concert that's been on some of 41 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 1: the streaming services. Incredible show. Yeah, you got to watch 42 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 1: it from start to finish. It is mind blowing because 43 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 1: there's so much going on performance art combined with a 44 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 1: wonderful band walking around the stage in bare feet. 45 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:12,520 Speaker 5: Well, the thing about David Byrne is, and I know 46 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:14,200 Speaker 5: we're talking about talking. 47 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:17,240 Speaker 2: Heads, but he very few people have. 48 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:20,679 Speaker 5: Evolved over the years the way David Byrn has. 49 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:21,840 Speaker 2: I mean, there's talking heads. 50 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:26,400 Speaker 5: And then in the nineties he had this incredible track 51 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 5: called Dance on Bassoline at the heart of sort of 52 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 5: you know, that dancy kind of certain sound that he 53 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 5: had that ministry of sound type of era, and then 54 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:38,960 Speaker 5: there was. 55 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 2: I'm Wicked and I'm Lazy once again, all of that, 56 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:47,520 Speaker 2: very very different. Talking Heads just wanted to point out. 57 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 1: He extended his career, extended his career by going into 58 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 1: so many different types of music. Paul Simon had sort 59 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:54,640 Speaker 1: of done it in a commercial way, you know, the 60 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 1: African rhythms and that kind of thing, and he explored 61 00:02:56,800 --> 00:02:57,720 Speaker 1: so many different areas. 62 00:02:57,720 --> 00:02:59,400 Speaker 2: But David read the room. 63 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:03,399 Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean really, he provided the soundtrack for what 64 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:05,239 Speaker 5: was happening in that moment. 65 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:07,839 Speaker 1: I remember the first time I saw her Talking Heads video, 66 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 1: I think, I'm going, why has this band got this 67 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:12,600 Speaker 1: tiny little boy playing bass? It's like a teenage boy. 68 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 1: So it's Tina Waymouth playing bass. She was young, and 69 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:17,320 Speaker 1: I know that she's got a bit of a tough 70 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:18,359 Speaker 1: time in the band. 71 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:21,640 Speaker 2: Tough time she got. David was a genius, but he 72 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:24,560 Speaker 2: wasn't without his year moments. 73 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:26,440 Speaker 1: And making up the band. He had Chris Franz and 74 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:29,120 Speaker 1: Jerry Harrison who went on to his Casual Gods stuff 75 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:31,240 Speaker 1: as well. So a wonderful band as such, but they 76 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 1: just they changed the game. And I remember working in 77 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 1: Bunbury and we had an album that was playing at 78 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 1: the time and it was the new album of the week, 79 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 1: and I've got obsessed with an album and called Little Creatures, 80 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 1: and we've been talking about the Lady You Don't Mind, 81 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 1: and she was. But there were so many great songs 82 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:48,120 Speaker 1: on that album and so many little tacky little things 83 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:49,720 Speaker 1: that they used to put in, you know, thinking about 84 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:51,640 Speaker 1: little Peep and all that kind of stuff, which was 85 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:53,880 Speaker 1: just a really weird kind of They go off on 86 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:56,120 Speaker 1: different tangents and stuff, but they made it all blend 87 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 1: beautifully together in their music. 88 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:00,600 Speaker 5: Wasn't Linda Weymouth's partner also in the band? Or am 89 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:02,560 Speaker 5: I thinking of the from r M? 90 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 1: I'm not sure it was a bass player. Yeah, she 91 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:10,680 Speaker 1: was married to I think the drummer Chris Friends. 92 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:14,440 Speaker 5: Yeah, And didn't they have a little offshoot band the 93 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 5: two of them together. 94 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:18,080 Speaker 2: Was Tom Tom the dumb Dumb Tom Tom Tom to 95 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:21,200 Speaker 2: you right, dumb dumb Knock Knock. I don't know. 96 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:26,040 Speaker 4: It was something hey, but so many and so many 97 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:28,760 Speaker 4: classic songs if you think about it, Burning Down, Burning 98 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:31,640 Speaker 4: Down the House is one that burn such a wonderful song, 99 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:32,280 Speaker 4: The Lady. 100 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:35,839 Speaker 5: Time, the Lady Don't Mind Love on the Road to 101 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:39,760 Speaker 5: Nowhere is a classic, and all of them sound amazing live, 102 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:43,200 Speaker 5: except I can only say that from things I've heard 103 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 5: recorded live, because Talking Heads is the one band, with 104 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:49,560 Speaker 5: the exception of led Zeppelin, that I would just about 105 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:52,279 Speaker 5: kill to see live that I have never seen live. 106 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 1: Neither of us have seen the magic of talking it 107 00:04:55,560 --> 00:05:00,200 Speaker 1: is live, which is such a shame. Why well not 108 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 1: a prolific touring band when it comes to international I 109 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 1: can't think of any that might have played the incent 110 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 1: at one stage in the eighties, especially when a couple 111 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:09,560 Speaker 1: of those albums got really big, and they did come 112 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:12,400 Speaker 1: fairly early as well, which from memory was presented by 113 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:14,240 Speaker 1: ninety six a m. Back in the early days. I 114 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:16,360 Speaker 1: never got to see them live. You know, your life 115 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 1: gets in the way, you're traveling around or whatever. But 116 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 1: I want to hear Psycho Killer, you want to hear 117 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:24,360 Speaker 1: it live? Yeah. The live album as well was such 118 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:26,640 Speaker 1: a treat because we heard those songs who take Me 119 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:26,920 Speaker 1: to the. 120 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:30,360 Speaker 2: River, we have to pretend to pretend we're there. 121 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 1: That long live version. They've been through a lot. 122 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 2: Take Me to the River. 123 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 5: Yeah, it took about five minutes to just get into it, 124 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:36,960 Speaker 5: to get started, just. 125 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:38,840 Speaker 2: To get started and that's okay. 126 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:41,600 Speaker 1: They did weave other stars with that, and like I mentioned, 127 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 1: Jerry Harrison went off and did his casual Gods thing 128 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 1: which became a hit with the single Red It Up. 129 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:48,280 Speaker 1: And we've just reaved up a bit of talking heads. 130 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:50,599 Speaker 2: There you go, what a band fans. 131 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:55,600 Speaker 3: The time is over ninety six am for funch Clezy 132 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 3: and Lisa