![]() Tina Weymouth – bass and backing vocals.Jerry Harrison – organ and backing vocals.David Byrne – lead vocals and backing vocals, electric guitar.It was nominated for Best Video of the Year at the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards, losing out to " Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits. ![]() Director Johnson re-used some of the effects techniques in award-winning videos for Peter Gabriel the following year: " Sledgehammer" and " Big Time". Some parts were shot in the back yard and pool of actor Stephen Tobolowsky, who was co-writing Byrne's film True Stories at the time. Johnson and features the band and various objects revolving, including boxes revolving around David Byrne's head, as well as a couple growing older, masked businessmen pummeling each other with briefcases and a runaway shopping cart, as if in their own "road to nowhere". The video for the song was directed by Byrne and Stephen R. So, out of embarrassment, or shame, I wrote an intro section that had a couple more in it."Ĭash Box said that "this marching single which features David Byrne's soothing lead vocal is a curious and circus-ride look at life." Billboard said that within the song " a cappella gospel leads into Louisiana hootenanny." Music video The front bit, the white gospel choir, is kind of tacked on, 'cause I didn't think the rest of the song was enough. In a new interview with the WSOU 89.5 FM radio station, legendary Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen was asked if he ever feels like he is "retreading the same ground" with his songwriting, and if so, how he prevents this from happening."I wanted to write a song that presented a resigned, even joyful look at doom," recalls David Byrne in the liner notes of Once in a Lifetime: The Best of Talking Heads. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "No, I don't. There are some artists who want to almost be trendy in a way. One great artist that I actually happen to love, David Bowie, who was amazing, he would try to go in different directions and so on, and that's fine. But then you have other people like AC/DC and ZZ TOP and Eric Clapton - you name it - that done the same thing forever, which is what they do, and they do it better than anybody else. "The way I see myself is somebody who's playing music from the soul, basically. ![]() I don't try to write something, I don't try to be something that I'm not. "What you hear on this new album is exactly what I'm about it's what I do," he said, referencing his upcoming LP, "Parabellum". "I don't try to follow something I don't try to angle it one way or another. ![]() You lock yourself into a room and something comes out of you - completely independent of the outside. The only thing that I do when I make music is basically to make sure it's undiluted. I don't wanna dilute or distract the art that comes from within, basically. I'm very artistic and very spiritual, almost, in that sense, because it comes from me, it comes from inside, but maybe from somewhere else first. I just know that I don't try to be something I'm not I'm just doing what I'm doing. And that's nothing to do with, 'Oh, did you listen to what they did on the radio?' No, I don't. I only live once, and I'm gonna make the music that I mean, and not follow something, and I don't try to be something that I'm not. "For instance, if you asked me to write a country-and-western song, I could do it right now," Yngwie added. "How long do you want it to be? Two and a half minutes? Three minutes? Do you want two choruses or one chorus? Which bridge do you want? I could write you a death metal song, I could write you a reggae song - I could write any piece of music that you want. I could play any kind of guitar solo, I could play slide - whatever you want. I have an extremely wide palette of knowledge when it comes to music. But the music that I put out, the music that I make with my name on it is from my soul. And especially this one, because it's so undiluted. There's no distraction on this, there's no compromise - there's nothing. And people can love it, people can hate it that's secondary to me. The most important thing is that this is real. It's the real thing, and it's the only thing that I want. "Parabellum", will be released on July 23 via Music Theories Recordings/Mascot Label Group. Only four of the songs on the LP feature vocals.
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