* " Animals ", by Talking Heads from Fear of Music ( album )

* Brian Eno's album Before and After Science includes a song entitled " King's Lead Hat ", an anagram of " Talking Heads ", a band Eno has worked with.

Both worked on Talking Heads ' highly-acclaimed 1980 album Remain In Light which brought polyrhythmic afrobeat influences to Western music.

Bands like Talking Heads and Duran Duran used the digitally made sounds on some of their most popular albums.

* 1949 – Jerry Harrison, American musician ( Talking Heads and The Modern Lovers )

Best known for directing The Silence of the Lambs, which won him the Academy Award for Best Director, he has also directed the acclaimed movies Philadelphia, Rachel Getting Married, the Talking Heads concert movie Stop Making Sense and a trilogy of Neil Young documentary / concert movies.

After Swing Shift, Demme stepped back from Hollywood to make the Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense ; the eclectic screwball action-romantic comedy Something Wild ; a film-version of the stage production Swimming to Cambodia, by monologist Spaulding Gray ; and the New York Mafia-by-way-of Downtown comedy Married to the Mob.

* 1951 – Chris Frantz, American musician and producer ( Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club )

* 1950 – Tina Weymouth, American musician ( Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club )

Other bands were becoming regulars at CBGB, such as Mink DeVille and Talking Heads, which moved down from Rhode Island.

Over time, " New Wave " acquired a distinct meaning: Bands such as Blondie and Talking Heads from the CBGB scene ; The Cars, who emerged from the Rat in Boston ; The Go-Go's in Los Angeles ; and The Police in London that were broadening their instrumental palette, incorporating dance-oriented rhythms, and working with more polished production were specifically designated " New Wave " and no longer called " punk ".

Paul's latest project is Baby Elephant, a collaboration with Parliament and Talking Heads keyboardist Bernie Worrell, and longtime Paul associate Don Newkirk.

* Talking Heads ( Smart 1993, 14 )

Hell also co-wrote and sang lead vocals on the song " Never Mind " by The Heads, a 1996 collaborative effort between three former members of Talking Heads.

It featured Richman and bassist Ernie Brooks with drummer David Robinson ( later of The Cars ) and keyboardist Jerry Harrison ( later of Talking Heads ).

Despite the original group's premature break-up, many of its members found considerable success elsewhere: founding member John Felice formed the seminal Real Kids, Jerry Harrison later joined Talking Heads, David Robinson co-founded the Cars, and Ernie Brooks would later work with David Johansen, Arthur Russell, Elliott Murphy, and Gary Lucas.

The New Wave style of Talking Heads combined elements of punk, art rock, avant-garde, pop, funk, world music, and Americana.

Critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine describes Talking Heads as being " one of the most critically acclaimed bands of the ' 80s, while managing to earn several pop hits.

Talking Heads at Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto in 1978

They played their first gig as " Talking Heads " opening for the Ramones at CBGB on June 20, 1975.

In a later interview, Weymouth recalled how the group chose the name Talking Heads: " A friend had found the name in the TV Guide, which explained the term used by TV studios to describe a head-and-shoulder shot of a person talking as'all content, no action.

Their first album, Talking Heads: 77, which did not contain the earlier single, was released soon thereafter.

More Songs ... cover of Al Green's " Take Me to the River " broke Talking Heads into general public consciousness, and gave the band their first Billboard Top 30 hit.

" Talking machine " was the comprehensive generic term, but in the early 20th Century the general public was increasingly applying the word " phonograph " indiscriminately to both cylinder and disc machines and to the records they played.

By the time of the First World War, the mass advertising and popularity of the Victor Talking Machine Company's Victrolas ( a line of disc-playing machines characterized by their concealed horns ) was leading to widespread generic use of the word " victrola " for any machine that played discs, which were however still called " phonograph records " or simply " records ", almost never " victrola records ".

Talking privately with Polenin, the submarine's political officer, Suslov, expresses some confidence in Vostrikov, but Polenin asserts that the captain was " lucky today, that's all.

His original or birth name was Cuauhtlatoatzin ( alternately rendered as Quauhtatoatzin, Guauhtlatoatzin, or Cuatliztactzin ), which has been translated as " Talking Eagle " in the Nahuatl language.

" De Forest's process continued to be used through 1927 in the United States for dozens of short Phonofilms ; in the UK it was employed a few years longer for both shorts and features by British Sound Film Productions, a subsidiary of British Talking Pictures, which purchased the primary Phonofilm assets.

It was not " Germany's First Talking Film ", as the marketing had it, but it was the first to be released in the United States.

David Byrne ( born May 14, 1952 ) is a Scottish-born American musician and artist, best known as a founding member and principal songwriter of the American new wave band Talking Heads, which was active between 1975 and 1991.

Rei Momo ( 1989 ) was the first solo album by Byrne, after leaving Talking Heads, that features mainly Afro-Cuban, Afro-Hispanic, and Brazilian song styles including popular dances including merengue, Cuban Son, samba, mambo, cumbia, cha-cha-chá, bomba, and charanga.

A second set of six Talking Heads followed a decade later, which was darker and more disturbing.

Mengelberg and Toscanini both led the Philharmonic in recording sessions for the Victor Talking Machine Company and Brunswick Records, initially in a recording studio ( for the acoustically-recorded Victors, all under Mengelberg ) and eventually in Carnegie Hall as electrical recording was developed.

One was, Talking God.

" They knew it was, Talking God.

He was recruited, along with other musicians from differing genres such as Adrian Belew, to perform and record with Talking Heads, a pioneering new wave act.

Though he never officially joined Talking Heads, he was a de facto member of the group for most of the ' 80s, appearing on one of their studio albums, several solo albums, and multiple tours until they disbanded officially in 1992.

The Community Talking Picture Company of Shreveport gave Olla its first talking movies, and later a more modern theater was erected.

Red Oak was also the exterior location for filming " True Stories ", a film by David Byrne of Talking Heads released in 1986.

The band's music was characterized by a psychedelic post-punk sound sometimes reminiscent of The B-52's and Talking Heads, whimsical yet heartfelt lyrics, and the imploring, girlish voice of Björk, accompanied by Einar Orn's erratic vocal performances.

A documentary produced by Gayle K. Yamada, Maxine Hong Kingston: Talking Story, was released in 1990.

When Mike Patton was questioned in 2008 by co-hosts of Fuse TV's Talking Metal On Fuse if a Faith No More reunion was a possibility, Patton replied " I highly doubt it ", but also stated in a January 2008 interview with Artisan News that he " wouldn't rule it out ", adding " I don't think we would need to reform the band, but maybe there's other things we could do together.

Talking Heads was to have appeared, but David Byrne was currently busy with his film True Stories at the time of the concert.