02-24-2021, 12:56 PM
I saw this some time ago and forgot to review it...
David Byrne and Spike Lee capture Byrne's Utopia stage show. Very much in the vein of Stop Making Sense, but the stage show was an equal spectacle. I would really recommend the live show if you ever get the chance, but this is a pretty good substitute. For this show, they took the drum kit and spread it across multiple musicians, like a marching band. I previously saw David Byrne and St. Vincent at Mountain Winery and they had a similar band set up, although it reminded me then more of a New Orleans treme band. But it makes for a very kinetic, animated performance...
All of the musicians wore plain, grey suits and no shoes. Everyone sings and dances and most are multi-instrumentalists. They play interpretations from Byrne's catalog as well as some Talking Heads tracks. This HBO version has different tracks than what they performed at the SJ Civic.
The tracklist:
Here
I know sometimes a man is wrong
Don’t worry about the government
Lazy
This must be the place (Naive melody)
I zimbra
Slippery People
I should watch TV
Everybody’s coming to my house
Once in a lifetime
Glass concrete and stone
Toe jam
Born under punches (the heat goes on)
I dance like this
Bullet
Every day is a miracle
Blind
Burning down the house
Hell you tambout
One fine day
Road to nowhere
I Zimbra and Born Under Punches were awesome.
Recommended, but no sword fights.
--tg
David Byrne and Spike Lee capture Byrne's Utopia stage show. Very much in the vein of Stop Making Sense, but the stage show was an equal spectacle. I would really recommend the live show if you ever get the chance, but this is a pretty good substitute. For this show, they took the drum kit and spread it across multiple musicians, like a marching band. I previously saw David Byrne and St. Vincent at Mountain Winery and they had a similar band set up, although it reminded me then more of a New Orleans treme band. But it makes for a very kinetic, animated performance...
All of the musicians wore plain, grey suits and no shoes. Everyone sings and dances and most are multi-instrumentalists. They play interpretations from Byrne's catalog as well as some Talking Heads tracks. This HBO version has different tracks than what they performed at the SJ Civic.
The tracklist:
Here
I know sometimes a man is wrong
Don’t worry about the government
Lazy
This must be the place (Naive melody)
I zimbra
Slippery People
I should watch TV
Everybody’s coming to my house
Once in a lifetime
Glass concrete and stone
Toe jam
Born under punches (the heat goes on)
I dance like this
Bullet
Every day is a miracle
Blind
Burning down the house
Hell you tambout
One fine day
Road to nowhere
I Zimbra and Born Under Punches were awesome.
Recommended, but no sword fights.
--tg