I'd have loads and loads of phrases collected that I thought thematically had something to do with one another, and I'd pick from those."Īccording to Byrne in the NPR interview, phrases that he tried but ultimately did not use in the song included "I have another body," "Pick it up by the handle," "You travel with a double," and "I'm still under construction." As for the title phrase in the chorus, one early attempt (as heard on a worktape) had him singing a different line, "What are we gonna do?", and at another point in the process, "instead of chanting 'Burning Down the House,' I was chanting 'Foam Rubber, USA.'" Music video Once the whole band had reworked the groove into something resembling the final recording, Byrne began chanting and singing nonsense syllables over the music until he arrived at phrasing that fit with the rhythms-a technique influenced by former Talking Heads producer Brian Eno: "and then I just write words to fit that phrasing. In an interview on NPR's All Things Considered aired on December 2, 1984, David Byrne played excerpts of early worktapes showing how the song had evolved from an instrumental jam by Weymouth and Frantz. The initial lyrics were considerably different, however. During the jam, he kept yelling 'Burn down the house!' which was a P-Funk audience chant, and David dug the line, changing it to the finished version, 'Burning down the house'." ( Bernie Worrell of Parliament-Funkadelic joined Talking Heads' live incarnation.) ![]() " Chris had just been to see Parliament-Funkadelic in its full glory at Madison Square Garden, and he was really hyped. ![]() "This song started from a jam," says bassist Tina Weymouth in the liner notes of Once in a Lifetime: The Best of Talking Heads. ![]() "Burning Down the House" is a new wave and funk song. " Burning Down the House" is a song by new wave band Talking Heads, released in July 1983 as the first single from their fifth studio album Speaking in Tongues.
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