Talking Heads was an American New Wave band formed in 1974 in New York City and active until 1991. The band comprised David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison. Auxiliary musicians also frequently made appearances in concert and on the group’s albums.
The avant-garde musical style of Talking Heads combined elements of punk rock, new wave, pop, funk, world music and art rock. Front man and songwriter David Byrne contributed whimsical, esoteric lyrics to the band’s songs, and emphasized their showmanship through various multimedia projects and performances. 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.”
In 2002, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Four of the band’s albums appeared on Rolling Stone magazine’s 2003 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and the Channel 4 100 Greatest Albums poll listed one album (Fear of Music) at number 76. Their concert film Stop Making Sense is widely regarded as one of the finest examples of the genre.
Talking Heads-Psycho Killer- Live!
FACT: In an interview with VH-1, Ice-T stated that “Psycho Killer” was the inspiration for “Cop Killer”
Prowling the internet for something to read today I stumbled onto something pretty cool. It’s called ‘Sanza Hanza’ which means ‘King Surfer’ and is a photozine and upcoming mini documentary. Basically there is a crew of kids called V.I.R.U.S (see title for meaning) from Soweto, South Africa’s largest ghetto. Whilst dealing with the pressures of being impoverished and not representative of the western views of SA they are also a fucking insane bunch of daredevils! What benefits do they get from doing this - I don’t know and frankly I don’t give a shit, what matters is that they do it and it’s fucking badass!
‘TUPAC’
Tupac a young Train Surfer, hangs from the side of a train, practicing his moves on the way to school. South Africa, 2007.
‘SEVEN‘
Seven performs a trick called 'Graveling' which basically involves dancing along the moving gravel at 45 mph to create the illusion of running at the same speed as the train.
‘BAPTISTA‘
Baptista, a young Train Surfer, performs a 20/20 - walking hand over hand along the side of the train while in full motion. South Africa, 2007.
Peep teasers from the movie at the STREET CARNAGE BLOG. If you want to order the photozine and can part with your hard earned 4 pound sterling then it’s available to buy as well.
I might even see if i can catch the tide on the way to B-town this weekend, just need to figure how I’ll open the doors to get outside the trizzzain…. and on that note.
SIck new Blog for those who love to scour the depths to find that old school clip…
“During a time where immediate answers can be found at a glance on Google or search on Wikipedia, digging is downloadable and footage is as findable as a peruse on YouTube, it’s difficult to find an active Hip-Hop head who cares to be a fan of this culture for their own reasons outside of past times and popularity.
The Meaning Of Dope looks to stand as a respectable ground hosting some of this culture’s past prize moments and memories, spanning from videotaped classics to street team S.W.A.G., and from personal stories as active fans experiencing Hip-Hop’s “Golden Era”, to posting mix-tapes from a time when they needed to meet two criteria - mixing, and being on tape.
We pride ourselves on putting young cats onto shit they’re guaranteed to have never seen live, and giving some nostalgic sparks to the older heads who feel that time has spoiled their art.
Basically my crooning friend Graham Hulbert has had a life long ambition to be a famous musician for the fame, women, sex, drugs and sack, back and crack wax!! this is finally his chance (not his final chance but, u get what i mean)…
Thanks to the good people who take the time to look at our blog and like what they see, (btw Doll and the Kicks got to perform in Beniscassiam!) SO now we’re hoping to get Gray some T4 pussy!! ai’aight!! So Vote for him and stop fucking around!!
If u would like to here his Three-Six mafia inspired rythms peep his space at:
There is no story to go with this tune. It basically is just straight up the funniest thing I’ve heard for SO LONG. Scroll down for the lyrics, but listen first - THERE YOU HO AGAIN!
Ho by Ludicris from 2000’s Incognegro
Ho (Ho)
You’z a Ho, (Ho)
You’z a Ho, I said that you’z a Ho (Ho)
You’z a Ho, (Ho)
You’z a Ho, (Ho)
You’z a Ho, I said that you’z a Ho (Ho)
You doing Ho activities
With Ho tendencies Hos are your friends, Hos are your enemies
With ho energy to do what you do
Blew what cha blew, screw what cha screw
Y’all professional like DJ Clue,
pulling on my coat tail
And why you think you take a Ho to a Ho-tel Ho-tell everybody, even the mayor
Reach up in the sky for the Ho-zone layer
Now C’mon playa wants a Ho always
And Ho’s neva close, they open like hallways
So here’s the whole cake for your Ho Ho crew
And everybody wants some, cuz Ho’s gotta eat too
Chorus
You can’t turn a Ho into a house wife Hos don’t act right
There’s Ho’s on a mission and there’s Ho’s on a crack pipe
Hey Ho, How you doin’ Where you been?
Probly doing Ho stuff Cuz there you Ho again
It’s a Ho wide world, that we livin’ in
Feline feminine fantastical women
Not all, just some
You Ho who you are
There’s Ho’s in the room, there’s Ho’s in the car
There’s Ho’s on stage, there’s Ho’s by the bar Ho’s by near and Ho’s by far
Chorus
You got a run in your panty-Hos
Even your daddy knows
that you sucking down chocolate like daddy-os
Your Hos are ho-rrible, ho-rendous
On taxes ya’ll writin’ off, Hos as dependents
I see the Ho-rizon, It ain’t surprisin’
It’s just a Ho-asis, with ugly chicks faces Hos don’t feel so sad and blue
Cuz most of us niggas is Hos too
My good friend Mumdance has just finished remixing the song Branches by the band Maths Class. We really like it so please feel free to check it out by clicking the big Mumdance below.
Mumsie also wanted me to let you know that you can find the following remix’s he has done in shops now:
Calling all who potentially read this God sent blog of pure comical genius and little fish fingers, my friends, well i say my friends, I’m more like a stalker, who isn’t allowed anywhere near any member of the band or their instruments, within a 6 mile radius of the same country…
DOLL & THE KICKS
Need votes for something which will mean they get to perform at benicassiam in lovely Spain… I’m obviously super duper good at explaining stuff but I’ll let the band take it from here via E-mail…
Kicks:
We need to get to the final 5 at The Pigalle Club in London Town so we can show them what DATK really stands for - and to do that we have to get the most votes at the highest rating on the supajam site.
It takes about two minutes to do all together and once done you are in the draw for winning one of five pairs of tickets to FIB to hopefully see us rock out first hand!!
I was listening to Michael Jackson when sitting in my bosses jag so he wouldn’t get a ticket when I thought to myself - mate, MJ has inspired so many young people to dance! Like proper dance. His late 80’s and 90’s tours were sick performances of dance… I like MJ, black or white I dont really care!!
THE GOLD PANTS ARE STRAIGHT BLINGING YO!!
This lickle Indian homie is a bad man!! Check my man’s moves!!
THIS WAS THE SHIT!!! WE used to do sickhead dance moves like the butterfly, flex then the traditional running man in various variations!!! Although i do think the first 2 were for Girls!!
Chaka Demus & Pliers - Murder She Wrote
Chaka Demus & Pliers - Tease Me
Patra ft. YoYo - Romantic Call
Patra - Pull up to the bumper
Shabba Ranks - Mr. Loverman
The boys Chaka Demus & Pliers, showed how to woo the gal dem thats why rudegirl Patra showed why u shouldn’t be messing with her SEEN! Spot Tupac in the video being a video guy, those ganagsta rappers eh?! I Like Shabba ranks because homeboy is mad butterz but still wore incredible clothes and romanced them gals, rock on blaaaddd they call me mr loverman they call me mrlover, mr loverman they call me mrlover!!!!!! brrraaaapppppp!!!
Finger dancing is gonna be all over the place this summer. BLAP!
This video is well old, but it reminded me of this time where I was chilling at the bar with my pal Claire and her mate comes over and says hi and it turns out its Kid Sister with her boyf A-Trak. Safe.
So he’s just about to go on stage so does one, and Kid Sister is getting ready for her set by getting a bit blitzed. Drinking on your own is no fun so she orders a load of shots of cognac and pops a couple in her pint and a couple in mine….. ghetto drinking carried on all night - Baltimore style.