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Born Under Punches (The Beat Goes On)

Certain Songs #2621: Talking Heads – “Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)”

May 19, 2023 by Jim Connelly

Album: Remain in Light
Year: 1980

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The final song on Talking Heads 1980 masterpiece Remain in Light is called “The Overload.” And while it’s not specifically about the experience of listening to Remain in Light — David Byrne could be pretty meta, but not that meta — it’s certainly the word I would use to describe Remain in Light. An absolute overload of sound, which starts from the very first song, which has so much going that they needed parenthesis in order to try to capture it: “Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)”

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