• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • About
  • Archives
  • Contact

Medialoper

We're Not Who You Think We Are

Take to the River

Certain Songs #2613: Talking Heads – “Take Me to The River”

May 10, 2023 by Jim Connelly

Album: More Songs About Buildings and Food
Year: 1978

. . .

While Talking Heads did covers in their early live shows — in Chris Frantz’s recent book, Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina, he helpfully sprinkles in early set lists so you can see that they covered things like “96 Tears” and the Troggs’ “Love is All Round” (later covered by R.E.M.) — the only song they ever covered on record was, of course, Al Green’s “Take Me to The River,” making it an outlier in their recorded output.

[Read more…] about Certain Songs #2613: Talking Heads – “Take Me to The River”

Filed Under: Certain Songs Tagged With: More Songs About Buildings and Food, Take to the River, Talking Heads

Primary Sidebar

Lopy

Search

Previously on Medialoper

  • Certain Songs #2698: That Petrol Emotion – “Sensitize”
  • Certain Songs #2697: That Petrol Emotion – “Big Decision”
  • Certain Songs #2696: that dog. – “hawthorne”
  • Certain Songs #2695: that dog. – “long island”
  • Certain Songs #2694: that dog. – “minneapolis”

Copyright © 2023 ยท Medialoper