#Tom Tom club

[urgohthewanderer]

if I were the CEO of jojo, genius of love would've been the ending theme

[cosmonautroger]

Tom Tom Club, Genius Of Love, Montreux, 1982

[rolloroberson]

Tina Weymouth with the Tom Tom Club

[musickickztoo]

Tina Weymouth *November 22, 1950

[doomandgloomfromthetomb]

Talking Heads - Kosei Nenkin Kaikan, Tokyo, Japan, April 28, 1982

We just checked in with the B-52's around the time of Mesopotamia (which David Byrne produced and played on), so let's see what Talking Heads were up to back then, too. The band was in Japan, naturally. A bit of a transitional moment for TH — right in between the epochal Remain In Light tour and the Speaking In Tongues / Stop Making Sense era.

Even though SIT wasn't ready for prime time just yet, the Talking Heads universe was rapidly expanding, as the advertisement above tells us. David Byrne's Catherine Wheel collection was out; Jerry Harrison's solo LP The Red and the Black was out, too; and, of course, the Tom Tom Club was riding high on "The Genius of Love." At this point, Talking Heads must've seemed like an unstoppable engine of creativity and innovation — some kinda peak! Despite (or because of) this lofty summit they'd climbed together, they were all no doubt exhausted and sick of each other to some extent.

But this Tokyo audience tape shows no sign of weariness — it's a great time. The expanded band had changed slightly since the previous year; Adrian Belew had jumped ship to sail proggier seas with King Crimson and Bernie Worrell was missing for some reason, replaced ably by Chic's Raymond Jones. Nevertheless, it's all killer no filler, with a setlist that draws from the Heads' back catalog, as well as some more recent jams from The Catherine Wheel. We even get a Jerry spotlight with "Slink" from his record — kind of funny, though, you'd be hard-pressed to tell the difference between his vocals and Byrne's. And what about the Tom Tom Club??? It's not on this tape, but I believe they opened the show with their own set — you can check out what they were up to as a live act via this great video from later in the year at the Montreux Jazz Festival ... and then you can check out Talking Heads burning down the house, too.

[kkslicer]

Do 🫵🏻you🫵🏻 have an unhealthy emotional attachment to Talking Heads?

If yes, GREAT! ME TOO!! I'm doing a honors project on Stop Making Sense (1984) for my global cinemas course and I would love to hear how the movie has impacted you :D Message me for the link to the survey I made, or you can just send me your thoughts!

[thevideospecial]

[sowhatifiliveinfukuoka]

Smash Hits (July 9-22, 1981)

Tom Tom Club

[leresq]

thinking about them...

[sku1l-b4e]

WDYM SOMETHINGS GONE WRONG???

If you guys want me to make this a one-shot/fanfic lemme know 🤗

Edit: I'm making it anyway...

[osmiumstack]

trying colors in ms paint again

[lisamarie-vee]

[cosmonautroger]

Tina Weymouth, Tom Tom Club, 1981

[meetmeinthesandbox]

HBD! Tina!

[musickickztoo]

Tina Weymouth *November 22, 1950

[cultreslut]

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