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Talking Heads "Burning Down the House" taken from the Stop Making Sense dvd.

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Tom Jone covered ... ( 1 week ago by MaxVoltage)

Tom Jone covered this with Nina Persson in 1999. David Byrne wrote this after Chris Frantz went to see George Clinton and P-Funk at MSG in 1982, David wrote it after Chris told him of the crowd chant "Burn Down The House". Its all in the autobiography, "Adventures of Talking Heads in 20th Century" By David Bowman

insane performance! ( 1 week ago by HowsitSistaDaKine)

insane performance!

They look like ... ( 5 days ago by GarthisTheStrong)

They look like they're having great fun, lots of energy, great performance. I wish I could've been there.

Once in a blue moon ... ( 4 days ago by txikilin)

Once in a blue moon...there is creativity.., imagination in rock concerts. And this concert is good example. So many bands should learn.

Pretty sure Tom ... ( 4 days ago by MCHammersmith)

Pretty sure Tom Jones wrote this in the 60's and let Talking Heads perform it first. It's in his autobiography.

Can you give a ... ( 4 days ago by GarthisTheStrong)

Can you give a online source for all this, because everywhere I look Tom Jones, it says in 1999 he did a cover of Talking Head's Burning down the house. Seriously though, even if Tom Jones is the creator of this song(which I don't think he is), almost everyone thinks the Talking Head's version is better so why argue about it.

What the fa-hell ... ( 3 days ago by Dummerd)

What the fa-hell are you smoking? Tom Jones did NOT write this.

1984 ( 3 days ago by Dummerd)

1984

This has always ... ( 3 days ago by MattKnightdude)

This has always been A Talking Heads Song

It's like a party ... ( 3 days ago by RHailToTheThief)

It's like a party on stage der.

No you are severely ... ( 2 days ago by MCHammersmith)

No you are severely misinformed. Tom Jones wrote it first, it is a common misconception that Talking Heads wrote this song. Tom Jones began performing this song live in the late sixties and allowed Talking Heads to release a cover version. He finally released a studio version in 2001.

No, I believe that ... ( 2 days ago by GarthisTheStrong)

No, I believe that it's an extremely rare misconception that Tom Jones wrote this 1st and I believe it's an extremely common TRUTH that the Talking Heads wrote this 1st. If you're going to make claims like this please back them up.

The black girl on ... ( 1 day ago by honda1386)

The black girl on the right is really hot.

It's all in Tom ... ( 1 day ago by MCHammersmith)

It's all in Tom Jones' autobiography. Most people believe Tom Jones covered this song but he actually did it first, the Talking Heads version is both a cover and far inferior.

talking heads touch ... ( 1 day ago by TECKMASSE)

talking heads touch TECKMASSE

You're talking ... ( 1 day ago by ReallyBloodyGood)

You're talking utter nonsense mate.

Now how about you ... ( 1 day ago by GarthisTheStrong)

Now how about you give like a title or a site to find this "Autobiography", because except for a biography written about him that says nothing about him writting this, it doesn't exist.

Title? Ermmm "Tom ... ( 1 day ago by MCHammersmith)

Title? Ermmm "Tom Jones - The Autobiography" by Tom Jones???

It's worth it to ... ( 1 day ago by GarthisTheStrong)

It's worth it to make sure a title you make up actually exists as a title somewhere before you talk about it. I googled it both on google and google uk, it doesn't exist.

Garthis you are ... ( 1 day ago by ghostridingthewhip)

Garthis you are being very arrogant. MC was telling the truth, he just mis-spelt. It is "Tom Jones - The Biography". By Gwen Russel, 2007, John Blake Publishing. Check Amazon. Being a big Jones fan I read it earlier this year. He states how he thinks it is funny how Byrne gets all the credit even though he (jones) wrote it. But he is also very tactful. As he is a nice guy. A good read!

It is only a ... ( 1 day ago by ghostridingthewhip)

It is only a biography, but it was wrote with alot of his input. So it is sort of an autobiography, at least as much as many supposed "celebrity" "autobiographies" are these days.

erm BULLSHIT!!!!!! ... ( 18 hours ago by 2flynhigh)

erm BULLSHIT!!!!!! THE SONG WAS WROTE BY TALKING HEADS FOR THE ALBUM SPEAKING IN TONGUES 1983. The song was covered in a "Weird Al" Yankovic polka, and also by Tom Jones with The Cardigans in Jones's 1999 album Reload. SO FOR HEAVENS SAKE SHUT IT WITH THIS NON-SENSE U R-TARDS!!!!!

Some people are ... ( 16 hours ago by DavidSpitfire)

Some people are just too easy to troll.

Yeah, that one is ... ( 5 hours ago by GarthisTheStrong)

Yeah, that one is definitely real, I appologize, even though I still think that this is a Talking Heads original and no one will ever be able to convince me otherwise, unless David Byrne comes out and admits it himself, I do thank you for informing me of this.