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The Great Albums

Bonus Song Thursday - Tom Tom Club "Genius of Love"

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3749 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2015

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

It's Bonus Song Thursday! Bill and Brian talk about the Talking Heads side project of Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz, Tom Tom Club, and their song "Genius of Love" off their self titled debut album (1981, Sire). Brian and Bill discuss the band's formation, the lasting influence of the song, the Great 1981 Adrian Belew Coup, Mariah Carey and her legacy, and we read a few listener emails about Bare Naked Ladies and Big Star!

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0:00.0

What you gonna do when you get out of jail?

0:15.0

I'm gonna have some fun.

0:18.0

What do you consider fun?

0:20.0

Fun, natural fun.

0:21.6

Hey,

0:23.6

Uh huh? Her in her with my boyfriend, my laughing boyfriend, there's podcast, I'm Bill.

1:05.9

And I'm Brian.

1:06.8

This is bonus song Thursday.

1:08.7

Welcome to it.

1:10.1

Usually on our regular full episode, we take a look at an album and talk about what makes it great.

1:17.4

This past week, we just did Talking Heads Remain in Light.

1:21.2

And what we were just listening to there is Tom Tom Clubs.

1:27.1

Genius of Love.

1:30.2

So Brian, explain to me how these two things are interrelated

1:33.6

because usually we do a song by the same artist,

1:36.6

but this is not the same artist.

1:38.5

Well, we've been changing it up a little bit.

1:42.2

Yeah, we're.

1:42.7

You know, here and there.

1:44.5

You know, we did a Ben Folds of the cure we did uh the eagles version of a tom wait's song uh and

1:52.5

and kind of continuing in that tradition maybe picking not something directly from the

1:58.4

band for monday's episode but more either a satellite, you know,

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