Talking Heads & Tom Tom Club Drummer Chris Frantz

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🗓️ 26 August 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This week, hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot revisit their conversation with Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club drummer Chris Frantz. They discuss his memoir, the dynamics of the Talking Heads and working with Brian Eno (ding!) The hosts also share some of their favorite Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club tracks.

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Featured Songs:

Talking Heads, "Once In a Lifetime," Remain in Light, Sire, 1980

Talking Heads, "New Feeling," Talking Heads: 77, Sire, 1977

Talking Heads, "Pyscho Killer," Talking Heads: 77, Sire, 1977

Talking Heads, "Pulled Up," Talking Heads: 77, Sire, 1977

James Brown, "I'll Go Crazy," Live at the Apollo, King, 1963

Talking Heads, "Don't Worry About the Government," Talking Heads: 77, Sire, 1977

Tom Tom Club, "Genius of Love," Tom Tom Club, Sire, 1981

Talking Heads, "And She Was," Little Creatures, Sire, 1985

Talking Heads, "Take Me to the River," More Songs About Buildings and Food, Sire, 1978

Al Green, "Take Me to the River," Al Green Explores Your Mind, Hi, 1974

Talking Heads, "Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)," Remain in Light, Sire, 1980

Talking Heads, "The Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)," Speaking in Tongues, Sire, 1983

Talking Heads, "I Zimbra," Fear of Music, Sire, 1979

Tom Tom Club, "You Sexy Thing," Dark Sneak Love Action, Sire, 1991

Talking Heads, "Slippery People (Live)," Stop Making Sense , Sire, 1984

Talking Heads, "The Lady Don't Mind," Little Creatures, Sire, 1985

Phoebe Bridgers, "Smoke Signals," Stranger in the Alps, Dead Oceans, 2017

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0:00.0	Hey Sound Opinions listeners, if you support us on Patreon, you get to listen to our podcast
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0:25.5	Hey, you're listening to Sound Opinions. In this week, we revisit our conversation with
0:38.9	drummer Chris France of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club. I'm Jim DeWergotis, and I'm Greg
0:44.8	Cutt. We'll also share some of our favorite talking heads in Tom Tom Club tracks. But first,
0:50.2	Chris France.
1:07.9	That's a little bit of the song once in a lifetime by Talking Heads off their 1980
1:12.8	masterpiece Remain and Light. Jim, both of us are huge fans of Talking Heads since their debut
1:18.5	record in 1977, when the group burst out of the New York punk scene with a sound pretty much
1:24.2	all its own at that time. A sound and a look, Greg. The core of the band was always singer,
1:30.3	David Byrne, drummer Chris France, bassist Tina Weymouth, and keyboardist and guitarist Jerry
1:36.0	Harrison. Talking Heads was this incredible sonic blend of different elements that would eventually
1:41.7	be called new wave, or art pop, or funk, a post punk. You name it. They were all of those things.
1:48.3	Among the group's leatherclad contemporaries at CBGB, like the Ramones, the Dead Boys,
1:54.2	or the more pop-oriented Blondie, Talking Heads didn't sound like anybody else. And with their
2:00.7	khakis and their collared eyes-odd shirts, they didn't look like anybody else either.
2:07.0	Yes, absolutely, Jim, and they went on to have a huge musical career making eight albums from
2:12.3	1977 through 1988, and releasing one of the most iconic concert films ever made,
2:19.2	stopped making sense. Now, each of the four members went on to a degree of individual success,
2:25.2	and Tina Weymouth and Chris France found a second creative life with their group Tom Tom Club.
2:31.0	This week, we're excited to talk with the drummer of Talking Heads and the person whose idea it was
2:36.0	to get the band together in the first place, Chris France. Chris recently released a memoir,
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