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U Talkin’ U2 To Me?

U Talkin' Talking Heads 2 My Talking Head? - True Stories (w/ Ezra Koenig)

U Talkin’ U2 To Me?

Earwolf

Comedy

4.63.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2020

⏱️ 141 minutes

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Summary

Singer-songwriter Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend joins Scott and Scott to discuss Talking Heads’ seventh studio album “True Stories.” They also talk about when Ezra first heard of Talking Heads, the moment Ezra realized Talking Heads were punk, and how Talking Heads influenced Ezra as a musician.

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0:00.0

And the From Eda Zimbra, this is You Talkin' heads to my talk. This is good.

0:24.0

talking heads to my talking head.

0:26.0

The comprehensive and encyclopedic compendium of all things talking heads.

0:32.0

This is good rock and roll

0:41.1

music sure is Music.

0:45.0

Sure is.

0:48.0

Sure is. Sure is.

0:49.0

Welcome to the show.

0:50.0

Welcome to the show.

0:54.0

We're gonna be talking.

0:56.8

Were you singing?

0:57.8

I would, it sounded really good.

1:00.8

You know, singing is just speaking on pitch, my dear boy, and I certainly had a lot of that.

1:07.6

But this is a, welcome to the show.

1:11.2

This is a very special episode. We're going to be talking about Talking Heads album

1:16.1

True Stories from 1986. We will be talking about that today and we have a very special guest with us to talk about that and he is the lead singer and songwriter of the incredible band Vampire Weekend,

1:38.9

Ezra Kaneig will be here with us to talk about this record. That's an incredible get. And talking about

1:49.1

this record, I mean, an incredible get for us to be able to talk about this record.

1:55.0

Not every day that you get to talk about this record.

1:59.0

We've talked about a lot of records but not this one and so

2:02.0

incredible to talk about this one my name is Scott

2:05.1

ackerman I am the host of you talking talking heads to my talk what is our

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