From 'Psycho Killer' to 'Once in a Lifetime' to 'And She Was,' Paste has picked the 30 greatest Talking Heads songs of all time.
In 1975 in New York City, David Byrne, Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz struck up a band together and called themselves the Talking Heads. They joined an East Coast punk scene populated by Blondie, Television, the Modern Lovers and the New York Dolls, ushering in their unique, idiosyncratic fusion of art-rock and new wave—which would later turn into an obsession with country music and Afrobeat, with elements of jazz and rap added in for good measure.
What cannot be overlooked, however, is the synthesizers implemented here by Harrison and Wally Badarou—just pure magic.While not the Talking Heads’ greatest song by any measure, “And She Was” very well might be one of their very best pop songs. Few songs can make verses sound like choruses in the way that this tune can—which says a lot, given that itschorus is timeless and perfect. “The world was moving and she was right there with it, and she was,” Byrne sings.
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