Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with TALKING HEADS!

OK, what song always sounds great on a Friday night on a portable radio, at the mall, on the MTV, at a restaurant, in the car or in your earbuds? 'Burning Down the House' is the correct answer. If you had that you win a fistful of worthless green stamps. Congratulations, player!

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with TALKING HEADS!

When you do a cover song you should bring your own sounds, feeling and arrangement to it. That's why this one is one of the best remakes (Al Green) of all-time. 'Take Me to the River' up next tonight and this song really is putting Johnny in the mood for a cover song Music Series in the near future.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with TALKING HEADS!

Three hun-dred six-ty five de-grees.

'Burning Down the House'

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with TALKING HEADS!

Every so often your parents surprise you. This song is proof. Johnny loves to tell the story about how fascinated his dad was by this song at the beginning of the movie Down and Out in Beverly Hills. He LOVED this song. Here's to his temporary bout with great taste ;) . Talking Heads and 'Once in a Lifetime'

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with TALKING HEADS!

If there is some kind of afterlife and one is entitled to a creature comfort such as a playlist on a godless machine from our mortal days this song is on it. Talking Heads with 'Girlfriend is Better'

"Nothing is better than this...or is it?"

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with TALKING HEADS!

It's all muy caliente up in the JCD hizzy tonight. Leading off the Music Series this week the song firemen have to listen to in secret, 'Burning Down the House'. That David Byrne face on the pavement should be a PSA at intersections. You'd know to check the new wave channel on XM radio.

Saturday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with TALKING HEADS!

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Talking Heads with 'Psycho Killer' here on Jersey City's best internet music source

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with TALKING HEADS!

One of the oddest and yet most rewarding moments in Johnny's life was when his dad came to him with a music question. Dad was a big movie fan and knew ALL the Hollywood stories and gossip. He was an encyclopedia of moviedom. He was frantic one afternoon, he'd just gotten back from going to see 'Down and Out in Beverly Hills' with Bette Midler and Richard Dreyfuss. He HAD to know what the song at the beginning was. To him is was the most awesome song he'd heard in forever. As Johnny had seen the movie too and knew the song he meant was Talking Heads 'Once in a Lifetime'. Johnny's dad was a Talking Heads fan at that point. I played a couple of their songs for him. This was still his favorite. Today would have been his 81st birthday.

We do wonder if the Jersey City Desk is available in heaven.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with TALKING HEADS!

Another of the seminal bands in Johnny's life growing up in the go-go, life on the razor's edge berg of Ortonville, Michigan. Here's a delightful slap at popular culture with the song 'Love for Sale'. As you watch try and see how many of the companies mocked in this video have since taken the dirt nap. Did you know that Ice-T said the Talking Heads song 'Psycho Killer' was the inspiration for his song 'Cop Killer'? You do now.

The phenomenal David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, and Jerry Harrison with 'Love for Sale'