Musical snippets I like

Part 535. (Part 534)

"More Songs About Buildings and Food" (Talking Heads)

Another edition of soundscapes that define something heretofore ineffable about me. Today, the outro / last 30 or so seconds of The Good Thing + the first minute or so of Warning Sign from More Songs About Buildings and Food. I've always grouped these two songs together, adding them together on mix tapes (back in the stone age, before CDs and iPods and all that digital confusion). Songs don't necessarily cover similar lyrical ground - witness - but I cannot hear one without the tune from the other leaking into my mind.

Extra points because this is the first Talking Heads album I owned, purchased used at The Sound Exchange (now defunct) for a couple bucks, and I played the hell out of it. Nine stellar tracks (and two ok ones - The Girls Want to be With The Girls and Take Me To the River were/are not always worth listening to in their entirety, for reasons that I'm too lazy to articulate at the moment. Maybe later. Ahem.)

After The Good Thing's last phrase, David Bryne cries out, "Watch me work", the song twists to some new riff for an extended 30 seconds, then quickly segues into the danceable bass and drum opening of Warning Sign (possibly related to Brian Eno's producing). Strange how certain pieces of music always grab one's attention, this minute and 30 second interlude always pierces through so I have to listen to it intently.