I've listened to the Talking Heads since I was a kid in the 80's. How have I never heard this song until now? Omg Tina's bass is sick sick perfection! 
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Making Flippy Floppy
- Thread starter Papazita
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Did you spend several of those years living under a rock, perhaps? 
Agreed that she's amazing on this and so many other tracks!
Agreed that she's amazing on this and so many other tracks!
It's an amazing track, I've always wanted to do it but it's probably too deep a cut to go over in the kind of bar bands I play in.
Listening to the studio track again after first seeing the Stop Making Sense movie I remember concluding that it was probably recorded the way they performed it live: the “bass” line is played on keyboard synthesizer, and Tina is playing the “oriental marimba” [sic] ostinato on guitar.
The whole Speaking In Tongues album is stuffed with awesome grooves.
YES! One of my favorite albums for bass because of her playing. Those grooves!
I don’t hear any synth bass on that track. She is playing bass in the live version not guitar.
Doh! You're right, for some reason I got "Making Flippy Floppy" mixed up with "This Must Be The Place"
mea culpa...
True...but, IMO, not a Talking Heads group album.
The band from their CGBG daze? Not.
Love the vibe on that album, though.
"Girlfriend Is Better" is also cool. I ned to revisit this album today. There's more & I'm blanking on the song titles.
Mentioned before (after 20+ years here, it's no wonder)...I think I'm the only one that isn't thrilled with that concert film.
Good question, given that "MFF" is track #2 on Speaking In Tongues.
Better late than never!
More like a "production" vs. a concert. Personally, I would prefer seeing bands like The Talking Heads in a smaller venue. I dunno.
Kinda like when I saw Alice Cooper's Welcome To My Nightmare at the Norfolk Scope in the '70s.
Too much fluff.
I saw that show at the Greek in Berkeley back in the day, moderate-sized venue. One of my all time faves, fantastic from start to finish, not fluffy at all. 
Still in the pre-Internet days, so we really did not know what was about to transpire.
Another fave was actually the American Utopia show at Red Rocks just a few years back. (Just as stunning - lots more “fluff” in that one, I suppose, but that was the point/strength. DB is a theatrical kind of guy…and it still rocked everybody’s socks off.)
Still in the pre-Internet days, so we really did not know what was about to transpire.
Another fave was actually the American Utopia show at Red Rocks just a few years back. (Just as stunning - lots more “fluff” in that one, I suppose, but that was the point/strength. DB is a theatrical kind of guy…and it still rocked everybody’s socks off.)
But that was the point…Demme and Byrne didn’t want to do the same old same old mundane band-in-concert film. I thought the staging was brilliant, especially the opening numbers where the band members and support musicians came in gradually. “Once in A Lifetime” was transcendent visually. I had seen the original quartet twice before, once in a 300 seater club, and then in a 3000 capacity hall. With their art/design school roots, it was time for them to move on. I do have to say, after the film/live album, I found them less interesting as a band with the ensuing albums.More like a "production" vs. a concert. Personally, I would prefer seeing bands like The Talking Heads in a smaller venue. I dunno.
Kinda like when I saw Alice Cooper's Welcome To My Nightmare at the Norfolk Scope in the '70s.
Too much fluff.
Yep, this. That whole NYC scene was brimming with people who had skill in visual arts and multimedia. Turning out a big production would have likely been a pipe dream for those kids in the earliest days and when they finally had the budget to do it, they managed to realize that dream. I am in awe of the endless creativity that David Byrne has brought to the table over the years. But I have not really kept up with them in recent decades .
Yeah, towards the end of the Heads and then his solo stuff, he kind of got past me, but I liked what he did with Annie Clark/St.Vincent, they seemed to be kindred spirits(another female artist in that realm is Cate Le Bon, she is like Byrne, quirky). That time I saw the Heads in the bigger hall(Fear Of Music tour)I was with the local opening act as part of their crew(I had been a member earlier, but was just helping out). Got to watch the soundcheck, that was interesting, but later had a brief conversation with Byrne in the backstage area. That was, uh, mind altering. Got to give Tina a hug, told her how much I loved the basslines on “Found A Job”.
