Sketch o’the Week- David Byrne!

In a rare break from tradition, the original of this sketch is still available!

We are Burning Down the House with this week’s sketch of “Talking Heads” frontman David Byrne!

The “Talking Heads” was one of those bands that was impossible to categorize. They came into being during the punk rock/New wave era of the late 1970’s, but they weren’t really part of either movement, although “New Wave” is what they get shoehorned into when being discussed. They were the definition of “their own thing”, and a big part of that was Byrne’s oddball but charismatic presence. You couldn’t quite tell if he and the band were for real or playing it campy and tongue-in-cheek. No matter what they were fun to listen to. Their music videos were like acid trips on the TV screen, but despite the weirdness their tunes were catchy.