Remain in Light...Listening Wind...a prescient and haunting song about terrorism

[BeyondGeography]

eerily beautiful too. How'd I miss that all these years?

[MissMillie]

1. Talking Heads... GREAT stuff

and that was, I think, one of their best albums

[BeyondGeography]

2. Bought it in 1980...guess I never made it past all those dance tracks up front

Here's what David Byrne says about it in an interview:

<Byrne has always imagined other worlds in his music. One of his most interesting songs, Listening Wind, from the 1980 album Remain In Light, tells the story of a foreign terrorist, Mojique, who plans to bomb American colonialists. "Woof!" Byrne exclaims, when I mention the song. "I don't know if I could get away with performing that live anymore! Wooaaaooh! Nothing's changed. God, nothing's changed at all. We should send that off as a little bonus CD for the troops."

<I ask whether he has empathy or understanding for people who are perpetrating acts of terror against the United States."Yeah, I think I do a little bit. But you never know, I'm not there. I certainly understand a part of it. I understand why America is not universally loved. That's been obvious to me for years and years, but it's not obvious to a lot of Americans. Their immediate reaction is, 'They love us, they're just jealous. They just want McDonald's.'">

http://www.davidbyrne.com/music/cds/grown_backwards/grown_press/3.21.04_glasg_herald.php