{"id":1126,"date":"2015-10-02T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T08:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2015-09-30T09:36:41","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T08:36:41","slug":"song-of-the-week-love-building-on-fire-by-talking-heads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=1126","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: &#8220;Love &#8211;> Building on Fire&#8221; by Talking Heads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.<\/p>\n<p>This is &#8220;Love &#8211;&gt; Building on Fire&#8221; by Talking Heads:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/66wxY8H4Mu0\" width=\"397\" height=\"397\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Love &#8211;&gt; Building on Fire&#8221; was Talking Heads&#8217; first single, way way back in 1977.\u00a0 Talking Heads never got better than this; they just kept being this outrageously good, in a variety of ways, while always being Talking Heads.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s stop and think about 1977, and the few years before that, for a minute, though; one of my favorite things about Talking Heads is that, though it&#8217;s a great way to start arguments, this is a punk band; imagine seeing them night after night after night, sharing a stage with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2kmUfWPeIRE\" target=\"_blank\">Ramones<\/a>: two bands with completely different aesthetics sharing a sensibility anyway, and doing great, great, great things with it.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"DouglasCowie\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Song%20of%20the%20Week%3A%20%22Love%20--%3E%20Building%20on%20Fire%22%20by%20Talking%20Heads\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it. 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