125–Psycho Killer

Click here to become a patron of the show. It's about time I got around to covering the Talking Heads, don't you think? Weirdly, a lot of their material is kind of under-researched, unless you're willing to do deep dives into the biographies and such. However, that seems to be loosening up in recent years as more people get nostalgic about the 1980s. And now I'm realizing that that's like my grandparents being nostalgic for World War 2. Anyway, that, I think, is why I was able to find a decent amount of material for this song. It was the Heads' first single and the one that encouraged David Byrne to keep on keeping on. Because, while it didn't chart huge in the US (peaking at Number 92 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart), it gave him the understanding that there was, in fact, an audience out there for his rather peculiar musical style. And, as promised, here's a video of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain performing their version of this song in 2009. Stay with it, it's pretty cool. I am NOT, on the other hand, going to link you to "Psycho Chicken." You can find that one on your own. You have been warned. Click here for a transcript of this episode.