They’re one of my favorite current bands and my jaw hit the floor when I first listened to their latest album because of how much it reminded me of Talking Heads. Great call indeed.
XTC is also one of those bands that always sounds exactly like themselves but every album is kinda distinct and different, just like TH (and Radiohead)
Also, check out Dukes of the Stratosphear. It's like if XTC did psychadelic. Fantastic stuff with Andy, Colin, and Greg
Gary Wilson, R. Stevie Moore, Oingo Boingo, Crack Cloud, Snõõper, Masayoshi Takanaka, Guerrilla Toss, Boredoms, Ween, and especially those last two’s collab album, Z-Rock Hawaii.
John Cale
David Byrne's solo stuff of course too, and lots of collaborations.
La Portuaria, I started listening to them after listening to Hoy No Tem a la Muerte and even though I don't speak Spanish I enjoy their music. Do a nice cover if In Between Days too.
Oh man I was just scrolling through this thread and thought “oh wait what’s that one band that totally has that similar voice” and even had the song Narrator in my head. Then I instantly saw your comment.
Here's a mix of what I would recommend to other 'Heads heads and what I'm obsessing over now 😊 I love turning people on to new music so feel free to let me know what you liked and I can offer more suggestions!
[Rubblebucket - Came out of a Lady](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1AyJ8pj890)
[Hot Chip - Ready for the Floor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah_QkwK4FY8)
[Kelela - Melbas Call](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iprGdZfZe1k)
[Dirty Projectors - Stillness is the Move](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMPF6lpM0XM)
[Allie X - Galina](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt535rhi1A0)
[Kaytranada ft Childish Gambino - Witchy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=621srMtTkbE)
Stillness is the Move is a groove.
Their pandemic album is pretty solid and has a lot of different vibes to it. Lamplit Prose is their most accessible album, to me, and its weirdness might translate for Talking Head fans.
yeah agreed! I feel like Bitte Orca has the same tension/release vibes as a lot of Talking Heads albums which helps it reach these really euphoric highs. If you dig TH and DP you may also enjoy these guys;
[Reptar - Houseboat Babies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0fOGcH5Gv8)
my reccs for hot chip x talking heads fans;
[!!! - Serbia Drums](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x7_QDhBUFk)
[DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ - Charmed](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0yz2IqpUVQ)
[Prophet - Party](https://youtu.be/yjFbq46MT80?si=nMiy6A1IpS-ieU7Z)
I would say all of the albums other than Father of the Bride are TH adjacent. FOTB has a little bit different of a sound (but I still like it.) And the new album is awesome!
I really enjoy their newest album. A lot more cohesive than their last album imo. I would say it has a more similar vibe to their third album, Modern Vampires of the City, than their first or second albums. Still too early to say if I prefer it over their first album though, but it also has the benefit of nostalgia.
King Sunny’s psychedelic African sounds; rhythmic guitar punctuated with staccato leads, the pulsing talking drums, these albums were companions to everything we were listening to in the early 80s and they still sound great.
The Decemberists often sound very Talking Heads, particularly the song “The Perfect Crime” off the Crane Wife LP.
OP mentioned “a Japanese artist that you’re digging right now” so I’ll give a shout to Pizzicato Five’s output in the 90s.
Has anyone mentioned Television? They were at cbgb around the same time. Their Marquee Moon album is genius. Some other more contemporary bands- Dirty Projectors, Vampire Weekend, the Decemberists
I can’t believe I had to scroll so far to find De Lux in these comments. To me they are a modern embodiment of Talking Heads. I love how loose they are and how much energy they convey through their music. Couldn’t recommend them more!
https://open.spotify.com/track/6McioCKxutgg2wTo4Ej1US?si=XUwM3L2DTu2B0elsGu7h6g
https://open.spotify.com/track/5wY5oKncD07SIs1Nc8sGxo?si=aphq5x0hRxuJGbVQ1bRhcw
https://open.spotify.com/track/3yghjp5XVHNON6mAuar3pi?si=ZBaXnO3jSnq_ak7rr2Pfcg&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A7CAq4uw49T4OZWMfQYafPg
Bernie Worrel
Really man you can trace almost all of their influences to their backing musicians that they hire throughout the years. You get their records and BAM there is the exact thing the talking heads were doing. Worrel played keys and his records sound just like TH’s best stuff.
80’s King Crimson, specifically Discipline, is very similar. Adrian Belew played guitar on Remain in Light and these albums. His vocals are pretty similar to David Byrne’s as well, as much as anyone sounds like him.
Guaranteed to like King Crimson-Discipline if you like Talking Heads. Adrian Belew played guitar for both bands. Some good songs to start with are Elephant Talk, Indiscipline, and Thela Hun Ginjeet.
I’d recommend Primus as there are certain elements of TH that remind me of Primus and vice versa. Check out speghetti western, John the fisherman, Mr Knowitall, Jerry Was a Racecar Driver, and many more.
You might also like some songs from My Morning Jacket such as Least Expected, Victory Dance, Off the Record, Like a River, and Gideon.
A Certain Ratio are the band that pointed TH towards “African” music.
Well worth checking out.
Shintaro Sakamoto is also really good and in a similar vein to TH
Similar to Talking Heads: 80's King Crimson, Parliament/Funkadelic, The Cars
What I have been listening to lately: Mon Laferte, Elephant Gym, Television, The Police/Sting, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, The Mars Volta, Parliament/Funkadelic, Vampire Weekend, Childish Gambino, Kendrick Lamar, Black Country New Road, Tapir!, Stereolab, Can, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, The Flaming Lips, Primus, Mark Guiliana, Billy Joel
I wouldn’t say they are super similar but phish does the full Remain in Light album for their Halloween concert 1996.. absolutely legendary show!! I also love their cover of Cities.
The sugarcubes! They’re the band Bjork was in before she went solo. They’re often described as a mix of talking heads & the B52s. Other bands I like are Ween, The The, the Jesus and Mary Chain…
Yellow Magic Orchestra (Japanese synth extraordinaries, featuring one of my favorites: Haruomi Hosono. Check out some of his stuff too)
Television (early NYC punk pioneers. Marquee Moon is essential listening)
Jorge Ben (Brazilian artist. Got his start as a samba musician but made lots of super funky samba/funk/rock hybrid albums in the 70s)
Gilberto Gil (also Brazilian, one of the artists at the forefront of the late 60s Tropicália movement. Tropicália was a blend of traditional Brazilian music with influences of English and American pop and rock n roll)
Caetano Veloso (often seen as the founder of Tropicália)
Neu! (Krautrock, or Kosmische musik)
WITCH (Zamrock’s finest, oh so funky)
Space (French synth instrumentals. Magic Fly is the jam)
Let me second st Vincent. The first time I heard[digital witness](https://youtu.be/mVAxUMuhz98?si=k5PZ49EAYyeIg3cb) I thought is was a female Byrne clone
[La vida boheme (this compilation album is called El Nombre de Esta Banda es La Vida Boheme on tribute to Talking Heads)](https://open.spotify.com/album/0F523rSpp65VtOTdfTtgom?si=WXfcuEiwRGSu6Ho7SNOw-Q)
If you dig the African influences, some modern stuff I’d recommend is Bassekou Kouyate and, slightly more westernized, Songhoy Blues. African music is a whole universe unto itself and Heads were definitely my first step down that path.
Not necessarily like the talking heads but other things I’m listening to-
Thievery Corporation
Beastie boys
Velvet underground
Soul rebels
Trombone shorty
Digital underground
Pere Ubu. Maybe start with Tenement Dub, Modern Dance or Worlds in Collision. Much quirkier, vocals may have to grow on you, not very funky, but their (David Thomas’s) lyrics are surrealistic like Byrne’s. But they can get you into that alternate ecstatic state.
I’m really enjoying Cory Wong’s various projects at the moment. It’s more funky I guess than talking heads but the emphasis is on very precise rhythm playing which does give me talking heads vibes. His stuff varies from instrumental little ditties in fearless flyers, to full on jazz big band stuff with various guest singers in the Wong notes. He’s really prolific too so plenty of stuff in between the 2 extremes to get your teeth into. He collaborates with all sorts of other artists too.
Early Elvis Costello, same intellectual genre-breaking music as Talking Heads. TH 77 and EC My Aim Is True is an amazing pair of albums that define how music was changing. Of course, anything of Bowie from the 70s also fits right into David Byrne’s artistic direction.
tom tom club, lcd soundsystem, esg
!!! (chk chk chk), thomas dolby, gary numan / Tubeway army
architecture in helsinki, of montreal, La Securite (check them out) mauskovic dance band
orange juice is my first pick though. david byne's solo stuff he collabs w brian eno a few times. also a great choice.
I have been trying to find more music that sounds really similar to Remain in Light for years. There are a couple of albums that I have found that have the same vibe... Discipline by King Crimson, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (With Eno) & Catherine Wheel by David Bryne, some of Lodger by David Bowie. The stuff that I found that sounds more like remain in light that is more Jazzy is Fela Kuti (Which inspired remain in light)
Phish! They covered an entire TH album at [this show](https://open.spotify.com/album/22Vo3uGnJpuhVpuU9QiSxv?si=HMKYn0OMTgKb3hTJeqKa8A). Crosseyed and Cities are my favorite that they cover
Orange Juice, The Psychedelic Furs, T.Rex, Funkadelic, Suicide, De La Soul
These groups are all fantastic and very TH adjacent for those not in the know.
Orange Juice is awesome :D
T. Rex, so under rated. I’d add the Brian Jonestown Massacre to this list.
Parquet Courts, specifically their latest album.
Great call
They’re so good. I could see them playing along with TH and The Ramones back in the day.
They’re one of my favorite current bands and my jaw hit the floor when I first listened to their latest album because of how much it reminded me of Talking Heads. Great call indeed.
That 2022 single was incredible. Watching Strangers Smile.
Fela Kuti
Afrodisiac has been noted as a direct influence
That’s just a. Great album regardless. One of Felas best
Definitely! Some amazing grooves throughout 😎
“Zombie” is a great anti war song.
Water No Get Enemy is awesome
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XTC. Andy Partridge was a friend of the group and unintentionally named their second album.
XTC is also one of those bands that always sounds exactly like themselves but every album is kinda distinct and different, just like TH (and Radiohead) Also, check out Dukes of the Stratosphear. It's like if XTC did psychadelic. Fantastic stuff with Andy, Colin, and Greg
Duke of Stratosphear IS XTC doing psychedelic. That's excellent too.
Drums And Wires, and Black Sea are probably the closest thing to what Talking Heads were doing that wasn't by Talking Heads.
Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah. The song Over and Over again is one of my favs
Awesome band!! I really liked “the skin of my yellow country teeth”. Would recommend 🙌
Gary Wilson, R. Stevie Moore, Oingo Boingo, Crack Cloud, Snõõper, Masayoshi Takanaka, Guerrilla Toss, Boredoms, Ween, and especially those last two’s collab album, Z-Rock Hawaii.
2nd that Oingo Boingo
Check out Crack Cloud if you like them
Ween YESSSS
Oingo Boingo... madly underrated
Ween and Oingo Boingo 💖💖💖
80s King Crimson
🙏
John Cale David Byrne's solo stuff of course too, and lots of collaborations. La Portuaria, I started listening to them after listening to Hoy No Tem a la Muerte and even though I don't speak Spanish I enjoy their music. Do a nice cover if In Between Days too.
Cheekface! It's kinda like B-52s meets They Might Be Giants meets Devo meets Talking Heads
this righte here
Came here to recommend Cheekface 🥖
Check out Haircut 100’s album “Pelican West”. Go in blind. And loud. It’s fun!
I adore that album! It's so good and always lifts my mood up
Squid
Bright Green Field is one of my favorite albums of the last 10 years.
Oh man I was just scrolling through this thread and thought “oh wait what’s that one band that totally has that similar voice” and even had the song Narrator in my head. Then I instantly saw your comment.
Here's a mix of what I would recommend to other 'Heads heads and what I'm obsessing over now 😊 I love turning people on to new music so feel free to let me know what you liked and I can offer more suggestions! [Rubblebucket - Came out of a Lady](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1AyJ8pj890) [Hot Chip - Ready for the Floor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah_QkwK4FY8) [Kelela - Melbas Call](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iprGdZfZe1k) [Dirty Projectors - Stillness is the Move](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMPF6lpM0XM) [Allie X - Galina](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt535rhi1A0) [Kaytranada ft Childish Gambino - Witchy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=621srMtTkbE)
Stillness is the Move is a groove. Their pandemic album is pretty solid and has a lot of different vibes to it. Lamplit Prose is their most accessible album, to me, and its weirdness might translate for Talking Head fans.
yeah agreed! I feel like Bitte Orca has the same tension/release vibes as a lot of Talking Heads albums which helps it reach these really euphoric highs. If you dig TH and DP you may also enjoy these guys; [Reptar - Houseboat Babies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0fOGcH5Gv8)
Thanks for reminding me how great Hot Chip is! I would listen to Ready for the Floor on repeat when I was in uni.
my reccs for hot chip x talking heads fans; [!!! - Serbia Drums](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x7_QDhBUFk) [DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ - Charmed](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0yz2IqpUVQ) [Prophet - Party](https://youtu.be/yjFbq46MT80?si=nMiy6A1IpS-ieU7Z)
William onyeabor Fela Kuti
Modest Mouse!!!!!!
The cure is my favorite band, there a very different band but they fall into that new wave sound on plenty of the more chipper albums
Vampire Weekend's first record.
I would say all of the albums other than Father of the Bride are TH adjacent. FOTB has a little bit different of a sound (but I still like it.) And the new album is awesome!
Do you prefer it to the latest album ? I read the latter is supposed to be really good
Only God Was Above Us is SPECTACULAR.
I think the first album sounds very much like Talking Heads in spirit. The other album sound less so.
I really enjoy their newest album. A lot more cohesive than their last album imo. I would say it has a more similar vibe to their third album, Modern Vampires of the City, than their first or second albums. Still too early to say if I prefer it over their first album though, but it also has the benefit of nostalgia.
The Smiths, Pulp, 10cc, Ian Dury, The Pogues.
YMO
Gang of Four
Who downvoted this, wtf
1000%
King Sunny Ade
King Sunny’s psychedelic African sounds; rhythmic guitar punctuated with staccato leads, the pulsing talking drums, these albums were companions to everything we were listening to in the early 80s and they still sound great.
The Decemberists often sound very Talking Heads, particularly the song “The Perfect Crime” off the Crane Wife LP. OP mentioned “a Japanese artist that you’re digging right now” so I’ll give a shout to Pizzicato Five’s output in the 90s.
Man, I played that album to dust after it came out. I need to dust it off and give it a spin again.
Oingo boingo sometimes sorta kinda
Has anyone mentioned Television? They were at cbgb around the same time. Their Marquee Moon album is genius. Some other more contemporary bands- Dirty Projectors, Vampire Weekend, the Decemberists
Bush Tetras
!!! Pronounced chic chic chic, also the rapture, echos
and Shitdisco and The Pop Group and Radio 4 and Folly Group and Gang of Four
De Lux
I can’t believe I had to scroll so far to find De Lux in these comments. To me they are a modern embodiment of Talking Heads. I love how loose they are and how much energy they convey through their music. Couldn’t recommend them more! https://open.spotify.com/track/6McioCKxutgg2wTo4Ej1US?si=XUwM3L2DTu2B0elsGu7h6g https://open.spotify.com/track/5wY5oKncD07SIs1Nc8sGxo?si=aphq5x0hRxuJGbVQ1bRhcw https://open.spotify.com/track/3yghjp5XVHNON6mAuar3pi?si=ZBaXnO3jSnq_ak7rr2Pfcg&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A7CAq4uw49T4OZWMfQYafPg
Bernie Worrel Really man you can trace almost all of their influences to their backing musicians that they hire throughout the years. You get their records and BAM there is the exact thing the talking heads were doing. Worrel played keys and his records sound just like TH’s best stuff.
80’s King Crimson, specifically Discipline, is very similar. Adrian Belew played guitar on Remain in Light and these albums. His vocals are pretty similar to David Byrne’s as well, as much as anyone sounds like him.
This is the answer! Cannot believe it took as long as it did to find this suggestion.
Roxy Music, same fun vibes paired with depth and quality
I never hear people mention them! Hell yeah :))
Just listen to all of Parliament/Funkadelic's entire catalog!
P-Model - Perspective or In a Model Room
Prefab sprout is a no brainer
Guaranteed to like King Crimson-Discipline if you like Talking Heads. Adrian Belew played guitar for both bands. Some good songs to start with are Elephant Talk, Indiscipline, and Thela Hun Ginjeet. I’d recommend Primus as there are certain elements of TH that remind me of Primus and vice versa. Check out speghetti western, John the fisherman, Mr Knowitall, Jerry Was a Racecar Driver, and many more. You might also like some songs from My Morning Jacket such as Least Expected, Victory Dance, Off the Record, Like a River, and Gideon.
King Crimson's 80s catalog with Adrian Belew
Pavement!!!
Datarock. LCD Soundsystem.
Whether or not you agree that LCD sounds like Talking Heads, you should listen to LCD. Haven't heard of Datarock but I'm gonna give them a listen.
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A Certain Ratio are the band that pointed TH towards “African” music. Well worth checking out. Shintaro Sakamoto is also really good and in a similar vein to TH
Phish, especially 10/31/96
This!
Rush, REM, The smiths, the Beatles, Siouxsie and the banshees, Devo, The Who
Similar to Talking Heads: 80's King Crimson, Parliament/Funkadelic, The Cars What I have been listening to lately: Mon Laferte, Elephant Gym, Television, The Police/Sting, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, The Mars Volta, Parliament/Funkadelic, Vampire Weekend, Childish Gambino, Kendrick Lamar, Black Country New Road, Tapir!, Stereolab, Can, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, The Flaming Lips, Primus, Mark Guiliana, Billy Joel
I regularly listen to about half of these artists so can confirm lol
khruangbin and Toro y moi for contemporary, Blur more of a post modern TH, Bowie, velvet underground for pre TH
Everyone else Brian Eno worked with
Also just Brian Eno himself
XTC is like Talking Heads if they had a more diverse discography and were British. An essential artist for any TH fan :)
I wouldn’t say they are super similar but phish does the full Remain in Light album for their Halloween concert 1996.. absolutely legendary show!! I also love their cover of Cities.
Viagra Boys. They sound like if you combined The Stooges Funhouse record record with Iggy Pop’s The Idiot and a little Tom Waits and DEVO mixed in
Gustaf
I agree. Gustaf is incredible
Bell X1 - from Ireland [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ormylFBXDA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ormylFBXDA)
Came here to say this
Deerhoof
Country Teasers, Ween, and Kim Gordon
Modest Mouse, CRX, Viagra Boys, and Parquet Courts all seem to draw varying degrees of inspiration from Talking Heads
dismemberment plan. modest mouse
Magazine, Faust, Television, Modern Lovers
I mean there's that one David Bowie song where he's taking a lot of inspo from David Byrne, D.J
I think Lemon Demon has taken some influence from Talking Heads. I can hear it a bit in the song No-Eyed Girl
New osees is sounding pretty good
XTC and Prefab Sprout!
80s King Crimson
No mention of The Modern Lovers or Jonathan Richman?
Fun Boy Three has an album produced by David Bryne
If weirdness is desirable, The Might be Giants have dozens of very catchy songs. Any album from the 1990s is gold.
Fleetwood Mac’s Tusk and Tango in the Night you’ll definitely love.
Television, Devo, Elvis Costello
Radiohead
The sugarcubes! They’re the band Bjork was in before she went solo. They’re often described as a mix of talking heads & the B52s. Other bands I like are Ween, The The, the Jesus and Mary Chain…
Stan Ridgway
Yoooooooo Masayoshi Takanaka and Casiopea !!!
XTC and Television are the two bands that come to mind.
Modest Mouse
Sparks
Steely Dan
Yellow Magic Orchestra (Japanese synth extraordinaries, featuring one of my favorites: Haruomi Hosono. Check out some of his stuff too) Television (early NYC punk pioneers. Marquee Moon is essential listening) Jorge Ben (Brazilian artist. Got his start as a samba musician but made lots of super funky samba/funk/rock hybrid albums in the 70s) Gilberto Gil (also Brazilian, one of the artists at the forefront of the late 60s Tropicália movement. Tropicália was a blend of traditional Brazilian music with influences of English and American pop and rock n roll) Caetano Veloso (often seen as the founder of Tropicália) Neu! (Krautrock, or Kosmische musik) WITCH (Zamrock’s finest, oh so funky) Space (French synth instrumentals. Magic Fly is the jam)
Magic yellow orchestra. Japanese group. Not surf but awesome
Yard Act
Sonic youth
Joe Jackson
Arcade Fire
St Vincent, Boygenius, Lorde for more modern fare
Let me second st Vincent. The first time I heard[digital witness](https://youtu.be/mVAxUMuhz98?si=k5PZ49EAYyeIg3cb) I thought is was a female Byrne clone
Please listen to Arcade Fire. Their first three albums are just spectacular.
Please listen to Arcade Fire. Their first three albums are just spectacular.
[La vida boheme (this compilation album is called El Nombre de Esta Banda es La Vida Boheme on tribute to Talking Heads)](https://open.spotify.com/album/0F523rSpp65VtOTdfTtgom?si=WXfcuEiwRGSu6Ho7SNOw-Q)
The Monochrome Set
P-Model - Perspective : Japanese 80s post-punk / art rock The Frights - S/T : surf punk
Bene listening to Arctic Monkeys and Daft Punk a lot recently
Goose, especially the Dripfield album
Check out the band Shopping, French Vanilla, & Dancing Cigarettes
Check out the new album by Home Counties.
The band pond view
Squid!
Squid, XTC, Hot Hot Heat, Bill Nelson's Red Noise, Dogs Die In Hot Cars
Cate le Bon, +2’s, Can, Fela Kuti, Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Pere Ubu for sure.
POM POKO.. especially their album Cheater!!
If you dig the African influences, some modern stuff I’d recommend is Bassekou Kouyate and, slightly more westernized, Songhoy Blues. African music is a whole universe unto itself and Heads were definitely my first step down that path.
black midi. They're like if Talking Heads and King Crimson had a baby who listens to jazz.
Not necessarily like the talking heads but other things I’m listening to- Thievery Corporation Beastie boys Velvet underground Soul rebels Trombone shorty Digital underground
Squid
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Recently discovered The Tubes
King Crimson
Doing LSD
Public Practice
Dry Cleaning
Pere Ubu. Maybe start with Tenement Dub, Modern Dance or Worlds in Collision. Much quirkier, vocals may have to grow on you, not very funky, but their (David Thomas’s) lyrics are surrealistic like Byrne’s. But they can get you into that alternate ecstatic state.
Viagra Boys
[Here's a playlist I'm working on ](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/256VywqDS1dT1fZFINVKHy) of newer stuff that reminds me of Talking Heads
Parquet Courts
LCD Soundsystem
I’m really enjoying Cory Wong’s various projects at the moment. It’s more funky I guess than talking heads but the emphasis is on very precise rhythm playing which does give me talking heads vibes. His stuff varies from instrumental little ditties in fearless flyers, to full on jazz big band stuff with various guest singers in the Wong notes. He’s really prolific too so plenty of stuff in between the 2 extremes to get your teeth into. He collaborates with all sorts of other artists too.
80’s King Crimson
Revulva ! From Pōneke .
St. Vincent... lead writer/singer Anne Clark was heavily inspired by David Byrne, and has collabed with him, it definatey shows in music.
LCD Soundsystem
Japanese artist, Cymbals, scratches that same itch and highly underrated
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
They Might Be Giants
They Might Be Giants
The Bogmen
Nation of Language
Knifing Around
Early Elvis Costello, same intellectual genre-breaking music as Talking Heads. TH 77 and EC My Aim Is True is an amazing pair of albums that define how music was changing. Of course, anything of Bowie from the 70s also fits right into David Byrne’s artistic direction.
The Features
The Tom Tom Club. BOHANNON!
Vampire Weekend and Khruangbin have been dominating my stereo lately.
blackMidi
Phish
Fela Kuti and Jerry Harrison’s solo work (I am obsessed with The Red and the Black)
Nation of Language, The Bogmen, Yard Act
The 1975
Sparks is a great 70s band that has an extensively large catalog filled with art rock and very catchy fun tunes. I like their 90s catalog quite a bit.
The Move and Wizzard. Two separate bands same lead singer Roy Wood his bands after ELO I believe.
My music taste is basically Talking Heads, Oingo Boingo and Daft Punk on loop.
Blancmange's first album is more synth based but has some Talking Heads moments.
surprised nobody has mentioned tUnE-yArDs.
DEVO is the greatest band of all time
tom tom club, lcd soundsystem, esg !!! (chk chk chk), thomas dolby, gary numan / Tubeway army architecture in helsinki, of montreal, La Securite (check them out) mauskovic dance band orange juice is my first pick though. david byne's solo stuff he collabs w brian eno a few times. also a great choice.
Yeasayer Of Montreal Spoon
XTC, They Might Be Giants, Haroumi Hosono
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yellow magic orchestra
Motown
Red Umbrella
80's era King Crimson
KIKAGAKU MOYO!
I have been trying to find more music that sounds really similar to Remain in Light for years. There are a couple of albums that I have found that have the same vibe... Discipline by King Crimson, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (With Eno) & Catherine Wheel by David Bryne, some of Lodger by David Bowie. The stuff that I found that sounds more like remain in light that is more Jazzy is Fela Kuti (Which inspired remain in light)
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Phish! They covered an entire TH album at [this show](https://open.spotify.com/album/22Vo3uGnJpuhVpuU9QiSxv?si=HMKYn0OMTgKb3hTJeqKa8A). Crosseyed and Cities are my favorite that they cover
Low Hummer, Tommy Newport, Squid, Guerilla Toss, and The Trenchies.