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tom tom club - genious of love













最近どっかの製品のアップル風のCMでかかっている曲。

tomtomclubは、トーキング・ヘッズのメンバーであるティナ(b)&クリス(dr)夫妻によるユニットです。トーキング・ヘッズといえばデイビッド・バーン以外のメンバーについてはあまり知らないのですが、このユニットは単なるサイドプロジェクトに留まらない活躍ぶりだったんでしょうねきっと(あんまり知らない)。
私にとって80年代ってリアルタイムではもちろんないし、ちょっと距離感のある年代だったりします。洋楽を漁り始めた中学生くらいのころには、60s〜パンク以前&90sロックという聞き方をしていて。80sは独特のアクの強さを感じ(スタジアムロックからニュー・ウェイブまで)て取っつきにくい印象だったんです。なので、トーキング・ヘッズやこのトム・トム・クラブの良さがわかったのも、数年前までのニューウェイブ・リバイバルを通じてであったと思います。私の中ではスキニージーンズと共に記憶に残っていくことになるでしょうか(笑)
そうそう、この人たちを知ったのは、雑誌hugeに載っていた(最近チェックしてないなあ)、庄司信也氏による80s特殊記事だったっけか。

このPV(PVなのかな?)もなにか気になるこういうタッチのアニメ(アニメ塗りではない、マンガの絵をそのままアニメにしたようなもの、かつ独特の古臭いタッチ)って、既視感があって引っ掛かる。90s初めくらいに子供の頃にテレビで見たようなうな感じなんだよなあ。ちょっと気になる。。




talking heads - burning down the house














こちらは本家のトーキング・ヘッズのほう。  


トーキング・ヘッズって、どこかで≪ベックやレディオヘッドのやってることはトーキング・ヘッズの焼き直しだ≫みたいな記述を見た記憶がありますが、まさにそういった系譜に連なるんでしょうね。


余談だが、私の通う大学の教授に、デイビッド・バーンそっくりな先生いる。痩せ型で首が長く、80年代仕様のスーツで教壇に立つ、っていう。結構有名な先生で、学生にも人気がある先生なのだが。


Tom Tom Club "Genius of Love"
What you gonna do when you get out of jail?
I'm gonna have some fun
What do you consider fun?
Fun, natural fun

I'm in heaven
With my boyfriend, my laughing boyfriend
There's no beginning and there is no end
Time isn't present in that dimention
He'll take my arm
When we're walkin', rolling and rocking
It's one time I'm glad I'm not a man
Feels like I'm dreaming, but I'm not sleeping

I'm in heaven
With the maven of funk mutation
Clinton's musicians such as Bootsy Collins
Raise expectations to a new intention
No one can sing
Quite like Smokey, Smokey Robinson
Wailin' and shakin' to Bob Marley
Reggae's expanding with Sly and Robbie

All the weekend
Boyfriend was missing
I surely miss him
The way he'd hold me in his warm arms
We went insane when we took cocaine.

Stepping in a rhythm to a Kurtis Blow
Who needs to think when your feet just go
With a hiditihi and a hipitiho
Who needs to think when your feet just go ...Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon
Who needs to think when your feet just go ...Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon
James Brown, James Brown
James Brown, James Brown

If you see him
Please remind him, unhappy boyfriend
Well he's the genius of love
He's got a greater depth of feeling
Well he's the genius of love
He's so deep.

talking heads "once in a lifetime"

And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
And you may find yourself in another part of the world
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful
Wife
And you may ask yourself-well...how did I get here?

Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the moneys gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.

And you may ask yourself
How do I work this?
And you may ask yourself
Where is that large automobile?
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful house!
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful wife!

Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the moneys gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.

Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...

Water dissolving...and water removing
There is water at the bottom of the ocean
Carry the water at the bottom of the ocean
Remove the water at the bottom of the ocean!

Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/in the silent water
Under the rocks and stones/there is water underground.

Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the moneys gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.

And you may ask yourself
What is that beautiful house?
And you may ask yourself
Where does that highway go?
And you may ask yourself
Am I right? ...am I wrong?
And you may tell yourself
My god!...what have I done?

Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/in the silent water
Under the rocks and stones/there is water underground.

Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the moneys gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.

Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...



Tom Tom Club

Tom Tom Club

Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense [DVD] [Import]

Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense [DVD] [Import]