Licensing "Burning Your House Down" by The Jim Jones Revue Please select the type of project you need a license for from the list below. '"The video, produced and directed by Byrne, alternates primarily between footage of the band performing the song in an empty ballroom, Byrne playing while facing a projection screen that displays a concert crowd or a wall of flames at different times, and images projected on the outside wall of a house.
If you're not sure what you need, that's OK. The initial lyrics were considerably different, however. “Burning Down The House” is a song by the American new wave band, Talking Heads. After the screen goes blank, both young and adult Byrne leave the stage, and the video ends with an extended close-up of Byrne's face projected on a highway at night. The house used in the video is located on Myrtle Street in "Burning Down the House" became Talking Heads' highest-charting hit single in North America, becoming their only top ten single on the US As one of the major hits of Jones' later career, it appears on numerous compilations of Jones' work. Burning down the house No visible means of support And you have not seen nothin' yet Everything's stuck together And I don't know what you expect Staring into the TV set Fighting fire with fire Submit Corrections.
Burning Down the House It didn’t appear in the UK Singles Chart at all until Tom Jones and The Cardigans covered it and made it a Top 10 hit in 1999. As for the title phrase in the chorus, one early attempt (as heard on a worktape) had him singing a different line, "What are we gonna do? It was released in July 1983 on their fifth studio album, “Burning Down the House” became Talking Heads' highest charting single in North America. It peaked at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100, as well as #8 in Canada. Chris [Frantz, drummer] had just been to see Parliament-Funkadelic in its full glory at …
Thanks to Mr.Korup, Joseph Vinci, Ordinary Radical, Brittany for correcting these lyrics. A young boy resembling Byrne takes his place from time to time; eventually, younger counterparts start moving the arms of all four band members to play the music. "This song started from a jam," says bassist Tina Weymouth in the liner notes of Once in a Lifetime: The Best of Talking Heads . " "Burning Down the House" is a new wave and funk song.
", and at another point in the process, "instead of chanting 'Burning Down the House,' I was chanting 'Foam Rubber, USA. It also features on The Cardigans' 2008
Burning Down the House Lyrics: Ah / Watch out, you might get what you're after / Cool, babies! However, it failed to chart outside of North America. In an interview on NPR's "According to Byrne in the NPR interview, phrases that he tried but ultimately did not use in the song included "I have another body," "Pick it up by the handle," "You travel with a double," and "I'm still under construction."