Stop Making Sense – REVIEW
We’re finally coming to a point in my writing since the beginning of this decade. If you don’t know, I wrote album reviews from about 2020 to 2022, and even though that really isn’t my thing anymore, it did help shape out what my current taste in music would end up being right now. That blog is actually still up to read somewhere (it’s not exactly hard to find). However, I’m going to throw a big curveball in there: I barely knew who Talking Heads were about two years ago. I knew the name David Byrne, but that was at the point where I regularly mixed up the names David Byrne and David Lynch. It’s actually been a little over a year since I watched Stop Making Sense , the 1984 concert film conceived by Talking Heads frontman Byrne and directed by the late Jonathan Demme, who’d go on to direct movies like The Silence of the Lambs , Philadelphia , and The Manchurian Candidate . Watching it for the first time as a 720p rip on YouTube wasn’t exactly the ideal way for me, but something clicked...