This must be the place - Talking Heads

When was the last time you heard “Burning Down The House,” the band’s biggest single?
 Probably not recently. But chances are good you’ve heard “This Must Be The Place” very recently, whether you knew it or not. Thirty years old this year, the song has slowly but surely embedded itself in the American songbook. You can’t walk into a good bar between Williamsburg and Silver Lake without an even shot that it will come on the stereo in some iteration. Lately, it’s been covered by Arcade Fire, MGMT, and the jam band The String Cheese Incident, among others. There are books named for it. Hip brides march down the aisle to it. It’s quoted in mawkish editorials.
And last year, “This Must Be The Place” was made into a movie.  more