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"Genius of Love" is a 1981 hit song by American new wave band Tom Tom Club from their 1981 eponymous debut studio album. The song reached number one on the Billboard Disco Top 80 chart , and was performed by Talking Heads (the group from which Tom Tom Club originated) in the 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense .
Tom Tom Club is an American new wave band founded in 1981 by husband-and-wife team Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth and as a side project from Talking Heads. [3] Their best known songs include the UK top 10 hit "Wordy Rappinghood" and the US top 40 hit "Genius of Love", both from their 1981 debut album, and a cover of The Drifters' "Under the Boardwalk" that reached the UK top 30.
Born in Coronado, California, Weymouth is the daughter of Laura Bouchage and U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Ralph Weymouth (1917–2020). The third of eight children, her siblings include Lani and Laura Weymouth, who are collaborators in Tina's band Tom Tom Club, and architect Yann Weymouth, the designer of the Salvador Dalí Museum in Florida.
Stop Making Sense includes performances of the early Talking Heads single, "Psycho Killer" (1977), through to their most recent hit at the time, "Burning Down the House" (1983). It also includes songs from the solo career of frontman David Byrne and by Tom Tom Club , the side project of drummer Chris Frantz and bassist Tina Weymouth .
Steven J. C. Stanley (born July 11, 1958), is a Jamaican audio engineer, record producer and keyboardist who has worked in the reggae, dub and rock music genres since 1975, most notably with Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club and Black Uhuru.
Talking Heads’ lyrics are undeniably more elliptical than N.W.A.’s or the Dead Kennedys’. But in 1984, a performance of such angular oddity, and such joy, was an implicit rebuke to the ...
On March 28, Lorde's cover of "Take Me to the River", a Talking Heads cover of a song originally recorded by Al Green, was released as the third single. [13] On April 24, the 40th anniversary of the film's debut at the San Francisco International Film Festival , the album's release date was announced for May 17 by A24 Music . [ 14 ]
Courtney Love shared some new insight on the musician she has a “mad crush on” and hopes to someday work with during a recent interview.. Speaking with The Standard for an article that the U.K ...