Talking Heads

Rock & Roll Hall of Famer

Category: Performer

Inducted: 2002

Inducted by: Anthony Kiedis

Nominated: 2002

First Eligible: 2002 Ceremony

Inducted Members: David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison and Tina Weymouth


Induction Ceremony Songs:

SongPerformed By
Psycho Killer  Talking Heads
Burning Down the House  Talking Heads
Live During Wartime  Talking Heads

Inducted into Rock Hall Revisited in 2002 (ranked #55) .

R.S. Top 500 Albums (?)RankVersion
Remain in Light392020
More Songs About Buildings and Food3642020
Remain in Light1292012
Talking Heads: 772912012
Stop Making Sense3452012
More Songs About Buildings and Food3832012

R.S. Top 500 Songs (?)RankVersion
Once in a Lifetime (1980)282021
This Must Be the Place (Na (1983)1232021

Essential Albums (?)WikipediaYouTube
Talking Heads: 77 (1977)
More Songs About Buildings And Food (1978)
Fear Of Music (1979)
Remain In Light (1980)
The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads (1982)
Speaking in Tongues (1983)
Stop Making Sense (1984)
Little Creatures (1985)

Essential Songs (?)WikipediaYouTube
Psycho Killer (1977)
Take Me To The River (1978)
Life During Wartime (1979)
Once In A Lifetime (1980)
Burning Down the House (1983)
This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) (1983)
Girlfriend Is Better (1983)
Road to Nowhere (1985)
And She Was (1985)
Wild Wild Life (1986)

Talking Heads @ Wikipedia



Comments

12 comments so far (post your own)

One of the best immedicate inductees along with Costello.

Posted by David on Wednesday, 07/31/2019 @ 14:01pm


Can't get THE BOOK I READ off my head all month.

Posted by Dave Teves on Thursday, 10/31/2019 @ 08:19am


Just noticed a typo on the list of songs performed by The Heads at their induction. The song name is 'Life During Wartime', not 'Live'

Posted by Paul in KY on Thursday, 10/31/2019 @ 08:39am


I would like to extend my best wishes to Tina Weymouth on the 69th anniversary of her birth. Tina, Thank you for all of the great songs you have co-written over the years and your exemplary work with Talking Heads and the Tom Tom Club. I hope that you had a fantastic birthday!

Posted by Enigmaticus on Friday, 11/22/2019 @ 22:17pm


Talking Heads just entered social media by making an Instagram account and fans are speculating of a potential reunion.

https://twitter.com/billboard/status/1204876032299413504?s=20
https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/8545994/talking-heads-instagram-reunion-fan-reactions

Posted by John R.C. on Wednesday, 12/11/2019 @ 17:42pm


I'll believe it when I see it. Would be absolutely awesome if it happened. I know Tina & her husband have wanted to get the band back together for years.

Posted by Paul in KY on Thursday, 12/12/2019 @ 07:38am


Talking Heads is one of those groups which I had discovered on my own. I had first discovered the music of Talking Heads about four years after I had been introduced to the music of King Crimson via their album "Discipline." Although I had heard "Discipline," King Crimson had never really connected with me until I had purchased "The Compact King Crimson" at The Wave in Roppongi district, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan. Of course, I had listened to The Compact King Crimson constantly on cassette and then on cd and then just before I had returned to the United States, I had purchased "In The Court Of The Crimson King," "Discipline," "Beat" and "Three Of A Different Pair" on compact disc. I had still brought "The Compact King Crimson" with me on my many excursions into San Francisco, California on the weekends. I would eventually purchase "A Young Person's Guide To King Crimson" on cassette and listen to it constantly for the following two years. Although, I had heard 'Burning Down The House,' I would not start listening to Talking Heads heavily until about a year prior to my E.A.O.S. from the U.S. Navy in September, 1988. My first Talking Heads purchases had been: "Fear Of Music," "Remain In Light" and "Speaking In Tongues" which I had purchased from Tower Records in Berkeley, California on compact disc.

Well, what do you think?

Posted by Enigmaticus on Monday, 10/19/2020 @ 06:43am


I have been a fan of the bigger songs of the Talking Heads for years but I never had the chance to listen to their albums for a variety of reasons. Thanks to YouTube Music I was able to start at the beginning and listen to everything. The first morning I listened to '77 all the way through Little Creatures in one sitting. I couldn't move. Well, my body was moving to the music but I couldn't shut it off. I couldn't believe I'd missed out on so much great music for so long. Later that night I listened to the rest of their stuff. Incredible. Underrated is a word one could use but it goes deep than that. Everyone should hear that first album at least once. For my money it's one of the very best debut albums I've ever heard. And it only gets better from there. I'm in the minority but I'm glad they never did the reunion gimmick. It makes their albums mean more and adds real weight to the work they accomplished as a group. Nothing can diminish their work. There is nothing, NOTHING, like the Talking Heads.

Posted by Lemmy on Thursday, 11/12/2020 @ 04:02am


I would like to extend best wishes for a very a Happy Birthday to Tina Weymouth. Have a fantastic day, Tina and thank you for all of the great songs which you have co-written during the past several decades. Maybe someday, the Tom Tom Club will eventually receive a Rock Hall nomination.

Posted by Enigmaticus on Sunday, 11/22/2020 @ 07:35am


The group for people who think they're smarter than everyone else. An impenetrable gimmick band with no heart.

Posted by David Burn on Monday, 12/20/2021 @ 03:07am


They were inducted a year before elligible. If I'm wrong, why was Springsteen not elligible to be inducted in '98 (and you know they wouldn't have delayed him a year)? The rules I've read say the artist's first record must be released 25 years prior to the year of nomination. Even counting their first single as their first record, that would mean their first elligible year of nomination woiuld be 2002, with induction in 2003.

Posted by Ben on Sunday, 09/24/2023 @ 21:53pm


Ben,

yes, you are right. I think the hall did make an error and talking heads should not be nominated for 2002 class.

Posted by power on Monday, 09/25/2023 @ 01:36am


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