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Tina Weymouth et Chris Frantz, ex Talking Heads, créent Tom Tom Club au début des années 80, ou la «funk mutation» d’une musique pop élitiste de graphiste à la David Byrne.
Le site Tom Tom Club. Graphisme James Rizzi pour le site et le clip de Genius of Love. Genius of Love, chanson culte in Tom Tom Club l’album. 1981
Paroles
«What you gonna do when you get out of jail?/ I’m gonna have some fun / What do you consider fun? / Fun, natural fun
I’m in heaven / With my boyfriend, my laughing boyfriend / There’s no beginning and there is no end / Time isn’t present in that dimention / He’ll take my arm / When we’re walkin’, rolling and rocking / It’s one time I’m glad I’m not a man / Feels like I’m dreaming, but I’m not sleeping
I’m in heaven / With the maven of funk mutation / Clinton’s musicians such as Bootsy Collins / Raise expectations to a new intention / No one can sing / Quite like Smokey, Smokey Robinson / Wailin’ and shakin’ to Bob Marley / Reggae’s expanding with Sly and Robbie
[All the weekend / Boyfriend was missing / I surely miss him / The way he’d hold me in his warm arms / We went insane when we took cocaine.]
Stepping in a rhythm to a Kurtis Blow / Who needs to think when your feet just go / With a hiditihi and a hipitiho / Who needs to think when your feet just go …Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon / Who needs to think when your feet just go …Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon / James Brown, James Brown / James Brown, James Brown
If you see him / Please remind him, unhappy boyfriend / Well he’s the genius of love / He’s got a greater depth of feeling / Well he’s the genius of love / He’s so deep.»
Tom Tom Club. Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz … Summer Sonic Festival, Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Tokyo. 8 août 2009
From Wikipedia :) «Members of the Compass Point All Stars family, Frantz and Weymouth formed the Tom Tom Club in 1980, which kept them busy during a fairly long hiatus in Talking Heads activity. Weymouth, Frantz, and Jerry Harrison reunited as The Heads for a one-off album called No Talking, Just Head in 1996, featuring a rotating cast of vocalists, including Debbie Harry. He and Weymouth produced The Happy Mondays‘ 1992 album, Yes Please!. Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth recently contributed backing vocals and percussion for the hip hop formation, Gorillaz.Chris and Tina Frantz currently reside in Fairfield, Connecticut.»
Liens suggérés par E. : reprises «hard» par Biz Markie and the X-Ecutioners (2002) et par Mariah Carey feat. Ol’ Dirty Bastard – Fantasy (pour Jean-No)