“Blind” by Talking Heads

"Blind" comes from Naked, the 1988 album that turned out to be Talking Heads' eighth and final studio record, and it was cut in Paris at Studio Davout, a room that started life as a cinema. The band built the music together and produced it with Steve Lillywhite, while David Byrne found the words in a strange improvised session: dressed in a suit and black horn-rims, sitting at a desk with shorthand notes, he took suggestions from the control room and memorized them, and the one word that survived became the chorus.

Around him the band stretches out into something huge and polyrhythmic. Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth drive the groove, Jerry Harrison plays piano, Wally Badarou adds keyboards, Mory Kanté's kora and Abdou M'Boup's congas and talking drum ripple underneath, and a full horn section, Lenny Pickett's tenor sax among them, blows it wide open. The single came with "Bill" on the flip.

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