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After taking some drugs, the character’s mind begins to jump all over the place.
An early (late 1978) working version of this song, titled “Electricity”, appears on the live album The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads. This is among the first in a new batch of songs that Talking Heads were pushing toward as the strenuous 1978 tour began to wear on the band, especially David Byrne.
At this point, the band’s repertoire of music consisted of mostly older songs, some of which, like “Psycho Killer”, “Artists Only”, and “Warning Sign” dated back to the band’s time at the Rhode Island School of Design. After a January 1979 appearance on Dick Clark’s American Bandstand, where the band performed an overdubbed version of “Take Me to the River”, it is likely that Byrne had a realization about the commercial direction his band was headed. In the Spring of the same year, he channeled his growing paranoia, insecurity, and distance from the world into a new, radically different set of songs on the order of “Electricity”.
This dramatic shift was captured with the immediacy it warranted and was released several months later as Fear of Music.
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