251 - Talking Talking Heads w/ Jonathan Gould

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Jonathan Gould's latest book is "Burning Down the House: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That Transformed Rock" (Meridian Books 2025). Gould has previously written books about The Beatles and Otis Redding -- his shorter works appear in The New Yorker. Gould is a New York City native; he attended ballgames at The Polo Grounds as a child and is a Mets fan.

Jonathan Gould's Website - https://www.jonathangouldauthor.com/

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Chapters

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Talking Heads early engagement with African-American music (00:03:14)

3. When you're young you'll put up with a lot of stuff (00:06:10)

4. The art of writing about the music (00:09:59)

5. On the cover of The Village Voice (00:15:02)

6. Jerry Harrison had already been through the ringer (00:22:08)

7. David v. Tina: David was supposed to be doing what I'm doing right now (00:23:16)

8. Individual ambition meets a communial, collective institution (00:28:26)

9. Each album would be different than the one before it (00:33:54)

10. Jonathan Gould's favorites (today) (00:42:29)

11. Do we even want to see a Talking Heads reunion tour? (00:47:50)

12. Jonathan Gould was a Willie Mays fan and is now a Mets fan (00:51:26)

13. Coda (00:58:51)

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