Few bands have the résumé that the Talking Heads built during their initial 16-year run as the New York punk scene’s sharpest offspring. Here, we’ve collected our picks for their greatest tracks ever, including “Life During Wartime,” “Once in a Lifetime,” and “And She Was.”
Here’s the thing about breaking on Saturday Night Live. Sometimes it makes you want to join in, and sometimes you want to grab them by the lapels and shake.
Every Saturday, Paste will be revisiting albums that came out before the magazine was founded in July 2002 and assessing its current cultural relevance. This week, we’re looking at the Ramones’ 1989 swan song—an album written and recorded as the punk titans’ reverence was fading away, one member wanted to pursue a rap career, and the band was fracturing straight down the middle.
It seemed possible that translating Allen’s dialogue into French might excuse the clunkiness that he used to deflect with genuine witticisms. For an American viewer, it only further deflects any blame from the actors, laying out Allen’s awkwardly declamatory dialogue in subtitles.
We love a hotel with some history to it.