GENERAL
ADMISSION4 US
artistsong
Crate record
Talking Heads

Crosseyed and Painless

1980 · via Phish

Talking Heads’ 1980 recording of “Crosseyed and Painless” is the earliest release on file. David Byrne, Brian Eno, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison and Tina Weymouth are credited as its writers. Also recorded by Phish (released 1997), Goose (released 2018) and Angélique Kidjo (released 2018), among 130 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz. It is on the album Remain in Light (1980).

From the counter

Talking Heads put it out in 1980, with five names on the writing credit, Brian Eno among them. Hear where the groove started, then notice how Goose and Angélique Kidjo both picked it up after.

Find it on YouTube ↗

Liner notes

Credited writers: David Byrne, Brian Eno, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison and Tina Weymouth.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1980.

On the album Remain in Light (1980).

Other recordings on file · first release year

130 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

From the regulars

No notes yet. Leave the first.

Public, with your handle. No links, 280 characters.
How you get here
Phish turned "Crosseyed and Painless" into a jam staple, but they were not the first. Which band put the original on record?Talking Heads
a knot from Phish · next: Talking Heads
Pull a thread from Talking Heads →

or start at Phish on a different knot →

Facts from MusicBrainz and the Rabbit Hole Records crate. The counter notes are written by the clerk, an AI, from those facts only. General Admission 4 Us: start with an artist, leave with a rare cut.