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David Byrne is completely amazing

Is it possible to not like David Byrne? I don't know that it is!

I am currently listening to the music he did for the HBO series Big Love, and it is amazing. I have not seen the television show, but it is apparently about a fundamentalist Mormon family, so the music he wrote for it is in the style of ecclesiastical/hymnal music.

The thing about Byrne is that he can write music in basically any style ever and it will own. David Byrne whistled a better tune than you will ever come up with this morning while he was frying eggs, and he didn't even write it down. It's like he basically owns so hard that he can bring out the absolute best in any genre he chooses to compose in and get even the most xXxhardcorexXx metalhead to admit that folk music or Italian classical or whatever is good too

I kind of want to be him when I grow up. I have this thing where I write songs in all kinds of different styles, but I don't have the wherewithal to record them. I wish I had access to an orchestra, or at least a brass section. Some people who can play Eastern European folk instruments, or African melodic percussion. I need to make some connections or get a grant or something. Does anyone want to give me a few thousand bucks to hire a choir. Damb.

anyway yeah get Big Love: Hymnal and probably Grown Backwards. His new album with Eno is pretty good too

now playin (that other song ended a while ago): David Byrne - Au Fond du Temple Saint. yeah he did a Bizet aria. what up.