David Byrne: U.B. Jesus

Looks Like a Suicide

Thu, 14 May 2015 at 14:31

La Demoiselle d'honneur

"Should we go outside?"

"I'm going to burn this city"

"And jet I thought the major was a lady suffragette"

"Skin, that covers me from head to toe / except a couple tiny holes and openings" * David Byrne: Glass, Concrete & Stone * released originally in the film Dirty Pretty Things, premiered on Sep 5th, 2002 * footage from Later with Jools Holland on May 7th, 2004

"We changed the light to low / it made our spirits glow / if it were up to me / I'd never let you go" * Blondie: End to End (music by Chris Stein, lyrics by Deborah Harry & Romy Ashby) * originally released in 2003 * Sessions@AOL on Feb 24th 2004

"Kun tulen kiinni sinuun / jumalatkin uskoo minuun / vaikka itse aina usko en" * Juice Leskinen: Syksyn sävel (released in the late 1975) \ footage from Estradilla: Senaattori ja Boheemi (released on Jan 15th 2005); live at the Tampere Hall on Nov 13th 2004

"Lähden pois / pois kotoani kauas / niin kauas / että unohtaa voin" * Trio Kamara: Hollola - Lahti (Love lompakossa) (composed by Jouni Kannisto, Iiro Ollila and Ilkka Talasranta, lyrics by I. Talasranta), released on the soundtrack from the film Kukkia ja sidontaa in autumn 2004

150 years (and 5 days) since the autonomization of Finnish - "Helvetin hyvin menee" * PMMP: Rusketusraidat (composed by Jori Sjöroos, lyrics by PMMP: Paula Vesala & Mira Luoti), released in Jun 2003, video directed by Kusti Manninen (first aired in 2004)

"Every man is the wrong man" * Lydia Lunch: Hot Tip (L. Lunch / Len Del Rio / Tommy Grenas, 2004)