![]() ![]() Bonnie Raitt on her live album, Road Tested.Tom Jones with The Cardigans, first single release from Jones's 1999 album Reload.A section of the song was covered by "Weird Al" Yankovic on his " Polkas on 45" polka medley.Rockets Redglare was also in the video playing Jerry Harrison's part. This was revealed on an episode of Headbangers Ball. Max Illidge, vocalist of the band 40 Below Summer, is featured as a young boy in the video. ![]() The house used in the "Burning Down the House" video is located on Myrtle Street in Union, New Jersey. It was also used as the track to the closing credits to the 1999 drama film Pirates of Silicon Valley.Īfter the September 11 attacks, "Burning Down the House" was one of the songs put on Clear Channel's list of possibly inappropriate songs. The song appeared briefly early on in the 1984 comedy film Revenge of the Nerds. I'd have loads and loads of phrases collected that I thought thematically had something to do with one another, and I'd pick from those."Īccording to Byrne in the NPR interview, phrases he tried but ultimately didn't use in the song's recorded "verses" included "I have another body," "Pick it up by the handle," "You travel with a double," and "I'm still under construction." As for the title phrase in the chorus, one early attempt (as heard on a worktape) had him singing a different line, "What are we gonna do?", and at another point in the process, "instead of chanting 'Burning Down the House,' I was chanting 'Foam Rubber, USA.'" Once the whole band had reworked the groove into something resembling the final recording, Byrne began chanting and singing nonsense syllables over the music until he had arrived at phrasing that fit with the rhythms-a technique influenced by former Talking Heads producer Brian Eno: "and then I just write words to fit that phrasing. In an interview on NPR's "All Things Considered" aired on December 2, 1984, David Byrne played excerpts of early worktapes showing how the song had evolved from an instrumental jam by Tina Weymouth (bass) and Chris Frantz (drums). Chris Frantz has stated that he thought of the eponymous chorus after seeing a Parliament-Funkadelic show in 1979 where group leader George Clinton chanted "Burn down the house." ( Bernie Worrell of Parliament-Funkadelic appears on the song playing synthesizer, a clavinet.) The initial lyrics were considerably different, however. ![]()
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