Naive Melody (David Byrne Cover)

[jacksonfive]

Hey, I was just listening to this really great song by Arcade Fire. Its got a really cool violin part to it! Does anyone know if Owen played on this song?

Cheers ;D

[Owen from Final Fantasy]

The truth:

Steph, the projectionist, played "Naive Melody" for me three years ago and I flipped out. Final Fantasy covered it at least three times. The last time I played it was September 20, 2004, at the Deep Dark United CD release show at the Tranzac in Toronto.

The summer beforehand, Win stayed at Patrick's house and I played him the song. Me and Patrick went out for some groceries, when we came back, he was playing it on guitar. Shortly afterward, Arcade Fire started playing it live.

There was a double bill of Les Mouches and Arcade Fire in 2004, on June 24, at Lee's Palace. I played violin with Arcade Fire after the Les Mouches set. We ran through a few songs beforehand, and one of them was "Naive Melody". Me and Sara came up with an un-Talking Heads line at the end of the song, which you can hear us playing on the 7" recording almost a year later.

However, not knowing the Arcade Fire version of the song would ever be recorded, I co-opted that violin line in the recording of Has A Good Home. You can hear it at the end of "Furniture".

"Furniture" is, thus, a mishmash/ripoff of all three versions of "Naive Melody". Note the Tina Weymouth bassline, and the violin line sounding exactly like the opening keyboard line. Total rip-off.

[fiona]

sexyoxen said:

Me and Sara came up with an un-Talking Heads line at the end of the song, which you can hear us playing on the 7" recording almost a year later.

which 7" is that then?

[jacksonfive]

Thats a good story behind a great song
Oh! Owen, I'm kinda curious, do you remember some dorky kid who asked you for a hug at a show in Montreal last April? I think it was Club Lambi.

[dinosaur]

Neat story Owen! I just went back and listened to Furniture, and wow, it's really there. Can't believe I didn't notice it before. Do you have something like Psycho Killer or Take Me To The River up your sleeve for your Canadian tour in September?

[jbeckers]

sexyoxen said:

The truth:

"Furniture" is, thus, a mishmash/ripoff of all three versions of "Naive Melody". Note the Tina Weymouth bassline, and the violin line sounding exactly like the opening keyboard line. Total rip-off.

Is that why you don't play it live?

[vito]

haha a while ago i was just thinking "Furniture sounds very Naive Melody-ish, i bet it came from covering the song with AF"
whaddya know?

[nuvahk]

he played furniture live in Halifax
it was on piano if I remember correctly though, as part of the encore.

[finistratbob]

This is the eternal song that introduced me to the work of David Byrne

[lafnian1990]

This is a very cool lyrical composition that helps you focus on understanding the words. I heard this soundtrack in Almost Mine. This film was based on the book freebooksummary.com/category/almost-maine and tells the story of love in an urban setting. I like these light romance stories.

[jules]

Jul 23, 2006 19:52:45 GMT -5 jacksonfive said:

Thats a good story behind a great song
Oh! Owen, I'm kinda curious, do you remember some dorky kid who asked you for a hug at a show in Montreal last April? I think it was Club Lambi.

It’s the B-Side of Neighborhood 3 (Power Out) single . It was recorded live.

[Owen from Final Fantasy]

It's funny how memory changes. I retold this story fairly recently, but completely reversed the order... I said that I'd recorded "Furniture" before introducing the same line into the Arcade Fire cover. I was wrong! Glad I keep a journal these days