{"id":18836,"date":"2009-11-22T21:46:04","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T02:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=18836"},"modified":"2009-11-22T21:46:04","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T02:46:04","slug":"tina-weymouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2009\/11\/22\/tina-weymouth\/","title":{"rendered":"Tina Weymouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HN1t5qdBUzs<\/p>\n<p><em>Tom Tom Club, &#8220;Genius of Love&#8221; (single rather than extended club mix)<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tina_Weymouth\" target=\"_blank\">Tina Weymouth<\/a>&#8216;s birthday (born 1950).\u00a0 Tina is known primarily as the bassist for Talking Heads from the time of its inception in the early 70s until its slow demise in the early 90s.\u00a0 But with her side project, The Tom Tom Club, she had a monster hit in 1981 with &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Genius_of_love\" target=\"_blank\">Genius of Love<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0 This was the early days both of video and of rap as an emerging mainstream genre.\u00a0 The video remains charming (like most videos associated with anyone from Talking Heads, it is quite precocious), and the song, as unlikely as that may seem, was one the most sampled tracks by rap artists throughout the 80s and 90s.\u00a0 It still occasionally re-emerges from time to time.<\/p>\n<p>A real treat for Talking Heads fans after the jump.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EDtFTysmExg<\/p>\n<p><em>Talking Heads performing &#8220;Psycho Killer&#8221; live at<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CBGBs\" target=\"_blank\"> CBGB<\/a> in 1975, two years before their first breakout album, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Talking_Heads_77\" target=\"_blank\">Talking Heads &#8217;77<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HN1t5qdBUzs Tom Tom Club, &#8220;Genius of Love&#8221; (single rather than extended club mix) Today is Tina Weymouth&#8216;s birthday (born 1950).\u00a0 Tina is known primarily as the bassist for Talking Heads from the time of its inception in the early 70s until its slow demise in the early 90s.\u00a0 But with her side project, The Tom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","category-popular-culture"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tina Weymouth - The Educated Imagination<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2009\/11\/22\/tina-weymouth\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tina Weymouth - The Educated Imagination\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HN1t5qdBUzs Tom Tom Club, &#8220;Genius of Love&#8221; 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