Difference between revisions of "Heads"

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Heads are a recurring theme in TMBG songs.

Central theme

• Asbury Park - "I got kicked in the head"'
• Bangs
• Contrecoup
• Hall Of Heads
• Headless
• I Am A Human Head
• Mrs. Train - "I don't want to be first in line to see the missing head"
• My Man - "I guess my man's fallen out with my head"
• Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head
• Stand On Your Own Head
• There's A Light Coming Out Of My Head
• Till My Head Falls Off
• Turn Around - "There's a human skull on the ground" (see also Skulls)
• Unsupervised, I Hit My Head
• We Want A Rock - "Everybody wants prosthetic foreheads on their real heads" (see also Artificial Body Parts)
• You Probably Get That A Lot - Cephalophores
• You're On Fire - "Combustible head!"

Briefly mentioned

• A Self Called Nowhere - "The sunken head that lies in the bed"
• Aaa - "Turn your head around so I can see"
• Am I Awake? - "Something else besides my hair is growing from my head"
• Ant - "That ant crawled in your head in the nighttime"
• Anyone Can Fill My Shoes - "She'll pick a partner and turn his head around"
• The Bells Are Ringing - "They tilt their heads so they won't miss what it will say"
• Best Regrets - "I keep my head low..."
• The Big Big Whoredom - "There's plenty more heads of hair for us out there"
• Can't Keep Johnny Down - "...I don't forget a face"
• CATENAS MEAS AMISI - (transl.) "No heads are turned"
• Certain People I Could Name - "Count the arms, the legs and heads, and then divide by five"
• Columbia - "No need to hang your head down"
• Crystal Fortress - "Her head is bowed and a tiny tear traces these words in the dew"
• Dead - "Did a large procession wave their torches as my head fell in the basket"
• The Drinky Crow Show Theme (Demo 2) - "Off with their heads, off with their heads"
• Experimental Film - "I already know the ending it's / the part that makes your face implode"
• Finished With Lies - "I should have my head examined"
• Flo Wheeler - "Something snaps inside my head"
• Flying V - "You've got to tilt your head to see"
• Four Of Two - "I lay my head down on the sidewalk"
• Homunculus - "It stuck in your head and now you're crying"
• The House At The Top Of The Tree-"Dog with his head out the window"
• House Of Mayors - "And turn their heads and blink their eyes"
• I Palindrome I - "I am a snake head eating the head on the opposite side"
• I'm Impressed - "My head's nodding 'yes'"
• I'm Your Boyfriend Now - "listening to voices in my head"
• I've Got A Fang - "Her head exploded like a atom bomb"
• Lazyhead And Sleepybones - Lazyhead
• Letterbox - "If I had a pair of eyes in the back of my head for each time"
• McCafferty's Bib - "If only there were some way to shut out / All this noise in my head"
• Mink Car - "It's all in your head"
• Nightgown Of The Sullen Moon - "Fire alarms go off in your head"
• Number Two - "Two ears on your head, so you can hear when I'm talkin'"
• Nothing's Gonna Change My Clothes - "Their heads are caving in"
• Old Pine Box - "With your head full of rocks"
• Or So I Have Read - "If you swallowed up the planet ... It would be inside your head", "Microscopic astronauts / Will land on your head"
• Particle Man - "Hit on the head with a frying pan"
• Pencil Rain - "Now helmets on each head"
• Pictures Of Matchstick Men - Dream Medley - "I soak my head"
• Prevenge - "On the headfo"
• Protagonist - "I need new head shots"
• Rhythm Section Want Ad - "The New Age hairstyle made of bones" sounds like a reference to skulls, unless this is some bit of cultural minutae I'm not up on....
• Robot Design - "Rest your head on the chopping block"
• Rocket Ship - "Head in the way of the viewers"
• Sally Boy Candy Bar - "Ya got a heart for a head"
• Savoy Truffle - "The sweat is going to fill your head"
• S-E-X-X-Y - "Wig on her head"
• The Secret Life Of Six - "Six knows how to stand on his head" (as does Nine)
• See The Constellation - "I lay my head on the railroad track"
• Sensurround- "When I was only a zygote, I still remember the time... when there was nothing to know or to think about except the sound of my mind."
• Sketchy Galore - "Sketchy Galore is scratching his head with a flashlight"
• Sleeping In The Flowers - "He showed me how to spin my head round and round"
• Social Media - "Trying to clear my head and ignore the crowd"
• Somebody's Body - "What's the writing on your forehead say?"
• Someone Keeps Moving My Chair - "...on the back of your head?"
• South Carolina - "It crushed my head"
• Spine - "And I've been rubbin' my head against my neck", "And I've been walkin' my fingers through my mind"
• Spoiler Alert - "One to scratch my head"
• Tucson - "No head on my body"
• Violin - "George Washington's head"
• What Bothers The Spaceman? - "The teeth in his head"
• When Tornadoes Take Over The World - "Your friends will be swirling right above your disembodied head"
• Where Your Eyes Don't Go - "There's a pair of eyes in back of your head", "When the skull head is in front of you"
• Whistling In The Dark - "And hit my head on the wall of the jail"
• Withered Hope - "Gave her everything he was holding in his head"
• You Are Old, Father William - "And yet you incessantly stand on your head"
• You Probably Get That A Lot - "As the headless horseman said to his associate"
• Your Racist Friend - "My head can't tolerate this bobbin' and pretendin'

Honorable mentions

• I Like Fun - The music video shows a drug trip that takes the narrator to a birthday party for talking heads, of which he and his cat are now one of them.
• John Henry and Back To Skull album covers
• She Thinks She's Edith Head - A song about Edith Head, the person, not Edith's head

See also

• Body Parts
• Skulls
• Hair
• Artificial Body Parts