Talking Heads -- "Take Me to the River"
The Talking Heads may have been incapable of writing love songs, but they could certainly play one. To take a song like this Al Green soul classic and try to make it your own is a daunting task. The risks are great. But they pulled it off, and the world is a better place for it. There's a great live version of this from Saturday Night Live at about the time of the album's release -- it's not available on youtube, so you might have to look around a little bit for it. Tina Weymouth looks freaked out.
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