Enablevue: Tom Jones Covers Talking Heads "Burning Down the House"-and Burns Down the House (1999)

It was supposedly "the album that finally obliterates the thin line separating arty white pop music and deep black funk," as David Fricke wrote on the release of Talking Heads' Speaking in Tongues. The praise maybe oversells music that is more arty white pop than "deep black funk." But there's never been any denying the [...] Tom Jones Covers Talking Heads "Burning Down the House"-and Burns Down the House (1999) is a post from: Open Culture. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter, or get our Daily Email. And don't miss our big collections of Free Online Courses, Free Online Movies, Free eBooks, Free Audio Books, Free Foreign Language Lessons, and MOOCs.