I've written previously about my surprise at hearing two different local bands play "Psycho Killer" by Talking Heads at the same venue. Recently, while looking back at KCOU's Top 88.1 Countdown from 1992, I was surprised to see that listeners ranked it 49th, one notch ahead of one of my favorite songs, XTC's "King For A Day."
I'm puzzled that "Psycho Killer" was the only Talking Heads song that made it into the countdown that year, when other, more widely palatable tunes of theirs, such as "Once In A Lifetime," "And She Was," "Take Me To The River," and "(Nothing But) Flowers," didn't.
I really hope that the tune's rhythm--and not its lyrics--are "Psycho Killer"'s main draw.
