Psycho Killer
~ Song
Relationships
| lyricist: | David Byrne (Talking Heads) Chris Frantz Tina Weymouth |
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| writer: | David Byrne (Talking Heads) Christopher Frantz Martina Weymouth |
| composer: | David Byrne (Talking Heads) |
| publisher: | Bleu Disque Music Co., Inc. (publisher) Index Music, Inc. Warner Bros. Music Ltd. (UK subsidiary, so named between 1970/01/23–1971/04/26 and 1972/04/25–1988/08/23) Warner Chappell Music (holding behind all publishing activities of Warner Music Group, 2019–) |
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| lyrics page: | https://genius.com/Talking-heads-psycho-killer-lyrics [info] |
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| SecondHandSongs: | https://secondhandsongs.com/work/5523 [info] |
| Songfacts: | http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=767 [info] |
| Wikidata: | Q1625706 [info] |
| later parody versions: | Psycho Chicken |
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| later translated versions: | Psycho Killer Психо‐Вбивець (Psycho Killer) |
| is the basis for: | Små pupiller |
Recordings
| Date | Title | Attributes | Artist | Length |
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| recordings | ||||
| 1975 | Psycho Killer (CBS/Columbia demo) | demo | Talking Heads | 3:31 |
| 1976-10-09 | Psycho Killer | live | Talking Heads | 5:22 |
| 1976-10-09 | Psycho Killer (live at Max’s Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76) | live | Talking Heads | 5:15 |
| 1976 – 1977 | Psycho Killer | Talking Heads | 4:21 | |
| 1977-01-21 | Psycho Killer (live, 1977‐01‐21: The Rat, Kenmore Square, Boston, MA, USA) | live | Talking Heads | 5:16 |
| 1977-01-22 | Psycho Killer (live, 1977‐01‐22: The Rat, Kenmore Square, Boston, MA, USA) | live | Talking Heads | 6:10 |
| 1977-01-26 | Psycho Killer (live, 1977‐01‐26: Jaberwocky, University Campus, Syracuse, NY, USA) | live | Talking Heads | 5:23 |
| 1977-01-26 | Psycho Killer (live at the Jabberwocky club, Syracuse, NY, 1/26/77) | live | Talking Heads | 4:52 |
| 1977-10-10 | Psycho Killer (live, 1977‐10‐10: CBGB, New York, NY) | live | Talking Heads | 5:54 |
| 1977-11-17 | Psycho Killer (live, 1977-11-17: WCOZ broadcast, Northern Studio, Maynard, Massachusetts, USA) | live | Talking Heads | 5:32 |
| 1977-12-03 | Psycho Killer (live, 1977-12-03: The Old Waldorf, San Francisco, CA, USA) | live | Talking Heads | 5:42 |
| 1977-12-03 | Pyscho Killer (live, 1977-12-03: The Old Waldorf, San Francisco, CA, USA) | live | Talking Heads | 5:51 |
| 1978-08-10 | Psycho Killer (live, 1978‐08‐10: Entermedia Theatre, New York, NY, USA) | live | Talking Heads | 5:00 |
| 1978-08-23 | Psycho Killer (live, 1978-08-23: Park West, Chicago, IL, USA) | live | Talking Heads | 6:02 |
| 1978-08-28 | Psycho Killer (live, 1978-08-28: Park West, Chicago, IL, USA) | live | Talking Heads | 6:01 |
| 1978-08 | Psycho Killer (live, 1978-08: Calderone Concert Hall, Hempstead, NY, USA) | live | Talking Heads | 6:16 |
| 1978-09-13 | Psycho Killer (live, 1978-09-13: Park West, Chicago, IL, USA) | live | Talking Heads | 6:02 |
| 1978-09-16 | Psycho Killer (live, 1978-09-16: The Boarding House, San Francisco, CA, USA) | live | Talking Heads | 6:52 |
| 1978-12-11 | Psycho Killer (live, 1978-12-11: Texas Palladium, Dallas, TX, USA) | live | Talking Heads | 7:20 |
| 1978-12-12 | Psycho Killer (live, 1978-12-12: Opry House, Houston, TX, USA) | live | Talking Heads | 6:32 |
| 1978-12-15 | Psycho Killer (live, 1978-12-15: Park West, Chicago, IL, USA) | live | Talking Heads | 7:55 |
| 1978-12-18 | Psychic Killer (live, 1978-12-18: Agora, Cleveland, OH, USA) | live | Talking Heads | ?:?? |
| 1978-12-18 | Psycho Killer (live, 1978‐12‐18: Agora Ballroom, Cleveland, OH, USA) | live | Talking Heads | 7:21 |
| 1978-12-18 | Psycho Killer (live, 1978-12-18: Agora, Cleveland, OH, USA) | live | Talking Heads | 7:06 |
| 1978 | Psycho Killer (live, 1978: Lower Sproul Plaza, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA) | live | Talking Heads | ?:?? |
| 1979-08-24 | Psycho Killer (live, 1979-08-24: Berklee Performance Center, Boston, MA, USA) | live | Talking Heads | 7:00 |
| 1979-08-24 | Psycho Killer (live, 1979‐08‐24: Berklee Performance Center, Boston, MA, USA) | live | Talking Heads | 7:06 |
| 1979-08-24 | Psycho Killer (live, 1979-08-24: Berklee Performing Arts Centre, Boston, MA, USA) | live | Talking Heads | 7:51 |
| 1979-08-24 | Psycho Killer (live, 1979-08-24: Berklee Performance Center, Boston, MA, USA) | live | Talking Heads | 7:50 |
| 1979-08-24 | Psycho Killer (live, 1979‐08‐24: Berklee Performance Center, Boston, MA, USA) | live | Talking Heads | 7:03 |
| 1979-09-28 | Psycho Killer (live, 1979-09-28: Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley, CA, USA) | live | Talking Heads | 7:05 |
| 1979-12-07 | Psycho Killer (live, 1979-12-07: Electric Ballroom, London, England, UK) | live | Talking Heads | 6:30 |
| 1979 | Psycho Killer (live 1979) | live | Talking Heads | 5:58 |
| 1980-08-23 | Psycho Killer (live, 1980‐08‐23: Heatwave Festival, Mosport Park, Bowmanville, ON, Canada) | live | Talking Heads | ?:?? |
| 1980-08-23 | Psycho Killer (live, 1980-08-23: Heatwave Festival, Bowmanville, ON, USA) | live | Talking Heads | 4:05 |
| 1980-08-23 | Psycho Killer (live, 1980‐08‐23: Heatwave Festival, Mosport Park, Bowmanville, ON, Canada) | live | Talking Heads | 5:22 |
| 1980-08-23 | Pyscho Killer (live, 1980‐08‐23, remastered: Heatwave Festival, Bowmanville, ON, Canada) | live | Talking Heads | 5:31 |
| 1980-12-17 | Psycho Killer (live, 1980‐12‐17: Palazzo dello Sport, Rome, Italy) | live | Talking Heads | 5:04 |
| 1980-12-17 | Psycho Killer (live, 1980‐12‐17: Palazzo dello Sport, Rome, Italy) | live | Talking Heads | 5:04 |
| 1980-12-17 | Psycho Killer (live, 1980‐12‐17: Palazzo dello Sport, Rome, Italy) | live | Talking Heads | 5:04 |
| 1981-02-27 | Psycho Killer (live, 1981-02-27: Nakano Sunplaza Hall, Nakano, Tokyo, Japan) | live | Talking Heads | 5:25 |
| 1981-02-27 | Psycho Killer (live, 1981-02-27: Nakano Sunplaza Hall, Nakano, Tokyo, Japan) | live | Talking Heads | 5:34 |
| 1982-07-04 | Psycho Killer (FM) (live, 1982‐07‐04: Werchter Festival, Belgium) | live | Talking Heads | 4:58 |
| 1982-07-04 | Psycho Killer (live 1982) (live, 1982-07-04: Festivalpark, Werchter, Belgium) | live | Talking Heads | 5:02 |
| 1982-07-09 | Psycho Killer (live, 1982‐07‐09: Montreux Casino, Montreux, Switzerland) | live | Talking Heads | 3:26 |
| 1982-09-03 | Psycho Killer (live, 1982‐09‐03: US Festival 1982, Glen Helen Regional Park, San Bernardino, CA, USA) | live | Talking Heads | ?:?? |
| 1983-08-03 | Psycho Killer (live, 1983‐08‐03: Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA) | live | Talking Heads | 5:23 |
| 1983-08-05 | Psycho Killer (live, 1983-08-05: Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA) | live | Talking Heads | 5:23 |
| 1983-08-05 | Psycho Killer (live, 1983‐08‐05: Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA) | live | Talking Heads | 5:17 |
| 1983-08-05 | Psycho Killer (live, 1983-08-05: Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY,, USA) | live | Talking Heads | 5:23 |
| 1983-12 | Psycho Killer | live | Talking Heads | 4:25 |
| 1983-12 | Psycho Killer (live, 1983‐12: Pantages Theater, Hollywood, CA, USA) | live | Talking Heads | 4:25 |
| 1983-12 | Psycho Killer (live, 1983-12: Pantages Theater, Hollywood, CA, USA) | live | Talking Heads | 4:29 |
| 1992-03-24 | Psycho Killer (live, 1992-03-24: St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church, New York, NY, USA) | live | David Byrne & Richard Thompson | 4:47 |
| 1993-03-30 | Psycho Killer (live bootleg, 1993-03-28: Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, USA) | cover and live | Phish | 3:11 |
| 1993-06-06 | Psycho Killer | cover and live | Terrorvision | 3:10 |
| 1997-11-13 | Psycho Killer (live, 1997‐11‐13: Theater of the Living Arts, Philadelphia, PA, USA) | cover and live | Moxy Früvous | ?:?? |
| 1997-11-15 | Psycho Killer (live, 1997‐11‐15: Mercury Lounge, New York, NY, USA) | cover and live | Moxy Früvous | 4:28 |
| 1997-12-07 | Psycho Killer (live, 1997-12-07: Nutter Center, Dayton, OH, USA) | cover and live | Phish | 6:32 |
| 1997-12-31 | Psycho Killer (live, 1997-12-31: Hard Rock Cafe, Niagara Falls, NY) | cover and live | Moxy Früvous | 4:21 |
| 1998-10-31 | Psycho Killer (live, 1998-10-31: The Iron Horse, Northampton, MA, USA) | cover and live | Moxy Früvous | 11:17 |
| 1998-11-07 | Psycho Killer (live, 1998-11-07: The Tralfamadore Cafe, Buffalo, NY, USA) | cover and live | Moxy Früvous | ?:?? |
| 1999-08-15 | Psycho Killer (live, 1999-08-15: Antone's, Austin, TX, USA) | cover and live | Wilco | 4:41 |
| 1999-12-31 | Psycho Killer (live, 1999-12-31: The Tralfamadore Cafe, Buffalo, NY, USA) | cover and live | Moxy Früvous | ?:?? |
| 2000-05-21 | Psycho Killer (live, 2000-05-21: Six Flags, Darien Lake, NY, USA) | cover and live | Moxy Früvous | 7:23 |
| 2000-07-25 | Psycho Killer (live, 2000-07-25: The Bottom Line, New York, NY, USA) | cover and live | Moxy Früvous | ?:?? |
| 2001-02-17 | Psycho Killer (live, 2001-02-17: The Opera House, Toronto, ON, Canada) | cover and live | Moxy Früvous | ?:?? |
| 2009-02-17 | Psycho Killer (live, 2009-02-17: The Georgia Theatre, Athens, GA, USA) | live | Jason Isbell | ?:?? |
| 2009-08-14 | Psycho Killer | cover and live | Phish | 4:58 |
| 2010-03-25 | Psycho Killer (live, 2010-03-25: The Melting Point, Athens, GA, USA) | cover and live | Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit | ?:?? |
| 2010-05-12 – | Psycho Killer | cover | Móveis Coloniais de Acaju | 3:00 |
| 2012-07-06 | Psycho Killer | cover and live | Phish | 2:50 |
| 2014-03-07 | Psycho Killer | cover and live | Calling All Cars | 4:00 |
| 2015-02-07 | Heart of Glass / Sheena Is a Punk Rocker / Psycho Killer (live, 2015-02-07: River Street Jazz Cafe, Plains, PA, USA) | cover, live and medley | Daisy Berkowitz | 4:26 |
| 2015-07-18 | Sixteen Song Medley (live, 2015-07-18: Knitting Factory, Brooklyn, NY, USA) | cover, live, medley and partial | AJJ | 4:20 |
| 2018-03-17 | Psycho Killer | cover and live | “Weird Al” Yankovic | 4:17 |
| 2022-09-03 | Psycho Killer (live, 2022‐09‐03: Wembley Stadium, London, UK) | cover and live | Chevy Metal | 5:11 |
| 2024-10-31 | Psycho Killer (2024-10-31: St. Pete Pier, St. Pete, FL) | cover and live | Goose | 7:11 |
| 2024-11-10 | Psycho Killer (live, 2024‐11‐10: The Andrew J Brady Music Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA) | cover and live | Goose | 3:42 |
| 2025-06-06 | Psycho Killer (live, 2025‐06‐06: Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre, Greenwood Village, CO, USA) | cover and live | Goose | 3:36 |
| 2026-02-27 | Psycho Killer (live, 2026-02-27: WinterWonderGrass Festival, Steamboat Springs, CO, USA) | cover, live and partial | Magoo | 0:46 |
| 2026-03-01 | Psycho Killer (live, 2026-03-01: WinterWonderGrass Festival, Steamboat Springs, CO, USA) | cover, live and partial | Magoo | 0:43 |
| 2026-05-14 | Psycho Killer (live, 2026-05-14: The Camel, Richmond, VA, USA) | cover and live | Magoo | 8:23 |
| Blister in the Sun / Psycho Killer (acoustic) | cover and medley | Winston K. | 4:31 | |
| Psycho Killer | Talking Heads | 3:25 | ||
| Psycho Killer | live | David Byrne | 3:21 | |
| Psycho Killer (1975 CBS/Columbia demo) | demo | Talking Heads | ?:?? | |
| Psycho Killer | cover | Morning Forever | 4:03 | |
| Psycho Killer | cover | James Hall | 3:20 | |
| Psycho Killer | cover | Aluminum Babe | 3:38 | |
| Psycho Killer (acoustic version) | Talking Heads | 4:01 | ||
| Psycho Killer | cover | Garaj Mahal | 5:24 | |
| Psycho Killer (live, 2011-02-27: Vic Theatre, Chicago, IL, USA) | cover and live | Cage the Elephant | 5:07 | |
| Psycho Killer | cover | Joe Dolan | ?:?? | |
| Psycho Killer | cover | Purple Sex Heads | ?:?? | |
| Psycho Killer | cover | Marco Mengoni | 4:06 | |
| Psycho Killer | live | David Byrne | 5:06 | |
| Psycho Killer | cover | Bruce Lash | 3:54 | |
| Psycho Killer | cover | The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain | 3:16 | |
| Psycho Killer | live | David Byrne | 6:32 | |
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