Talking Heads ? Stop Making Sense ? Rare 1984 Sire Records Vinyl LP w/Insert ?

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Stop Making Sense Live album by  Talking Heads Released September 1984 Recorded December 1983 Venue The Pantages Theatre, Hollywood Genre New wave, post-punk Length 39:37 (LP)
46:29 (CD/Cassette)
74:16 ('Special New Edition' CD) Label Sire/Warner Bros. (USA/Canada) EMI (Worldwide) Producer Talking Heads, Gary Goetzman Talking Heads chronology Speaking in Tongues
(1983) Stop Making Sense
(1984) Little Creatures
(1985) Singles from Stop Making Sense

1. "Once in a Lifetime"
   Released: February 1984
2. "Slippery People"
   Released: October 1984
3. "Girlfriend Is Better"
   Released: December 1984

Stop Making Sense is a live album by Talking Heads, the soundtrack to the film of the same name. It was released in September 1984 and features nine tracks from the movie, albeit with treatment and editing. The album spent over two years on the Billboard 200 chart. It was their first album to be distributed by EMI outside North America.

Limited pressings of the original LP version featured a full-color picture book wrapped around the album jacket; regular versions had many of the pictures (printed in black and white) and captions on the album's inner sleeve. The CD release of the album includes the full-color book, though rearranges the layout to conform to the dimensions of a square CD booklet (compared to the vertically-oriented rectangular shape of the LP book). In 1999, a 16-track re-release—with content and sound closely matching those of the movie—coincided with the 15th anniversary of the concert filming.

The album was ranked number 345 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In 2000 it was voted number 394 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums. In 2012 Slant Magazine listed the album at #61 on its list of "Best Albums of the 1980s".

Background and recording

Frantz stated in the liner notes of Once in a Lifetime: The Best of Talking Heads, "When ["Slippery People"] was originally recorded on Speaking in Tongues, it had a funky and compact sound. This Stop Making Sense version is funky and big as a house. (Or should I say church?)"

Reception

"A bona fide classic," opined Neil Jeffries in a five-star review of the reissue for Empire, "a perfectly measured snapshot of a widely loved and respected band playing at the height of their powers ... No other band could do this. No other music movie soundtrack sounds this good." "A timely reminder of the achievements of perhaps the most underrated band of the post-punk age," concurred Q. "From its stripped-down intro ... to the nine-piece finale, Stop Making Sense remains heady, stirring stuff."

Track listing

All songs written by David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth except as noted.

Side one

1. "Psycho Killer" (Byrne, Frantz, Weymouth) – 4:28
2. "Swamp" – 3:50 (LP) 4:28 (cassette, CD)
3. "Slippery People" – 3:35 (LP) 4:13 (different mix; cassette, CD)
4. "Burning Down the House" – 4:14
5. "Girlfriend Is Better" (Byrne) – 3:32 (LP) 5:07 (cassette, CD)

Side two

1. "Once in a Lifetime" (Byrne, Brian Eno, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) – 4:34 (LP) 5:34 (cassette, CD)
2. "What a Day That Was" (Byrne) – 5:08 (LP) 6:30 (cassette, CD)
3. "Life During Wartime" – 4:52 (LP) 5:52 (cassette, CD)
4. "Take Me to the River" (Al Green, Teenie Hodges) – 6:00