Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues

Artist:

Talking Heads

See Also:

Tom Tom Club Beatles (The) Byrne, David Brown, James Dylan, Bob Various Artists - Up All Night: Jammin` To The Talking Heads

Description:

Talking Heads: David Byrne (vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, percussion); Tina Weymouth (guitar, keyboards, bass, background vocals); Jerry Harrison (guitar, keyboards, background vocals); Chris Frantz (drums, keyboards, background vocals).
Additional personnel: Alex Weir (guitar); Shankar (violin); Richard Landry (saxophone); Wally Badarou, Bernie Worrell (synthesizer); Steve Scales, David Van Tieghem (percussion); Dolette MacDonald, Nona Hendryx (background vocals).
On REMAIN IN LIGHT, the Heads fused their twitchy, intellectual geek-rock sensibilities with an organic, spiritual funkiness that catapulted them into a new artistic realm, virtually unfettered by the shackles of their "new wave" past. SPEAKING IN TONGUES picks up where that album left off, expanding on the band`s newfound funk aesthetic and even upping the danceability quotient a notch or two. The Heads let their hair down a bit more here than on REMAIN IN LIGHT, but while the tone is a bit less serious (as on the party-starting "Burning Down The House,") the highly developed conceptual sensibilites of Byrne and company are still at work, even without the assistance of former producer Brian Eno.
Some of the previous album`s airy abstractions are stripped away here, to make more room on the dance floor. Tunes like "Girlfriend is Better" attack both the feet and the mind, in typically quirky Talking Heads style. "This Must Be the Place/Naive Melody" stands out as a pretty, affecting ballad about finding a sense of belonging (it`s melodic charms were so pervasive it was eventually covered by folk-rocker Shawn Colvin).

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Burning Down the House
2. Making Flippy Floppy
3. Girlfriend Is Better
4. Slippery People
5. I Get Wild / Wild Gravity
6. Swamp
7. Moon Rocks
8. Pull up the Roots
9. This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)

Album Information

Release Date:

10/25/1990

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Rock & Pop

Subgenre:

New Wave

Label:

Sire Records (USA)

Producer:

Talking Heads

Catalog Number:

23883

Original Release Year:

1983

# of Discs:

1

SPARS Coding:

AAD

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

Runtime:

41 : 16

Guest Artist:

Bernie Worrell; David Van Tieghem; Shankar; Nona Hendryx; Wally Badarou

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