Stop Making Sense is a live album by the American band Talking Heads, released in 1984 as the soundtrack to the concert film of the same name by director Jonathan Demme. The recordings were made in December 1983 during concerts at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, on the tour supporting the album Speaking in Tongues. The core line-up of singer David Byrne, bassist Tina Weymouth, drummer Chris Frantz and guitarist Jerry Harrison was expanded with additional musicians, including keyboardist Bernie Worrell of Parliament-Funkadelic. The album contains live versions of songs such as Psycho Killer, Burning Down the House, Once in a Lifetime and Take Me to the River. The accompanying film, in which Byrne wore his famous oversized suit, became one of the best-known concert films of the 1980s.

  1. 1 Psycho Killer
  2. 2 Heaven
  3. 3 Thank You For Sending Me an Angel
  4. 4 Found a Job
  5. 5 Slippery People
  6. 6 Cities
  7. 7 Burning Down the House
  8. 8 Life During Wartime
  9. 9 Making Flippy Floppy
  10. 10 Swamp
  11. 11 What a Day That Was
  12. 12 This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
  13. 13 Once In a Lifetime
  14. 14 Big Business / I Zimbra
  15. 15 Genius of Love
  16. 16 Girlfriend is Better
  17. 17 Take Me To the River
  18. 18 Crosseyed and Painless

ArtistTalking Heads
LabelSIRE
Number of discs2
FormatLP
GenreRock
StylesNew Wave, Post-Punk, Art Rock
Year26-07-2024
EAN0603497824007

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