00 - Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues.nfo
Despite their formal power, Talking Heads' preceding two albums seemed to have painted them into a corner, which may be why it took them three years to craft a follow-up, but on Speaking in Tongues, they found an open window and flew out of it. - William Ruhlmann/AMG
Speaking in Tongues (rendered on the album cover as SP EAK IN GI N TO NGU ES) is the fifth studio album by the band Talking Heads, released in 1983.
The album was a commercial breakthrough that produced the band's first (and only) American Top 10 hit, "Burning Down the House", which was accompanied by a promotional video. The following tour was documented in Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense, which generated a live album of the same name. (The concert film and live album's title comes from the repeated phrase "Stop making sense!" during the song Girlfriend is Better.) In addition, the album crossed over to the dance charts, peaking at number two for six weeks.
David Byrne did the cover for the general release of the album. Artist Robert Rauschenberg won a Grammy Award for his work on the limited-edition LP version. This album featured a clear vinyl disc in clear plastic packaging along with three clear plastic discs printed with similar collages in three different colors. Original cassette copies of the album have special extended versions of some of the songs.
Byrne has said, as a partial explanation of the album's title, "I originally sang nonsense, and uh, made words to fit that. That worked out all right."
Track listing
All lyrics were written by David Byrne; all music composed by Talking Heads.
Side one
"Burning Down the House" – 4:00
"Making Flippy Floppy" – 4:36
"Girlfriend Is Better" – 4:25
"Slippery People" – 3:30
"I Get Wild/Wild Gravity" – 4:06
Side two
"Swamp" – 5:09
"Moon Rocks" – 5:04
"Pull Up the Roots" – 5:08
"This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)" – 4:56
Talking Heads
David Byrne – vocals, keyboards, guitars, bass, percussion
Chris Frantz – drums, backing vocals, synthesizer
Jerry Harrison – keyboards, guitar, backing vocals
Tina Weymouth – synthesizer and string bass, backing vocals, guitar
Additional musicians
Wally Badarou – synthesizer
Raphael DeJesus – percussion
Nona Hendryx – backing vocals
Richard Landry – saxophone
Dolette McDonald – backing vocals
Steve Scales – percussion
Shankar – violin
David Van Tieghem – percussion
Alex Weir – guitar
Bernie Worrell – synthesizer
Professional reviews
Allmusic 4/5
Robert Christgau (A-)
Rolling Stone 4.5/5
Technical Log
RCM Hannl 'limited' with "Rotating Brush"
Music Hall MMF 9.1 Turntable
Tonearm: Pro-Ject 9cc evo with Pure Silver Wires
Cartridge: Nagaoka MP-500
Brocksieper Phonomax (Tube Phono PreAmp)
E-MU 0404 external USB 2.0 Audiointerface
Interconnections : Silent Wire NF5
WaveLab 6 recording software
iZotope RX Advanced 1.21 for resampling and dithering
Vacuum cleaning > TT > Brocksieper Phonomax > Laptop > WaveLab 6 (24/192) > manual click removal > analyze (no clipping, no DC Bias offset) > converted to 24/96 (16/44.1) with iZotope RX Advanced 1.21 > split into individual Tracks > FLAC encoded (Vers. 1.21)
No silence been removed, please burn gapless to match original tracklayout.
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