Stop Making Sense Special New Edition

Description: Home About Us Postage & Payment Returns Contact Add Square Britain to your Favorites and receive our email newsletters about new items and special promotions. General Interest Stop Making Sense: Special New Edition Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense - Cd . The soundtrack to the Jonathan Demme documentary, Stop Making Sense captures the Talking Heads live in 1984 on what would turn out to be their last major tour. This collection, and the film, is a true gift to the band's fans, a testament to their extraordinary talent, both in the studio and especially onstage. Frontman David Byrne infuses each song with a jolt of energy and drama that could only have come from a late-1970s New York art-school student. Now-classic tracks such as "Psycho Killer", "Girlfriend Is Better", "Once in a Lifetime", "Take Me to the River", and "Burning Down the House" have never sounded better. --Lorry Fleming Review It was a show about enlargement. Whether in David Byrnes now iconic big suitan outfit better suited to a power-dressing Joan Collins that set the bar for the 80s shoulder-pad obsession at ridiculous heightsor in the way the band builds from a solo Byrne on an empty stage with a boombox and an acoustic guitar for Psycho Killer to a stage full of horn sections, backing singers and ex-Funkadelic players making Take Me to the River a blitz of sound and colour. Or, indeed, in the way the visual and artistic pretensions of this 1984 concert film and its soundtrack (the first rock movie made using entirely digital audio techniques) catapulted post-punk NYC oddballs Talking Heads from the art-funk underground into the mainstream ubiquity enjoyed by Road to Nowhere and Little Creatures the following year. Though both open with the minimalist off-the-cuff intro of "Hi, Ive got a tape I wanna play you," the original nine-song, 40-minute soundtrack release leaps straight from Psycho Killer to the funk stomp of Swamp, failing to capture the movies portrayal of the bands slow build through the stark Byrne/Weymouth duet on Heaven and Thank You for Sending Me an Angels rockabilly rattle along the way. This is a set worth the long journey round, so you are directed to the 1999 reissue including a full half-hours extra material: the wheeled-on expansion of the band unravels in full, right up until arrival of the soul choir and bongo basher for Slippery People and a dazzling Burning Down the House. Here we find the 80s at their most edgy and vitalthe chart-y synth sheen that dominated the decade from Nik Kershaw to The Buggles to the Pet Shop Boys to Timbuk3 to SAW given a sinister collegiate twist and an afrobeat edge. You could argue that Stop Making Sense kept the 80s cheesy beyond its years and opened the door for Sting and his tribe-bothering millionaire muckers to keep world music uncool for decades to come certainly it imbued the keytar generation with an intelligence and credibility previously stymied by its piano key ties and voluminous chinos. But, damn, its good fun. An essential glance at the 80s mainstreams underbelly, and showcase for some of the eras most thoughtful and inspired tunesOnce in a Lifetimes effervescent bemoaning of lifes inexorable drag towards mundanity or, at the other end of the emotional scale, What a Day that Was and its jubilant celebration of romances minutiae. Technically dated, sure, but the Heads coming of age still makes near perfect sense. --Mark Beaumont This link will take you offin a new window Shipping FREE SHIPPING. 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