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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).
Live Recording
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).
Rolling Stone (11/89) - Ranked #54 in Rolling Stone's 100 Best Albums Of The 80's survey.
CMJ (1/5/04, p.12) - Ranked #12 in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1983".
Highly Recommended Speaking In Tongues Music | List Price | $7.98 (You save $1.79) | | Category | Rock Albums, Pop CDs, Rock/Pop, New Wave | | Label | Sire | | Orig Year | 1983 | | All Time Sales Rank |  5714  | | CD Universe Part number | 1099785 | | Catalog number | 23883 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Oct 25, 1990 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Talking Heads | | Engineer | Butch Jones; Alex Sadkin | | Recording Time | 41 minutes | | Personnel | David Byrne - vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, percussion
Jerry Harrison - guitar, keyboards, background vocals
Tina Weymouth - guitar, keyboards, bass, background vocals
Chris Frantz - drums, keyboards, background vocals
Also: Bernie Worrell, Wally Badarou, Steve Scales, Nona Hendryx, Shankar, David Van Tieghem, David Van Tieghem, Alex Weir, Richard Landry, Dolette MacDonald |
Talking Heads Speaking In Tongues Songs Speaking In Tongues Music Speaking In Tongues Music Review Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars)  Excellent Listening.
This is one of the best Talking Head cd's. Highly recommended.
Submitted by a reviewer (Brockton, MA) 
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No One of the greatest rock CD's ever
I put it up there with Unforgettable Fire by U2, Who's Next, Dark Side of the Moon, Zepellin 4, etc. I mention those even though people get tired of those and then prefer other ones, I am making a point that this record both was great musically and changed the music and had cultural impact.
Some musician friends of mine got into it and I found out they had to tune their guitars down in this really, really weird key and use effects to get the sound right. They were really good musicians and that enlightened me even more to how great this album was in technical terms.
The lyrics were supposedly composed in a collage manner yet they are as coherently smart and meaningful as could be, the apocolyptic preachers, dastardly politicians and the girlfriend you're going to marry are all sung about here, which means I'm in love. There is nothing like this record, it is one of the greatest of all time. They incorporated african rythms, unusual time signatures, innovative guitar and synth riffs and other bands couldn't even copy it. When the subsequent live album, Stop Making Sense came out, it became a huge cultural phenomenon, where I lived everybody got out in the aisles of the movie theater and danced to the movie. I've never seen anything like that.
Submitted by Andrew M. (Santa Rosa, CA, USA)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No best music ever made!
i like all the song on this cd.its a must have me.i and i recommend it to anyone.personaly my favorite songs in this album are/#s 2458and9.
Submitted by kim (corona CA)
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In 1972, Stax Records was second only to Motown as America's most successful black-owned record company, and as part of an ambitious bid to grow into a multimedia empire, the Memphis-based label had opened offices in Los Angeles and was eager to announce its presence in the community. The Watts Summer Festival was an annual celebration staged in the beleaguered Watts neighborhood of L.A., a mostly African-American community that had been scarred by race riots in the late '60s, and in 1972 Stax did something special for the occasion: it staged an all-day concert at the Los Angeles Coliseum on the final day of the Watts festival, with nearly every artist on the Stax roster appearing live on-stage and tickets priced at only a dollar. Over 110, 000 people attended the show, a camera crew was on hand to capture the proceedings for a feature film, and a mobile recording truck committed the whole show to tape. Two albums featuring material from the Wattstax festival appeared in 1972 and 1973, but both contained studio recordings along with material from the concert, and Wattstax: Music from the Wattstax Festival and Film is a three-CD set that brings together the lion's share of the previously released live material from the show along with a handful of previously unreleased performances recorded that day. This set tries to give a sense of the size, shape, and flow of the massive concert, opening with "Salvation Symphony" (a grand-scale orchestral piece written by Dale Warren, who led the big band that backed most of the performers) and an invocation by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, and closing with headliner Isaac Hayes winding up the crowd with "Theme from Shaft." Along the way, the festival attempted to showcase the breadth of both the African-American musical experience and the Stax artists, touching on gospel, blues and several flavors of rhythm & blues, though the jazz acts which appeared at the show didn't make the cut for this set. While these three discs feel a bit overstuffed, there's a wealth of memorable music here and some pleasant surprises, too.
Despite the absence of Yvonne Staples, who was sick that day, the Staple Singers turn in an engaging and deeply moving set, especially on "I Like the Things About Me," and while Lee Sain, William Bell, and Eddie Floyd only get one song each, they all make the most of their time on-stage. The Emotions offer a mesmerizing take on "Peace Be Still" in a performance recorded at an L.A. storefront church. The Bar-Kays tear ...
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