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This is not the soundtrack to the movie of the same name. It contains the same songs, but performed by the Talking Heads. (In the movie, the various actors sing the songs.)
This is a DualDisc, which contains a CD on one side of the disc and a DVD on the other.
Original Soundtrack/Talking Heads: David Byrne (vocals, guitar); Jerry Harrison (guitar, keyboards, background vocals); Tina Weymouth (bass guitar, background vocals); Chris Frantz (drums).
Heads leader David Byrne directed the film True Stories, which layed out the surreal vision of modern American life often expressed in Talking Heads songs. In the film, the songs Byrne wrote for it are sung by the actors, but this album features the Talking Heads' own versions of those compositions. Though it came towards the end of their career, TRUE STORIES is perhaps the most '80s-sounding Heads album, the recordings full of compression, electronic percussion and synthesizers.
The songs pick up on the heavily rhythmic, world music-inflected sound the band established a few years earlier, but with more of a pop/rock compositional approach. Despite the relative lack of sonic experimentation or quirkiness, there are some solid tunes here, like the catchy, funky "Puzzlin' Evidence" and the album's sole hit "Wild, Wild Life," an ironic rocker that could have come straight off LITTLE CREATURES.
This Dualdisc features the complete album on CD side, along with 2 previously unreleased cuts: the Pop Staples vocal version of "Papa Legba" and the Tito Larriva vocal version of "Radio Head." The DVD side includes the 5.1 mix of Pop Staples' "Papa Legba" along with the videos for "Love For Sale" and "Wild WIld Life."
Principally recorded at Studio Southwest, Sunnyvale, Texas.
Talking Heads: David Byrne (vocals, guitar); Jerry Harrison (guitar, keyboards, background vocals); Tina Weymouth (bass, background vocals); Chris Frantz (drums).
Additional personnel: Tommy Morrell (steel guitar); Tommy Camfield (fiddle); Steve Jordan (accordion); Paulinho da Costa (percussion); The Bert Cross Choir, The St. Thomas Aquinas Elementary School Choir. True Stories Music | List Price | $9.97 (You save $0.68) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, New Wave CDs, Rock, DualDisc | | Label | Sire | | Orig Year | 1986 | | All Time Sales Rank |  77381  | | CD Universe Part number | 7004894 | | Catalog number | 76455 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Feb 14, 2006 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Multi | | Producer | Talking Heads | | Engineer | Eric "E.T." Thorngren | | Personnel | Paulinho Da Costa, Steve Jordan, Tom Morrell, Stan Harrison, Kirsty MacColl, KIRSTY MACCOLL, Steve Scales, Steve Elfon, Tommy Camfield, Julie Last, Al Acosta, Tommy Morrell, Bert Cross Choir | | Additional Info | Bonus Tracks; Digipak; DualDisc |
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