Talking Heads Speaking In Tongues Sire 1-23883 1983 Rare 1st Pressing SEALED

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Talking Heads ?– Speaking In Tongues Label: Sire ?– 1-23883, Sire ?– 9 23883-1 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Winchester Country: US Released: Jun 1983 Genre: Rock, Funk / Soul Style: New Wave, Pop Rock, Funk TracklistHide Credits A1 Burning Down The House Percussion – Steve Scales Synthesizer – Wally Badarou 4:00 A2 Making Flippy Floppy Guitar – Alex Weir Violin – Shankar 4:36 A3 Girlfriend Is Better Synthesizer – Bernie Worrell 4:25 A4 Slippery People Backing Vocals – Dolette McDonald, Nona Hendryx Percussion – Raphael Dejesus Saxophone – Richard Landry 3:30 A5 I Get Wild / Wild Gravity Percussion – David Van Tieghem, Raphael Dejesus 4:06 B1 Swamp Guitar – Alex Weir Synthesizer – Wally Badarou 5:09 B2 Moon Rocks Guitar – Alex Weir Percussion – Steve Scales 5:04 B3 Pull Up The Roots Guitar – Alex Weir Percussion – Raphael Dejesus 5:08 B4 This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) Percussion – David Van Tieghem Synthesizer – Wally Badarou 4:56 Companies, etc. Phonographic Copyright (p) – Sire Records Company Copyright (c) – Sire Records Company Copyright (c) – Talking Heads Tours Inc. Marketed By – Warner Bros. Records Inc. – 9 23883-1 Recorded At – Blank Tape Studios Overdubbed At – Compass Point Studios Mixed At – Compass Point Studios Overdubbed At – Sigma Sound Studios, New York Mixed At – Sigma Sound Studios, New York Mastered At – Sterling Sound Pressed By – Capitol Records Pressing Plant, Winchester Credits Backing Vocals, Double Bass, Guitar, Synthesizer, Music By – Tina Weymouth Backing Vocals, Drums, Synthesizer, Music By – Chris Frantz Backing Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Music By – Jerry Harrison Bass, Percussion, Guitar, Cover, Lyrics By, Music By, Keyboards, Synthesizer, Vocals – David Byrne Engineer [Assistant Mix] – Franklin Gibson*, Jay Mark Engineer [Assistant Recording] – John Convertino (2) Engineer [Recording] – Butch Jones Management – Gary Kurfirst Mastered By – Ted Jensen Mixed By, Engineer [Mix] – Alex Sadkin Producer – Talking Heads
Speaking in Tongues is the fifth studio album by American rock band Talking Heads, released on June 1, 1983 by Sire Records. Following their split with producer Brian Eno and a short hiatus, which allowed the individual members to pursue side projects, recording began in 1982. It became the band's commercial breakthrough and produced the band's sole US top-ten hit, "Burning Down the House".
The album's tour was documented in Jonathan Demme's 1984 film Stop Making Sense, which generated a live album of the same name. The album also crossed over to the dance charts, where it peaked at number two for six weeks.[2] It is the group's highest-charting album on the US Billboard 200.

David Byrne designed 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.
Release Original cassette and later CD copies of the album have "extended versions" of "Making Flippy Floppy", "Girlfriend Is Better", "Slippery People", "I Get Wild/Wild Gravity" and "Moon Rocks". The album was re-released in February 2006 as a remastered DualDisc. It contains the extended versions of the songs found on the original cassette, and includes two additional tracks ("Two Note Swivel" and an alternate mix of "Burning Down the House"). The DVD-A side includes both stereo and 5.1 surround high resolution (96 kHz/24bit) mixes, as well as a Dolby Digital 5.1 version of the album, a new alternate version of "Burning Down the House" with the emphasis on experimenting with the possibilities of surround sound, and videos for "Burning Down the House" and "This Must Be the Place" (videos are two-channel Dolby Digital only). In Europe it was released as a CD+DVDA two-disc set rather than a single DualDisc. The reissue was produced by Andy Zax with Talking Heads.
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."[3]
Critical reception Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating AllMusic 4/5 stars[4] Chicago Tribune 3.5/4 stars[5] Encyclopedia of Popular Music 3/5 stars[6] Rolling Stone 4.5/5 stars[1] The Rolling Stone Album Guide 4/5 stars[7] Smash Hits 9/10[8] Spin Alternative Record Guide 7/10[9] The Village Voice A?[10] Rolling Stone's David Fricke lauded the album's crossover nature, calling it "the album that finally obliterates the thin line separating arty white pop music and deep black funk." He elaborated that the songs are all true art rock, with the complexity and sophistication of the genre, yet avoid art rock's characteristic pretensions with a laid-back attitude and compelling dance rhythms, making it an ideal party album.[1]
In 1989 the album was ranked number 54 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 best albums of the 1980s".[11] In 2012 Slant Magazine listed the album at number 89 on its list of "Best Albums of the 1980s".[12]
Reviewing the album for AllMusic, William Ruhlmann said: "Talking Heads found a way to open up the dense textures of the music they had developed with Brian Eno on their two previous studio albums for Speaking in Tongues, and were rewarded with their most popular album yet. Ten backup singers and musicians accompanied the original quartet, but somehow the sound was more spacious, and the music admitted aspects of gospel, notably in the call-and-response of "Slippery People," and John Lee Hooker-style blues, on "Swamp." As usual, David Byrne determinedly sang and chanted impressionistic, nonlinear lyrics, sometimes by mix-and-matching clichés... Some of his charming goofiness had returned since the overly serious Remain in Light and Fear of Music, however, and the accompanying music, filled with odd percussive and synthesizer sounds, could be unusually light and bouncy.