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Stop Making Sense [Special Edition, Live, Soundtrack]

Chris Frantz (Composer), Jerry Harrison (Composer), Talking Heads (Composer), Tina Weymouth (Composer) | Format: Audio CD
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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 the Heads' 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-'70s 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. This expanded 1999 reissue includes all nine of the original tracks, plus seven previously unheard cuts, including "Heaven," "Found a Job," and "Crosseyed and Painless." --Lorry Fleming

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5.0 out of 5 stars "The less we say about it the better....", July 13 2004
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Clare Quilty (a little pad in hawaii) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Stop Making Sense (Audio CD)
Back when I was a kid, during the 80s, my first love, whom I met at camp, used to write to me long detailed letters of her life, which seemed far more interesting and visceral than my own backwoods existence. She once mentioned that she liked Talking Heads, a group I'd never heard of but I ran straight out and bought the first cassette by them I could find -- "Stop Making Sense."

I used to go around on my paper route, in the freezing rain, under a hooded sweatshirt, cranking "What a Day That Was" and "Burning Down the House" on my Walkman, chilled to the bone and soaking wet but warmed by the incredibly upbeat rhythms and confusing lyrics.

By the time I was finally able to get the movie on VHS, I'd listened to the tape a million times and knew most of the songs. But I didn't know what the band looked like or what their stage show involved. Not only was I blown away anew by the Heads, but there were all these other songs I'd never heard. How, I wondered, could they ever have left "Naive Melody" off the initial album?

Anyway, that old first love is long gone, but she turned me on to the Talking Heads before she split and now the album has been reissued with the set-list intact (except for two songs). This music is caffeine in a bright cold can; it's like waking up and looking out the window and finding snow; it's drier-warmed sheets, and it's also the sound of a Saturday wake and bake, the sound of the first spring-forward Sunday afternoon. Good sounds. Enjoy!

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5.0 out of 5 stars The version I was waiting for, Jun 25 2004
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Rocco Dormarunno (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stop Making Sense (Audio CD)
In 1984, I saw Jonathan Demme's "Stop Making Sense" four separate times--this was not unusual for any Talking Heads fan. So when the soundtrack was released, I rushed to get a copy. It's not hard to imagine my disappointment to find that it only contained nine songs from the film. Nine! Where were "Heaven", "This Must Be the Place" and the Tom Tom Club's "Genius of Love"? This soundtrack was nothing less than a gyp!

Now, almost two decades later, is this new edition which contains so many of the tunes that I found unforgiveably left off the original! The sound is crisp and true. Without trying to overemphasize the importance of Talking Heads, this documentary of a truly great tour will reveal why this band had such a following, and why its music is still influencing the music of today.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Just a point of clarification..., May 12 2004
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This review is from: Stop Making Sense (Audio CD)
Just a point of clarification: this Special Edition CD is a great compilation and has great re-mastered sound, but it is not the complete soundtrack from the movie. The CD is missing the songs "Cities" and "I Zimbra"/"Big Business", probably cut out because it would force the compilation to be put onto 2 CDs instead of one.

Anyway, it's still a great disc so check it out.

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