ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG - TALKING HEADS Speaking in Tongues LP CLEAR VINYL Pop Art

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You are bidding on a rare copy (Limited Edition) of TALKING HEADS - SPEAKING IN TONGUES, pressed on clear vinyl, with special packaging by the great artist ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG. Released in 1983 on SIRE RECORDS, # 1-23771 - this disc comes in a vacuum-formed plastic case and has 3 circular acetate inserts that rotate to configure different images. Each of the inserts is printed in its own primary color (Cyan, Magenta, & Yellow). The record has a pink label on side one, and a blue one on side two.
SIDE ONE:  1.BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE  2.MAKING FLIPPY FLOPPY  3.GIRLFRIEND IS BETTER  4.SLIPPERY PEOPLE  5.I GET WILD/WILD GRAVITY SIDE TWO:  1.SWAMP  2.MOON ROCKS  3.PULL UP THE ROOTS  4.THIS MUST BE THE PLACE (NAIVE MELODY)
This record is in near mint condition, I never played it. The outside plastic case has significantly yellowed (they all do, even when boxe or stored in the dark), but the record and insert discs have not, as you can see in the photos.
A great way to get a limited edition Rauschenberg Art Piece for cheap! Plus it's one of the better Talking Heads outputs. Selling at no reserve! I accept PayPal or USPS MOs, and will ship the next day. Shipping will cost $3.99 in the USA (contact me for overseas rates.) Good luck bidding.

After their debut in 1977, the Talking Heads released a studio album a year for the next three years (More Songs About Buildings and Food, Fear of Music, and Remain in Light), all produced by Brian Eno. Their fifth studio album, Speaking in Tongues, took three years to produce (the band released a live album in 1982 as a stop-gap). All members of the group put out solo projects in this time, but part of the delay might also have been the ambitious plans for the album packaging. 

“I approached Bob Rauschenberg in the mid-’80s to design a cover…I had recently seen some of his black-and-white photo collages at Leo Castelli’s gallery on West Broadway and thought they were amazing, and I wondered what he would do with an LP cover,” Byrne wrote in an op-ed obituary for the artist, published as Bob The Builder in the New York Times in May, 2008. 

Rauschenberg agreed, but didn’t simply want to provide an illustration for the standard 12” cardboard sleeve. “His package consisted of a conceptual collage piece in which the color separation layers — the cyan, magenta and yellow images that combined to make one full-color image — were, well, deconstructed. Only by rotating the LP and the separate plastic disc could one see — and then only intermittently — the three-color images included in the collage. It was a transparent explication of how the three-color process works, yet in this case, one could never see all the full-color images at the same time, as Bob had perversely scrambled the separations.”

RICHARD HELL johnny thunders THE RAMONES robert quine TOM VERLAINE patti smith RICHARD LLOYD fred smith BILLY FICCA hilly crystal ANDY WARHOL gerard malanga CBGB'S fender precision bass DEE DEE RAMONE blank generation GO NOW blondie DEBBIE HARRY i dreamed i was a very clean tramp THE HEARTBREAKERS sex pistols MALCOLM MCLAREN johnny rotten SID VICIOUS television TALKING HEADS seymour stein TERRY ORK andy warhol PATTY SMYTHE the new york dolls THURSTON MOORE sonic youth DIM STARS the factory THE CLASH joe strummer THE FEELIES max's kansas city PETE SHELLEY howard devoto MAGAZINE the cure THE SMITHS johnny marr MORRISEY mark e. smith ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN the human league THE FALL joy division NEW ORDER happy mondays THE STONE ROSES oasis LIAM GALLAGHER shaun ryder BERNARD SUMNER peter hook INSPIRAL CARPETS primal scream THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN iggy pop THE STOOGES talking heads CHARLES EAMES kelly slater MICK JAGGER the rolling stones KEITH RICHARDS the beatles BRIAN JONES velvet underground LOU REED maureen tucker STERLING MORRISON david bowie JOHN CALE roxy music BRYAN FERRY andy mackay BRIAN ENO rem PHIL MANZANERA wire THE CLASH mick jones JOE STRUMMER paul simonen CAPTAIN BEEFHEART blondie TALKING HEADS debbie harry ALAN VEGA chris stein SUICIDE tina weymouth JAMES CHANCE chris frantz THE CONTORTIONS robert gordon THE CRAMPS arcade fire LUX INTERIOR link wray THE GUN CLUB lenny kaye JEFFREY LEE PIERCE x KID CONGO POWERS exene cervenka BILLY ZOOM john doe