Talking Heads ‎- Speaking In Tongues Clear Vinyl LP Limited Edition Sire Records

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Talking Heads ‎- Speaking In Tongues Clear Vinyl LP Limited Edition Sire Records

Tracklist

Position Title/Credits Duration A1 Burning Down The House Percussion – Steve ScalesSynthesizer – Wally Badarou 4:00 A2 Making Flippy Floppy Guitar – Alex WeirViolin – Shankar 4:36 A3 Girlfriend Is Better Synthesizer – Bernie Worrell 4:25 A4 Slippery People Backing Vocals – Dolette McDonald, Nona HendryxPercussion – Raphael DejesusSaxophone – Richard Landry 3:30 A5 I Get Wild / Wild Gravity Percussion – David Van Tieghem, Raphael Dejesus 4:06 B1 Swamp Guitar – Alex WeirSynthesizer – Wally Badarou 5:09 B2 Moon Rocks Guitar – Alex WeirPercussion – Steve Scales 5:04 B3 Pull Up The Roots Guitar – Alex WeirPercussion – Raphael Dejesus 5:08 B4 This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) Percussion – David Van TieghemSynthesizer – Wally Badarou 4:56

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Sire Records Company
• Copyright (c) – Sire Records Company
• Recorded At – Blank Tape Studios
• Recorded At – Compass Point Studios
• Mixed At – Compass Point Studios
• Recorded At – Sigma Sound Studios, New York
• Mixed At – Sigma Sound Studios, New York
• Mastered At – Sterling Sound
• Lacquer Cut At – Sterling Sound
• Mastered At – Sheffield Lab Matrix – △ 3951
• Mastered At – Sheffield Lab Matrix – △ 4430
• 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
• Design [Cover / Package] – Robert Rauschenberg
• 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

Notes

Basic tracks recorded at Blank Tapes, NY.
Final overdubbing and mixing at Compass Point Studios and Sigma Sound, NY.
Originally Mastered at Sterling Sound, NY.

Limited edition of 50,000. Clear vinyl.
The packaging, designed by Robert Rauschenberg, is a transparent plastic case with artwork and credits printed on 3 12" circular transparent collages, one per primary color.

Most copies originally came sealed with a round transparent sticker affixed on the sealing material, on the front at the top right hand corner :
Special Limited Edition
Talking Heads
Speaking in Tongues
1-23771
$ 12.98 H
Concept by Robert Rauschenberg

Some copies imported to Canada had a different, white rectangular sticker :
Imported For Distribution In Canada By /
Importées Et Pour Distribution Au Canada Par
WEA Music Of Canada Ltd.
1810 Birchmount R. Scarborough Ontario M1P2J1

The full-color source material at the bottom of the images page came from a blog post by David Byrne about the project that can be found here.

Runouts are etched, except for STERLING, which is stamped.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (Side A, runout, variant 1): 1-1 23771 A SH3 SLM △ 4430 ─◁
• Matrix / Runout (Side B, runout, variant 1): T 23771 B SH4 SLM △ 4430-X ─◁ 1-1 STERLING
• Matrix / Runout (Side A, runout, variant 2): 1 23771 A SH3 SLM △ 4430 1-1 -─◁ STERLING
• Matrix / Runout (Side B, runout, variant 2): △ 3951-X 1-4 1 23771 B SH4 SLM △ 4430-X · ─◁ 1-1 STERLING

Media: Mint (M) Absolutely perfect in every way. Certainly never been played. Should be used sparingly as a grade.

Sleeve: Mint (M)

3 Convenient Pickup Locations:

Gordon LaSalle Music 993 Main St. East Hartford, CT 06108
Gordon LaSalle Music  339 Main St. Southbridge, MA 01550
Gordon LaSalle Music 14 Watertower Plaza Leominster, MA 01453