Talking Heads ? Speaking in Tongues ? Rare 1983 Sire Records 1st Press Vinyl LP

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Speaking in Tongues Studio album by  Talking Heads Released June 1, 1983 Recorded July 1982 – February 1983 Studio

• Blank Tape and Sigma Sound, New York City
• Compass Point, Nassau

• New wave
• art rock[1]
• funk

1. "Burning Down the House"
   Released: July 1983
2. "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)"
   Released: November 1983

Speaking in Tongues is the fifth studio album by American rock band Talking Heads, released on June 1, 1983 by Sire Records. After 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. It is the group's highest-charting album on the US Billboard 200. It was also their biggest-selling album in Canada, where it was certified platinum in 1983.

Artwork

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.

Critical reception

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.

In 1989 the album was ranked number 54 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 best albums of the 1980s". In 2012 Slant Magazine listed the album at number 89 on its list of "Best Albums of the 1980s".

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, and the accompanying music, filled with odd percussive and synthesizer sounds, could be unusually light and bouncy. In his book on funk music, Rickey Vincent describes Speaking in Tongues as "deeply thumping funk disguised as modern rock."

Track listing

LP version

All tracks are written by David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, and Tina Weymouth.