Stop Making Sense (album)
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Stop Making Sense
Live album by Talking Heads
Released September 1984
Recorded December 1983
Venue The Pantages Theatre, Hollywood
Genre New wave, post-punk
Length 39:37 (LP)
46:29 (CD/Cassette)
74:16 ('Special New Edition' CD)
Label Sire/Warner Bros. (USA/Canada) EMI (Worldwide)
Producer Talking Heads, Gary Goetzman
Singles from Stop Making Sense
"Once in a Lifetime"
Released: February 1984
"Slippery People"
Released: October 1984
"Girlfriend Is Better"
Released: December 1984
Stop Making Sense is a live album by Talking Heads, the soundtrack to the film of the same name. It was released in September 1984 and features nine tracks from the movie, albeit with treatment and editing. The album spent over two years on the Billboard 200 chart. It was their first album to be distributed by EMI outside North America.
Limited pressings of the original LP version featured a full-colour picture book wrapped around the album jacket; regular versions had many of the pictures (printed in black and white) and captions on the album's inner sleeve. The CD release of the album includes the full-colour book, though rearranges the layout to conform to the dimensions of a square CD booklet (compared to the vertically-oriented rectangular shape of the LP book). In 1999, a 16-track re-release—with content and sound closely matching those of the movie—coincided with the 15th anniversary of the concert filming.
The album was ranked number 345 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.[1] In 2000 it was voted number 394 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums.[2] In 2012 Slant Magazine listed the album at #61 on its list of "Best Albums of the 1980s".[3]
Track listing
All songs written by David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth except as noted.[15]
Side one
"Psycho Killer" (Byrne, Frantz, Weymouth) – 4:28
"Swamp" – 3:50 (LP) 4:28 (cassette, CD)
"Slippery People" – 3:35 (LP) 4:13 (different mix; cassette, CD)
"Burning Down the House" – 4:14
"Girlfriend Is Better" (Byrne) – 3:32 (LP) 5:07 (cassette, CD)
Side two
"Once in a Lifetime" (Byrne, Brian Eno, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) – 4:34 (LP) 5:34 (cassette, CD)
"What a Day That Was" (Byrne) – 5:08 (LP) 6:30 (cassette, CD)
"Life During Wartime" – 4:52 (LP) 5:52 (cassette, CD)
"Take Me to the River" (Al Green, Teenie Hodges) – 6:00
General
Complete name : Talking Heads\Stop Making Sense\01 Psycho Killer [Live].mp3
Format : MPEG Audio
File size : 4.10 MiB
Duration : 4 min 28 s
Overall bit rate mode : Constant
Overall bit rate : 128 kb/s
Album : Stop Making Sense
Album/Performer : Talking Heads
Track name : Psycho Killer [Live]
Track name/Position : 1
Performer : Talking Heads
Composer : Chris Frantz/David Byrne/Tina Weymouth
Publisher : FAME
Genre : Alternative
Recorded date : 1984
Audio
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Format settings : Joint stereo / MS Stereo
Duration : 4 min 28 s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 128 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 kHz
Frame rate : 38.281 FPS (1152 SPF)
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Stream size : 4.09 MiB (100%
