Stop Making Sense (1984)

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Title: Stop Making Sense
Artist: Talking Heads
Genre: New Wave
Released: 1984

Tracks:
1 - Psycho Killer - 4:28
2 - Swamp - 4:28
3 - Slippery People - 4:13
4 - Burning Down the House - 4:14
5 - Girlfriend Is Better - 5:07
6 - Once in a Lifetime - 5:34
7 - What a Day That Was - 6:30
8 - Life During Wartime - 5:52
9 - Take Me to the River - 5:59

Overview:
Stop Making Sense is a live album by American rock band Talking Heads, the soundtrack to the film of the same name. It was released in September 1984 and features nine tracks from the film, 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; standard 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, but it 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 film—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. In 2000 it was voted number 394 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums. In 2012 Slant Magazine listed the album at #61 on its list of "Best Albums of the 1980s".
Music information in first post provided by The AudioDB
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