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Stop Making Sense: Special New Edition [Original recording remastered]

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  • Audio CD (6 Sep 1999)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Original recording remastered
  • Label: EMI Records
  • ASIN: B000025AII
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 10,418 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Psycho Killer (Live) [1999 - Remaster] 4:24£0.89
Listen  2. Heaven (Live) 3:41£0.89
Listen  3. Thank You For Sending Me An Angel (Live) 2:09£0.89
Listen  4. Found A Job (Live) 3:15£0.89
Listen  5. Slippery People (Live) (1999 Digital Remaster) 4:01£0.89
Listen  6. Burning Down The House (Live) (1999 Digital Remaster) 4:06£0.89
Listen  7. Life During Wartime (Live) (1999 Digital Remaster) 5:51£0.89
Listen  8. Making Flippy Floppy (Live) 4:40£0.89
Listen  9. Swamp (Live) (1999 Digital Remaster) 4:30£0.89
Listen10. What A Day That Was (Live) (1999 Digital Remaster) 6:00£0.89
Listen11. This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) (Live) 4:57£0.89
Listen12. Once In A Lifetime (Live) [1999 - Remaster] 5:25£0.89
Listen13. Genius Of Love (Live) 4:30£0.89
Listen14. Girlfriend Is Better (Live) (1999 Digital Remaster) 5:06£0.89
Listen15. Take Me To The River (Live) [1999 - Remaster] 5:33£0.89
Listen16. Crosseyed And Painless (Live) 6:11£0.89

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Amazon.co.uk Review

The soundtrack to the Jonathan Demme documentary, Stop Making Sense captures the Talking Heads live in 1984 on what would turn out to be their last major tour. This collection, and the film, is a true gift to the band's fans, a testament to their extraordinary talent, both in the studio and especially onstage. Frontman David Byrne infuses each song with a jolt of energy and drama that could only have come from a late-1970s New York art-school student. Now-classic tracks such as "Psycho Killer", "Girlfriend Is Better", "Once in a Lifetime", "Take Me to the River", and "Burning Down the House" have never sounded better. --Lorry Fleming

BBC Review

It was a show about enlargement. Whether in David Byrne’s now iconic ‘big suit’ – an outfit better suited to a power-dressing Joan Collins that set the bar for the 80s shoulder-pad obsession at ridiculous heights – or in the way the band builds from a solo Byrne on an empty stage with a boombox and an acoustic guitar for Psycho Killer to a stage full of horn sections, backing singers and ex-Funkadelic players making Take Me to the River a blitz of sound and colour. Or, indeed, in the way the visual and artistic pretensions of this 1984 concert film and its soundtrack (the first rock movie made using entirely digital audio techniques) catapulted post-punk NYC oddballs Talking Heads from the art-funk underground into the mainstream ubiquity enjoyed by Road to Nowhere and Little Creatures the following year.

Though both open with the minimalist off-the-cuff intro of "Hi, I’ve got a tape I wanna play you," the original nine-song, 40-minute soundtrack release leaps straight from Psycho Killer to the funk stomp of Swamp, failing to capture the movie’s portrayal of the band’s slow build through the stark Byrne/Weymouth duet on Heaven and Thank You for Sending Me an Angel’s rockabilly rattle along the way. This is a set worth the long journey round, so you are directed to the 1999 reissue including a full half-hour’s extra material: the wheeled-on expansion of the band unravels in full, right up until arrival of the soul choir and bongo basher for Slippery People and a dazzling Burning Down the House.

Here we find the 80s at their most edgy and vital – the chart-y synth sheen that dominated the decade from Nik Kershaw to The Buggles to the Pet Shop Boys to Timbuk3 to SAW given a sinister collegiate twist and an afrobeat edge. You could argue that Stop Making Sense kept the 80s cheesy beyond its years and opened the door for Sting and his tribe-bothering millionaire muckers to keep world music uncool for decades to come; certainly it imbued the keytar generation with an intelligence and credibility previously stymied by its piano key ties and voluminous chinos.

But, damn, it’s good fun. An essential glance at the 80s mainstream’s underbelly, and showcase for some of the era’s most thoughtful and inspired tunes – Once in a Lifetime’s effervescent bemoaning of life’s inexorable drag towards mundanity or, at the other end of the emotional scale, What a Day that Was and its jubilant celebration of romance’s minutiae. Technically dated, sure, but the Heads’ coming of age still makes near perfect sense.

--Mark Beaumont

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Astonishing 23 Sep 2001
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Format:Audio CD
Tremendous achievement both conceptually and musically. Like most Talking Heads stuff this is artistically challenging. Like most Talking Heads stuff this is exceptionally funky. But unlike most Talking Heads stuff this album breaks both of those parameters to become emotionally effecting and genuinely warming. This is a review stuffed with verbs because Talking Heads' music does things rather than being things. A great introduction to a great band as well as the proper conlusion of the band's career. I can't recommend both this CD and the film itself highly enough.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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This album was my introduction to Talking Heads, and on the strength of "Stop Making Sense" I've bought four more of their albums. Forget about "Greatest Hits" packages - this is the ultimate Talking Heads collection. All the best stuff is here, but it sounds so much better live.

The standout tracks are "Heaven", "Slippery People" and "What a Day That Was". If you're a fan of Talking Heads then you'll already have this in your collection, but if they haven't infiltrated your psyche yet then listen to this and I guarantee you'll become a convert like me.

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
15th aniv. edit. 15 Nov 2005
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Format:Audio CD
after owning this original album and somehow losing it between house moves etc , bought the anniversary edition and it was "welcome back."If you like t.h. this is the band live and at their best , not really a weak song anywhere, naive melody is awesome as are heaven and burning down the house .Don,t think this music ever shows its age and if you,ve not seen the dvd buy it now!
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
stop making sense and press repeat
If there was one gig I could choose to go to, to turn back time and go anywhere in the world it would be this gig. Read more
Published 24 days ago by G. S. Haynes
Love talking heads....
Really don't like remastering. The vibrancy of the music is drastically reduced. That said it's a great album and there are a few extra tracks here.
Published 4 months ago by ben brimley
Lost Youth
I have recently been buying all the albums that I either had or wished I had bought growing up and this did not let me down!
Published 7 months ago by Hong Kong Phooey
You Have Been Warned
This is not the original album; several tracks have been added - they were previously absent for a very good reason, but can of course be ignored. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Brummy D
Going for Gold
The Talking Heads from 1977 could have been just another Punk/New Wave band but there was always something to suggest Americana rather than some techno thing. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Richard
Amazing soundtrack of a must see movie
"Stop Making Sense" is generally viewed as one of the best ever concert movies. The visuals of the movie are spectacular but listening to the CD in my car brought back to me how... Read more
Published 13 months ago by haunted
A true 5 star experience
Not often I give a 5 star rating to anything, but Stop Making Sense is a worthwhile exception.

This a concert (get the DVD too, I believe it was staged specifically to... Read more
Published 15 months ago by M. Saxby
Preserving the Talking Heads' place in music history
When we are talking about Punk Rock Music, the genre might have been defined by Johnny Rotten and the Sex Pistols, and Hole's "Live Through This" might be my favorite Punk album,... Read more
Published on 22 Dec 2003 by Lawrance M. Bernabo
Definitive reissue of classic Talking Heads album.
This edition of Stop Making Sense accompanied the re-release of Jonathan Demme's classic pop-movie capturing TH final tour to accompany Speaking in Tongues (1983)As a live album it... Read more
Published on 23 Aug 2003 by Jason Parkes
another fine release from the talking heads
this is a very good live record. it spans most of their career and encapsulates their best songs. i must say, however, that compared to the briliance of some of their earlier... Read more
Published on 20 Oct 2002 by "thecabinetscom"
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