Artist: TALKING HEADS
Album: STOP MAKING SENSE SPECIAL EDIT. (CD)

Release date: 1984/ 2009
EAN/UPS: 0724352245321
Media type: CD

Stop Making Sense is a live 1984 album by Talking Heads, the soundtrack to the film of the same name. The original release of the album features only nine of the songs from the movie, many of them heavily edited. The album spent more than two years (118 weeks) on the Billboard 200 chart. In 1999, a 16-track re-release coincided with the concert's 15th anniversary.

Byrne's intention was not to make a traditional soundtrack album, but to have it be a separate experience. Limited pressings of the original LP version featured a full color picture book wrapped around the album jacket. Regular versions had many of the pictures and captions on the album's inner sleeve. In 1999 - to correspond with the theatrical re-release of the movie - the album was extended and remastered, restoring all of the songs from the movie with only very minor edits. The newly included tracks feature Frantz's original drumming from the concert recordings.

In 2003, the album was ranked number 345 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In 2012 Slant Magazine listed the album at #61 on its list of "Best Albums of the 1980s".

All songs written by David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth except as noted.

Bonus live tracks "Heaven" and "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)" were available as B-sides on various US 7" and UK 12" singles during the album's original release. These versions were released on the Special Edition soundtrack.

TRACKLIST:

1."Psycho Killer" (Byrne, Frantz, Weymouth) – 4:24
2."Heaven" (Byrne, Harrison) – 3:41
3."Thank You for Sending Me an Angel" (Byrne) – 2:09
4."Found a Job" (Byrne) – 3:15
5."Slippery People" – 4:00
6."Burning Down the House" – 4:06
7."Life During Wartime" – 5:51
8."Making Flippy Floppy" – 4:40
9."Swamp" – 4:30
10."What a Day That Was" (Byrne) – 6:00
11."This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)" – 4:57
12."Once in a Lifetime" (Byrne, Eno, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) – 5:25
13."Genius of Love" (Weymouth, Frantz, Adrian Belew, Steven Stanley) (performed by Tom Tom Club) – 4:30
14."Girlfriend Is Better" – 5:06
15."Take Me to the River" (Green, Hodges) – 5:32
16."Crosseyed and Painless" (Byrne, Eno, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) – 6:11

LINE-UP:

David Byrne – guitar, vocals
Chris Frantz – drums, vocals
Jerry Harrison – guitar, keyboards, vocals
Tina Weymouth – bass, guitar, keyboards, vocals

Additional personnel:
Bernie Worrell – keyboards
Alex Weir – guitar, vocals
Steve Scales – percussion
Edna Holt – backing vocals
Lynn Mabry – backing vocals