Stop Making Sense

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Demme has stated that one night of shooting was dedicated almost entirely to wide shots from a distance, to minimize the intrusion of cameras on stage. The soundtrack is just as essential, given the impeccable performance of some of Talking Heads best songs from 'Psycho Killer' to 'Life During Wartime', 'Once In A Lifetime' and even Tom Tom Club's 'Genius Of Love'.

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Byrne would perform Girlfriend Is Better wearing his now-iconic, oversized business suit inspired by costumes worn in traditional Japanese theater. I didn't really know what was going on at the time but it must have made quite a bit of an impression as it comes to mind much more than old editions of Ted Rogers' '3-2-1' and 'Blankety Blank'. Today, David Byrne says it’s interesting that this album was – for many people – an introduction to Talking Heads: “We had done a live album before this, but coupled with the film, and with the improved mixes and sound quality, this record reached a whole new audience. As often happens, the songs got an added energy when we perform them live and were inspired by having an audience. American independent film firm A24 have also remastered the concert in 4K, bringing it back to select cinemas for a run of limited screenings.I don't know what an original vinyl sounds like (I had it on cassette back in the day), but it was digital to begin with. A routinely great artist, much of Sufjan's universal appeal comes from his skills as a gifted narrator, pairing personal musings on love and devotion with commentary on American culture, whilst welding folk and electronica, the ambient and existential. Speaking… remains their most eclectic, divergent, and hook-heavy album, where funk, synth-pop, disco, and early hip-hop influences collided. To mark the 40th anniversary of Jonathan Demme's acclaimed rockumentary, the soundtrack has been remastered again — and augmented with two more tracks. In March 2023, A24 obtained the worldwide distribution rights to the film, making Stop Making Sense their second acquisition for re-release following Pi (1998).

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While it focuses mainly on music by Talking Heads but does include a few songs recorded outside the band: ‘Genius Of Love’ by Weymouth and Frantz’s side-project Tom Tom Club and ‘What A Day That Was’ and ‘Big Business’ from Byrne’s 1981 album, The Catherine Wheel. As the meaning behind their label name suggests (a rough translation from Spanish as 'hill view') Loma Vista has climbed to the summit of today's musical landscape, engaging and representing a sweeping range of the most popular scenes and genres of today.Leonard Maltin gave it four out of four, describing it as "brilliantly conceived, shot, edited and performed" and "one of the greatest rock movies ever made. The band gradually introduces a member on stage with each successive song, with David Byrne opening with a solo acoustic and drum machine reversion of their early classic single ‘Psycho Killer’. It includes references to the staging and music styles of Talking Heads, with the band's lead singer (played by Fred Armisen) parodying Byrne.