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Speaking in Tongues

 
 

Track listing (LP/early CD version)                                                              

Side one

1.         "Burning Down the House"                                04:01

2.         "Making Flippy Floppy"                                      04:34

3.         "Girlfriend Is Better"                                            04:22

4.         "Slippery People"                                                03:31

5.         "I Get Wild/Wild Gravity"                                    04:07

Side two

6.         "Swamp"                                                             05:12

7.         "Moon Rocks"                                                    05:03

8.         "Pull Up the Roots"                                             05:08

9.         "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)"          04:53

All tracks are written by David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison and Tina Weymouth.

Personnel

Talking Heads

David Byrne – vocals, guitars, keyboards, synthesizers, bass guitar, percussion

Jerry Harrison – keyboards, synthesizers, guitars, backing vocals

Tina Weymouth – bass guitar, synth bass, backing vocals, guitar

Chris Frantz – drums, backing vocals, synthesizer

Additional musicians

Wally Badarou – synthesizers (1, 6, 9)

Bernie Worrell – synthesizers (3)

Alex Weir – guitar (2, 6, 7, 8)

Steve Scales – percussion (1, 7)

Raphael Dejesus – percussion (4, 5, 8)

David Van Tieghem – percussion (5, 9)

L. Shankar – double violin (2)

Richard Landry – saxophone (4)

Nona Hendryx – backing vocals (4)

Dolette McDonald – backing vocals (4)

Technical

Talking Heads – producers

Robert Rauschenberg – limited edition cover art

David Byrne – original cover design

Title

Titolo in Italiano: “Parlare in lingue” - Byrne disse, come spiegazione parziale del titolo dell'album: "Inizialmente cantavo senza senso, e ... ho creato delle parole adatte. Ha funzionato bene."

Artwork

La copertina fu disegnata da Byrne.

Edizione Limitata
L'artista Robert Rauschenberg vinse un Grammy Award per il suo lavoro sulla versione LP in edizione limitata, che comprendeva un disco in vinile trasparente in una confezione di plastica trasparente insieme a tre dischi di plastica trasparente stampati con collage simili in tre colori.

 

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