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Released | 1988 |
Genre | New wave,[1] post-punk,[2] art pop,[3] avant-funk,[4] worldbeat,[5] art punk[6][7] |
Length | 52:00 |
Label | Warner Bros. |
Producer | Alan Kleinberg |
Storytelling Giant is a 1988 compilation album of music videos by Talking Heads during the 1980s. The videos are linked by real people (not actors) telling stories from their lives; the stories have no logical connection to the videos.
The film has been released on VHS tape and laserdisc. A DVD version was released as part of Rhino Entertainment's Once in a Lifetime box set, with three additional videos.
Original track listing
[edit]All songs written by David Byrne, Jerry Harrison, Chris Frantz, and Tina Weymouth, unless otherwise indicated.
- "Prologue" (Japanese-only laserdisc track)
- "Once in a Lifetime" (Byrne, Brian Eno, Harrison, Frantz, Weymouth) (directed by Toni Basil and David Byrne)
- "Wild Wild Life" (Byrne) (directed by David Byrne)
- "Stay Up Late" (Byrne) (directed by Ted Bafaloukos)
- "Crosseyed and Painless" (directed by Toni Basil)
- "Burning Down the House" (directed by David Byrne)
- "And She Was" (Byrne) (directed by Jim Blashfield)
- "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)" (directed by David Byrne)
- "The Lady Don't Mind" (directed by Jim Jarmusch)
- "Love for Sale" (Byrne) (directed by David Byrne and Melvin Sokolsky)
- "Road to Nowhere" (Byrne) (directed by David Byrne and Stephen R. Johnson)
2003 DVD version track listing
[edit]All songs written by David Byrne, Jerry Harrison, Chris Frantz, and Tina Weymouth, unless otherwise indicated.
- "Once in a Lifetime" (Byrne, Brian Eno, Harrison, Frantz, Weymouth)
- "Wild Wild Life" (Byrne)
- "Stay Up Late" (Byrne)
- "Blind" (previously unreleased) (directed by Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel)
- "Crosseyed and Painless" (Byrne, Eno, Harrison, Frantz, Weymouth)
- "Burning Down the House"
- "And She Was" (Byrne)
- "Sax and Violins" (previously unreleased) (directed by Wim Wenders)
- "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)"
- "The Lady Don't Mind"
- "Love for Sale" (Byrne)
- "(Nothing But) Flowers" (previously unreleased) (directed by Tibor Kalman and Sandy MacLeod)
- "Road to Nowhere" (Byrne)
References
[edit]- ^ Cateforis, Theo (2011). Are We Not New Wave? : Modern Pop at the Turn of the 1980s. University of Michigan Press. pp. 2, 43, 73. ISBN 978-0-472-03470-3.
- ^ Jack, Malcolm (September 21, 2016). "Talking Heads – 10 of the best". The Guardian.
- ^ Holden, Stephen (February 28, 1999). "MUSIC; They're Recording, but Are They Artists?". The New York Times. Retrieved July 17, 2013.
- ^ Marks, Craig, Eric Weisbard (1995). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. ISBN 9780679755746. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Edmondson, Jacqueline. "Talking Heads". Music in American Life: An Encyclopedia of the Songs, Styles, Stars, and Stories that Shaped our Culture [4 volumes]: An Encyclopedia of the Songs, Styles, Stars, and Stories That Shaped Our Culture.
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(help) - ^ Gittins, Ian. Talking Heads: Once in a Lifetime : the Stories Behind Every Song. Hal Leonard Corporation, 2004. p. 5.
- ^ Partridge, Kenneth (October 8, 2016). "Talking Heads' 'Remain In Light' at 35: Classic Track-by-Track Album Review". Billboard.
External links
[edit]- Storytelling Giant at talking-heads.net
- Storytelling Giant at discogs.net