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It's pretty hard to top a record as ahead-of-its-time as "Remain In Light". With the removal of Brian Eno, Talking Heads decided to move on with their base sound and, while it's not nearly as infectious, "Speaking In Tongues" is still an extremely fun, colorful, well-written and eccentric record that contains some of their funkiest moments!
Fav Tracks: Burning Down the House, This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody), Girlfriend Is Better, Making Flippy Floppy, Swamp, Slippery ... read more
Fav Tracks: Burning Down the House, This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody), Girlfriend Is Better, Making Flippy Floppy, Swamp, Slippery ... read more
A good album that suffers from way too much filler.
Speaking In Tongues is yet another great album from Talking Heads. From the few albums I've heard from them, it's become quite clear that in their prime they were easily one of the best bands to come out of the new wave genre, and this album continues to prove that. This is a consistently fun album, an album that continues to show their weird and colourful sound that never fails at making you want to get up and dance. When it comes to the ... read more
Speaking In Tongues is yet another great album from Talking Heads. From the few albums I've heard from them, it's become quite clear that in their prime they were easily one of the best bands to come out of the new wave genre, and this album continues to prove that. This is a consistently fun album, an album that continues to show their weird and colourful sound that never fails at making you want to get up and dance. When it comes to the ... read more
Great lyrics, but instrumentally not as impressive as Fear of Music and the godly Remain In Light. It's more empty and forgettable for me.
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Track List
- Burning Down the House
- Making Flippy Floppy
- Girlfriend Is Better
- Slippery People
- I Get Wild/Wild Gravity
- Swamp
- Moon Rocks
- Pull Up the Roots
- This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
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Added on: February 25, 2013