Album
True Stories
1986 · Electronic, Rock
61 collectors on Gatefold own this
True Stories is an Electronic album by Talking Heads, originally released in 1986. On Gatefold: 115 pressings tracked, owned by 61 collectors.
About
David Byrne directed and co-wrote a feature film, <i>True Stories</i>, that used tabloid stories of small-town oddities as a way of exploring American life in the mid-1980, and wrote songs that Talking Heads recorded for an album, also named <i>True Stories</i>. The movie hints at some of David Lynch’s later work, especially <i>Twin Peaks</i>, and Richard Linklater’s early movies—everyone onscreen in <i>True Stories</i> is an eccentric, even if it’s initially kept hidden. Critic Roger Ebert said the movie seems “haunted with secret, evasion, loneline, depravity, or hidden joy.” Cynics called it a condescending look at Middle America from a celebrated East Coast <i>artiste</i>, but the screenplay and the <i>True Stories</i> album are consistent with Byrne’s career-long interest in writing about small thing, and finding what’s fascinating about the mundane. Why shouldn’t the guy who wrote songs about paper, animal, and buildings also sing about shopping malls and fur pajamas? .
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1Love For Sale4:30
- A2Puzzlin' Evidence5:23
- A3Hey Now3:42
- A4Papa Legba5:54
Side B
- B1Wild Wild Life3:39
- B2Radio Head3:30
- B3Dream Operator4:39
- B4People Like Us4:26
- B5City Of Dreams5:06
Sound DNA
- Electronic
- Synth-Pop / New Wave
- clean
- earnest
- storytelling
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Chris FrantzBAND , DRUMS DRUMS PERFORMER , DRUMS
- David ByrneBAND , GUITAR, VOCALS GUITAR, VOCALS GUITAR, VOCALS, SONGWRITER
- Esteban JordanACCORDION MUSICIAN , ACCORDION
- Jerry HarrisonBAND , KEYBOARDS, GUITAR, BACKING VOCALS GUITAR, BACKING VOCALS KEYBOARDS, GUITAR, BACKING VOCALS
- Paulinho Da CostaPERCUSSION MUSICIAN , PERCUSSION
- Talking Heads
- Tina WeymouthBAND , BASS, BACKING VOCALS BASS, BACKING VOCALS PERFORMER , BASS, BACKING VOCALS
- Tommy MorrellPEDAL STEEL GUITAR GUITAR MUSICIAN , PEDAL STEEL GUITAR
- Bert Cross ChoirBACKING VOCALS FEATURING FEATURING , CHOIR
- Pops StaplesVOCALS
- St. Thomas Aquinas Elementary School ChoirBACKING VOCALS FEATURING FEATURING , CHOIR
- Steve Jordan Jr.ACCORDION
- Tito LarrivaVOCALS
- Tommy CamfieldFIDDLE MUSICIAN , FIDDLE
61 collectors on Gatefold own this · 115 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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