Talking Heads – Stop Making Sense (VG/VG+) – LP, AU 1984

Stop Making Sense is an LP by Talking Heads from 1984 released on the EMI label.

About this album

Stop Making Sense is the essential Talking Heads release for hearing the band’s theatrical invention at full strength. Issued in 1984 as the soundtrack to Jonathan Demme’s acclaimed concert film, it captures the group’s expanded live line-up, with additional musicians giving new muscle and momentum to David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Jerry Harrison and Chris Frantz. The set reframes key songs such as Burning Down the House, Once in a Lifetime and Life During Wartime as a propulsive, tightly arranged performance rather than a conventional greatest-hits run-through. Blending new wave, funk and art-rock, it stands as one of the most celebrated live albums of the 1980s.