Talking Heads – Little Creatures
(EMI Records 1985 TAH2)
Matrix No’s: A1/B1 – UK Pressing
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Talking Heads were an American new wave and avant-garde band formed in 1975 in New York City and active until 1991. The band comprised David Byrne (lead vocals and guitar), Chris Frantz (drums and backing vocals), Tina Weymouth (bass and backing vocals) and Jerry Harrison (keyboards, guitar, and backing vocals). Auxiliary musicians also regularly made appearances in concert and on the group’s albums. The new wave style of Talking Heads combined elements of punk rock, art rock, avant-garde, pop, funk, world music, and Americana. Frontman and songwriter David Byrne contributed whimsical, esoteric lyrics to the band’s songs, and emphasized their showmanship through various multimedia projects and performances.
Critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine describes Talking Heads as being “one of the most critically acclaimed bands of the ’80s, while managing to earn several pop hits.” In 2002, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Four of the band’s albums appeared on Rolling Stone magazine’s 2003 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and the Channel 4 100 Greatest Albums poll listed one album (Fear of Music) at number 76. On a 2011 update of Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Artists of All Time”, the band was ranked at No. 100.
Little Creatures is the sixth album by Talking Heads, released in 1985. The album examined themes of Americana and incorporated elements of country music, with many songs featuring the steel guitar. It was voted as the best album of the year in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll and is the band’s biggest-selling studio album, with over two million copies sold in the US.
The cover art was created by outsider artist Howard Finster, and was selected as album cover of the year by Rolling Stone magazine.
In 2005, it was re-released and remastered by Warner Music Group on their Warner Bros./Sire Records/Rhino Records labels in DualDisc format, with three bonus tracks on the CD side (early versions of “Road To Nowhere” and “And She Was” and an extended mix of “Television Man”). The DVD-Audio side includes both stereo and 5.1 surround high resolution (96 kHz/24bit) mixes, as well as a Dolby Digital version and the videos of “And She Was” and “Road to Nowhere.” In Europe, it was released as a CD+DVDA two disc set rather than a single DualDisc. The reissue was produced by Andy Zax with Talking Heads.
Track listing
All songs written by David Byrne, except where noted.
- “And She Was” – 3:36
- “Give Me Back My Name” (Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth) – 3:20
- “Creatures of Love” – 4:12
- “The Lady Don’t Mind” (Byrne, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) – 4:03
- “Perfect World” (Byrne, Frantz) – 4:26
- “Stay Up Late” – 3:51
- “Walk It Down” – 4:42
- “Television Man” – 6:10
- “Road to Nowhere” (Byrne, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) – 4:19
- “Road to Nowhere” (Early version) (2005 Reissue)
- “And She Was” (Early version) (2005 Reissue)
- “Television Man” (Extended mix) (2005 Reissue)
Personnel
Talking Heads
- David Byrne – guitar, vocals
- Chris Frantz – drums
- Jerry Harrison – keyboards, guitar, backing vocals
- Tina Weymouth – bass guitar, backing vocals
Additional musicians
- Ellen Bernfeld – backing vocals on “Perfect World” and “Walk It Down”
- Andrew Cader – washboard on “Road to Nowhere”
- Erin Dickens – backing vocals on “Television Man” and “Road to Nowhere”
- Diva Gray – backing vocals on “Road to Nowhere”
- Gordon Grody – backing vocals
- Lani Groves – backing vocals
- Jimmy Macdonell – accordion on “Road to Nowhere”
- Lenny Pickett – saxophones
- Steve Scales – percussion
- Naná Vasconcelos – percussion on “Perfect World”
- Eric Weissberg – steel guitar on “Creatures of Love” and “Walk It Down”
- Kurt Yahijian – backing vocals
Recording personnel
- Jack Skinner – mastering
- Eric Thorngren – engineer, mixing
- Melanie West – second engineer
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