True Stories (Talking Heads album)

True Stories
Studio album by Talking Heads
Released September 15, 1986
Recorded 1986,
recorded at
Sigma Sound Studios in Manhattan;
additional recording at
O'Henry Sound Studios in Toluca Lake CA,
Studio Southwest in Sunnyvale TX,
the Arcadia Theater in Dallas TX
[with Omega Audio remote];[1]
mixed at
Conway Recording Studios in Hollywood.
Length 40:33
Label Warner Bros./Sire (US/Canada)
EMI (UK/Europe)
Producer Talking Heads
Talking Heads chronology
Little Creatures
(1985)		 True Stories
(1986)		 Naked
(1988)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Chicago Tribune[3]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[5]
The Village VoiceB[6]

True Stories is the seventh album released by Talking Heads in 1986; it was released at the same time as the David Byrne film of the same name, True Stories.

The album does not contain the actors' performances from the film. Instead, this is a Talking Heads studio album featuring recordings of songs from the film. While an original cast recording for this movie was never released, several of the film performances did appear on single releases of several songs from the album.

Later, lead singer Byrne released the album Sounds from True Stories containing incidental music from the soundtrack.

The single "Wild Wild Life" became the big hit from the album, accompanied by its video airplay on MTV. The "Wild Wild Life" video won two MTV Video Music Awards in 1987: "Best Group Video", beating U2 and Crowded House, and "Best Video from a Film". (The video is in fact an extended sequence lifted directly from the film itself). A video for "Love for Sale" was created for use in the film (during a sequence when a woman, played by Swoosie Kurtz, watches the video on TV), and an extended version was later released as a video in its own right.

In 2006, 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 (an extended mix of "Wild Wild Life", "Papa Legba" with vocal by Pops Staples, and "Radio Head" with vocals by Tito Larriva). 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 "Wild Wild Life" and "Love for Sale". 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 and composed by David Byrne.

  1. "Love for Sale" – 4:30
  2. "Puzzlin' Evidence" – 5:23
  3. "Hey Now" – 3:42
  4. "Papa Legba" – 5:54
  5. "Wild Wild Life" – 3:39
  6. "Radio Head" – 3:14
  7. "Dream Operator" – 4:39
  8. "People Like Us" – 4:26
  9. "City of Dreams" – 5:06
  10. "Wild Wild Life" (Extended mix) (CD bonus track) – 5:30
  11. "Papa Legba" (Pops Staples vocal version) (Re-release bonus track) – 5:59
  12. "Radio Head" (Tito Larriva vocal version) (Re-release bonus track) – 3:50

Tracks 11 and 12 appear on the 2006 CD issue only. Of the 9 tracks on the original LP release, "Love for Sale", "Wild Wild Life" and "City of Dreams" are the only recordings that actually appear in the film. On screen, the other songs are performed by the film actors; two of those are included among the bonus tracks of the 2006 reissue.

The band Radiohead named themselves after Track 6, "Radio Head".[7]

Personnel

Talking Heads

Additional musicians

Recording personnel


Chart performance

Album
Chart Peak
Austria[8] 10
Norway VG-lista Album Chart[9] 13
New Zealand Albums Chart[10] 1
Switzerland Album Chart[11] 11
Sweden Sverigetopplistan[12] 5
UK Albums Chart[13] 7
US Billboard 200[14] 28
Singles
Song Peak
US Hot 100
[15]		 US Main.
[15]		 AUS
[16]		 CAN
[17]		 GER
[18]		 IRL NED
[19]		 NZ
[10]		 UK
[13]
"Wild Wild Life" 25 4 13 66 40 9 42 2 43
"Hey Now" — — 65 — — — — 45 —
"Puzzlin' Evidence" — 19 — — — — — — —
"Radio Head" — — 52 — — 23 — — 52

"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

References

  1. ↑ Discogs - Omega Audio - profile and discography
  2. ↑ Hastings, Michael. "True Stories – Talking Heads". AllMusic. Retrieved February 4, 2016.
  3. ↑ Kot, Greg (May 6, 1990). "Talking Heads On The Record". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved November 8, 2015.
  4. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-857-12595-8.
  5. ↑ Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian, eds. (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-743-20169-8.
  6. ↑ Christgau, Robert (December 30, 1986). "Christgau's Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. Retrieved February 4, 2016.
  7. ↑ http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/16-01/ff_yorke
  8. ↑ "Discographie Talking Heads". Austriancharts.at (in Austrian-German). Retrieved 23 December 2010.
  9. ↑ "Discography Talking Heads". Norwegiancharts.com. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
  10. 1 2 "Discography Talking Heads". Charts.org.nz. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
  11. ↑ "Discography Talking Heads". Swisscharts.com. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
  12. ↑ "Discography Talking Heads". Swedishcharts.com. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
  13. 1 2 "Chart Stats - Talking Heads". Chart Stats. Archived from the original on 24 July 2012. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
  14. ↑ "Talking Heads > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums". Allmusic. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
  15. 1 2 "Talking Heads > Charts & Awards > Billboard Singles". Allmusic. Retrieved 24 December 2010.
  16. ↑ "Discography Talking Heads". Australian-charts.com. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
  17. ↑ "Talking Heads Top Singles positions". RPM. Retrieved 24 December 2010.
  18. ↑ "Chartverfolgung / TALKING HEADS / Single". Musicline.de (in German). Retrieved 24 December 2010.
  19. ↑ "Discografie Talking Heads". Dutchcharts.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 23 December 2010.
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