Stop Making Sense

Stop Making Sense is a 1984 concert movie featuring a live performance by Talking Heads. Directed by Jonathan Demme, it was shot over the course of three nights at Hollywoods Pantages Theater in December 1983, as the group was touring to promote their new album Speaking in Tongues. The movie is notable for being the first made entirely using digital audio techniques. The band raised the budget of 1.2 million themselves. The title comes from the lyrics of the song Girlfriend Is Better As we get older and stop making sense.... The film has been hailed by Leonard Maltin as one of the greatest rock movies ever made, and Pauline Kael of The New Yorker described it as ...close to perfection.

Lead singer David Byrne walks on to a bare stage seen from the feet only initially with a portable cassette tape player and an acoustic guitar. He introduces Psycho Killer by saying he wants to play a cassette tape, ostensibly from the boom box. In reality, the ticktock drum machine was a Roland TR808 played from the mixing board. During the song, the drum machine fires machine gun riffs that cause Byrne to stagger like JeanPaul Belmondo in the final minutes of Breathless, a hero succumbing, surprised, to violence that hed thought he was prepared for.With each successive song, Byrne is cumulatively joined onstage by each core member of the band first by Tina Weymouth for Heaven with Lynn Mabry, originally of The Brides of Funkenstein and ParliamentFunkadelic, providing harmony vocals from backstage, second by Chris Frantz for Thank You for Sending Me an Angel, and third by Jerry Harrison for Found a Job. Performance equipment is gradually wheeled out and wired up to the bare stage between and throughout the performances, as Talking Heads continue to be augmented by several additional musicians, most of whom had extensive experience in funk backup singers Lynn Mabry and Ednah Holt, keyboardist Bernie Worrell formerly of ParliamentFunkadelic, percussionist Steve Scales, and guitarist Alex Weir of The Brothers Johnson. The first song to feature the entire lineup is Burning Down the House, although the original 1985 RCAColumbia Home Video release which featured three additional songs in two performances edited into the film has the entire band minus Worrell performing Cities before this song. Byrne also leaves the stage at one point, to allow the WeymouthFrantzled sideband the Tom Tom Club to perform their song Genius of Love The 1999 rerelease of the film featured alternate rap lines by Chris Frantz to remove the cocaine reference, snow white, featured in the original release. ........

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