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Continuing my trip back through the 1986 album charts
21/09/86 : True Stories - Talking Heads
I think I've heard this before, but certainly not often and not for a long time so I don't remember it - I'm expecting to enjoy it though.
Yeah, I didn't mind it at all - a whole album of their art-school pop is almost too much, but I think they introduce just enough variety in there to save it. I recognised "Love For Sale", "Wild Wild Life" (which is my favourite track) and "City Of Dreams" from their best-of album (which is imaginatively titled Sand In The Vaseline) and I liked "Dream Operator" as well. I also know that "Radio Head" was used as inspiration by a certain band when their record company asked them to change their name (no points for guessing who, I'm afraid).
We're at #7 with a new entry in the charts this week on the start of a nine week run - it feels like it deserved better than that to me. The top five this week were Five Star (their only week at #1 in either chart), Now 7, Paul Simon, Eurythmics and Tina Turner and the next highest new entry was Elvis Costello (#16).
Wikipedia reminds me it's sort of a soundtrack album because the songs feature in the film of the same name, but are often not performed by Talking Heads. Bizarrely, an actual soundtrack album was also released but this doesn't include the cast versions of those songs either. And that's pretty much all there is to the entry - the critics were nice enough but didn't go wild about it and it did pretty well globally, making the top twenty generally and getting to #1 in Iceland and New Zealand.
"Customers also listened to" David Byrne, Moonlight Benjamin, The Heads and Blair - a peculiar mix indeed. I didn't mind this album, but finishing this post up a few days after I listened to the album, I don't really remember it at all - so I guess I'll be sticking with their best-of and Stop Making Sense.
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