Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues

Artist - Talking Heads Title - Speaking in Tongues Format - 180-Gram Vinyl LP Label - Rhino Records 2013 Reissue  Lacquers cut from the original analog 2-tracks By Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering   The Heads released Speaking in Tongues, the first album of new material in three years, in 1983. It was their highest-charting album ever (Number 15, 1983) and yielded their biggest hit single, "Burning Down the House" (Number Nine, 1983), which was also featured in an eye-catching video that MTV had in heavy rotation. They toured with an expanded band including Alex Weir, a guitarist with the Brothers Johnson. The tour was documented in the acclaimed movie Stop Making Sense, directed by Jonathan Demme. The soundtrack (Number 41, 1984) spent nearly two years on the pop albums chart. –Rolling Stone Ten backup singers and musicians accompanied the original quartet, but somehow the sound was more spacious, and the music admitted aspects of the gospel, notably in the call-and-respons