The Complete True Stories Soundtrack (Double Gatefold LP)

 
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David Byrne
The Complete True Stories Soundtrack (Double Gatefold LP)

[ Nonesuch / 2 LP ]

Release Date: Friday 23 November 2018

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David Byrne was inspired by tabloid headlines to make his sole foray into feature-film directing, an ode to the extraordinariness of ordinary American life and a distillation of what was in his own idiosyncratic mind. Byrne plays a visitor to Virgil, Texas, who introduces us to the citizens of the town during preparations for its Celebration of Specialness. As shot by cinematographer Ed Lachman, Texas becomes a hyper-realistic late-capitalist landscape of endless vistas, shopping malls, and prefab metal buildings. In True Stories, Byrne uses his songs to stitch together pop iconography, voodoo rituals, and a singular variety show.

True Stories, A Film by David Byrne: The Complete Soundtrack includes twenty-three songs: one previously unreleased version of Talking Heads' "Dream Operator," from the film, with Annie McEnroe on lead vocals; three songs from the film that have previously been released only on the Talking Heads sets Dual Brick or Bonus Rarities & Outtakes; five songs from the companion 1986 Talking Heads studio album True Stories; fourteen songs from the 1986 film soundtrack album Sounds from True Stories: Music for Activities Freaks performed by a wide range of artists from Kronos Quartet to Meredith Monk to Pops Staples to John Goodman.

Tracks:

1. Road Song - David Byrne, Meredith Monk
2. Freeway Son - David Byrne
3. Disco Hits! - David Byrne
4. Cocktail Desperado - Terry Allen & The Panhandle Mystery Band
5. Wild Wild Life - Talking Heads
6. City of Steel - Talking Heads, Tommy Morrell
7. Mall Muzak - Carl Finch
8. Dream Operator (feat. Annie McEnroe) - Talking Heads
9. Love Theme from True Stories - David Byrne 10. Brownie's Theme - David Byrne
11. Dinner Music - David Byrne, Kronos Quartet 12. Puzzlin' Evidence - Talking Heads, John Ingle & The Bert Cross Choir
13. Glass Operator - David Byrne
14. Hey Now - Talking Heads, St. Thomas Aquinas Elementary School Choir
15. I ♥ Metal Buildings - David Byrne
16. Love for Sale - Talking Heads
17. Soy de Tejas - Esteban "Steve" Jordan
18. Buster's Theme - Carl Finch
19. Festa para um rei negro - Banda Eclipse
20. Radio Head (feat. Tito Larriva, Esteban "Steve" Jordan with Los Vampiros) - Talking Heads
21. Papa Legba (feat. Roebuck "Pops" Staples) - Talking Heads
22. People Like Us (feat. John Goodman) - Talking Heads
23. City of Dreams - Talking Heads, Tommy Morrell

Watch the album trailer