![]() ![]() The film includes Byrne's "big suit", an absurdly large business suit that he wears for the song "Girlfriend Is Better". ![]() ![]() The band also performs two songs from Byrne's soundtrack album The Catherine Wheel, "What a Day That Was" and (as a bonus song on the home video release) "Big Business". Byrne leaves the stage at one point to allow the Weymouth–Frantz-led side-band Tom Tom Club to perform their song " Genius of Love". The first song to feature the entire lineup is " Burning Down the House", although the original 1985 RCA/Columbia 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. ![]() Performance equipment is wheeled out and added to the set to accommodate the additional musicians: back-up singers Lynn Mabry and Ednah Holt, keyboardist Bernie Worrell, percussionist Steve Scales, and guitarist Alex Weir. With each successive song, Byrne is joined by more members of the band: first by Tina Weymouth for " Heaven" (with Lynn Mabry 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". The gunshot-like beats cause Byrne to stagger "like Jean-Paul Belmondo in the final minutes of ' Breathless,' a hero succumbing, surprised, to violence that he'd thought he was prepared for." He introduces " Psycho Killer" by saying he wants to play a tape, but in reality a Roland TR-808 drum machine starts playing from the mixing board. Lead singer David Byrne walks on to a bare stage with a portable cassette tape player and an acoustic guitar. In 2021, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Leonard Maltin called it "one of the greatest rock movies ever made", Robert Christgau "the finest concert film", and Pauline Kael "close to perfection". Stop Making Sense is considered by many critics to be one of the greatest concert films of all time. The four core members of Talking Heads: lead singer and guitarist David Byrne, drummer Chris Frantz, guitarist and keyboardist Jerry Harrison, and bassist Tina Weymouth, are joined on stage by an extensive supporting band including backing singers Lynn Mabry and Ednah Holt, guitarist Alex Weir, keyboardist Bernie Worrell, and percussionist Steve Scales. The band raised the budget of $1.2 million themselves. The film is a pioneering example of the use of early digital audio techniques. In addition, the group performs one song, " Genius of Love", by the Tom Tom Club, a side project for two members of the band. The concert serves as a comprehensive retrospective of the band's history to that time, featuring many of their popular songs from their first hit single " Psycho Killer", through to their most recent album. Directed by Jonathan Demme, it was shot over the course of three nights at Hollywood's Pantages Theater in December 1983, as the group was touring to promote their new album Speaking in Tongues. Stop Making Sense is a 1984 American concert film featuring a live performance by the American rock band Talking Heads. ![]()
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