Stop Making Sense
by Talking Heads

From lleon79 TOP 100 COMMENTER 09/26/2018 18:17 | #221719 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

The Special Edition, which includes more live versions, is amazing! I would recommend listening to that one

From Brad1770 TOP 100 COMMENTER 06/12/2018 11:53 | #216573 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Stop Making Sense is a stone cold classic and almost perfect from top to bottom , the live versions of these album tracks absolutely spring to life and pop with energy and vigour . I much prefer these live renditions

Viewing the movie is an absolute must and is freely available free on-line , I recently re-watched it for the first time in years and it reminded me what truly remarkable piece of cinematography it is . Byrnes on stage energy has to be seen to be believed

My other recommendation is to check out the full 16 track concert for the definitive SMS listening experience (make sure you skip past The Tom Tom Club bit because it pretty much sucks), the 9 track abridged version whilst totally awesome makes the listener feel short changed as it is over in the blink of an eye

SMS would easily be in my all time top 20 albums were it not for my no live/compilations rule

SMS is timeless and totally breathtaking

Stop Making Sense completely Makes Sense

85/100 ( not 100 / 100 due to Tom Tom club)

Agreed with the other comments here; the expanded album with the extra tracks and corrected running order is the essential way to listen to this, but I also think it's crucial to watch the film as well. If you're here reading this comment you probably already know about the film anyway, but this concert is so damn fun. This is one of the few concerts where the performance itself is in a league of its own separate to the music. The music is great too (especially the bass and synth lines), but the energy and occasional silliness of the performances just ooze the enjoyment you can tell every person on stage is sharing for this concert. This is musically an odd comparison, but conceptually in terms of performance of the music being just as important as the music itself, this album reminds me a bit of Louis Prima from the jazz era, specifically the album "The Wildest!"

Bonus points given for the very silly and entertaining "liner notes" in the CD booklet for those of us who are weird enough to have bought the CD instead of just streaming this. (Edited)

This is probably my favourite Talking Heads album or Fear Of Music or Remain In Light

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Or More Songs About Buildings And Food

Anyway, best live album ever, incredible!

From Onater 05/22/2017 04:31 | #191206 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

The original 9-track album, the one listed on this site, is a pretty OK live album, but the concert film that this is taken from, and the 1999 re-release of the album that contains all of the tracks from the film, is the kind of thing that will make you never be able to appreciate concerts the same way again because nothing will ever be able to compare to the absolute perfection that this is.