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True Stories
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Work
This seventh Talking Heads album was released in September 1986, shortly before singer David Byrne's satirical musical film True Stories. The record contains only studio recordings by the band of songs from the film. A soundtrack album with the actors did not appear until 2018. Wild Wild Life became the biggest hit and won two MTV Video Music Awards in 1987 with its video. Love for Sale also got a video, made for the film.
The music is more melodic than on the records before it. One reviewer called it gently melodic pop with little of the band's aggressive polyrhythms of those years, although he found some songs banal. He called Love for Sale and People Like Us fine rock music. In Hey Now a school choir sings along, and People Like Us gets a violin and pedal steel. The English band Radiohead named themselves after the song Radio Head.
Listening
Track list
- 1Love for Sale4:32Apple Music ↗
- 2Puzzlin' Evidence5:24Apple Music ↗
- 3Hey Now3:42Apple Music ↗
- 4Papa Legba5:56Apple Music ↗
- 5Wild Wild Life3:40Apple Music ↗
- 6Radio Head3:32Apple Music ↗
- 7Dream Operator4:39Apple Music ↗
- 8People Like Us4:28Apple Music ↗
- 9City of Dreams5:09Apple Music ↗
30-second previews via Apple Music. Listen to the whole album on Apple Music ↗