True Stories
The Complete Soundtrack


Nonesuch Records 11/23/2018 Download
Nonesuch Records 11/23/2018 CD (0075597927702)
Movie Film release: 1986
 

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# Track Artist/Composer Duration
1.Road SongMeredith Monk David Byrne 
2.Freeway SonDavid Byrne 
3.Disco Hits!David Byrne 
4.Cocktail DesperadoTerry Allen & The Panhandle Mystery Band 
5.Wild Wild LifeTalking Heads 
6.City of SteelTommy Morrell Talking Heads 
7.Mall MuzakCarl Finch 
8.Dream Operator (feat. Annie McEnroe)Talking Heads 
9.Love Theme from True StoriesDavid Byrne 
10.Brownie's ThemeDavid Byrne 
11.Dinner MusicKronos Quartet David Byrne 
12.Puzzlin' EvidenceJohn Ingle & The Bert Cross Choir Talking Heads 
13.Glass OperatorDavid Byrne 
14.Hey NowSt. Thomas Aquinas Elementary School Choir Talking Heads 
15.I ♥ Metal BuildingsDavid Byrne 
16.Love for SaleTalking Heads 
17.Soy de TejasEsteban 
18.Buster's ThemeCarl Finch 
19.Festa para um rei negroBanda Eclipse 
20.Radio Head (feat. Tito Larriva, EstebanTalking Heads 
21.Papa Legba (feat. RoebuckTalking Heads 
22.People Like Us (feat. John Goodman)Talking Heads 
23.City of DreamsTommy Morrell Talking Heads 
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True Stories

Added on Thursday, October 18, 2018  

True Stories

In conjunction with The Criterion Collection’s special-edition DVD and Blu-ray release of David Byrne’s 1986 film True Stories, Nonesuch and Todomundo Records release a comprehensive soundtrack, collected for the first time in one package and in film sequence: True Stories, A Film by David Byrne: The Complete Soundtrack is available on vinyl LP, CD, and digital formats on November 23, 2018.

In conjunction with The Criterion Collection’s special-edition DVD and Blu-ray release of David Byrne’s 1986 film True Stories, Nonesuch and Todomundo Records release a comprehensive soundtrack, collected for the first time in one package and in film sequence: True Stories, A Film by David Byrne:

The Complete Soundtrack is available on vinyl LP, CD, and digital formats on November 23, 2018. The CD also is included with Criterion’s Blu-ray of the film. Pre-orders of the soundtrack are available now at iTunes and the Nonesuch Store, where each purchase comes with an exclusive, limited-edition 12” print of a production photo taken by Byrne originally included in the 1986 True Stories photo book. The album will also stream at Spotify and other services.

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.

Byrne calls the record “An immersive audio voyage into the little town of Virgil, Texas, in the mid-eighties.” He continues, “I always imagined that the music written for True Stories should be heard as it is in the film. It makes the most sense this way. Me singing the song that was written for John Goodman’s character, Louis Fine, always felt weird to me. It was written for that character, not for me.”

True Stories, A Film by David Byrne: The Complete Soundtrack includes twenty-three songs, many of which are on CD and digital formats for the first time: 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—previously released only on LP and cassette—performed by a wide range of artists from Kronos Quartet to Meredith Monk to Pops Staples to John Goodman.



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Other releases of True Stories (1986):

True Stories (1986)
True Stories (2018)


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