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Little Creatures

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Released
  
June 10, 1985

Length
  
38:38

Genre
  
Pop, new wave

Recorded
  
October 1984 – March 1985

Studio
  
Sigma Sound Studios in Manhattan

Label
  
Warner Bros./Sire (US/Canada) EMI (UK/Europe)

Little Creatures is the sixth studio album by American new wave band Talking Heads, released in June 1985. The album examines themes of Americana and incorporates elements of country music, with many of the songs featuring steel guitar. It was voted as the best album of the year in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll and is the band's biggest-selling studio album, with over two million copies sold in the US.

Contents

The cover art was created by outsider artist Howard Finster, and was selected as album cover of the year by Rolling Stone magazine.

In 2005, it was remastered and re-released by Warner Music Group on their Warner Bros./Sire Records/Rhino Records labels in DualDisc format, with three bonus tracks on the CD side (early versions of "Road To Nowhere" and "And She Was" and an extended mix of "Television Man"). The DVD-Audio side includes both stereo and 5.1 surround high resolution (96 kHz/24bit) mixes, as well as a Dolby Digital version and the videos of "And She Was" and "Road to Nowhere." In Europe, it was released as a CD+DVDA two disc set rather than a single DualDisc. The reissue was produced by Andy Zax with Talking Heads.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by David Byrne, except where noted.

  1. "And She Was" – 3:36
  2. "Give Me Back My Name" (music: Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth) – 3:20
  3. "Creatures of Love" – 4:12
  4. "The Lady Don't Mind" (music: Byrne, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) – 4:03
  5. "Perfect World" (lyrics: Byrne, Frantz) – 4:26
  6. "Stay Up Late" – 3:51
  7. "Walk It Down" – 4:42
  8. "Television Man" – 6:10
  9. "Road to Nowhere" – 4:19

Bonus tracks

  1. "Road to Nowhere" (Early version) [Re-release bonus track] – 4:37
  2. "And She Was" (Early version) [Re-release bonus track] – 3:36
  3. "Television Man" (Extended mix) [Re-release bonus track] – 7:52

Talking Heads

  • David Byrne – guitar, vocals
  • Chris Frantz – drums
  • Jerry Harrison – keyboards, guitar, backing vocals
  • Tina Weymouth – bass guitar, backing vocals

    • Additional musicians

  • Ellen Bernfeld – backing vocals on "Perfect World" and "Walk It Down"
  • Andrew Cader – washboard on "Road to Nowhere"
  • Erin Dickens – backing vocals on "Television Man" and "Road to Nowhere"
  • Diva Gray – backing vocals on "Road to Nowhere"
  • Gordon Grody – backing vocals
  • Lani Groves – backing vocals
  • Jimmy Macdonell – accordion on "Road to Nowhere"
  • Lenny Pickett – saxophones
  • Steve Scales – percussion
  • Naná Vasconcelos – percussion on "Perfect World"
  • Eric Weissberg – steel guitar on "Creatures of Love" and "Walk It Down"
  • Kurt Yahijian – backing vocals

    • Recording personnel

  • Jack Skinner – mastering
  • Eric Thorngren – engineer, mixing
  • Melanie West – second engineer

    • Charts

    Album

    Year-end charts

    Singles

    References

    Little Creatures Wikipedia
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