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Language
  
English

Storytelling Giant movie poster

Director
  
1: Toni Basil and David Byrne2, 5, 7: David Byrne3: Ted Bafaloukos4: Toni Basil6: Jim Blashfield8: Jim Jarmusch9: David Byrne and Melvin Sokolsky10: David Byrne and Stephen R. Johnson.[1]

Release date
  
1988

Storytelling Giant is a 1988 compilation album of music videos by Talking Heads during the 1980s. The videos are linked by real people (not actors) telling stories from their lives; the stories have no logical connection to the videos.

Contents

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The film has been released on VHS tape and 12" CD Video Laserdisc. A DVD version was released as part of Rhino's Once in a Lifetime box set, with three additional videos.

Original track listing

All songs written by David Byrne, unless otherwise indicated.

  1. "Once in a Lifetime" (Byrne, Brian Eno, Jerry Harrison, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth) (directed by Toni Basil and David Byrne)
  2. "Wild Wild Life" (directed by David Byrne)
  3. "Stay Up Late" (directed by Ted Bafaloukos)
  4. "Crosseyed and Painless" (Byrne, Eno, Harrison, Frantz, Weymouth) (directed by Toni Basil)
  5. "Burning Down the House" (Byrne, Harrison, Frantz, Weymouth) (directed by David Byrne)
  6. "And She Was" (directed by Jim Blashfield)
  7. "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)" (Byrne, Harrison, Frantz, Weymouth) (directed by David Byrne)
  8. "The Lady Don't Mind" (Byrne, Harrison, Frantz, Weymouth) (directed by Jim Jarmusch)
  9. "Love for Sale" (directed by David Byrne and Melvin Sokolsky)
  10. "Road to Nowhere" (directed by David Byrne and Stephen R. Johnson)

2003 DVD version track listing

All songs written by David Byrne, Jerry Harrison, Chris Frantz, and Tina Weymouth, unless otherwise indicated.

  1. "Once in a Lifetime" (Byrne, Brian Eno, Harrison, Frantz, Weymouth)
  2. "Wild Wild Life" (Byrne)
  3. "Stay Up Late" (Byrne)
  4. "Blind" (Previously unreleased) (directed by Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel)
  5. "Crosseyed and Painless" (Byrne, Eno, Harrison, Frantz, Weymouth)
  6. "Burning Down the House"
  7. "And She Was" (Byrne)
  8. "Sax and Violins" (Previously unreleased) (directed by Wim Wenders)
  9. "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)"
  10. "The Lady Don't Mind"
  11. "Love for Sale" (Byrne)
  12. "(Nothing But) Flowers" (Previously unreleased) (directed by Tibor Kalman and Sandy MacLeod)
  13. "Road to Nowhere" (Byrne)

References

Storytelling Giant Wikipedia
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