Little Creatures

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This article is about the Talking Heads album. For the Australian brewery, see Little Creatures Brewery.
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Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Chicago Tribune[3]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[4]
Hot Press11/12[5]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[6]
Spin Alternative Record Guide8/10[7]
The Village VoiceA[8]

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.

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

2005 reissue bonus tracks

  1. "Road to Nowhere" (Early version) – 4:37
  2. "And She Was" (Early version) – 3:36
  3. "Television Man" (Extended mix) – 7:52

Personnel

Talking Heads

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 Chart Position
1985 Billboard 200 20
UK Albums 10
German Albums 9
Australian Albums[9] 2

Year-end charts

Chart (1985) Position
Australian Album Chart (Kent Music Report)[9] 7

Singles

Year Song Peak
US UK
1985 "The Lady Don't Mind" — 81
"Road To Nowhere" 105 6
"And She Was" 54 17

References

  1. ^ AllMusic
  2. ^ Ruhlmann, William. "Little Creatures – Talking Heads". AllMusic. Retrieved February 4, 2016.
  3. ^ Kot, Greg (May 6, 1990). "Talking Heads On The Record". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved November 8, 2015.
  4. ^ Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-857-12595-8.
  5. ^ Stokes, Dermot (July 5, 1985). "Little Creatures". Hot Press. Archived from the original on February 21, 2002. Retrieved February 4, 2016.
  6. ^ Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian, eds. (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  7. ^ Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig, eds. (1995). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. p. 394. ISBN 0-679-75574-8.
  8. ^ Christgau, Robert (July 30, 1985). "Christgau's Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. Retrieved February 4, 2016.
  9. ^ a b Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
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