Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues

Tracklist Hide Credits

A1	Burning Down The House Percussion – Steve ScalesSynthesizer – Wally Badarou	4:00
A2	Making Flippy Floppy Guitar – Alex WeirViolin – Shankar	4:36
A3	Girlfriend Is Better Synthesizer – Bernie Worrell	4:25
A4	Slippery People Backing Vocals – Dolette McDonald, Nona HendryxPercussion – Raphael DejesusSaxophone – Richard Landry	3:30
A5	I Get Wild / Wild Gravity Percussion – David Van Tieghem, Raphael Dejesus	4:06
B1	Swamp Guitar – Alex WeirSynthesizer – Wally Badarou	5:09
B2	Moon Rocks Guitar – Alex WeirPercussion – Steve Scales	5:04
B3	Pull Up The Roots Guitar – Alex WeirPercussion – Raphael Dejesus	5:08
B4	This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) Percussion – David Van TieghemSynthesizer – Wally Badarou	4:56

Companies, etc.

• Record Company – Columbia House
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Sire Records Company
• Copyright (c) – Sire Records Company
• Marketed By – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
• Recorded At – Blank Tape Studios
• Mixed At – Compass Point Studios
• Mixed At – Sigma Sound Studios, New York
• Mastered At – Sterling Sound
• Published By – Blue Disque Music Co., Inc.
• Published By – Index Music, Inc.

Credits

• Backing Vocals, Double Bass, Guitar, Synthesizer, Music By – Tina Weymouth
• Backing Vocals, Drums, Synthesizer, Music By – Chris Frantz
• Backing Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Music By – Jerry Harrison
• Bass, Percussion, Guitar, Artwork, Music By, Keyboards, Synthesizer, Vocals – David Byrne
• Cover – David Byrne
• Engineer [Assistant Mix] – Franklin Gibson*, Jay Mark
• Engineer [Assistant Recording] – John Convertino
• Engineer [Recording] – Butch Jones
• Lyrics By – David Byrne
• Mastered By – Ted Jensen
• Mixed By, Engineer [Mix] – Alex Sadkin
• Producer – Talking Heads

Notes

This Columbia House club edition is much like this one, but has two catalog numbers: 9 W1-23883 on the spine and W1-23883 on labels and inner sleeve.

The inner sleeve also lists catalog number 9 23883-1 as part of the hand-written details from an earlier pressing.

Record Label on A and B sides:
© 1983 Sire Records Company
Ⓟ 1983 Sire Records Company
Marketed by Warner Bros. Records Inc
3300 Warner Blvd, Burbank, Calif. 91510
Made in U S A

Sleeve consists of put-up documents of written lyrics and release notes.

On back cover:
Manufactured by Columbia House under license

No barcode.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (Runout, side A, etched (Variant 1)): G1 W1-23883A G1C Barry B5
• Matrix / Runout (Runout, side A, stamped (Variant 1)): O
• Matrix / Runout (Runout, side B, etched (Variant 1)): PG W1-23883B-1B XC- 2
• Matrix / Runout (Runout, side B, stamped (Variant 1)): D
• Matrix / Runout (Runout, side A, etched (Variant 2)): P W1 23883A-1A
• Matrix / Runout (Runout, side B, etched (Variant 2)): P W1-23883B-1B
• Rights Society: ASCAP

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
1-23883, 9 23883-1	Talking Heads	Speaking In Tongues ‎(LP, Album)	Sire, Sire	1-23883, 9 23883-1	US	1983
92 38831	Talking Heads	Speaking In Tongues ‎(LP, Album)	Sire	92 38831	Sweden	1983
923883-1	Talking Heads	Speaking In Tongues ‎(LP, Album)	Sire	923883-1	Ireland	Unknown
1-23883, 9 23883-1	Talking Heads	Speaking In Tongues ‎(LP, Album)	Sire, Sire	1-23883, 9 23883-1	US	1983
923883-1	Talking Heads	Speaking In Tongues ‎(LP, Album)	Sire	923883-1	Ireland	1983

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