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4 Oct 11th, 2000 

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After starting to drift apart following the input of Brain Eno and time spent working on individual projects, 1983 saw the reunion of Talking Heads with a new album, Speaking In Tongues. Although it featured many of the musicians they had worked with before, during their experiments with African and funk music, it was in many ways a return to their original stripped down style.

While it lacked some of the impact of their earlier, bolder developments, it contained some strong songs: the heavy, bluesy Swamp, the surprisingly unambiguous love song This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) and the single Burning Down The House, which showed Byrne at his most manic. There was no trace, however, of Eno on the album.

After the succes of the previous few albums and the glory of that sound, this was very much a different album, still attractive, but not quite as gripping as what had gone before.
 

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