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TALKING HEADS
SPEAKING IN TONGUES



LIMITED EDITION VINYL LP
Rauschenberg Design - See below!

Speaking in Tongues is the fifth studio album by Talking Heads, released on June 1, 1983. Frontman David Byrne said, as a partial explanation of the album's title, "I originally sang nonsense, and ... made words to fit that. That worked out all right"

<--- Byrne designed the standard cover for the general release of the album - BUT - Artist Robert Rauschenberg won a Grammy Award for his work on the limited-edition LP version, which features a clear vinyl disc in clear plastic packaging along with three clear plastic discs printed with similar collages in three different colors.

“I approached Bob Rauschenberg in the mid-’80s to design a cover… I had recently seen some of his black-and-white photo collages... and thought they were amazing, and I wondered what he would do with an LP cover,” Byrne wrote in an op-ed obituary for the artist, published as Bob The Builder in the New York Times in May, 2008.

Rauschenberg agreed, but didn’t simply want to provide an illustration for the standard 12” cardboard sleeve. “His package consisted of a conceptual collage piece in which the color separation layers — the cyan, magenta and yellow images that combined to make one full-color image — were, well, deconstructed. Only by rotating the LP and the separate plastic disc could one see — and then only intermittently — the three-color images included in the collage. It was a transparent explication of how the three-color process works, yet in this case, one could never see all the full-color images at the same time, as Bob had perversely scrambled the separations.”

OFFERED HERE IS THAT EDITION!


GLEANED from: "The Story behind Robert Rauschenberg’s Iconic Talking Heads Album Cover" by Abigail Cain (Robert Rauschenberg & David Byrne at a Talking Heads concert, NY, 1983. - Photo: Terry Van Brunt -->>>)

"For Speaking in Tongues, Rauschenberg referenced the three-color printing process by creating separate layers of cyan, magenta, and yellow. Each disc sported a collage of images, including a wrecked car, a highway billboard, and a suburban bedroom, that could be spun to produce different effects. “In this case,” Byrne noted, 'one could never see all the full-color images at the same time, as Bob had perversely scrambled the separations.'

It wasn’t easy to find a suitable place to package the record. In fact, guitarist and keyboardist Jerry Harrison spent six months in the early 1980s searching for a business that could vacu-form a clear vinyl LP. The band eventually employed the services of an Oscar Meyer hot dog packaging company. This arduous production process may have contributed to the album’s lengthy release period—although the Talking Heads’ previous four albums had been released over four consecutive years, it was another three years before Speaking in Tongues hit the stands.

Due to production difficulties, the Rauschenberg-designed cover was printed in a limited-edition run of 50,000. (Byrne himself designed an alternate cover for the remaining million or so album sleeves, a pared-down, abstract painting in blue and yellow.) Fans could own a Rauschenberg of their own for just $12.98; super-fans could pay $100 for one of the 1,000 deluxe editions signed by both Byrne and Rauschenberg and sold through art galleries.

Andy Warhol himself purchased the album at Tower Records in the East Village in 1983. His diary entry from July 11th of that year mentions that Rauschenberg “was upset because he only got $2,000” for the job: “And I told him he was right, he should’ve gotten $25,000!"
    >Track Listing:

    Side One:
  • "Burning Down the House" 4:01
  • "Making Flippy Floppy" 4:34
  • "Girlfriend Is Better" 4:22
  • "Slippery People" 3:31
  • "I Get Wild/Wild Gravity"

    Side Two:
  • "Swamp" 5:12
  • "Moon Rocks" 5:03
  • "Pull Up the Roots" 5:08
  • "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)"
Yes, I know, this is not cheap, nor is it very common.. I am not as greed as some selling on eBay who are asking $500 or more, but I am also not going to give this away either. My copy is not sealed, but it has never been played either. The pictures you see were gleaned from various places on the internet, but there is no difference between what you see and what you will get.

It is packaged in a yellow clamshell as you see at the top with the rotating discs, and has the clear vinyl album as you see just above to the right.



Rauschenberg may not be to your artisitic liking, but regardless, he is one of America's masterpiece artists of the 20th century. If you're not familiar with him, LOOK HIM UP! You couldn't buy a limited edition of his work for under six-seven figures! This one, in excellent condition is far less! GRAB IT before someone else does!

Indeed, here is another of my rare vinyl offerings! I try to price my albums fairly in the hopes that you will come back for all your vinyl needs. This is a fine collectible copy and will be shipped in a box with plenty of packing, insured against loss or damage... Enjoy...
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