TALKING HEADS Speaking In Tongues 1983 1st Press SEALED Sterling SIRE 1-23883 LP

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TALKING HEADS
SPEAKING IN TONGUES
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SIRE Records 1-23883
Original 1983 issue LP
1st PRESSING • Mastered at STERLING SOUND
includes Custom LYRICS Inner Sleeve

VINYL is MINT
Never Opened, Never Played.
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COVER is MINT
Still SEALED in the clean, complete original Factory Shrink Wrap; Bright, unfaded cover is crisp and tight, perfectly flat with no ring-impression, creases, bends, dings. cut-outs or soil. Seams and spine 100% intact with no wear or splits.


STRICT CONSERVATIVE GOLDMINE GRADING
NM / EX(VG++) / VG+ / VG

RARE Never Opened 1983 Original First Press!?

From the collection of a lifelong DJ that contained 100's of other 1st Pressings of the same era including other TALKING HEADS.

All printed info/credits on cover 100% consistent with DISCOGS Database for FIRST PRESSING of this LP.

Barcode (Text): 0 7599-23883-1
Barcode (Scanned): 075992388313
Catalog number on spine: 9 23883-1 (Catalog number on labels: 1-23883)
"MASTERED AT STERLING SOUND, NY BY TED JENSEN"
"?1983 SIRE RECORDS COMPANY AND TALKING HEADS TOURS INC."
and "ALSO AVAILABLE ON CASSETTE"
and all correct SIRE/WARNERS/Management ADDRESS info
all printed on back cover
(See Photos)

Also according to DISCOGS this 1st Press issue will have:
the original Lyrics / Credits CUSTOM INNER SLEEVE
and 'STERLING" stamped in vinyl trail-off wax.

"On REMAIN IN LIGHT, the Heads fused their twitchy, intellectual geek-rock sensibilities with an organic, spiritual funkiness that catapulted them into a new artistic realm, virtually unfettered by the shackles of their "new wave" past. SPEAKING IN TONGUES picks up where REMAIN IN LIGHT left off, expanding on the band's newfound funk aesthetic and even upping the danceability quotient a notch or two. The Heads let their hair down a bit more here than on Remain in Light, but while the tone is a bit less serious (as on the party-starting "Burning Down The House,") the highly developed conceptual sensibilites of Byrne and company are still at work".?

AllMusic Guide REVIEW
"TALKING HEADS found a way to open up the dense textures of the music they had developed with Brian Eno on their two previous studio albums for Speaking in Tongues, and were rewarded with their most popular album yet. Ten backup singers and musicians accompanied the original quartet, but somehow the sound was more spacious, and the music admitted aspects of gospel, notably in the call-and-response of "Slippery People" and John Lee Hooker-style blues, on "Swamp".

"As usual, David Byrne determinedly sang and chanted impressionistic, nonlinear lyrics, sometimes by mix-and-matching clichés ("No visible means of support and you have not seen nothin' yet," he declared on "Burning Down the House", the Heads' first Top Ten hit), and the songs' very lack of clear meaning was itself a lyrical subject. "Still don't make no sense," Byrne admitted in "Making Flippy Floppy", but by the next song, "Girlfriend Is Better", that had become an order -- "Stop making sense," he chanted over and over.

"Some of his charming goofiness had returned since the overly serious Remain in Light and Fear of Music, however, and the accompanying music, filled with odd percussive and synthesizer sounds, could be unusually light and bouncy. The album closer, "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)", even sounded hopeful. Well, sort of. Despite their formal power, Talking Heads' preceding two albums seemed to have painted them into a corner, which may be why it took them three years to craft a follow-up, but on Speaking in Tongues, they found an open window and flew out of it."

VERY RARE to find STILL SEALED!

Even though still SEALED in the original shrink-wrap
Album kept in a protective, poly outer-sleeve
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